Becky Smith
Software Developer
Becky is a software developer at the Bennett Institute working on OpenSAFELY. She has 7 years’ experience working in backend web development with a particular interest in data science, and 12 years’ previous experience working in clinical trials. She has an MA in Psychology from the University of St Andrews and a PhD in Visual Neuroscience from University College London.
Papers by Becky Smith
- The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care
- Comparative safety and effectiveness of Pfizer BA.4-5 versus Sanofi during the spring 2023 COVID-19 booster vaccination programme in England: a matched cohort study in OpenSAFELY-TPP
- OpenSAFELY: Measuring BMI in 22 million patients in England
- OpenSAFELY: a platform for analysing electronic health records designed for reproducible research
- Trends in inequalities in avoidable hospitalisations across the COVID-19 pandemic: a cohort study of 23.5 million people in England
- Consistency, completeness and external validity of ethnicity recording in NHS primary care records
- Group A streptococcal cases and treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2022 outbreak
- The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care
- Impact of COVID-19 on recorded blood pressure screening and hypertension management in England
- Eleven key measures for monitoring general practice clinical activity during COVID-19
- Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY
- Effectiveness of Sotrovimab and Molnupiravir in community settings in England across the Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 sublineages
- Changes in COVID-19-related mortality across key demographic and clinical subgroups in England from 2020 to 2022
- Trends, variation, and clinical characteristics of recipients of antiviral drugs and neutralising monoclonal antibodies for covid-19 in community settings
- Recording of ‘COVID-19 vaccine declined’
- Potentially inappropriate prescribing of DOACs to people with mechanical heart valves