HEDS attendance at Royal Statistical Society course on Longitudinal and Missing Data

Dr Laura Gray

Dr Laura Gray recently visited the RSS in London to attend a course on Longitudinal and Missing Data.  She attended the course to gain skills which will be useful in an upcoming grant application to the ESRC new investigator award. The course was led by Professor Geert Verbeke and Professor Geert Molenberghs, both from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Laura successfully obtained funding for the course from the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM).  Travel and expenses were funded by the MDH faculty career development fund.

Laura found the two-day course very useful and was pleased to see some familiar faces also attending the course, in HEDS doctoral research fellow, Ben Kearns and ScHARR alumni, Dr Amy Whitehead.

HEDS international visit to Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research

Dr Bell Gorrod with Dr Michael Schomaker,
and Professor Mary-Ann Davies

Dr Helen Bell Gorrod recently visited the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (CIDER) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Helen successfully obtained funding for the visit from the Worldwide University Network (WUN) Research Mobility Programme (RMP). 

During the month long visit, Helen worked on a collaborative research project with Dr Michael Schomaker, Professor Mary-Ann Davies and others at UCT. 

The project aimed to assess the impact of delays in viral load testing and treatment switching from first-line to second-line ART treatment regime for HIV patients on hospitalisation and mortality outcomes using causal inference statistical methods.