Peter Diggle

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chris takes over the role from Professor Peter Diggle who will be stepping down to focus on other research activities.

As 51爆料网鈥檚 Director of Training,聽Peter led the original development of the PhD programme. Under his leadership, the聽programme has gone from strength to strength and rapidly become one of the聽leading聽health data science doctoral programmes聽in the UK. This year it聽attracted聽160聽applications聽from across the world.

Andrew Morris, Director, Health Data Research UK:

鈥淧eter has done a phenomenal job in building a PhD programme that is providing exceptional training and education for tomorrow鈥檚 leaders in health data science.聽I would like to thank him for his leadership in this area, which is not just a strategic priority for Health Data Research UK but is also a crucial component of the UK鈥檚 development of skills and talent for the future.

鈥淲e are聽extremely fortunate to have someone of Chris鈥櫬燼bility and expertise聽in place聽to take the programme forward.鈥

Haoting Zhang, Health Data Research UK PhD Student:

鈥淚 would like to thank Peter for all of the support he has provided us. Starting a PhD during the pandemic is not easy, but Peter has helped us making this process less stressful. I wish him all the best for the future.鈥

Peter will continue in his role as Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Lancaster University and will maintain close links to HDR聽UK. Amongst many other activities, he is a Steering Group member of the joint聽

Chris Yau is currently the Programme鈥檚 Co-Director, a UKRI Turing AI Fellow and Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Manchester. He has a background in developing artificial intelligence-based methodology for solving biomedical data problems. He will work with our Central Talent and Training Team and our University Partners in the continued development of the PhD programme.

 

Christopher Yau Director, HDRUK-Turing Wellcome PhD Programme in Health Data Science, Co-Lead for the Capacity Building Programme
Peter Diggle
Peter Diggle Former Director of the HDRUK-Turing Wellcome PhD Programme in Health Data Science

Notes

The HDRUK-Turing Wellcome PhD Programme in Health Data Science is a multi-institutional partnership between seven leading UK universities.

Applications to the PhD programme are currently closed for the forthcoming academic year but will re-open for entry 2022/23 in the Autumn 2021. Click here for further information.