Yamina Boukari

Bennett Institute Junior Research Fellow in Applied Health Data Science

I am a researcher with an interest in using administrative data to better understand the health needs of migrants and other socially excluded groups. I currently hold a 3-year fellowship jointly based at the institute and Jesus College to explore migrants’ health using the OpenSAFELY platform and to create reusable methods for other researchers and analysts to carry out detailed analytic work on migrants’ health using the platform. More broadly, I am interested in health inequalities, the wider determinants of health, including the role of racism and xenophobia, and the impacts of armed conflict on health.

Prior to joining the Bennett Institute, I researched migrant health during COVID-19 using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink and Virus Watch data at University College London, and I also led on migrant health data within the Inclusion Health data team at the Department of Health and Social Care.