Bianca DeStavola BSc MSc PhD

Professor of Biostatistics

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I am Italian and graduated in Statistical Sciences at the University of Padua. I obtained an MSc in Statistics at the London School of Economics and a PhD in Statistics at Imperial College, London. I joined the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1994.

Affiliation

• Department of Medical Statistics

Teaching

I enjoy teaching statisticians and epidemiologists, especially when bridging the two disciplines. I am a regular member of the teaching faculty for the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology (held in Florence every summer) and co-organize the Short Course In Causal Inference in Epidemiology (held at LSHTM in November every year) and the Short Course in Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Models (held in February every year).

Research

Most of my current research activities involve the understanding, development and implementation of statistical methods for long-term longitudinal studies with specific applications to life-course epidemiology, and in particular aetiological studies of chronic diseases.  Further work arises from my commitment to improving the understanding and  application of causal inference methods. I am fortunate to be collaborating with many epidemiologists, clinicians and sociologists within and outside LSHTM.

• Selected publications

• The combined influence of parental education and preterm birth on school performance.

  Gisselmann, M; Koupil, I; DE STAVOLA, BL;

  J Epidemiol Community Health, In Press;

• Time-varying confounding: some practical considerations in a likelihood framework

  Daniel, R.M.; De Stavola, B.L.; Cousens, S.N.;

  in 'Causality: Statistical Perspectives and Applications' Berzuini, C; Dawid, A.P.; Bernardinelli, L;(In Press) Wiley

• Using causal diagrams to guide analysis in missing data problems.

  Daniel, R.M. ; Kenward, M.G. ; Cousens, S.N. ; De Stavola, B.L. ;

  Stat Methods Med Res, 2011;

• Immune reconstitution and risk of kaposi sarcoma and nonhodgkin lymphoma in HIV-infected adults.

  Jaffe, H.W.; De Stavola, B.L.; Carpenter, L.M.; Porter, K.; Cox, D.R.; on behalf of the CASCADE Collaboration, .;

  AIDS, 2011; 25(11):1395-1403

• Intergenerational Correlations in Size at Birth and the Contribution of Environmental Factors The Uppsala Birth Cohort Multigenerational Study, Sweden, 1915-2002

  de Stavola, B.L.; Leon, D.A.; Koupil, I.

  American Journal of Epidemiology, 2011; 174(1):52-62

• Cause-specific mortality in professional flight crew and air traffic control officers: findings from two UK population-based cohorts of over 20,000 subjects.

  De Stavola, B.L. ; Pizzi, C. ; Clemens, F. ; Evans, S.A. ; Evans, A.D. ; Dos Santos Silva, I. ;

  Int Arch Occup Environ Health, 2011;

• gformula: Estimating causal effects in the presence of time-varying confounding or mediation using the g-computation formula

  Daniel, R.M.; De Stavola, B.L.; Cousens, S.N.;

  The Stata Journal, 2011; 11(4):479-517

• On the consequences of overstratification

  de Stavola, B.L.; Cox, D.R.

  Biometrika, 2008; 95(4):992-996

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