Why subscribe?
The Preventable Deaths Tracker was founded in 2020 by Dr Georgia Richards to harness coroner data to minimise preventable deaths.
After years of research, it was clear that information from coroners’ inquests was not being used to prevent future deaths. Although one in every five deaths are avoidable, there was no system in place to investigate these deaths. The Preventable Deaths Tracker (PDT) is changing this by making information from coroners’ Prevention of Future Deaths reports (PFDs) accessible, enabling research and real-time analytics.
The PDT’s research is published in high-impact peer-reviewed journals, which have raised awareness of coronial data and highlighted how this information could be used to save lives. However, most of this research has been unfunded, and the infrastructure behind the PDT is self-funded, so your subscription helps continue this work.
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Who’s writing the Preventable Deaths Tracker?
Dr Georgia Richards is an Epidemiologist and Health Research Scientist. She has a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil/PhD) from the University of Oxford (2021) and a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Pharmacology from the University of Queensland, Australia (2015).
Georgia’s research focuses on improving the safety of health interventions and care by understanding how to prevent premature deaths using data from coronial inquests. She also conducts research, teaches, and advises on the quality of research, including evidence-based medicine, open science and meta-research.
Georgia has received the King’s Prize Fellowship from King’s College London (2024-26) and is an Honorary Senior Associate Tutor at the University of Oxford. She has over 40 peer-reviewed publications and a H-index of 16 (as of 03/12/2024).
Where to find me?
You can follow me on social media via X @Richards_G_C or Linkedin.
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