Tariq Khokhar
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Head of Data for Science & Health @wellcometrust. Chair of @DataKindUK. Board of @uk_biobank. Science, tech, econ & design nerd. Ex @RockefellerFdn & @worldbank
Stroud & London, UK
Joined February 2007
Also, exciting news here about new £17m investment from @wellcometrust in our secure efficient OpenSAFELY platform to build privacy preserving tools on top of mental health data for researchers, and more. Huge thanks to Wellcome and @NHSEngland as ever. https://t.co/8obPSTxj3s
phc.ox.ac.uk
Department researchers awarded £17 million from Wellcome across two separate grants, to analyse NHS talking therapy outcomes and enhance secure data research. The project will enable unprecedented...
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We're looking for Research Engineers to work at the intersection of LLMs and impactful scientific problems! Applications close next Tuesday 18th. Link to job ad in thread.
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Best advice i ever got was “when considering whether to say yes to something, imagine it was next week”. And yet i still manage to forget this 50% of the time.
Has anyone else noticed that when you commit to doing things in the future, the time when you have to do those things eventually ends up being now?
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“Evidence banks’ can drive better decisions in public life” If you read one article today, please make it this one! Superb & so important from @anjahuja @FT
ft.com
From climate change to crime, repositories of good quality information are essential
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Over the weekend, we @ESRC made a big announcement about an investment that I hope will be of interest to anyone who cares about using evidence to make better public policy, or about harnessing AI for social science. I wanted to tell you a bit more about it, so here's a 🧵
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AND: Huge kudos also to colleagues at the @ESRC - @stianwestlake & co on their major new announcement and funding call this week on evidence synthesis Global collaboration on this agenda is key - delighted to be working with you & many others to come! https://t.co/kFMdzbFr7a.
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Read more below about the new initiative announced at the UN Summit of The Future by @wellcometrust CEO @jarottingen
https://t.co/hFF1VUNbKr
#SoTF #SDGs #UNGA #SummitOfTheFuture
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Wellcome’s Chief Executive Officer John-Arne Røttingen announces the backing of the development of new data and tools for accelerating “living evidence synthesis” with £45 million in funding over...
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By investing in common data infrastructure, tools and capacity building - we hope it will become faster and cheaper for groups around the world to use evidence to drive action that improves lives.
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That’s why we’re proud to commit £45 Million or $60 Million over the next five years to transforming how evidence synthesis is done.
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How can the world do better to use existing evidence to accelerate progress towards the SDGs? The Wellcome Trust's vision is a healthier future for everyone. We believe science is at the heart of achieving this, but science alone is not enough.
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The history of three infectious diseases — smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was available. From my article on humanity's long fight against infectious diseases: https://t.co/YMC6WLbEQm
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Absolutely delighted to have @wellcometrust providing the brilliant @OurWorldInData team with long-term support. Vital to have high quality, accessible public goods like this that help us all develop a clearer understanding of the world and the trends that are shaping it.
As Hetan — the chair of our board — says, the Wellcome Trust has given @OurWorldInData a major grant. Wellcome is the biggest funder of our nonprofit, and we are very much looking forward to what we can do in the coming seven years!
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Fantastic to have @wellcometrust working with @aphrc on this new initiative to catalyze innovation in mental health data science across Africa. More details below!
Apply now for the Mental Health Data Prize—Africa 2024! Submissions must address areas related to anxiety, depression and/or psychosis among young people Africa. Deadline is July 31st! For more info logon to: https://t.co/vK8vfX4Oz8
#MHDPA #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness
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Bravo John, Hannah and Andrew!
Congratulations and welcome to our 2024 Honorary Fellows! 🎉 @jburnmurdoch & @_HannahRitchie have done incredible things for improving public understanding through data & @AndrewYNg's research and teaching in AI has changed the world 📈🌎 https://t.co/nFblf150WW
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📢NEW REPORT! Last year @wellcometrust commissioned a landscaping report to synthesise the evidence on gaps, barriers, and opportunities for attributing anthropogenic climate change impacts on human health. The report, led by @ColinJCarlson is live now https://t.co/NOIiCLT2sZ
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Solutions start with scientific discovery. And if we work together, we can improve health faster. That’s why I’m excited for @wellcometrust to partner with @novonordiskfond and @gatesfoundation on this $300 million initiative.
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Joint partnership will support science to tackle a series of global health challenges and build healthier futures, especially for the world’s most vulnerable populations
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Come work with us! Our World in Data is looking for a writer who can write global issues for a wide audience. You could focus on poverty, inequality, health, demography, or any of the many other topics we cover (or don't yet)! (And the team is awesome.) https://t.co/8PYkAHXAGm
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Join us if you are committed to helping us achieve our mission: make research and data on the world’s largest problems accessible and understandable.
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New Wellcome Mental Health funding call! Applying neuroscience to understand symptoms in anxiety, depression and psychosis. Must include a computational and experimental component and take a symptom based approach. 📆 23 July 2024 https://t.co/0nivvlnye4
wellcome.org
New multi-million pound funding available from Wellcome to explore how neuroscience can contribute to our understanding of mental health symptoms.
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Daniel Kahneman - what a life and what a loss. May his memory be a blessing. https://t.co/G2ouFHOFm6
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One of the founders of behavioral economics, who incorporated human quirks into the study of how people make economic decisions, has died. Daniel Kahneman was 90.
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