Caroline Morton

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What Do We Mean by Bias in Health Data Research?

A reference guide to what bias means in health data research and the distinct types you meet in electronic health records and other health datasets.

Accidental Functional Programming in Rust (From an Epidemiologist's Perspective)

Rust quietly pushes you into functional patterns. An epidemiologist explains Result, match, enums, iterators, and when readability beats idioms.

Clinic to Code to Care

This blog came out of a talk Steph Jones and I gave at Women in Data and AI in October 2025. It explores the journey of information from a patient in clinic to how that information is coded for research and ultimately ends up informing statistical and machine learning models that can help improve patient care.