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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Research Assistant in Data Health Science - **Company:** Imperial College London - **Location:** London, UK - **Salary:** £45,399.0 - £48,876.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Health Informatics, Hospital Information Systems, Data Security, Decision Support Systems, Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases - **Published:** September 28, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e7689cc00e0a39e8 ## About the Role * A first degree in medicine, or in a health, life or quantitative science, together with a master's level qualification in medical informatics, health data science, public health or epidemiology. * Hands-on experience analysing large-scale routinely collected healthcare data - linked primary and secondary care records, national claims data or hospital data warehouses - and of working inside a secure data environment under information governance and output-checking rules. * Fluency in SQL and Python for cohort definition, phenotyping and model development, with sound judgement about evaluation: what a model is being asked to do, and what performance would mean clinically. * Experience of prospectively evaluating a decision support tool or digital health intervention with clinician participants, and a record of peer-reviewed publication. * Knowledge of cardiovascular risk stratification and lipid management, including ESC/EAS and NICE guidance on LDL cholesterol targets and lipid-lowering therapy. * The ability to move in both directions between a clinical question and an analysable specification - and to explain the result to a general practitioner, a commissioner or a statistician, as the situation requires. ## Description Can you work with ten million patient records to create a better way of preventing heart attacks and strokes? We are looking for a Research Assistant in Health Data Science, focussing on lipid risk and cardiovascular prevention, to join the Health Impact Lab at Imperial College London. Working inside the London Secure Data Environment to find the people whose cardiovascular risk is not being controlled - and to work out, patient by patient, how to solve this. Raised LDL cholesterol is one of the few causes of cardiovascular disease that is both cheap and straightforward to treat. Yet in every health system that has looked, most high-risk patients never reach the recommended target. Some are undertreated, some are not taking the treatment they have been prescribed, and some simply do not respond to it. Those three problems need three different answers, and routine NHS data can tell them apart. This is a 12-month post in the first instance, with scope to extend. It runs from a review of the evidence, through model building and validation, to the design of new lipid management pathways ready for prospective clinical validation with NHS partners. What you would be doing You will review the clinical, methodological and health economic literature on lipid management, patient profiling and treatment gaps, and use it to frame the questions the data can answer. You will build and validate a reproducible analytical pipeline inside the London Secure Data Environment, working with linked primary and secondary care records for an unselected London-wide population. That means curating coded clinical, prescribing and pathology data, reconstructing treatment exposure over time, stratifying cardiovascular risk against guideline criteria, and separating undertreatment, non-adherence and non-response as distinct and actionable phenotypes. You will develop and evaluate models of cardiovascular outcome risk, and health economic models that put a cost, a quality-adjusted life year and an inequality consequence against each alternative pathway design - so that a commissioner can see what a programme would cost, what it would prevent, and who it would reach. You will then take that work out of the analytical environment. Alongside clinical and analytical teams in the Integrated Care Board, general practices, primary care networks and community pharmacy, you will co-design novel pathways for lipid risk identification and management and prepare them for collaborative prospective clinical validation - including protocol development, ethics and data protection approvals, and site engagement. 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