Postdoctoral Research Assistant In Health Data
Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Marta Pineda Moncusí, MSc PhD
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Health Data at Pharmaco- and Device Epidemiology Group – Planetary Health Informatics, Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM) | NDORMS, University of Oxford.
After completing a Masters’ degree in Biomedicine in 2016, I commenced working in the field of musculoskeletal research specifically focusing on the evaluation and management of the secondary effects of Aromatase Inhibitors in breast cancer patients. I pursued this study further in a D Phil entitled "Epidemiological study of aromatase inhibitors in women diagnosed with breast cancer: evaluation and management of secondary effects" at the University of Barcelona (UB).
In April 2021, I joined the Pharmaco- and Device Epidemiology Group – Planetary Health Informatics at the Centre for Statistics in Medicine | NDORMS, University of Oxford, as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Health Data. During the following year, my main research during this time was focused in conducting unsupervised learning methods to explore clustering of comorbidities among patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis. Later, I joined the CVD-COVID-UK consortium as a member of the project CCU037, where I had been the main analyst for exploring the completeness, coverage, and granularity of ethnicity data in England; and for assessing ethnic disparities in mortality and cardiovascular across individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 in the England primary care system. Additionally, I took a supervising role in the development of risk prediction models designed to improve the reliability of models to non-majoritarian ethnic groups.
My background includes experience in studies using routinely collected (real world) health data, experience in pharmacoepidemiology and knowledge of data sciences, medical statistics and epidemiology.