Theme 5: Data, Modelling and Artificial Intelligence

This theme will provide the underpinning skills and expertise in data systems, modelling and AI to support projects across the whole HPRU, aiming to narrow the gap between data and action to prevent and control emerging and zoonotic infections. During the COVID-19 pandemic we showed the tremendous value of mobilising linked data in civic multi-agency responses, for example piloting voluntary mass testing and safely re-introducing mass cultural events. In our increasingly connected world, data relevant to infections from public services and the public directly are becoming easier to collect, collate and analyse. This theme will narrow the health protection data-action gap by coupling UKHSA with a civic data science and AI research facility, The Civic Health Innovation Labs at UoL. The Labs hosts Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative, serving one of the UK’s most deprived populations; it is also the research delivery partner for NHS Cheshire and Merseyside’s “Data into Action” programme
serving England’s second largest Integrated Care System. The theme demonstrates the value of our approaches through the Liverpool City Region, acting as an exemplar for subsequent national rollout.

Initial Projects

• Data Linkage and Curation
• Voice-based AI Data Capture
• Winter Respiratory Virus Pressures Exemplar Plan
• Multimodal Surveillance Methods

Theme Leads

• Prof Iain Buchan, University of Liverpool
• Dr Andre Charlett, UKHSA