Dr Rachael Hughes
MSc, PhD(Bristol)
Current positions
Senior Research Fellow
Bristol 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 unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/01/2024 to 31/01/2028
Hughes Fellowship
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/12/2012 to 01/12/2016
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
21/10/2024Accounting for bias due to outcome data missing not at random
BMC Medical Research Methodology
Analyses using multiple imputation need to consider missing data in auxiliary variables
American Journal of Epidemiology
Multiple imputation strategies for missing event times in a multi-state model analysis
Statistics in Medicine
Quantitative bias analysis in practice
BMC Medical Research Methodology
Time-sensitive testing pressures and COVID-19 outcomes
BMC Public Health