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Data science & epidemiology

Groups within this theme

The Brain Informatics Group was launched at the University of Oxford with a mission to improve brain health by building advanced data science techniques and applying them to large-scale multimodal data, with a particular focus on international health records datasets.

The Brain Informatics Group

Centre for Suicide Research

Centre for Suicide Research

Our mission is to promote the healthy mental and physical development of children and their families around the globe, irrespective of their life circumstances. We are working on improving mental health communication, and access to supports and services for children and adolescents. This includes community and school-based provision as well as online and digital mental health interventions. Our work focuses on the implementation of school and community-based interventions, child development in the face of adversity, including life threatening conditions such as HIV and cancer, and situations of violence, war and poverty.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Our research includes projects in the epidemiology of mental illness and violent crime, violence risk assessment, prison health, pharmacoepidemiology studies, forensic services, and suicide and self-harm in prisoners and offenders. More recent work has focused on suicide prevention, particularly in people with severe mental illness.

Forensic Psychiatry

Nearly a third of dementia cases can be prevented by modifying our lifestyle, in particular our cardiovascular health. While we know that “what’s good for the heart is good for the brain”, we still don’t entirely know why. Our group investigates this heart-brain link in detail, by studying how the health of our heart and large blood vessels affect the brain and memory as we grow older.

Heart and Brain Ageing Group

The Oxford Mental Health Economics and Policy research group brings together world-leading researchers in intersection of mental health, economics, and policy across the University of Oxford and it is hosted by the Department of Psychiatry.

Oxford Mental Health Economics and Policy

We are an international multidisciplinary group of researchers, clinicians (both psychiatrists and psychologists), statisticians, methodologists and students who aim to improve the current treatment practice in the NHS and across the world, using innovative approaches from artificial intelligence and machine learning, to digital mental health and bioethics.

Oxford Precision Psychiatry Lab

The Translational Neuroscience and Dementia Research Group undertake translational research ranging from mechanisms to drug development, and from discovery to qualification of molecular and imaging biomarkers in both Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease and in related dementia disorders. The group, led by Professor Noel Buckley, comprises molecular and cellular biology scientists, computational biologists and informaticians working with molecular, clinical and imaging datasets.
We have three main areas of activity, all aiming towards secondary prevention of dementia. By understanding disease mechanisms we seek potential therapeutics; through discovery of biomarkers we hope to enable preventative trials, and with informatics we utilise large biological and clinical datasets in the support of translational neuroscience.

Translational Neuroscience & Dementia Research

Principal Investigators

Andrea Cipriani

Professor of Psychiatry

Seena Fazel

Professor of Forensic Psychiatry

Philip McGuire

Professor of Psychiatry

John Gallacher

Professor of Cognitive Health; Director, Dementias Platform UK; Director, ...

Charles Newton

Cheryl & Reece Scott Professor of Psychiatry

Sarah Bauermeister

Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology

Sana Suri

Associate Professor | Oxford Brain Sciences Senior Fellow

Maxime Taquet

Associate Professor

Apostolos Tsiachristas

Associate Professor in Health Economics