William Astle

I am a biostatistician funded by National Health Service Blood and Transplant to address problems in fields of broad relevance to their work. I am interested in the development and application of statistical methods to answer questions in haematology, genetics and transplantation. In collaboration with colleagues in the Cambridge Faculty of Medicine and at the Wellcome Sanger Institute I am heavily involved in research into the genetic basis for population variation in blood cell phenotypes. From 2021 I will be responsible for coordinating the new Health Data Science stream of the MPhil in Population Health Sciences, a course which is offered jointly by the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, the MRC Epidemiology Unit and the MRC Biostatistics Unit.