Georgia C. Richards

Georgia is the EBM Medical Teaching and Development Lead in the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM), coordinating EBM and evidence synthesis modules for the Oxford Medical School. She completed her DPhil (PhD) in Epidemiology at Oxford and has expertise in quantitative observational research using open data, open science and evidence synthesis. Georgia's list of publications is here. 

Georgia is also an Associate Editor of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine, a Fellow of Reproducible Research Oxford (RROx), a Centre for Open Science (COS) Ambassador, a member of the Catalogue of Bias Collaboration, a member of the Steering Group for the Declaration to Improve Health Research, and a member of OPeRA, Open Pain Research Advocacy and Appraisal, a group of early-career researchers, academics, and clinicians working collaboratively to improve the transparency and openness of research. 

Georgia welcomes supervision queries from undergraduate and graduate students on taught and research programmes who are interested in pursuing research in the following areas: 

• patient safety, preventable deaths, and harms in healthcare 
• pharmaco-epidemiology and pharmaco-device-vigilance
• open science, open data, and meta-research 

Georgia also welcomes contributions to the Preventable Deaths Tracker and Oxford Catalogue of Opioids.

She has supervised students for medical electives, micro- and summer internships, Special Study Modules (SSM), Academic Special Interest Projects (ASIP), Special Study Themes (SST), Final Honours Scheme (FHS) essays and research projects, which have led to several publications, including various case series of coroner reports that investigated cardiovascular disease and anticoagulants (BJGP Open), the covid-19 pandemic (BMJ Evidence Based Medicine), opioids (pre-print), medicines (pre-print), and an audit of the openness and transparency standards of health and medical sciences journals (JRSM Open). 

Georgia's research assessed the global and national use of strong pain medicines called opioids, which is summarised here and openly available for download here. She was based in the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and worked with members of the Bennett Institute of Applied Data Science. 

During her DPhil, Georgia was the early-career representative on the EBMLive Steering Committee and co-led the 2019 Doug Altman Scholarships, which funded 14 early-career researchers from across the globe to attend EBMLive in Oxford. This led to various outputs including an editorial in The BMJ, opinion pieces in BMJ EBM on challenges facing early-career researchers and building capacity in low-middle-income countries, and a review in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Georgia chaired the 2019 Steering Committee and report for the 4E's Forum to Improve the detection, analysis and reporting of harms in medicines held in Erice, Sicily. 

Georgia gained a BSc in Biomedical Science and First Class Honours in Pharmacology from the University of Queensland, Australia. In 2016, Georgia was awarded the Australian Women of the Future Award, Judges Choice Winner, for her passion and dedication to continue pain research and help others. Before starting her DPhil, Georgia worked as a medical researcher and health scientist in Australia. 

I am the Director of a Limited Company that is independently contracted to conduct work as an Epidemiologist in industry. Between September 2017 and March 2021, I was financially supported by the NHS National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research (SPCR), the Naji Foundation, and the Rotary Foundation to study for a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) at the University of Oxford.