Team

OpenSAFELY is a collaboration between the DataLab at the University of Oxford, the EHR group at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, TPP, EMIS and other electronic health record software companies (who already manage NHS patients' records), working on behalf of NHS England and NHSX, with a growing list of broader collaborations including ICNARC.

We are a well-established team of software developers, clinicians, and epidemiologists, all pooling diverse skills and knowledge to deliver high performance, highly secure and accurate health data analytics, using modern open software development techniques. The project is led by two NHS doctors, Ben Goldacre and Liam Smeeth, with lead software developer Seb Bacon. We have delivered because of our mixed skillset: we have software developers, and “developer-epidemiologists”, who can speak the same language as the technical teams within EHR system suppliers.

• Ben Goldacre: Director, DataLab, University of Oxford (joint principal investigator)
• Liam Smeeth: Professor, LSHTM (joint principal investigator)
• Seb Bacon: Chief Technical Officer, DataLab, University of Oxford

• Alex J Walker: Researcher, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Amir Mehrkar: GP/Honorary Clinical Researcher, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Angel Wong: Research Fellow, EHR LSHTM
• Anna Schultze: Research Fellow, EHR LSHTM
• Becky Smith: Software Developer, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Ben Butler-Cole: Software Developer, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Brian MacKenna: Honorary Research Fellow Pharmacist, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Caroline E Morton: GP registrar/Researcher/Developer, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Chris Bates: Director of Research and Analytics, TPP
• Christopher T Rentsch: Research Fellow, EHR LSHTM
• David Evans: Consultant Programmer, DataLab, University of Oxford
• David Harrison: Head Statistician, ICNARC
• Elizabeth Williamson: Associate Professor, EHR LSHTM
• Emily Nightingale: Research Fellow in Statistical Modelling, EHR LSHTM
• Frank Hester: Founder & CEO, TPP
• George Hickman: Python Engineer, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Harriet Forbes: UKRI Innovation Fellow, EHR LSHTM
• Helen I McDonald: EHR LSHTM and NIHR HPRU in immunisation
• Helen J Curtis: Researcher, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Hilary Winstanly: PA, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Ian J Douglas: Professor, EHR LSHTM
• Iain Dillingham: Software Developer, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Jess Morley: Policy lead, DataLab, University of Oxford
• John Parry: Clinical Director, TPP
• John Tazare: Research Degree Student, EHR LSHTM
• Jon Massey: Data Scientist, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Jonathan Cockburn: TPP
• Krishnan Bhaskaran: Professor, EHR LSHTM
• Laurie Tomlinson: Associate Professor, LSHTM
• Louis Fisher: Data Scientist, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Amelia (Millie) Green: Data Scientist, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Nicholas DeVito: Researcher, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Peter Inglesby: Consultant Programmer, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Raf Perera: Professor Medical Statistics, University of Oxford
• Robin Park: Data Scientist, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Richard Croker: Pharmaceutical Adviser, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Richard Grieve: Professor, EHR LSHTM
• Rohini Mathur: Assistant Professor, EHR LSHTM
• Rosalind Eggo: Assistant Professor, LSHTM
• Sam Harper: TPP
• Simon Davy: Software Developer, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Stephen Evans: Professor, EHR LSHTM
• Steven Maude: Software Developer, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Tom O’Dwyer: Software Developer, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Tom Ward: Consultant Software Developer, DataLab, University of Oxford
• Will Hulme: Statistician, DataLab, University of Oxford