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
24/08/2026A flexible Monte Carlo quantitative bias analysis for unmeasured confounding
Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Effectiveness of bivalent BA.1 mRNA booster vaccines during the autumn 2022 COVID-19 booster programme in adults aged 50+ in England: observational matched cohort study using OpenSAFELY
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
Encryption at Rest for Research Data on Unencrypted High Performance Computing Infrastructure: Implementation using gocryptfs
Encryption at Rest for Research Data on Unencrypted High Performance Computing Infrastructure
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