PHD Studentship: Data Driven child Health phenomics and disease characterisation

This project will explore the current landscape of child health phenomics, and particularly to use the Electronic Health Records (EHR) data available from GOSH and UCLH to understand and develop optimal methods of computable phenotyping for a range of child health conditions.

Phenomics represents the standardised and reproducible specification of a disease based on objective data elements, ideally structured and computable. The UCL IHI, with HDRUK, is undertaking work in this area to develop a resource which has the potential to significantly improve future research and clinical studies, the human phenome atlas. Most work to date in this area has focused on relatively common adult diseases. Children represent around 20% of the UK population, and 10-15% of healthcare spending, but to date there is no focused research relating to systematic phenomics in child health, this PhD studentship project has been devised to address this inequity.