Biography
Biography
I am a Reader in Biostatistics and the Director of Keele Clinical Trials Unit (CTU), a fully registered UKCRC Clinical Trials Unit. I am passionate about improving health outcomes through rigorous research. In my role, I provide strategic leadership for the CTU, overseeing a diverse portfolio of clinical trials and large cohort studies, supported by a multidisciplinary team. My expertise includes advanced statistical methods such as graphical models and multistate modelling, which I apply across various fields including health services research, oncology, and global mental health.
I also serve as Co-Director of the NIHR Research Support Service Hub, delivered by the University of Birmingham and Partners. In this role, I offer leadership and expert guidance for health and care research across England. Since 2023, I have contributed as a subject matter expert to the World Health Organization's GSED project, helping develop global measures for early childhood development evaluation.
Additionally, I am an expert member of the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Commissioning Funding Committee. I chair or sit on several external Trial Steering Committees and Data Monitoring Committees for national randomised clinical trials.
I obtained a PhD in Statistics from the University of Cambridge and held a four-year MRC Fellowship in Biostatistics at Lancaster. Before joining Keele, I led the biostatistics team at MRC Human Nutrition Research in Cambridge.
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