Yangmei Li

Yangmei Li is a Senior Data Scientist in the Health Outcomes Enhancement team at UK Biobank, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. She leads a programme of work focused on enhancing the phenotyping of health outcomes and developing high-quality, research-ready health outcomes variables for the global research community.

She studied Preventive Medicine at Peking University, before completing an MPhil in Epidemiology and a PhD in Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. After her PhD, she joined the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, where she worked on a range of research projects with the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care (PRU-MNHC), with a focus on policy impact. Her expertise lies in managing and analysing large, complex observational and electronic healthcare datasets, including the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and the Birthplace national cohort dataset, to generate insights that improve maternal and infant care.

Her research interests include health inequalities, the use of routine electronic healthcare data, diabetes, pre-pregnancy and postnatal health, ethnic variations in health outcomes, preterm birth nutrition, and the safety of birth settings.