Clare is Head of the UK COVID-19 dashboard at the UK Health Security Agency. She leads on all aspects of data development and production for the dashboard. She is a statistician with a background in mortality statistics of over 20 years. In Public Health England, Clare was Head of Profession for statistics and also managed a range of projects including the Public Health Outcomes Framework. Clare has an MSc in Medical Demography from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The Government’s Living with COVID-19 plan set out how the UK would transition from managing COVID-19 as an emergency response to living with the virus, whilst ensuring we retain the resilience and contingency capabilities to deal with the uncertainty around …
Over the last two years the COVID-19 Dashboard has played a central role in managing the pandemic. This blog looks at the evolution of the dashboard, how the data features in our daily lives and why transparency is so important.
We are often asked why the data we publish in the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) webtool is not current. For example, in early 2018, why is 2015 the latest data we have available on under 18 conceptions and 2016 …
The recent publication of the ONS reports on Adult Smoking Habits in Great Britain and the Integrated Household Survey results for 2013 brings welcome news on smoking. Adult smoking rates are at their lowest ever, below 19% based on the …
“To tall men I’m a midget and to short men I’m a giant; to the skinny ones I’m a fat man and to the fat ones I’m a thin man….. In fact I’m quite ordinary.” So says the Ordinary Man …
“Are we there yet?” You don’t have to travel very far with small children before you are asked this question. In fact, a survey by Littlewoods.com in March 2013 reported that children ask their mothers around 300 questions every day …
