Anna Heath
Dr. Anna Heath is a Scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, an Associate Professor at University of Toronto and Honorary Research Fellow at University College London, UK. She is the Canada Research Chair in Statistical Trial Design. She holds a degree in Mathematics with French language from the University of Sheffield, UK and a PhD in Statistical Science from University College London. She arrived at SickKids in 2018 to lead the development of innovative statistical methodology for four clinical trials for novel treatments in the paediatric emergency department. In 2020, she founded the EMBaRC lab to focus on developing novel statistical methodology, software, expertise and guidance to improve the efficiency and design of randomised clinical trials. This research combines many areas including biostatistics, evidence synthesis, meta-analysis, Bayesian methods, decision theory, health economic modelling and simulation based methods.
Research Discipline: Natural Sciences
Institution: The Hospital for Sick Children
Career Stage: Mid-Career Investigator
Email: anna.heath@sickkids.ca