Bianca Lucia De Stavola BSc MSc PhD

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Background

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.

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).

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 survival analysis. Further work derives from my commitment to improving the understanding of the aetiology of several chronic diseases. In each case my work is motivated by collaborations with epidemiologists, clinicians and sociologists within and outside LSHTM.

Selected publications

• Bartlett, J.W.; de Stavola, B.L.; Frost, C. Linear mixed models for replication data to efficiently allow for covariate measurement error Statistics in Medicine, 2009;
• Silverwood, R.J.; De Stavola, B.L.; Cole, T.J.; Leon, D.A.; BMI peak in infancy as a predictor for later BMI in the Uppsala Family Study. Int J Obes (Lond), 2009; 33(8):929-37
• Silverwood, R.J.; Leon, D.A.; de Stavola, B.L. Long-term trends in BMI: are contemporary childhood BMI growth references appropriate when looking at historical datasets? Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2009; 1(1):27-44
• Pizzi, C.; De Stavola, B.L.; Meade, T.W.; Long-term association of routine blood count (Coulter) variables on fatal coronary heart disease: 30-year results from the first prospective Northwick Park Heart Study (NPHS-I). Int J Epidemiol, 2009;
• Mishra, G.; Nitsch, D.; Black, S.; de Stavola, B.; Kuh, D.; Hardy, R. A structured approach to modelling the effects of binary exposure variables over the life course International Journal of Epidemiology, 2009; 38(2):528-537
• Dos Santos Silva, I.; De Stavola, B.; McCormack, V.; Collaborative Group on Pre-Natal Risk Factors and Subsequent Risk of Breast Cancer, .; Birth size and breast cancer risk: re-analysis of individual participant data from 32 studies. PLoS Med, 2008; 5(9):e193
• Tai, B.C.; De Stavola, B.L.; de Gruttola, V.; Gebski, V.; Machin, D.; First-event or marginal estimation of cause-specific hazards for analysing correlated multivariate failure-time data? Stat Med, 2008; 27(6):922-36
• Vickers, M.R.; MacLennan, A.H.; Lawton, B.; Ford, D.; Martin, J.; Meredith, S.K.; De Stavola, B.L.; Rose, S.; Dowell, A.; Wilkes, H.C.; Darbyshire, J.H.; Meade, T.W.; WISDOM group, .; Main morbidities recorded in the women's international study of long duration oestrogen after menopause (WISDOM): a randomised controlled trial of hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women. BMJ, 2007; 335(7613):239

Full publications listing (since 2001)