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Background: Angela received her BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Statistics in 1998 and subsequently completed her doctorate on the subject of joint modeling longitudinal and time-to-event data with Profs Peter Diggle and Robin Henderson from the University of Lancaster in 2001. She carried out post-doctoral research with Dr Ian White at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge and was appointed in 2006 to University Lecturer in Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge. She now holds a University Readership (Associate Professor) in Health Data Science (promoted in 2019).
In Cambridge, Angela is co-Leader of the Population and Quantitative Science theme of the NIHR Cambridge BRC; programme leader in the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health; and Director of Biostatistics at the BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit.
In 2018 she was competitively elected as a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Since the mid 2020, she has led the multi-institutional methodology team for the “CVD-COVID-UK consortium”, investigating links between Covid-19 and cardiovascular diseases through analysis of national datasets on 67M individuals (4Billion data points). She is co-Leader of the Data-Analysis Work-package in BigData@Heart, an EU Innovative Medicines Initiative.
Research interests: Angela’s research interests are centered on the development and application of biostatistical methods for advancing epidemiological and medical research. She has focused on developing statistical methodology for handling measurement error, using repeated measures of risk factors, missing data problems, multiple imputation, risk prediction and meta-analysis. She has published over 120 papers, attracting over 20,000 citations (h-index ~50). She has developed statistical methods and led analyses for major population resources to advance the study of CVD, including analyses of the 2.5 million-participant Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration and EPIC-CVD (the world’s largest genomic case-cohort study of incident CVD).
Research Training: Angela was academic director of the MPhil in Epidemiology (2007-2016) and continues to provide academic leadership to the MPhil courses as a member of the Management, Admissions and Examinations committees. She lectures on a wide range of epidemiology and biostatistics subjects in undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Cambridge. She led successful funding awards from the MRC Advanced Course Masters Award for 18 one-year studentships for MPhil in Epidemiology and MPhil in Public Health 2008-2014. She has supervised >30 MPhil students and 15 PhD students.