Anna Heath is a biostatistician at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, and an honorary research fellow at University College London. She completed her PhD at University College London in 2018. Her research focuses on novel methodology for clinical trial design and research prioritisation. In particular, she is interested in novel computation methods for Value of Information, a measure of the monetary or health benefit that is expected to be generated from undertaking future research. She is a member of the Collaborative Network for Value of Information (ConVOI), a network of researchers working to improve the calculation and adoption of Value of Information in public health research. She is also interested the Bayesian methods for trial design and analysis and works as a statistician on four innovative clinical trials.

Interests

  • Health economic decision making
  • Research prioritisation and design
  • Bayesian statistics
  • Clinical trial design and analysis

Education

  • PhD in Statistical Science, 2018

    University College London

  • MMath in Mathematics with French Language, 2014

    University of Sheffield