Amy Heather
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Expertise
Health Data Science
Biography
Amy Heather joined PenCHORD (the Peninsula Collaboration for Health Operational Research and Data Science( in October 2022.
She is currently working on STARs: Sharing Tools and Artefacts for Reproducible Simulations. You can find out more about this project on the STARS Github organisation.
She has previously worked on:
- Kalio – a research project focused on preventing poor adolescent mental health through targeting the social determinants of health. As part of Kalio, she was working on the pilot of a local adaptation of the #BeeWell survey in North Devon and Torridge.
- SAMueL (Stroke Audit Machine Learning) – project using simulation and machine learning to identify key levers for maximising the disability benefit of intravenous thrombolysis in acute stroke pathways.
- IPACS (Improving Patient flow between Acute, Community and Social Care)
Other team members
Jemma Phillips
Research and Communications Administrator
Sammi Rosser
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Andy Mayne
PenCHORD Honorary Associate Research Fellow
Dr Anna Laws
Research Associate
Dr Thomas Monks
Associate Professor of Health Data Science
Chrissie Walker
PenCHORD Research and Operations Manager
Kerry Pearn
Research Fellow
Professor Martin Pitt
Professor of Applied Healthcare Modelling and Data Science
Dr Mike Allen
Senior Research Fellow in Applied Healthcare Modelling and Data Science