About

From pharmacy
to population health.

I trained as a pharmacist and did a PhD in drug delivery for bone tissue engineering. I then moved into health data science to study the health of migrants and other socially excluded groups.

Experience

Career

  • 2024 – present

    Bennett Junior Research Fellow in Applied Health Data Science

    Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science & Jesus College, University of Oxford. Studying health inequalities in migrants with OpenSAFELY and building reusable methods for other analysts.

  • Before 2024

    Analyst, Inclusion Health team

    Department of Health and Social Care. Led technical development of a system bringing together data on socially excluded groups, including vulnerable migrants.

  • ~3 years

    Research Fellow

    UCL Institute of Health Informatics. Studied the impact of COVID-19 on migrants (CPRD, Virus Watch) and the health impacts of urban planning.

  • Registered

    Pharmacist

    General Pharmaceutical Council of Great Britain.

Education

Training

  • 2023

    MSc Health Data Analytics

    University College London. Distinction and Dean's List. Dissertation on SARS-CoV-2 infection in migrants and household overcrowding, a causal mediation analysis that was later published in JECH.

  • 2017

    PhD Pharmacy

    University of Nottingham. A polymeric protein-loaded microsphere delivery system for use in bone tissue engineering.

  • 2011

    MPharm

    University of Nottingham.

Interests

Topics & methods

Migration and healthForced migrationWider determinants of healthRace and healthArmed conflict Electronic health recordsCausal inferenceOpen scienceOpenSAFELY

Recognition

Awards & involvement

2024

Bennett Junior Research Fellowship

Three-year fellowship in Applied Health Data Science, University of Oxford.

2015

Overall Winner, Research Showcase

University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.

2015

2nd Prize, Best Oral Presentation

International Conference on Pharmaceutical Sciences.

2014

1st Prize, Biotechnology

International Postgraduate Research Awards Seminar.

2013 – 2014

Team Leader, Nottingham Global Awareness Team

Organised conferences, lectures and cultural events on human rights.

Languages

English & Arabic

Native or bilingual proficiency in both.

Interested in collaborating?

yamina.boukari@jesus.ox.ac.uk →