Population Data Science at Swansea University is excited to welcome this year’s cohort of Summer Interns. We asked this year’s interns to tell us a little about the projects they are working on and what they hope to achieve by the end of the internship Iwan White What were you studying before you started your…
New research published in the European Heart Journal investigated the long-term effectiveness of a personal ECG (electrocardiogram) device – a device used to check heart rhythm and electrical activity. SAIL Databank was used to evaluate the device over an extended follow-up period in patients at high risk of Atrial fibrillation (AF), a condition that causes…
Ollie Thwaites, PhD student at the Environment and Health Research Centre (ENVHE), spoke to us about his recent Master’s dissertation and how it sparked his interest in the use of GIS to explore the relationships between the natural environment and health. Linking green space data from Ordnance Survey with records of birds, butterflies, and plants…
SAIL Databank is excited to announce this year’s cohort of student projects as part their 3rd year Capstone viva project. Their projects will benefit from the vast repository of health, social and administrative data held within SAIL and help nurture the data science knowledge and expertise amongst these budding medical and data research professionals. As…
The Research COVID-19 has indirectly impacted the healthcare system, owing to surge and sustained pressures on the system. This has resulted in delays in screening services and postponement of elective surgeries and other non-urgent medical treatments. However, these pressures’ effects on managing long-term or chronic conditions still need to be fully understood. Long-term conditions (LTCs),…
