Upcoming events, workshops, and opportunities relevant to the Inflammation & Immunity Driver Programme. Health Data Research UK ConferenceThe UK’s No.1 conference on health data science returns for 2025. Join us at this two-day hybrid event to celebrate the latest advances in health data science that are improving people’s lives. This year’s hybrid conference will feature world-class keynote speakers and opportunities to share your science through submitted talks and posters. With leading exhibitors and various networking events, this is an event to add to your calendar now.Date15-16 October 2025Learn more and register here. HDR UK: Research Software Engineering for Health Researchers Workshop SeriesIn health research, we are increasingly reliant on research software. Many of us are developing data analysis scripts, code, or even entire software packages.Our “flipped classroom” research software engineering workshop is designed for those who write code and want to ensure good quality of this code. Through this course, you will be provided with a comprehensive overview of good coding practices and a unique opportunity to practice the principles in between weekly check-ins with our expert tutors.Registration deadline17 October 2025 1:00PMStart date22 October 2025 1:00PMLearn more and register here. HDR UK: Elevate ECR Series: Prof Mark Lawler - Why Data Matters to EveryoneJoin Professor Mark Lawler for the next in our Elevate series of seminars which is designed to support and inspire early career researchers in health data science.It’s a superb chance to gain vital insights into what makes a thriving research career, from a leader in health data research.After the discussion, which is chaired by Fatemeh Torabi, there will be a Q&A session where participants can ask questions, seek advice, and engage in an open dialogue about their career path and the challenges and opportunities in health data research.Date22 October 2025Learn more and register here. HDR UK: Food Standards Agency: Food & You 2 Survey Results and DiscussionThis webinar introduces the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) official statistics survey, Food and You 2 (F&Y2)—a rich resource for researchers conducting secondary analysis on food-related behaviours, attitudes, and knowledge across the UK. F&Y2 captures self-reported data on a wide range of topics.Date28 October 2025Learn more and register here. HDR UK: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced R for Health Data Research Course (November)This 4-day course offers a comprehensive journey in R from beginner to advanced levels with a focus on practical data analysis, visualisation and real-world applications in health data science. Starting with the basics of R, including data types, subsetting, and control flow, participants will advance to more intermediate topics such as data manipulation, writing functions, and creating visualisations with ggplot2.Registration deadline31 October 2025 1:00PMStart date3 November 2025 1:00PMLearn more and register here. HDR UK: Distributed Computing for Health Data WorkshopThis full day workshop offers a hands-on introduction to common big data tools, such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka, applied to stored (batch) and real-time (streaming) processing of healthcare data. The first half will introduce Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and distributed (cloud) storage systems, along with Spark libraries for machine learning prediction and classification problems. The second half will concentrate on real-time processing in Kafka, based on synthetic data generation and interactive analytical dashboards. A drop-in session will be held after the workshop sessions to address technical questions. The focus of the workshop is how to orchestrate big data pipelines by combining different tools and libraries, rather than on interpreting results.Registration deadline3 December 2025 1:00PMDate9 December 2025Learn more and register here. This article was published on 2025-10-09