Public Interest Data & Technology Nerd. VP, Public Benefit at System. Ex @wellcometrust @uk_biobank @RockefellerFdn & @worldbank
Stroud / London / NYC
Joined February 2007
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Tariq Khokhar retweeted
Great opp here from our pals @RenPhilanthropy:
New call to identify novel, high-value AI for Science datasets, with ~£62k prize money available for best proposals & a stacked review committee: @tkalil2050 @AdamMarblestone @scannicott, Sir Rory Collins &
@tkb
Deadline: 17 Feb
1/ Renaissance Philanthropy, in collaboration with @SciTechgovuk, is launching a call for proposals to identify novel high-value AI for Science datasets that advance the UK’s AI for Science Strategy. ▼
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Also, exciting news here about new £17m investment from @wellcometrust in our secure efficient OpenSAFELY platform to build privacy preserving tools on top of mental health data for researchers, and more. Huge thanks to Wellcome and @NHSEngland as ever.
phc.ox.ac.uk/news/researcher…
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Best advice i ever got was “when considering whether to say yes to something, imagine it was next week”. And yet i still manage to forget this 50% of the time.
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“Evidence banks’ can drive better decisions in public life” If you read one article today, please make it this one! Superb & so important from @anjahuja @FT ft.com/content/cd3dbce8-1c5e…
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Over the weekend, we @ESRC made a big announcement about an investment that I hope will be of interest to anyone who cares about using evidence to make better public policy, or about harnessing AI for social science.
I wanted to tell you a bit more about it, so here's a 🧵
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The history of three infectious diseases — smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was available.
From my article on humanity's long fight against infectious diseases: ourworldindata.org/microbes-…
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📢NEW REPORT!
Last year @wellcometrust commissioned a landscaping report to synthesise the evidence on gaps, barriers, and opportunities for attributing anthropogenic climate change impacts on human health.
The report, led by @ColinJCarlson is live now
bit.ly/3V0MbTJ
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Solutions start with scientific discovery.
And if we work together, we can improve health faster.
That’s why I’m excited for @wellcometrust to partner with @novonordiskfond and @gatesfoundation on this $300 million initiative. wellcome.org/news/novo-nordi…
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Come work with us!
Our World in Data is looking for a writer who can write global issues for a wide audience. You could focus on poverty, inequality, health, demography, or any of the many other topics we cover (or don't yet)! (And the team is awesome.)
ourworldindata.org/writer-q2…
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New Wellcome Mental Health funding call!
Applying neuroscience to understand symptoms in anxiety, depression and psychosis.
Must include a computational and experimental component and take a symptom based approach.
📆 23 July 2024
wellcome.org/grant-funding/s…
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It’s clear that climate change is impacting health. But action to mitigate or adapt to these impacts is too slow.
@wellcometrust’s Climate Impact Awards fund transdisciplinary teams to change that.
wellcome.org/grant-funding/s…
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📢 NEW PAPER ALERT!
We investigated dengue incidence drivers in Vietnam analysing 23 years of data. Whilst we show that temperature is the dominant factor shaping dengue’s dynamics, urban infrastructure factors predicted local spatial patterns
bit.ly/3GBGcO3
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Now that the FIRST EVER health day at @COP28_UAE is over, I just wanted to say I’ve been amazed by the way the climate and health communities have come together to make it such a success.
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👀My team @wellcometrust are delighted to partner with @exemplarshealth @pandemiccenter @gatesfoundation on a new project, Advanced Warning and Response Exemplars (AWARE)
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Interested in how digital sensors could advance mental health research? So are we 📱⌚️📐
@wellcometrust is commissioning research on how to advance the utility of sensors for mental health.
Details here: wellcome.org/what-we-do/our-…
A quick 🧵on why
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🚨Call for papers and sessions for the What Works Climate Solutions Summit in Berlin 2024 now open! Multiple themes including:
❤️🩹Health
🏙️Cities
🗣️Policy
🌱Land use
📆Deadline 31 Jan 24
👋@wellcometrust are delighted to be sponsoring, see you in Berlin!
whatworksclimate.solutions
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Our platform of 3000+ longitudinal datasets will feature overview info for each dataset as well as types of data collected that may be relevant to #mentalhealth research.
What kind of data would you be most interested in learning about?
@wellcometrust @MQmentalhealth @DatamindUK
17%Biological data
20%Cognitive data
33%Life experience data
30%Mood & emotion data
160 votes • Final results Tariq Khokhar retweeted
🏅 The grand prize for this year's most beautiful viz went to the 'Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023' by @WorldBank — a profound and in-depth progress report of the whole world.
Explore the interactive viz here: buff.ly/3u4urwQ
#IIBAwards
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The amazing @DigitalSQR team sat down with me to chat about my career, what I'd like to get done during my tenure, and my favourite📚! Unsurprisingly, many ideas were inspired by my time @wellcometrust , working with @JeremyFarrar, @AlanDangour and @tkb.
digitalsquare.org/blog/2023/…
What excites our new ED @Bilal_A_Mateen about his new role?
"I'm excited about how we take the ambition of shaping digital health markets and ask ourselves—what's the next emerging market for which we need to be one step ahead of the curve?"
Read more ➡️ digitalsquare.org/blog/2023/…