Biostatistics and Health Informatics Research MPhil/PhD, MD(Res)

King's College London, University of London

The Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics seeks to develop quantitative methodology as applied to mental health research, with significant national and international collaborations and with growing impact into all areas of medicine particularly through expertise in trials and software development. The Biostatistics Group is made up largely of statisticians. We have five primary areas of methodological and applied research: Methods for life-course epidemiology, Psychometrics and measurement lab, Trials methodology (in collaboration with the UKCRC registered King’s Clinical Trials Unit), Prediction modelling and personalized medicine, Causal analysis and evaluation. The Health Informatics Group comprises a mix of data and computer scientists, research software engineers and clinical & bio-informaticians, motivated towards enabling a “panor-omic” view of patients through the integration of traditional omics data with data derived from patient records, the exposome, social graphs, biosensors and imaging to develop P4 medicine approaches, namely, medicine that is precise, predictive, preventative and participatory. In essence, we want to enable the right treatment at the right time for patients. The group has a breath of bio, clinical, medical and health informatics expertise with output that is having direct impact on clinical care.