Professor John Carlin has a national and international reputation in biostatistics, the science of developing and applying statistical methods to problems in health and medical research. This field is increasingly recognised as fundamental to modern research because of rapidly increasing technological capacity to accumulate and manipulate complex numerical data, in the face of which deep understanding of the theory and application of statistical methods has become ever more important. After completing a PhD in Statistics at Harvard University, John began a career in medical and public health research. As Director of the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit at Murdoch Childrens, he has played a leading role developing one of Australia's leading biostatistical centres. This unit has developed a broad program of work encompassing basic training in clinical research methods, collaborative contributions to a wide range of clinical and population health research, with a growing focus on paediatric clinical trials and its own methodological research program.

Paediatrics, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics