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John B Carlin

BSc(Hons) PhD AStat

Director
Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics Unit
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Royal Children's Hospital
Parkville Victoria 3052 Australia

Professor
Department of Paediatrics, and
Centre for Molecular, Environmental
Genetic & Analytic (MEGA) Epidemiology
School of Population Health
The University of Melbourne

Telephone: +61 3 9345 6363
Fax: +61 3 9345 6000
Email: john.carlin@mcri.edu.au

I am a statistician by training with a PhD in Statistics (Harvard University, 1987) and over 20 years experience in medical and public health research. Since 2001 I have been Director of the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) at the Royal Children's Hospital, a unit jointly supported by the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics.  I hold professorial appointments in the Department of Paediatrics and the School of Population Health within the University of Melbourne. 

Most of my work involves practical contributions to the design and analysis of research in a wide range of areas of clinical and epidemiological research relating to child health.  I have also undertaken my own studies in child injury and infectious disease epidemiology. Statistical research interests include methods for the analysis of complex longitudinal data and missing data problems. Statistical research has included methods for the analysis of complex longitudinal data and missing data problems.  Collaboration with statistical colleagues in the U.S. led to coauthorship of a well-known graduate statistics text, Bayesian Data Analysis (Gelman, Carlin, Stern & Rubin, Chapman & Hall, 1995), now in a second edition.

I was centrally involved in the establishment of the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia (BCA), which has developed a national distance education postgraduate training program in biostatistics, via a consortium of major universities involved in public health training. I co-ordinate the University of Melbourne's component of this program as the core role of my part-time appointment in the Centre for MEGA Epidemiology, School of Population Health.

I have held visiting positions in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (1995), and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Florida (1999) and Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol (2005).  I have been a member of Grant Review Panels for the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), and chaired one of these panels in 2001. I have been a member of the Editorial Panel of the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, am Associate Editor of the journal Biometrics (2000-2003), and a member of Program Committees for conferences of the International Biometrics Society and the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics and the Statistical Society of Australia.

Links

• Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit (CEBU), Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
• Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic & Analytic (MEGA) Epidemiology, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne: http://www.epi.unimelb.edu.au
• Gelman A, Carlin JB, Stern HS & Rubin DB, Bayesian Data Analysis (Chapman & Hall, 1995). Material relating to this book can be found at the following link: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/
• The Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia (BCA): www.bca.edu.au
  The BCA is a consortium of professional biostatisticians from around Australia with representatives from universities, government and the pharmaceutical industry. The BCA has developed a program of postgraduate courses by distance education that aims to provide a rigorous professional training in biostatistics, the discipline that underpins the use of statistical methods in health and medical research.