One of the confounding questions of the pandemic was how to measure the dead - what counts as a COVID-19 death, and how do you tally them in places where barely any are tested for the virus? Researche...
Bilal Mateen is a physician by training, with an academic interest in health-related applications of data science and machine learning. He is associate professor of clinical data science at University College London, and clinical data science fellow at the Alan Turing Institute – the UK’s national institute for data science and AI. Bilal currently serves as the clinical technology lead, and senior manager for digital technology at the Wellcome Trust, where he oversees a portfolio of more than £100M in funding (annually) for digital public goods and the software infrastructure that underpin the science to address three key health challenges: mental health, the impacts of climate change on human health, and emerging & escalating infectious diseases.