Dr Richie Harrington
Richard Harrington
BA, MSc, PhD
Senior Research Data Scientist
Richie is a senior researcher in Diet Data and Interventions Group and leads the foodDB and BetterBasket projects. He built the core software platforms underpinning these projects, is passionate about tackling large, real-world, complex problems with data and technology, and is interested in big data, public-health, tech-for-good, machine learning, community-building and citizen science.
Richie has experience and interests in computational biology, molecular evolution and digital health, and has a BA in Genetics from Trinity College, Dublin, an MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Ulster, and a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Cambridge. He also founded Digital Health Oxford, a cross-sector community of researchers, clinicians, designers, software engineers and others, now running out of the Department of Primary Health Care Sciences, and TheHill Oxford, a health innovation hub running out of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Recent publications
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Are food and drink available in online and physical supermarkets the same? A comparison of product availability, price, price promotions and nutritional information.
Journal article
Bhatnagar P. et al, (2020), Public Health Nutr, 1 - 7
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Reductions in sugar sales from soft drinks in the UK from 2015 to 2018.
Journal article
Bandy LK. et al, (2020), BMC Med, 18
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Nutrient composition databases in the age of big data: foodDB, a comprehensive, real-time database infrastructure.
Journal article
Harrington RA. et al, (2019), BMJ Open, 9
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A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Digital Intervention Aimed at Improving Food Purchasing Behavior: The Front-of-Pack Food Labels Impact on Consumer Choice Study.
Journal article
Harrington RA. et al, (2019), JMIR Form Res, 3
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A NEW METHOD TO MONITOR THE PERFORMANCE OF COMPANIES IN RELATION TO NUTRITIONAL TARGETS
Conference paper
Bandy L. et al, (2017), ANNALS OF NUTRITION AND METABOLISM, 71, 867 - 867