Dr Hayley Jones
BSc, MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Cantab)
Current positions
Associate Professor in Medical Statistics
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Biography
Dr Hayley Jones initially joined the department as a Research Associate in 2009, and has been an Associate Professor since 2022. She has a PhD in Biostatistics (MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge), MPhil in Statistical Science (University of Cambridge) and BSc in Mathematics with Linguistics (University of York).
Research interests
Hayley is an Associate Professor in 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
Publications
Selected publications
11/11/2020Accuracy of the UK-Rapid-Test Consortium (UK-RTC) “AbC-19TM Rapid Test” for the detection of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection in key workers
BMJ
Estimating the prevalence of problem drug use from drug-related mortality data
Addiction
Quantifying how diagnostic test accuracy depends on threshold in a meta-analysis
Statistics in Medicine
Recent publications
01/01/2025Creating evidence-based testing panels for monitoring long-term conditions in primary care
Target Trial Emulations - Importance and Application Using a Practical Example
Methodology to create evidence-based testing panels for monitoring long-term conditions in primary care
QbTest for ADHD assessment and medication management
BMJ Open
Accuracy and technical characteristics of CYP2C19 point of care tests
Pharmacogenomics
Teaching
Hayley jointly leads the Research Methods unit of MSc Public Health and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit of MSc Epidemiology.
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