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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Impact of vaccination on the association of COVID-19 with cardiovascular diseases: An OpenSAFELY cohort study.
Journal article
Cezard GI. et al, (2024), Nat Commun, 15
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CHALLENGES IN ESTIMATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF 2 DOSES OF COVID-19 VACCINE BEYOND 6 MONTHS IN ENGLAND
Journal article
Horne EMF. et al, (2024), American Journal of Epidemiology, 193, 227 - 231
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During the COVID-19 pandemic 20 000 prostate cancer diagnoses were missed in England
Journal article
Lemanska A. et al, (2024), BJU International
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Educational interventions delivered to prescribing advisers to influence primary care prescribing: a very low-cost pragmatic randomised trial using routine data from OpenPrescribing.net
Preprint
Curtis H. et al, (2024)
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Implementing Germ Defence digital behaviour change intervention via all primary care practices in England to reduce respiratory infections during the COVID-19 pandemic: an efficient cluster randomised controlled trial using the OpenSAFELY platform
Journal article
Ainsworth B. et al, (2023), Implementation science : IS, 18