Olivia Kate Hopkinson

PhD in Pharmacoepidemiology

University College London, School of Pharmacy · London, UK

Funded by UCL through the PharmAlliance strategic partnership. Supervised by Dr Wallis Lau and Professor Li Wei. Thesis title: Optimizing Psychotropic Prescribing to Older Adults with Dementia Using Electronic Health Records.

MSc in Health Data Science

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine · London, UK

Awarded Merit. Fully funded by a Health Data Research UK studentship. Dissertation: Indirect Effects of COVID-19 on Primary Care Contacts for Mental Health in England Using CPRD Aurum.

AB in Statistics

Harvard University · Cambridge, MA

Coursework included statistics, computer science, biostatistics, mathematics, and history.

PhD Researcher

UCL School of Pharmacy

Design and conduct pharmacoepidemiological studies using UK electronic health records, including CPRD, HES, and ONS data. My work applies causal inference and observational study designs including target trial emulation, active-comparator new-user designs, clone-censor-weight analyses, self-controlled case series, case-crossover, and case-case-time-control designs. I also develop interactive visualisations using D3.js and R Shiny.

MSc Researcher

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Contributed to a consulting project for UCB and extended related work for my MSc dissertation. Collated and linked data from multiple sources, refactored R code to improve reproducibility, and produced visualisations using ggplot2 and R Shiny.

Research Assistant

Big Data Institute, University of Oxford

Conducted censored interval analysis in R to estimate malaria incubation periods among travellers arriving in the UK. Created interactive D3.js network visualisations of COVID-19 infection clusters using open data sources.

Teaching Fellow and Grader

CS171: Visualization

Supported teaching and assessment for CS171, an undergraduate course in data visualisation. Responsibilities included grading coursework, providing feedback on students’ visualisation projects, and running office hours.

Research Analyst

Redfield & Wilton Strategies

Drafted and conducted polls in the UK, US, Europe, Hong Kong, and Taiwan for media clients including The Telegraph, The Spectator, the BBC, and The New Statesman.