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Policy impacts of the Self-Controlled Case Series method in epidemiology

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Submitting institution
The Open University
Unit of assessment
10 - Mathematical Sciences
Summary impact type
Health
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Is this case study continued from a case study submitted in 2014?
No
Underpinning research subjects
  • Numerical And Computational Mathematics
  • Statistics
  • Public Health And Health Services

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2. Underpinning research

3. References to the research

4. Details of the impact

5. Sources to corroborate the impact

Additional contextual information

Grant funding

Grant number Value of grant
A grant number was not available for this. £112,000
307 £69,000
G0501690 £70,000
EP/E02873X/1 £235,763
MR/L009005/1 £10,000
WM110005 £330,000
Funding programmes
  • Development of the self-controlled case series method for evaluating vaccine safety (2003 – 2006)
  • Wolfson Research Merit Award, Statistical methods for pharmacoepidemiology and infectious disease epidemiology (2011 – 2015)
  • New statistics for the self-controlled case series method (2007 - 2010)
  • Software tools and online resources for the self-controlled case series method and its extensions (PI: Farrington, 2014 - 2015 and PI: Whitaker, 2015 - 2017)
  • Prospective surveillance of vaccine safety by case series analysis (2006 – 2007)
  • CASE Studentship, Validation and extension of the self-controlled case series method. (2003 – 2006)
Global research identifiers
  • grid.418236.a
  • grid.421649.c
  • grid.421091.f
  • grid.52788.30
  • grid.14105.31
Name of funders
  • EPSRC
  • MRC
  • EPSRC & GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
  • Wellcome Trust
  • Royal Society
Researcher ORCIDs
  • 0000-0003-4961-5041
  • 0000-0002-7148-2612
  • 0000-0001-5833-1863