Prof. Ben Goldacre

Ben is Bennett Professor of Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Recent projects include OpenPrescribing.net and OpenSAFELY.org, an open source secure data platform that has delivered high impact research analyses across 58 million patients’ GP records, developed in close collaboration with electronic health record system suppliers TPP and Optum (formerly EMIS). He is also a best selling writer of popular science books, and author of the Goldacre Review (“Better, Broader, Safer Uses of Health Data”) for Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, published in April 2022.