Dr Richie Harrington
Richard Harrington
BA, MSc, PhD
Senior Research Data Scientist
Richie is a senior researcher in Diet Data and Interventions Group and leads the foodDB and BetterBasket projects. He built the core software platforms underpinning these projects, is passionate about tackling large, real-world, complex problems with data and technology, and is interested in big data, public-health, tech-for-good, machine learning, community-building and citizen science.
Richie has experience and interests in computational biology, molecular evolution and digital health, and has a BA in Genetics from Trinity College, Dublin, an MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Ulster, and a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Cambridge. He also founded Digital Health Oxford, a cross-sector community of researchers, clinicians, designers, software engineers and others, now running out of the Department of Primary Health Care Sciences, and TheHill Oxford, a health innovation hub running out of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Recent publications
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Journal article
Clark M. et al, (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119
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Supplemental Data for 'Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 food products'
Dataset
CLARK M. et al, (2022)
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Journal article
Bandy LK. et al, (2021), PLoS medicine, 18
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Journal article
Bandy LK. et al, (2021), PloS one, 16
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Journal article
Harrington RA. et al, (2020), Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 113, 270 - 273