03/12/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 03/12/2024 09:00
DRIVE-Health is led by Professor Richard Dobson at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) and Professor Vasa Curcin at the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine (FoLSM) at King's College London. It is training the next generation of PhD health data scientists to become innovation leaders who will tackle complex problems and global challenges.
Using seed funding from King's Centre for Doctoral Studies awarded in 2020, DRIVE-Health has trained 30 students to date. Building on this, the new award will support five additional cohorts at King's, totalling at least 85 talented PhD students. The CDT is expecting to welcome its fourth intake of at least 15 students in October 2024.
DRIVE-Health is the first health data science training centre in the UK to harness cross-sector collaboration across the NHS, industry, enterprise, policy makers, and academia. Working with diverse partners, DRIVE-Health PhD students develop cutting-edge models which leverage healthcare data to improve patient outcomes, streamline operations, and enhance clinical decision-making processes.
EPSRC CDT DRIVE-Health's vision is informed by three core goals:
As more data from biological, social, genomic, imaging, smart devices, and electronic health records becomes available, there are significant opportunities to revolutionise the way healthcare is delivered. Through DRIVE-Health, we will train some of the brightest minds in health data science to develop cutting-edge tools which utilise data to improve healthcare systems and patient outcomes.
Professor Richard Dobson, Co-Director of DRIVE-Health and Professor of Medical Informatics at King's IoPPNThis is an exciting time for medicine, with new data paradigms creating a novel research and implementation landscape covering the full span from cell to society. Over the next nine years, DRIVE-Health will nurture world-class researchers that will chart that landscape and drive the UK's health data agenda.
Professor Vasa Curcin, Co-Director of DRIVE-Health and Professor of Health Informatics at King's FoLSMThe DRIVE-Health PhD Programme (2024-2032) focuses on five key scientific research themes:
On top of the £7.9m provided by the EPSRC, DRIVE-Health has received over £5.1m from partners, as well as in-kind contributions worth nearly £4m.
DRIVE-Health is one of 65 CDTs which received EPSRC funding.
For more information, please contact Milly Remmington (School of Mental Health & Psychological Sciences Communications Manager)