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Health Methodology Research is part of the Health Sciences Research Group
within the School of Community Based Medicine
Health Methodology

Biostatistics

Jean McFarlane building

Biostatistics Group

The Biostatistics Group at Manchester has developed an international reputation for innovative statistical research, excellent teaching and interdisciplinary collaboration since its inception in 1997.

The Group is the professional focus for all medical statisticians within the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, and also holds half-yearly, half-day public seminars.

The Group is located in the Jean McFarlane Building, shown above, on the main University campus.

Latest news, vacancies and forthcoming events
  • The next Biostatistics Group seminars will take place on Wednesday 17th October 2012. For more information, see: Events and seminars
  • Professor Chris Roberts will be giving a Faculty inaugural lecture on Tuesday 8th May on the topic "Measurement Error and The Kappa Coefficient: From The GMC to The RAE"
  • Professor Graham Dunn and Dr Richard Emsley will be presenting a workshop on "Biomarkers and evaluation of treatment-effect mechanisms in personalised medicine" on Tuesday 29th May. The full details can be found at: Biostatistics workshops

Biostatistics research

Primarily funded by the UK Medical Research Council and National Institute for Health Research, the Biostatistics Group's research includes learning more from randomised trials of complex interventions, measurement error, design efficiency and reliability, meta-analysis, statistical modelling and statistical methods in observational epidemiology. For more information, please view:

Statistical support and teaching

The Group teaches the MSc in Biostatistics in conjunction with the School of Mathematics. For more information on this course, please view:

The Group also contains members of the NIHR Research Design Service for the North West, which provides free advice on research design to researchers in the North West developing proposals for applied health or social care research.

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