Sheila Bird is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the MRC Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge. She has championed the use of statistical method in public policies ranging from transplantation through epidemics to prisoners’ health. Record-linkage designs underpin her work to quantify, and reduce, the high risk of overdose death soon after prison-release. Work on the misuse of statistics, and her BMJ series “Statistics in Question”, transformed the quality of articles in medical journals and she established the Royal Statistical Society’s awards for statistical excellence in journalism. Professor Bird’s research-team was first to quantify, validate and meta-analyse prisoners’ very high risk of overdose death soon after release; and to design Europe’s largest prison-based trial for risk-reduction.
Fellow
Back to directory listingProfessor Sheila Bird OBE FRSE FMedSci
Job Title
Visiting Senior Fellow, MRC Biostatistics Unit Cambridge; Honorary Fellow University of Edinburgh
Department
MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
Institution
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Year elected
2017
Interests
Specialitiesstatistical reporting standards, randomized trials, survival analysis, blood-borne virus epidemics, prisons, drugs-related death, record-linkage studies.
Section committee elected byPsychiatry, psychology and mental health, behavioural science, genomics, epidemiology, clinical trials, population health sciences and global health
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