Tom Ward
Senior Research Software Engineer
Tom Ward is a Senior Research Software Engineer / Developer / Devops Engineer / Sysadmin, with nearly twenty years professional experience working with web technologies, mostly for small companies and startups, with a particular interest in open data. He has a BSc (Hons) Computer Science from Warwick University, and an MMus Music Performance (Jazz) from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. When not glued to a hot git repo, Tom can be found playing at music festivals and in small basements across Europe and beyond.
Papers by Tom Ward
- OpenSAFELY: Measuring BMI in 22 million patients in England
- OpenSAFELY: a platform for analysing electronic health records designed for reproducible research
- Trends in inequalities in avoidable hospitalisations across the COVID-19 pandemic: a cohort study of 23.5 million people in England
- Consistency, completeness and external validity of ethnicity recording in NHS primary care records: a cohort study in 25 million patients’ records at source using OpenSAFELY
- Group A streptococcal cases and treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2022 outbreak: a retrospective cohort study in England using OpenSAFELY-TPP
- The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care. An OpenSAFELY-TPP analysis of 20 million adult electronic health records.
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Antipsychotic Prescribing
- Eleven key measures for monitoring general practice clinical activity during COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study using 48 million adults’ primary care records in England through OpenSAFELY
- Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY: population based, retrospective cohort study of 57 million patients using federated analytics
- Changes in COVID-19-related mortality across key demographic and clinical subgroups in England from 2020 to 2022: a retrospective cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform