Ben Butler-Cole
Director of Engineering
Ben runs the software delivery teams at the Bennett Institute. He has spent the last two decades looking for imaginative ways to build software without unnecessarily increasing the number of lines of code at large in the world. When all else fails he likes to write code in languages that haven’t been designed to hurt him. Before joining the team, Ben led a team building Neo4j Aura, a graph database-as-a-service.
Papers by Ben Butler-Cole
- 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: a cohort study in 25 million patients’ records at source using OpenSAFELY
- Group A streptococcal cases and treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2022 outbreak: a retrospective cohort study in England using OpenSAFELY-TPP
- The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care. An OpenSAFELY-TPP analysis of 20 million adult electronic health records.
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Antipsychotic Prescribing
- Changes in COVID-19-related mortality across key demographic and clinical subgroups in England from 2020 to 2022: a retrospective cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform