Professor William Henley
Professor
Health and Community Sciences
About me:
William Henley is Professor of Medical Statistics at the University of Exeter Medical School. He leads medical statistics across the Medical School, and is Head of the Health Statistics Group.
Interests:
- Analysis of longitudinal, multilevel and survival data
- Quasi-experimental analytic methods for strengthening causal inference from observational studies
- Design and analysis of cohort and other epidemiological studies
- Epidemiology of ageing, disability and chronic disease
- Statistical methods in bioinformatics
A current focus of his research is on the development and application of methodology for evaluating medical treatments using observational patient data. His collaborations include providing statistical leadership for the Exeter component of the Healthy Ageing theme of the NIHR National School for Public Health. Another growing area of research interest is the development of a statistical framework for treatment stratification for chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes.
Prof Henley gives an overview of his research into ways of using data to measure the effectiveness and safety of medical treatments, in the video below.
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Qualifications:
- BA (Hons) Mathematics (University of Oxford)
- MSc Statistics with Applications in Medicine (University of Southampton)
- PhD Applied Statistics (The Open University)
Career:
William has worked as an applied statistician for over 20 years and has broad experience of statistical consultancy in academia and industry. He received his undergraduate training in Mathematics at the University of Oxford, before studying for a PhD at the Open University on statistical methods for credit scoring, under the supervision of Professor David Hand. William has held postdoctoral positions in statistical epidemiology at the University of Oxford and the Animal Health Trust. Prior to joining the University of Exeter, he was Associate Professor (Reader) in Statistics in the Centre for Health and Environmental Statistics at Plymouth University. In 2010, he was seconded to the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for the South West Peninsula (PenCLAHRC). He was appointed to a Chair in Medical Statistics at UEMS in May 2012.
