Dr Margarita Moreno Betancur

Biostatistician
 biostatistics 
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia

Professor Gastroenterology
Biography

Dr Moreno-Betancur is a postdoctoral research fellow in biostatistics methodology of the Victorian Centre for Biostatistics (ViCBiostat), a collaboration of researchers across three institutions (MCRI, Monash University and the University of Melbourne). Within her role, she contributes her statistical expertise to clinical and public health research projects, while developing statistical methods that are motivated by the issues arising in these studies. After a BSc in Pure Mathematics at Universidad de los Andes (Bogota) and an MSc in Statistics at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris), Dr Moreno-Betancur obtained a PhD in Biostatistics from Université Paris-Sud (Paris) financed by a grant from the French Minister of Education and Research. Prior to arriving in Melbourne, she held a postdoctoral role at the French Epidemiology Centre on Medical Causes of Death (Inserm CépiDc).

Research Intrest

Gastrointestinal Research in Inflammation & Pathology 

List of Publications
Piffaretti C, Moreno-Betancur M, Lamarche-Vadel A, Rey G. Quantifying cause-related mortality by weighting multiple causes of death. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2016 Dec 1;94(12):870.
Moreno-Betancur M, Sadaoui H, Piffaretti C, Rey G. Survival analysis with multiple causes of death: extending the competing risks model. Epidemiology. 2017 Jan 1;28(1):12-9.