at MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge
Professor Shelia Bird is a Programme Leader at the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses mainly on transmissible diseases which impact on other jurisdictions. Examples are: BSE and vCJD (the human form of ‘mad cow disease’); criminal justice and injecting drug users' morbidity (including from Hepatitis C virus) and mortality (including from overdose); and pandemic influenza.
The 2019 CSaP Annual Lecture was given by Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation at the UK Statistics Authority, and a former CSaP Policy Leaders' Fellow.
There will be profound changes in health and disease over the next 20 years. The causes, demography and geography of ill health will shift significantly whilst the trend of demand for healthcare growing more rapidly than GNI is likely to continue. This lecture by Professor Chris Whitty discussed how it can predict, and help respond to, the policy challenges that will follow over the next 2 decades.
CSaP runs the first workshop as part of the Policy Challenge in Data Science and Policy