
Dr Rachael Hughes
MSc, PhD(Bristol)
Current positions
- Senior LecturerBristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
I am a research fellow in Medical Statistics within the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit. My main research interests are longitudinal modelling in life-course epidemiology, analysis in the presence of missing data, causal inference, instrumental variable analysis, longitudinal modelling of disease biomarkers, analysis in the presence of non-random selection into a study, and clinical epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in the era of antiretroviral therapy.
My research aspirations are to work at the interface of methodological development and application. I enjoy explaining complex statistical methods and interpreting their results to other researchers, evaluating and comparing statistical methods using simulation studies in real-world contexts, and providing user-friendly software to implement statistical methods unavailable to non-specialist researchers.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
- 8073 MRC IEU - Liping Wen RTSG- Principal Investigator- Managing organisational unitBristol Medical School (PHS)- Dates- 01/01/2024 to 31/01/2028 
- Hughes Fellowship- Principal Investigator- Managing organisational unitBristol Medical School (PHS)- Dates- 01/12/2012 to 01/12/2016 
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/08/2025Quantitative bias analysis for mismeasured variables in health research
BMC Medical Research Methodology
Relationship between collider bias and interactions on the log-additive scale
Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Using directed acyclic graphs to determine whether multiple imputation or subsample multiple imputation estimates of an exposure-outcome association are unbiased
American Journal of Epidemiology
qbaconfound
qbaconfound
Accounting for bias due to outcome data missing not at random
BMC Medical Research Methodology



