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…
A study by Population Data Science at Swansea University has revealed how machine learning can help with the early detection of Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) inflammatory arthritis and revolutionise how people are detected and diagnosed by their GPs. Published in the open-access journal Plos One, the collaborative study, funded by UCB Pharma and Health and Care…
A 20-year population-scale study of patients with cellulitis, published in the International Wound Journal, has revealed the full economic cost burden for the NHS in Wales. Caused by bacterial infection, cellulitis can make skin, anywhere on the body, painful, hot or swollen, sometimes accompanied by blistering. Cellulitis accounts for a significant financial and resource cost…
01 September 2022 – We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Adam Chee from the Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS-ISS) as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science (FMHLS) at Swansea University. The appointment will see Dr Adam Chee working with…
At the recent Swansea Academy of Learning and Teaching Conference, Senior Lecturer and Programme Director for the MSc in Health Informatics in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science at Swansea University, Judy Jenkins, was presented with an Excellence in Teaching Award. Judy, who has been lecturing on the subject for a number of…
Based within Population Data Science at Swansea University Medical School, SAIL Databank is one of only five European population databases recognised in a new study that has the potential to link data across medicine, pregnancy, breastfeeding and infant and maternal health. This capability enables researchers to understand these complex inter-relationships. The impact of maternal medicines…
The UK Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Register is not only celebrating a decade of vital data collection and research, it has also secured another £2 million of funding. The UK MS Register, based in Population Data Science in Swansea University Medical School is a world-leading research project in MS that uses real world data as part…
An initiative that has transformed how de-identified administrative data can be securely used to provide insight into social and economic issues in Wales is set to continue thanks to an investment of almost £17 million. Administrative Data Research Wales (ADR Wales), one of the research centres of excellence at Population Data Science at Swansea University,…
The programme-makers interviewed Swansea University’s Professor Ronan Lyons, Director of SAIL Databank, who summarised the insights gleaned from the rich health data in SAIL from the first peak of the virus.
Parents concerned that their child may have autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can wait up to four years for a formal diagnosis, but online assessments can help reduce these delays, two new research studies from Swansea University have shown.
