Yinghui Wei
Professor of Data Science in Applied Health at University of Plymouth
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Yinghui聽Wei is Professor of Data Science in Applied Health at the University of Exeter, where she leads the PenCHORD team (Peninsula Collaboration for Health Operational Research and Data Science).
Yinghui聽has a long-standing research interest in using data to improve health and care. She has experience in health data research in various disease areas, including COVID-19, Zika virus, cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune disorders, kidney diseases, cancer, tuberculosis, and hospital-acquired infections, such as vancomycin-resistant Enterococci. In 2021,聽Yinghui聽was awarded an MRC fellowship to work within the COVID-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core Study to investigate the long-term effects of COVID-19 on population health.
Yinghui聽has experience in conducting research using NHS data, national registry databases, and big data from national linked electronic health records and longitudinal cohort studies within Trusted Research Environments/Secure Data Environments.聽Yinghui鈥檚 methodological expertise includes the development and validation of clinical prediction models, epidemiological studies and modelling, statistical methods for evidence synthesis, and modelling complex data in health. She co-developed a statistical package, ipdfc in Stata, to reconstruct individual participant time-to-event data from published Kaplan-Meier curves, which has been used by researchers worldwide.
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