Health Data Science EPSRC CDT

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The information provided on this page was correct at the time of publication (November 2020). For complete and up-to-date information about this course, please visit the relevant University of Oxford course page via www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ucasThe Oxford EPSRC CDT in Health Data Science offers opportunities for doctoral study in computational statistics, machine learning and data engineering within the context of ethically-responsible health research. The Oxford EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Health Data Science offers a four-year doctoral programme, beginning with the training year, which consists of two terms of intensive training in core data science principles and techniques followed by a third term where students undertake two 8-week research placements in two of their chosen research areas. It is expected that one of these projects will become the basis of the student's doctoral research, carried out in the following three years. Taught modules and subsequent research supervision are provided by leading academics from the departments of Computer Science (the host department), Statistics, Engineering Science, the Nuffield Department of Medicine, and the Nuffield Department of Population Health.The first year taught modules include:

• Ethics of Health Data Science
• Introduction to Computational Statistics
• Modern Statistical Methods
• Bayesian Modelling
• Introduction to Machine Learning
• Machine Learning Topics
• Deep learning, Databases
• Data Modelling
• Process Modelling
• Data Governance
• Wearables
• Medical Image Analysis
• Epidemiology and Clinical Trials
• Genetics
• Infectious Disease Epidemiology
• Pathogen Evolution and Phylodynamics.

A typical weekly timetable contains morning lectures from 9am to 12pm, followed by an afternoon of practical computational exercises from 1pm until 4pm.Each term of taught modules concludes with an extended, team-based two-week data challenge where the cohort uses an at-scale data set to address a current health research area. Our data science challenges involve engagement from industry and healthcare partners such as The British Heart Foundation, NVIDIA and exchange students from our partner institutions in Berlin.The centre is based in the Oxford Big Data Institute. The institute is an analytical hub for multi-disciplinary working at Oxford, connecting world-leading expertise in statistics, computer science, and engineering to data-driven research in medicine and population health. It is also home to the newly established Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities.The institute houses internationally recognised research groups in genomic medicine, medical image analysis, mobile and sensor data, infectious diseases, large-scale clinical trials, ethical aspects of healthcare delivery and the ethics of health research.Research groups in partner departments address related challenges in data science: machine learning, knowledge representation, healthcare economics and cyber security.

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