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Dr Helen Blake

MSci MSc PhD

Research Fellow

Room
127

LSHTM
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom

Tel.
+44 (0) 20 7958 8297

I joined the Department of Health Services Research and Policy (Faculty of Public Health and Policy, LSHTM) as a Research Fellow on an NIHR grant looking to identify the processes of care that influence outcomes in bowel cancer patients undergoing emergency surgery.

I completed my PhD in 2020, in the Department of Medical Statistics (Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, LSHTM). I previously completed a MSc in Medical Statistics at LSHTM, prior to which I obtained a MSci in Mathematics from the University of Birmingham.

Affiliations

Department of Health Services Research and Policy
Department of Medical Statistics

Centres

Centre for Global Chronic Conditions
Centre for Statistical Methodology

Teaching

In my current post as research fellow in the Faculty of Public Health and Policy (PHP), I have been a seminar leader and marker for the intensive MSc module "Basic Statistics for PHP", and a marker for the distance learning MSc module "Advanced Statistical Methods in Epidemiology". I also tutor students from the MSc Public Health.

During my time as a PhD student, I was a marker for the distance learning MSc module "Advanced Statistical Methods in Epidemiology", I assisted on Basic Maths support sessions, and I helped lead STATA practical sessions for the intensive MSc modules "Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health" and "Design and Analysis of Epidemiological Studies".

Research

I am currently based in the Clinical Effectiveness Unit, a collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons of England. My research involves developing methodology for linkage of multiple routine datasets and identifying aspects of care with the greatest impact on patient outcomes for bowel cancer patients undergoing emergency surgery.

My PhD research focused on missing data methods for propensity score analysis of observational data, with application to routinely collected data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink and Hospital Episode Statistics database.

My other research interests include multivariate meta-analysis.

Research Area
Health services research
Statistical methods
Methodology
Discipline
Epidemiology
Mathematics
Statistics
Disease and Health Conditions
Cancer
Country
United Kingdom

Selected Publications

Linkage of multiple electronic health record datasets using a 'spine linkage' approach compared with all 'pairwise linkages'.
Blake HA; Sharples LD; Harron K; van der Meulen JH; Walker K
2022
International Journal of Epidemiology
Probabilistic linkage without personal information successfully linked national clinical datasets.
Blake HA; Sharples LD; Harron K; van der Meulen JH; Walker K
2021
Journal of clinical epidemiology
Estimating treatment effects with partially observed covariates using outcome regression with missing indicators.
Blake HA; Leyrat C; Mansfield KE; Tomlinson LA; Carpenter J; Williamson EJ
2020
Biometrical Journal
Propensity scores using missingness pattern information: a practical guide.
Blake HA; Leyrat C; Mansfield KE; Seaman S; Tomlinson LA; Carpenter J; Williamson EJ
2019
Statistics in Medicine
Empirical comparison of univariate and multivariate meta-analyses in Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth reviews with multiple binary outcomes.
Price MJ; Blake HA; Kenyon S; White IR; Jackson D; Kirkham JJ; Neilson JP; Deeks JJ; Riley RD
2019
Research Synthesis Methods
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