Dr Benjamin Atta Owusu

I am a health data scientist and epidemiologist at the Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care, University of Exeter. My research follows people with heart failure and COPD: how long one condition goes unrecognised once the other is diagnosed, which long-term conditions accumulate alongside them, and how outcomes differ between patient groups. I work with routinely collected linked health data, connecting primary care records with hospital admissions, death registrations and area deprivation. With clinicians, patients and carers, I am building interpretable machine-learning models that predict falls in people with heart failure, designed so that clinicians can see what drives each prediction.