Daniel Avery
MSc
Data Analyst
Daniel Avery is a Data Analyst with the China Kadoorie Biobank at the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), University of Oxford. He graduated with an MSc in Research Methods from the University of Bristol before working for a number of companies in the retail sector performing data management roles. He is responsible for helping develop and manage the CKB database, ensuring the research team and collaborators have access to reliable and high quality data.
His primary duties include:
Developing and maintaining several of the tools used for automatic generation of datasets, as well as tools used for building and testing new data releases.
Acting as a knowledge bank for in-house researchers, about how data was gathered and managed, as well as known pitfalls or challenges associated with each data source.
Importing, cleaning and standardising information from sources as diverse as Health Insurance agencies, meteorological stations, urinalysis devices and genetic assays.
Generally trying to make the lives of CKB researchers easier.
Recent publications
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Association between health insurance cost-sharing and choice of hospital tier for cardiovascular diseases in China: a prospective cohort study.
Journal article
Levy M. et al, (2024), Lancet Reg Health West Pac, 45
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Reproductive factors and risk of lung cancer among 300,000 Chinese female never-smokers: evidence from the China Kadoorie Biobank study.
Journal article
Elbasheer MMA. et al, (2024), BMC Cancer, 24
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Dietary factors and patterns in relation to risk of later-onset ulcerative colitis in Chinese: a prospective study of 0.5 million people
Journal article
CHEN Z. et al, (2024), Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
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Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection and Risk of Stroke Types: A Prospective Cohort Study of 500 000 Chinese Adults.
Conference paper
Hamilton EM. et al, (2023), Stroke
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Genetic influences on alcohol flushing in East Asian populations.
Journal article
Cho Y. et al, (2023), BMC Genomics, 24