After the success of our June online event, The SHSK Society is delighted to invite you to a second talk.

Join  us on on Wednesday 16 September at 7pm when we will hear from Old Girl, Eleanor Barry, a  final year PhD student at the University of Bath. The title of Eleanor's talk is: 

‘Maths meets medicine: how data and statistics play a crucial role in public health’

2013 leaver, Eleanor, is now a final year PhD student at the University of Bath. After completing her MMath at the University of Exeter and completing internships at Public Health England, she moved to Bath to commence a joint statistics and health PhD, looking specifically in whether exposure to a rare autoimmune disease, Systemic Sclerosis, leads to an increased risk of cancer.

In the last year, Eleanor has been focusing on an increasingly popular area in medical statistics, Causal Inference – how we can interpret from data what causes something and what is merely associated. Being able to tell the difference between these is critical to inform public health.

In her talk, Eleanor will be discussing how data interpretation can be used to influence public health decisions, and how maths can uncover the hidden relationships of diseases, with examples drawn from the recent Covid pandemic.