About
Matt is a postgraduate research student in Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton. His PhD project is funded by the ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership, and will explore the contribution of routinely collected service utilisation data from health facilities in Ghana to the development of novel and improved methods for the estimation of facility ‘catchment’ areas and their associated population denominators, focusing on diarrhoeal disease incidence amongst children under the age of five years.
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Biography
Matt has worked in healthcare data science and analytics for more than ten years, initially in support of commissioning initiatives for the NHS in Hampshire, UK. He later worked with the NIHR ARC Wessex research unit, where he specialised in the development and implementation of complex algorithms for case finding and risk stratification in the NHS using linked, routinely collected primary and secondary care data. Most recently, he worked as a statistician at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, where he was responsible for statistical analysis for a programme of research being undertaken in India and sub-Saharan Africa on the developmental and early life origins of health and disease.