Professor Kate Tilling
B.Sc.(Warw.), M.Sc.(Oxon.), Ph.D.(Lond.)
Current positions
Professor of Medical Statistics and MRC Investigator
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Contact
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Research interests
My main research interests are in the development and application of statistical methods to causal problems in epidemiology/health services research. Two particular areas are methods for analysis of longitudinal data, and methods for minimising bias due to missing data.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
UNSEEN heatwave mortality
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
To estimate 'plausible' heat-related mortality that could have been in the 2022 record-breaking UK heatwave had the weather pattern been different. Project funded by Elizabeth Blackwell Institute and Cabot Institute…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/06/2023 to 31/05/2024
Integrative Epidemiology Unit
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2023 to 31/03/2028
Development of miDOC: an expert system and methodology for multiple imputation
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/10/2021 to 31/03/2024
Identifying causal risk factors for cognitive decline
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Takeda industry partner grant to examine causal risk factors for cognitive decline in the TOMMORROW trialManaging organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/11/2020 to 30/11/2022
Rework of IEU 2 Tilling Programme
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2018 to 31/03/2023
Thesis supervisions
Modifiable Risk Factors for Depression in Adolescence – Understanding the Causal Role of Obesity and Physical Activity
Supervisors
Using linked health and administrative data to reduce bias due to missing data and measurement error in observational research
Supervisors
Modelling event history after allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Supervisors
Analysis of longitudinal jaw growth data to study sex differences in timing and intensity of the adolescent growth spurt for normal growth and skeletal discrepancies
Supervisors
Variance quantitative trait loci
Supervisors
Identifying and adjusting for bias due to missing outcome values in randomised controlled trials
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Prognosis of neurodegenerative diseases
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Individual and joint effects of chronotype and sleep patterns on pregnancy and perinatal outcomes
Supervisors
Sensitivity analyses for causal inference
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
24/03/2024A tool to assess risk of bias in non-randomized follow-up studies of exposure effects (ROBINS-E)
Environment International
Counterfactual mediation analysis with a latent class exposure
Multivariate Behavioral Research
Investigation of genetic determinants of cognitive change in later life
Translational Psychiatry
Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index and risk of preterm birth
BMC Medicine
Meta-regression of genome-wide association studies to estimate age-varying genetic effects
European Journal of Epidemiology