Dr Tom Palmer
PG Cert, PhD, MSc, BSc
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics Applied to Genetics
Epidemiology and Health Data Science
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Research interests
Mendelian randomization, causal inference, and statistical methods for Epidemiology.
I have written several packages for R (bpbounds, mrbayes, OneSampleMR) and Stata (mrrobust, confunnel, ivonesamplemr). Please see my GitHub account for more information:
https://github.com/remlapmot
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
18/02/2026Effectiveness of bivalent BA.1 mRNA booster vaccines during the autumn 2022 COVID-19 booster programme in adults aged 50+ in England
Vaccine
OpenSAFELY: Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination in Children and Adolescents
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
Depression and anxiety as causes and consequences of urinary incontinence in women: a population-based study
Depression and anxiety as causes and consequences of urinary incontinence in women: a population-based study
A structural mean modeling Mendelian randomization approach to investigate the lifecourse effect of adiposity
American Journal of Epidemiology
Elucidating the causal role of age of menarche, adiposity, lipid fractions, and blood pressure upon cardiovascular disease
Journal of Human Hypertension
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