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Nicholas DeVito
MPH, DPhil
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Integrity
Bio
Nicholas is a postdoctoral researcher at the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science working on topics in health policy, transparency, research integrity, and open science. Nicholas completed his DPhil in the department in 2022 as a Naji Foundation Scholar based at Kellogg College. His supervisors were Professors Ben Goldacre and Carl Heneghan. Prior to his DPhil, Nick worked at Columbia University’s Center on Medicine as a Profession studying the impact of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act and in the private sector working with pharmaceutical industry clients. Nicholas completed his undergraduate degree at Cornell University and his MPH in Health Policy and Administration at the Yale School of Public Health.
Nick is especially interested in thinking about ways to mix the qualitative and quantitative in order to deliver comprehensive and compelling results. He is currently a member of the OSIRIS consortium studying reproducibility in research throughout Europe.
He is interested in discussing potential proposals for DPhil projects related to research integrity and metaresearch.
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Recent publications
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Open science interventions to improve reproducibility and replicability of research: A scoping review
Journal article
Dudda L. et al, (2025), Royal Society Open Science, 12
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What is the vibration of effects?
Journal article
Vinatier C. et al, (2025), BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, 30, 61 - 65
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Enhancing global clinical trial transparency for better health outcomes for all
Journal article
Zhang W. et al, (2025)
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Barriers and best practices to improving clinical trials transparency at UK public research institutions: A qualitative interview study
Journal article
DeVito NJ. et al, (2024), Health Policy, 142
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OpenSAFELY: a platform for analysing electronic health records designed for reproducible research
Preprint
Nab L. et al, (2024)