Amy Heather

Expertise

Health Data Science

Biography

My interests are based around primary care, complex interventions and evidence synthesis. Currently I am interested in issues around evidencing and developing non-NHS delivered interventions, including social prescribing pathways, outlined here. Amy Heather joined PenCHORD (the Peninsula Collaboration for Health Operational Research and Data Science( in October 2022.

She is currently working on STARs: Sharing Tools and Artefacts for Reproducible Simulations. You can find out more about this project on the STARS Github organisation.

She has previously worked on:

• Kalio – a research project focused on preventing poor adolescent mental health through targeting the social determinants of health. As part of Kalio, she was working on the pilot of a local adaptation of the #BeeWell survey in North Devon and Torridge.
• SAMueL (Stroke Audit Machine Learning) – project using simulation and machine learning to identify key levers for maximising the disability benefit of intravenous thrombolysis in acute stroke pathways.
• IPACS (Improving Patient flow between Acute, Community and Social Care)