Joshua Steele
CDT Student
Joshua is a DPhil student on the Healthcare Data Science CDT, and he is funded by the UKHSA. He is supervised by Prof Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths and is a member of the Mathematical Modelling for Public Health Policy Support group and the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections.
Joshua completed his integrated master's degree in Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Warwick. For his master's dissertation, he developed a spatially correlated prior model to detect TB outbreaks across regions of the UK. His dissertation won a 2024 PSI Undergraduate Prize.
His current DPhil work focuses on developing interpretable machine learning models to predict 30-day mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia using variables from established clinical risk scores. He is comparing the performance of these models with traditional clinical risk scores.
Outside of academia, Joshua enjoys athletics and swimming and is the Jesus College MCR IT Officer.