The 2019 Statistical Science Lecturer
Peter J Diggle
Distinguished Professor, Lancaster University and Health Data Research UK
Peter Diggle is a Distinguished University Professor of Statistics in the Centre for Health Informatics, Computing and Statistics, a teaching and research group within the Lancaster Medical School at Lancaster University working at the interface of statistics, epidemiology, and health informatics. Peter is also Director of Training at Health Data Research UK, working with academic institutions across the UK to draw up a training strategy that builds on existing best practice to create a programme that will transform the careers of future leaders in data science on a national scale. He holds adjunct positions at the Johns Hopkins University, Yale and Columbia Universities, and he was President of the Royal Statistical Society between July 2014 and December 2016.
Statistical Science Lecture given on 06 November 2019:
A Tale of Two Parasites: statistical science to support disease control programmes in Africa
2019 lecture: Peter Diggle
Peter Diggle, V-C Paul Wellings, Noel Cressie