Professor Toby Prevost BSc, MSc, PhD

Toby Prevost is Director of the Nightingale-Saunders Clinical Trials and Epidemiology Unit, a specialist section of the King's Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) within the Faculty. The Unit collaborates in designing, enabling and undertaking clinical trials with a focus on the Faculty. Toby was previously (2016-2020) a Professor of Clinical Trials and Medical Statistics in the Imperial CTU and a Visiting Professor at Imperial (2020-2023). He first worked in London as a Reader (2009) and then promoted (2012) to Professor of Medical Statistics in the Dept of Public Health Sciences at King's College London. Before this, he was a Senior Medical Statistician in the Dept of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge and Senior Research Scientist in the Cambridge MRC Biostatistics Unit, and a Senior Visiting Fellow at Cambridge (2020-2023). He has served on NICE Public Health Advisory Committees (2008-2020), the NIHR Public Health Research Funding Committee (2014-2020) and the NIHR Covid-19 Recovery and Learning Funding Committee (2020).

In terms of trials (behavioural and clinical), this is a selection of the trials that he has been part of from the co-applicant stage through to publication.

Research interests:

• Optimising the contribution of statistics within clinical trials and more general medical research
• Trial Design 

Enquiring about potential PhD supervision

If you’re thinking of applying for one of our PhD programmes and are looking for potential supervisors, please email nmpc_pgr_enquiries@kcl.ac.uk listing the names of the supervisors you’ve identified as having expertise in your chosen area, along with your CV and a short research proposal. 

Our Postgraduate Research Team will contact supervisors on your behalf and get back to you. If you have any queries in the meantime, please use the email address above, rather than contacting potential PhD supervisors directly, because they are unable to respond to initial enquiries.

 

Research profile