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BirdProfessor Sheila Bird
Principal scientist
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Amongst other roles, Sheila is visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics. She has been a Medicines Commissioner, was the first statistician on NICE’s Appraisal Committee, and has served on three Royal Statistical Society’s Working Parties as well as on various Medical Research Council, UK and EU Working Parties/Groups. She chaired the Royal Statistical Society’s Working Party on Performance Monitoring in the Public Services, Surveys, Design and Statistics Subcommittee of the Home Office’s Scientific Advisory Committee which issued its report on 21st Century Drugs and Statistical Science in December 2008. Sheila’s research interests include autopsy surveillance for carriage of subclinical vCJD, modelling of the late liver sequelae of injection-related Hepatitis C, drug-related deaths, and application of statistical methods, including consideration of cost-effectiveness, in the criminal justice system’s treatment of drug-dependent offenders.
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DEBATING MATTERS HISTORY
Qualifying Round: Cambridge 2011/12
DEBATE: Public Health
Qualifying Round: Cambridge 2011/12
DEBATE: Burqa bans
Regional Final: East 2009/10
DEBATE: Ageing
Regional Final: East 2009/10
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8 February: Edinburgh 2011/12 Qualifying Round, Edinburgh
