Iain Buchan

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In a joint article for the British Medical Journal, Professor Iain Buchan (@profbuchan.bsky.social) explains how the UK's new new Health Data Research Service aims to improve scientific discovery, clinical trials, and the development of AI for healthcare

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Health Data Decoded | CHIL director – Iain Buchan [Ep. 10]

1/ 🎙️ New 'Health Data Decoded' episode! #SciComm

❓ What does it take to bridge clinical practice, data science and public health innovation?

👤 Guest: Iain Buchan (@profbuchan.bsky.social), Director of CHIL (@livunichil.bsky.social).

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One week left! 📣 Apply for our five-year AI Research Fellowships. We’re seeking early career researchers with bold ideas for AI-driven discovery. Fellows receive protected research time, tailored support, and a path to a permanent post.

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Evaluating the impact of a parent champion model on bronchiolitis hospitalisation rates: a difference in differences study Background Bronchiolitis and its outcomes have strong socioeconomic determinants. In Liverpool, a city with high deprivation and above-average bronchiolitis hospitalisations, we implemented the Respir...

New paper from Alice Lee, a fab @liverpooluni.bsky.social PhD student @iansinha.bsky.social & I supervise, combining hyper-local delivery & regional data (h/t @profbuchan.bsky.social & team), improving bronchiolitis hospitalisation rates @alderhey.nhs.uk
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AI Summit | Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Bringing together leading thinks and practitioners from the UK and beyond, the summit will advance the national debate on Artificial Intelligence in a city region determined to become a global leader ...

The @lpoolcityregion.bsky.social AI Summit is back for the second year on the 23rd October. CHIL's @profbuchan.bsky.social is delighted to be a panellist talking about AI in Health & Life Sciences.

See the programme for more details: liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk/ai-summit

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NEWS | Prof Iain Buchan told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry what Liverpool’s testing pilot taught us, highlighting ways to handle future pandemics more effectively.

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.@profbuchan.bsky.social has recently provided evidence for Module 7 'Test, Trace and Isolate' of the COVID-19 Inquiry. You can find Professor Buchan’s evidence at the inquiry and read a summary of his major points here: www.thepandemicinstitute.org/news/profess...

@profbuchan.bsky.social is a member of our Internal Scientific Advisory Panel at @thepandemicinst.bsky.social and his insights draw on Liverpool’s pioneering work in mass community testing and highlight lessons for future public health preparedness.

You can read more on the link below.

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Data Action Accelerator Programme Manager - Seonaid Lafferty | Health Data Decoded - Episode 2 Health Data Decoded · Episode

1/ 🎧 New 'Health Data Decoded' episode! 🎧 #DataScience #SciComm

❓What are the responsibilities of a Research Programme manager? What is the Data Action Accelerator (DAA)?

👥 DAA Programme Manager, Seonaid Lafferty, joins us to discuss!

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2/ 👥 With @edmhill.bsky.social @profbuchan.bsky.social @cathymonty-psy.bsky.social & André Charlett.

🏫 Part of NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging & Zoonotic Infections (HPRU-EZI). @hpruezi.bsky.social

⏳ Application deadline: 07 May 2025

🗓️ Start date: October 2025 - March 2026

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Optimising Vaccination Outreach Through Epidemiological-Behavioural Modelling and AI Vaccine hesitancy is a complex, time-varying problem leading to suboptimal vaccination coverage for individuals, groups and populations. In turn, this has serious consequences for individuals and popu...

Great PhD opportunity with @edmhill.bsky.social @profbuchan.bsky.social and others, please circulate to anyone interested!

www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...

The impacts of Liverpool Citizen's Advice on Prescription (CAP) on mental health outcomes– an Instrumental Variable (IV) approach

The impact of Citizen's Advice on Prescription on mental health. Showing it reduced mental health related service use and was likely cost saving to the NHS. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @felly500.bsky.social @profbuchan.bsky.social with @roberta-piroddi.bsky.social @kdaras.bsky.social

Great to be featured on BBC NW last night with @runningmadprof.bsky.social, Dr Subramaniam & @profbuchan.bsky.social talking about the work carried out in Liverpool during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the work we are doing to prepare for future pandemics

Watch from 13:23
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Inspired by Vietnam’s vision and ambition for health and care evolution with civic data approaches. We hosted colleagues from Ho Chi Minh twice at CHIL @livunichil.bsky.social in the past year and have the pleasure of detailed work with colleagues here this week #DataSavesLives

An honour to pay my respects at Liverpool’s #COVID19 remembrance today in our secular ‘cathedral’ St George’s Hall. An apt reflection of the grit and grace that delivered so much by and for so many in this City’s response to the pandemic. Humbled to serve this true collective heart of #PublicHealth

Inspired by Liverpool City Region residents at today's Assembly. Mobilising data into action well becomes real in health systems where organisations are accountable to one another and to the residents they serve - a national grid of civic data & AI is overdue - see: www.thenhsa.co.uk/app/uploads/...

I am mad about data, and work with lots of teams sharing the madness. A bunch of us Northerners, inspired by @profbuchan.bsky.social, wrote of working together as big team of Unis, NHS, local gov, charities and citizens to use data+combined skills to innovate.
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Pandemic Preparedness - Purpose & Data Driven Testing YouTube video by The Pandemic Institute

Take a look at the film by @profbuchan.bsky.social exploring the Liverpool mass community testing scheme during the Covid-19 pandemic and how we can use data to respond in future pandemics.

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Identifying households with children who have complex needs: a segmentation model for integrated care systems - BMC Health Services Research Background Adversity in childhood is increasing in the United Kingdom. Complex health and social problems affecting children cluster in families where adults also have high need, but services are rare...

Identifying households with children who have complex needs: a segmentation model for integrated care systems,
my new paper with A. Astubury, W. Baker, K. Daras, @joerafferty.bsky.social, @profbuchan.bsky.social and @benjaminbarr.bsky.social

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Co-ordinated by the estimable @profbuchan.bsky.social, some of us contributed to the evidence to the Science Innovation and Technology Committee Inquiry into Innovation Growth and the Regions on use of Data and AI in civic learning systems.

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Identifying households with children who have complex needs: a segmentation model for integrated care systems - BMC Health Services Research Background Adversity in childhood is increasing in the United Kingdom. Complex health and social problems affecting children cluster in families where adults also have high need, but services are rare...

Identifying households with children who have complex needs, using linked data. A piece of work that has been a long time in development - now being piloted in primary care in Liverpool, with a live interactive tool supporting services to join up support link.springer.com/article/10.1...

PhD in data science of health protection with Oxford and Liverpool - dynamic evaluation and adaptation of public driven apps, AI and pandemic preparedness #DataSavesLives @livunichil.bsky.social

Malawi Liverpool Wellcome site visit: great people, great science, great impact #PublicHealth

Great opportunity for a Lecturer position with Simon Maskell and @livunichil.bsky.social in #HealthDataScience and #HealthTech Engineering - with Bayesian computational novelty and real-world application in the NHS and wider civic data systems: my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...

Birch genetics redirected by hormonal effects of a fungus en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taphrin... - complex cohabitat or gall / witch’s broom. Nature never ceases to make me understand more of the world we should care for and learn from.

Delighted this little one’s sight is saved after a month of ofloxacin, own-serum, and lubricant eye drops. Cone off and tail wagging. Best Christmas present.

Mother Nature's flourish before Winter's sleep: daffodils in a sheltered spot, aptly facing Wales from Wirral; carp still coming to say hi when most of his shoal-mates have submerged to sleepier depths

Friendly carp, even comes to say hi when most have slowed and submerged with winter’s advance