Recent & Upcoming Talks

2021

Statistical modelling for health technology assessment and the analysis of the value of information

My Armitage Lecture at the MRC Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge

Wed, 10 Nov, 2021 3:30 PM — 5:00 PM MRC Biostatistics Unit

One year of Covid-19 in 5 major European countries: a comparative analysis of excess mortality

As part of the Armitage Workshop, as the 18th Armitage Lecturer, I’ve been invited to give a seminar in the MRC BSU series.

Tue, 9 Nov, 2021 2:30 PM — 3:30 PM MRC Biostatistics Unit

A recipe for disaster: Survival modelling and extrapolation in health economic evaluation

Invited talk at the

Wed, 7 Jul, 2021 2:00 PM — 2:45 PM Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex

Who wants to be a Bayesian? (and why you should...)

Thu, 20 May, 2021 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM Virtual conference

2020

How to model the cost-effectiveness of histology independent therapies within HTA

Thu, 19 Nov, 2020 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM Virtual conference

2019

Bayesian parametric models to handle missing longitudinal outcome data in trial-based health economic evaluations

Invited presentation

Mon, 16 Dec, 2019 11:00 AM London, United Kingdom

Dynamic Bayesian Markov model for health economic evaluations of interventions in infectious disease

Invited presentation

Thu, 24 Jan, 2019 12:30 PM Imperial College London

2018

Quick & clean: computationally efficient methods for Value of Information measures

Invited presentation

Wed, 19 Sep, 2018 12:15 PM University of York

Relieving despair at the prospect of the general elections using Bayesian modelling

Invited presentation

Thu, 6 Sep, 2018 3:30 PM Cardiff, United Kingdom

2017

Full Bayesian models to handle missing values in cost-effectiveness analysis from individual level data

Invited presentation

Mon, 4 Sep, 2017 3:00 PM Glasgow, United Kingdom

Blogging and Science Communication

Invited presentation

Wed, 7 Jun, 2017 3:00 PM London, United Kingdom

Single-Arm Studies in the Regulatory Process

Contributed session

Fri, 19 May, 2017 10:30 AM London (UK)

2016

Statistical issues in the application of the regression discontinuity design for causal inference from clinical administrative databases

Keynote lecture

Mon, 7 Nov, 2016 2:00 PM Lille (France)

Efficient Gaussian process regression to calculate the expected value of partial perfect information in health economics

Invited presentation

Wed, 14 Sep, 2016 3:00 PM Bath, United Kingdom

Value of Information in practice. No, seriously: in practice!

Invited presentation

Fri, 19 Feb, 2016 3:00 PM Toronto, Canada

2015

Sample Size calculations for Stepped Wedge Trials

Invited presentation

Tue, 22 Sep, 2015 4:30 PM London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

2014

Evidence of bias in the Eurovision song contest: modelling the votes using Bayesian hierarchical models

Invited presentation

Wed, 3 Sep, 2014 2:00 PM Sheffield, United Kingdom

Bayesian health economic modelling of different human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination strategies in a static and pseudo-dynamic setting: the BEST II study

Contributed session

Wed, 16 Jul, 2014 3:00 PM Dublin (Ireland)

An introduction to INLA with a comparison to JAGS

Contributed session

Wed, 16 Jul, 2014 3:00 PM Rotterdam (Netherlands)

2013

Bayesian models for cost-effectiveness analysis in the presence of structural zero costs

Invited presentation

Sun, 15 Dec, 2013 9:00 AM London (UK)

Come to the dark side: we got cookies! An introduction to Bayesian statistics

Keynote presentation

Thu, 7 Nov, 2013 2:00 PM Utrecht (Netherlands)

2012

Estimating the Number and Characteristics of Illegal Migrants via the Center Sampling Technique: Methodology and Application to Italian Data

Invited presentation

Sun, 29 Jul, 2012 12:00 PM San Diego (CA), US

2011

Bayesian Modeling Assessing the Effectiveness of a Vaccination Strategy to Prevent HPV-related Diseases: the BEST Study

Contributed session

Mon, 11 Jul, 2011 3:00 PM Toronto (Canada)

2009

Bayesian hierarchical model for the prediction of football results

Seminar

Thu, 12 Mar, 2009 10:30 AM Florence (Italy)