The Life Scientific: Cathie Sudlow

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4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

“Big data” and “data science” are terms we hear more and more these days. The idea that we can use these vast amounts of information to understand and analyse phenomena, and find solutions to problems, is gaining prominence, both in business and academia. Cathie Sudlow, Professor of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, has been at the forefront of enabling health-related research using ever-increasing datasets. She tells presenter Jim Al-Khalili why this type of research matters and how the COVID-19 pandemic changed attitudes towards data in healthcare. Over the course of her career, Cathie has held a variety of roles at different organisations, and she is currently Chief Scientist and Deputy Director at Health Data Research UK. She believes that there is no room for prima donnas in science, and wants her field to be open and collaborative, to have the most impact on patients’ lives.

Presenter: Jim Al-Khalili Producer: Florian Bohr Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris

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0:56.0	Big Data and Data Science are terms we hear more and more these days.
1:01.0	Data sets are getting larger, analysis techniques more
1:04.3	sophisticated and the idea that we can use these vast amounts of information to
1:08.6	understand and analyze phenomena to find solutions to problems is gaining prominence both in business and
1:14.9	academia. Well my guest today is at the forefront of big data in health care
1:19.4	although as she points out big data and data science are just the terms we use nowadays,
1:25.9	because what science could there possibly be without data?
1:29.2	Kathy Sudlow is professor of neurology and clinical Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh.
1:34.6	For more than a decade, he's supported and enabled large-scale population health research
1:40.0	and has spent much of her time working with a number of organisations, like UK BioBank,
1:45.0	one of the largest and most in-depth biomedical databases in the world,
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