Professor Kate Tilling
B.Sc.(Warw.), M.Sc.(Oxon.), Ph.D.(Lond.)
Current positions
Professor of Medical Statistics and MRC Investigator
Epidemiology and Health Data Science
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Research interests
My main research interests are in the development and application of statistical methods to causal problems in epidemiology/health services research. Two particular areas are methods for analysis of longitudinal data, and methods for minimising bias due to missing data.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
UNSEEN heatwave mortality
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
To estimate 'plausible' heat-related mortality that could have been in the 2022 record-breaking UK heatwave had the weather pattern been different. Project funded by Elizabeth Blackwell Institute and Cabot Institute…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/06/2023 to 31/05/2024
8539 MRC IEU - Programme 2
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/04/2023 to 31/03/2028
Integrative Epidemiology Unit
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2023 to 31/03/2028
Development of miDOC: an expert system and methodology for multiple imputation
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/10/2021 to 31/03/2024
Identifying causal risk factors for cognitive decline
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Takeda industry partner grant to examine causal risk factors for cognitive decline in the TOMMORROW trialManaging organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/11/2020 to 30/11/2022
Thesis supervisions
Modifiable Risk Factors for Depression in Adolescence – Understanding the Causal Role of Obesity and Physical Activity
Supervisors
Modelling event history after allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Supervisors
Using linked health and administrative data to reduce bias due to missing data and measurement error in observational research
Supervisors
Identifying and adjusting for bias due to missing outcome values in randomised controlled trials
Supervisors
A comparison of the determinants of healthy ageing
Supervisors
Individual and joint effects of chronotype and sleep patterns on pregnancy and perinatal outcomes
Supervisors
Sensitivity analyses for causal inference
Supervisors
The Effects of Daylight Saving Time Clock Changes on Sleep and Health
Supervisors
Variance quantitative trait loci
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Prognosis of neurodegenerative diseases
Supervisors
Age-varying effects in genetic epidemiological studies
Supervisors
Analysis of longitudinal jaw growth data to study sex differences in timing and intensity of the adolescent growth spurt for normal growth and skeletal discrepancies
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
20/03/2026An evaluation of age-varying genetic effects underlying body-mass index and blood pressure in the UK Biobank
PLOS Genetics
Birth Weight Percentiles and Infant and Child Growth Dynamics
JAMA Network Open
Capturing infant and child growth dynamics with P-splines mixed effects models
International Journal of Obesity
Childhood ADHD and autism spectrum disorder difficulties
BJPsych Open
Distinguishing AKI from CKD
BMC Nephrology
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