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Janet Peacock

Professor Janet Peacock

Emeritus Professor of Medical Statistics

Research interests

  • Population Health

Biography

Janet is Emeritus Professor Medical Statistics in the Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Life Course & Population Sciences where she formerly led the Unit for Medical Statistics. Her main clinical interests are in the determinants of child health and her methodological interests are in developing ways to make statistics clinically meaningful. She has written three biostatistics books for non-statistical researchers including the new 2nd editions of 'Oxford Handbook of Medical Statistics' and 'Presenting Medical Statistics'. She is a former NIHR Senior Investigator.

Janet took up the post of Professor of Epidemiology and Biomedical Data Science at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, USA in 2020. She recently was appointed part-time Professor of Clinical Biostatistics and Data Science in Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Denmark where she is helping to catalyze collaborations between Dartmouth College and Aarhus. She continues to work with colleagues at King’s in an advisory basis. Her full publications list can be found here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1bs9wVceutcQc/bibliography/public/

    Research

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    Unit for Medical Statistics

    A group medical statisticians with a broad range of collective expertise who undertake research, consultancy, training and teaching at King’s and beyond.

    News

    Physiotherapy programme improves walking in people with poor leg circulation

    Adults with poor leg circulation who took part in one-to-one physiotherapy sessions that aimed to improve motivation and commitment to exercise were able to...

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      Research

      Med statistics hero
      Unit for Medical Statistics

      A group medical statisticians with a broad range of collective expertise who undertake research, consultancy, training and teaching at King’s and beyond.

      News

      Physiotherapy programme improves walking in people with poor leg circulation

      Adults with poor leg circulation who took part in one-to-one physiotherapy sessions that aimed to improve motivation and commitment to exercise were able to...

      Pedometer walking main