Julia Hippisley-Cox is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and General Practice at the University of Oxford. She has an outstanding track record in translational research. She is founder and director of QResearch, one of the world’s largest medical research databases of 40 million patient records. Her QRISK algorithms have saved thousands of premature deaths from cardiovascular disease and have been used to identify people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes. She led the development of the QCOVID risk tool which was used to expand the shielded patient list and prioritise 1.5 million high risk patients for COVID-19 vaccination.
Many of the risk prediction models she has developed are the first of their kind in the world and have been implemented at scale throughout the NHS over the last 15 years.