Clare Griffiths

Clare Griffiths is a British statistician who is head of the UK COVID-19 dashboard at the UK Health Security Agency, previously known as Public Health England. She specialises in mortality statistics. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Griffiths provided the daily COVID statistics for the United Kingdom.

Early life and education Griffiths studied at Manchester High School for Girls and continued her studies with a degree of human sciences at University College London. She moved to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine as a graduate student, where she completed a master's degree in medical demography.

Career In 1998, Griffiths joined the Office for National Statistics She said that even before being asked she had already started wondering how big data could be used to inform public policy. The data is released daily at 16:00.

In 2021, the I newspaper described Griffiths' dashboard as being more clear and detailed than any other COVID dashboard.

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