Yinghui Wei

Yinghui Wei is Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Plymouth. Her research interests centre on the development of statistical methodology and the applications to medicine, clinical trials, epidemiological studies and evidence synthesis in health. In her MRC fellowship grant, “Using data to improve public health: COVID-19 secondment” , she works within the COVID-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core Study to investigate the effects of COVID-19 infection on health.  Specific projects include using electronic health records and cohort studies to understand risk factors for long COVID and to assess the long-term effects of COVID infection on health outcomes. She has experience in conducting COVID research via national Trusted Research Environments, including OpenSAFELY and UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration Secure e-Research Platform.