LIDA: Health
Background & Mission
From medical records to wearable technologies and personal genomics, the use of data to improve our health represents one of the greatest opportunities of the next decade. To realise this fully we need a broad range of multi-disciplinary researchers with skills in biomedical science, mathematics, statistics, computing and artificial intelligence.
The LIDA Health Community aims to improve health and health care systems in our society using data driven methodology.
We are committed to multidisciplinary research directed at the most pressing health and medical problems of our time, and we work actively to create the teams needed to solve them. Integral to this mission is to support researchers’ needs in health data access, data governance, data analysis methodology and computational infrastructure.
What we do
We provide a network for researchers from a range of backgrounds and academic disciplines at the University of Leeds to collaborate and contribute to advancing state-of-the-art data science to tackle global health challenges. Our community events create opportunity for knowledge exchange with external non-HE partners to better position the academic community for large collaborative cross-disciplinary grants and drive impact.
Join the LIDA: Health Community Join the LIDA Health ECR Group**Add “LIDA-health-ECR” to your chosen distribution lists
**Early Career Researchers (ECRs) including PGR students and postdoctoral researchers please also join the main LIDA Health community mailing list to keep abreast of wider community events.
In the next 12 months
The LIDA Health Community and LIDA Health ECR Group provide an active network within which to facilitate debate, collaboration and contribution to the most pressing health needs of our society. This includes topics in cancer, rheumatology, cardiovascular disease, the treatment of people with multiple long-term conditions and mental health across the life course. We plan events on an annual basis and we will update here once dates and topics are established. Please see the LIDA Health Community Spring 2025 Spotlight for a flavour of our community events.
Biomedical Data Science Careers Project 'PROMOTE'
Get in touch
Prof David Westhead
(School of Molecular and Cellular Biology)
Dr Michal Zulcinski
(Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine)
[email protected]
Dr Zak Thornton
(Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine (LICAMM))
[email protected]