Education and training

Data

• Data Camp
  This is a good resource for coursework in working with data (SQL, R, Python etc...)
• Information Governance - Data Security Awareness
  ICHT iCARE Data Researchers

Health and healthcare

• Digital Health
  Introduces the field of digital health and the key concepts and definitions in this emerging field. The key topics include Learning Health Systems and Electronic Health Records and various types of digital health technologies to include mobile applications, wearable technologies, health information systems, telehealth, telemedicine, machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data.
• Introduction to Quality Improvement in Healthcare
  Introduces the concepts, theories and application of Quality Improvement (QI) in healthcare from a global perspective
• Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Approach
  Scope, origins and ethics of public health
• Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis in Public Health
  Introduces types of variables, common distributions, hypothesis testing

Python

• Introduction to Python
  Python Essential Training
• Applied Text Mining in Python
  Introduction to Machine Learning NLP
• Introduction to Data Science in Python
  Introduction to Pandas
• NHS Python Community

R

• R Course at Imperial Graduate School
  Research, computing and data science skills courses
• R for Data Science
  Great textbook for learning R with principles of data science
• NHS R Community
  Open source community for R users in the NHS

Statistics

• Introduction to Statistical Learning
  Textbook for statistics and a couple of machine learning topics
• The Elements of Statistical Learning (PDF)
  Foundation text for intersection of statistics and machine learning
• Crash Course Statistics
  A series of videos that straightforwardly explain statistics concepts

Snowflake

• Introduction to Snowflake
• SnowSQL
• Snowflake SQL
• Snowsight Quick Tour

SQL

• Introduction to SQL
  SQL tutorial

The Trust host interns every summer as part of the HDR UK Black Internship Programme, an initiative designed to address the underrepresentation of Black professionals in health data science.

Run in partnership with the 10,000 Black Interns initiative, this programme aims to transform career prospects for early-career Black individuals in the UK. By providing hands-on experience and mentorship in this rapidly growing field, we're actively contributing to diversity and inclusion in health data research. Our participation demonstrates our commitment to nurturing talent and shaping the future of healthcare innovation.

Our previous interns.

Current Interns