Bristol Group

Tony Ades leads the Bristol programme. Research page

Guobing Lu is currently working on extensions of mixed treatment comparison methods to heterogeneous variance models and multiple end points. Research page

Nicky Welton contributes to and supervises work on a range of evidence synthesis projects.  She is also developing new methods of Expected Value of Information analysis. Nicky has been heavily involved in developing the group's short courses with colleagues in Leicester. Research page

Deborah Caldwell is looking at various applications of mixed treatment comparisons and indirect comparisons, and at the policy implications of these methods for bodies like NICE (National Institute of Clinical Health and Excellence). Research page

Malcolm Price is a Doctoral student working on synthesis of evidence to inform the parameters of Markov disease progression models.

Sofia Dias is working on a joint project with the MRC Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge. The focus is on using evidence synthesis methods to estimate the extent of bias in randomised evidence. Sofia is also working on methods to measure inconsistency between different sources of evidence. Research page

Aicha Goubar was funded through the MRC-DoH Committee for Epidemiological Studies of AIDS (CESA), now the MRC/Health Departments' Sexual Health and HIV Research Strategy Committee. Her project used Bayesian evidence synthesis methods to create a model of HIV epidemiology in England and Wales. These methods are now used to generate Department of Health statistics on the prevalence of HIV in the UK.