Edward Burn

Edward Burn is a Senior Researcher in Epidemiology and Health Economics at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Science, University of Oxford. His research focuses on leveraging routinely collected healthcare data to inform medical decision-making, including the safety and cost-effectiveness of treatments and procedures. He specializes in transforming disparate health data into standardized formats for cross-network analysis, leading projects like the European Health Data & Evidence Network (EHDEN) and collaborating with the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) network. His work has addressed critical issues such as vaccine efficacy during pregnancy, cancer epidemiology, and thromboembolic risks post-COVID-19. Burn’s methodologies emphasize federated data networks to enable collaborative, privacy-preserving research across institutions.

Research Interests:

• Healthcare data standardization via OMOP Common Data Model
• Pharmacoepidemiology and vaccine safety
• Population health trends in chronic diseases
• Cost-effectiveness of surgical interventions
• Global health surveillance and pandemic response
• Health economics of preventive healthcare

Key Projects:

• European Medicines Agency-funded studies on post-COVID-19 outcomes and vaccine safety
• Multi-national cohort analyses on cancer incidence/survival
• Development of perinatal extensions to the OMOP data model
• Analysis of drug utilization patterns and shortages

Advising/Grants: While no students are listed, Burn leads multiple funded initiatives including EHDEN and OHDSI collaborations. His work is supported by grants from the European Union and pharmaceutical regulatory bodies.

Labs/Teams: Principal investigator in the Nuffield Department’s epidemiology group, core contributor to OHDSI’s global data networks, and member of EHDEN’s steering committee.