David Eyre
Professor of Infectious Diseases
- Robertson Fellow
- Infectious Diseases Clinician
My research aims to understand who gets different infections and why, and how best to prevent, treat and monitor these infections. I also work on developing artificial intelligence tools to help diagnose and treat hospital patients, and to help hospitals run better.
I use a range of approaches spanning epidemiology, statistics, causal inference, and machine learning. I work with detailed deidentified healthcare record data at both regional and national scales. I also have extensive programming and database expertise.
My other research interests include the use of whole-genome sequencing as a tool for understanding the epidemiology and transmission of bacteria, viruses and fungi, and mathematical modelling of infectious disease transmission. I am also interested in using sequencing technologies as a novel tool for culture-independent microbiology diagnostics. These technologies offer the prospect of same-day diagnosis of infection, rather than having to wait several days for bacteria to grow in the lab as is common now.
I work closely with the Modernising Medical Microbiology consortium on several of these projects, contributing to the Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and an NIHR Health Protection Research Unit.
Recent publications
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-class Imbalanced Training: Applications in Healthcare
Journal article
YANG J. et al, (2023), Machine Learning
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Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies over 18 months following infection: UK Biobank COVID-19 Serology Study.
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Bešević J. et al, (2023), Journal of epidemiology and community health
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A scalable federated learning solution for emergency care using low cost microcomputing: Privacy-preserving development and evaluation of a COVID-19 screening test in UK hospitals
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Soltan A. et al, (2023), The Lancet. Digital Health
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The burden and dynamics of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 in England.
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Cooper BS. et al, (2023), Nature
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Evaluation of sequence hybridization for respiratory viruses using the Twist Bioscience Respiratory Virus Research panel and the OneCodex Respiratory Virus sequence analysis workflow.
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Kapel N. et al, (2023), Microbial genomics, 9