Seb Bacon
Chief Technical Officer
Seb Bacon is a manager, analyst, and programmer with a lifelong interest in “civic tech”. He is responsible for all the the software-related outputs of the DataLab. Prior to the DataLab, he was CTO at OpenCorporates, creating the largest open database of corporate data in the world. Elsewhere, he has been responsible for the design and deployment of the international Freedom of Information software, Alaveteli; and was founder of Democracy Club, an organisation dedicated to transparency in the operation of UK elections.
Recent publications
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the treatment of common infections in primary care and the change to antibiotic prescribing in England
Journal article
Yang YT. et al, (2023), Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 12
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Group A streptococcal cases and treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2022 outbreak: a retrospective cohort study in England using OpenSAFELY-TPP
Preprint
Cunningham C. et al, (2023)
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Challenges in Estimating Effectiveness of 2 Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines Beyond 6 Months in England.
Journal article
Horne EMF. et al, (2023), Am J Epidemiol
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antipsychotic prescribing in individuals with autism, dementia, learning disability, serious mental illness or living in a care home: a federated analysis of 59 million patients' primary care records in situ using OpenSAFELY
Journal article
Macdonald O. et al, (2023), BMJ mental health, 26
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Healthcare in England was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic across the pancreatic cancer pathway: A cohort study using OpenSAFELY-TPP
Journal article
Lemanska A. et al, (2023), eLife, 12