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Albert Prats-Uribe
MD MPH FFPH
Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Public Health
I studied medicine and specialised and worked as a public health doctor. I joined NDORMS in 2018. My research foucuses in epidemiology, biostatistics, and the use of real-world data to improve healthcare decision-making. I analyzing large-scale healthcare datasets to better understand the safety and effectiveness of medical treatments, both drugs and medical devices.
I am particularly passionate about improving methods that help translate complex data into actionable insights that can drive evidence-based healthcare and improve patient outcomes.
Currently my research focuses on reproducible phenotyping in federated networks, and causal inference and target trial emulation for a variety of clinical areas.
Recent publications
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Relative effectiveness of the second booster COVID-19 vaccines against laboratory confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthcare workers: VEBIS HCW VE cohort study (1 October 2022-2 May 2023).
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Savulescu C. et al, (2025), Vaccine, 45
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Treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus: Analysis of treatment patterns in adult and paediatric patients across four European countries.
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Du M. et al, (2024), Eur j intern med, 130, 106 - 117
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Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among European Healthcare Workers and Effectiveness of the First Booster COVID-19 Vaccine, VEBIS HCW Observational Cohort Study, May 2021-May 2023.
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Savulescu C. et al, (2024), Vaccines (basel), 12
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Effect of genetically predicted sclerostin on cardiovascular biomarkers, risk factors, and disease outcomes.
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Alcalde-Herraiz M. et al, (2024), Nat commun, 15
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Standardised and Reproducible Phenotyping Using Distributed Analytics and Tools in the Data Analysis and Real World Interrogation Network (DARWIN EU).
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Dernie F. et al, (2024), Pharmacoepidemiol drug saf, 33