Professor Hayley Jones
BSc, MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Cantab)
Expertise
Prof Hayley Jones is a Bayesian statistician, specialising in evidence synthesis methods, diagnostic test evaluation, and methods to estimate the size or prevalence of populations such as people with opioid dependence.
Current positions
Professor of Medical Statistics
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Contact
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Research interests
Hayley is Professor of Medical Statistics in the department of Population Health Sciences, within Bristol Medical School. She specialises in Bayesian statistical modelling, particular evidence synthesis models, with particular focus on diagnostic test evaluation and methodology for estimating the size of 'hidden' populations such as the prevalence of opioid dependence.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
NIHR Evidence Synthesis Group
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Bristol Evidence Synthesis Group (ESG) is one of nine, UK-based, research groups commissioned by the National Institute for Health and Care Research Evidence Synthesis Programme to identify, appraise, and combine…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2023 to 31/03/2028
Bristol TAG
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2022 to 31/03/2027
8071 MRC: MR/T044594/1 HCD: Synthesis of networks of evidence on test accuracy, with and without a 'gold standard'
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/06/2021 to 31/05/2024
Accuracy of tests for TB
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/06/2021 to 30/09/2021
Evidence synthesis of diagnostic test performance from a decision-making perspective
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
12/08/2015 to 11/08/2019
Thesis supervisions
Incorporating external evidence syntheses in the design and analysis of trials
Supervisors
Characteristics of and factors associated with infectious disease hospital admissions in children by HIV-exposure status in an era of high coverage of prevention of vertical HIV transmission in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
Supervisors
Burden and causes of ongoing paediatric infectious disease morbidity and mortality in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
Supervisors
Estimating the accuracy of a diagnostic test without a gold standard
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
06/07/2026Latent Class Log-Linear Models for Estimating Diagnostic Test Accuracy Without a Gold Standard
Statistics in Medicine
Commentary on Dowd et al: Beyond single data sources—Consistency checking and evidence synthesis for prevalence estimation
Addiction
Screening for Coeliac Disease: An evidence map to outline the volume and type of evidence related to screening for coeliac disease for the UK National Screening Committee
Screening for Coeliac Disease: An evidence map to outline the volume and type of evidence related to screening for coeliac disease for the UK National Screening Committee
Screening for hypertension in adults:
Screening for hypertension in adults:
Estimated prevalence of opioid dependence in Scotland: 2014/15 to 2022/23
Teaching
Hayley teaches on the Research Methods unit of MSc Public Health, the Clinical Epidemiology Unit of MSc Epidemiology, and the Introduction to Systematic Reviews course within the Bristol Medical School short course programme.
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