Louise Linsell DPhil, MSc, BSc

Louise has over 30 years’ experience working in clinical trials, medical statistics and epidemiology, in a wide range of disease fields and health care settings. She has worked in the consultancy sector for 3 years and has expertise in evidence synthesis, survival analysis, surrogate endpoint modelling and utility mapping for HTA submissions.

In her previous role as Associate Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials at the University of Oxford, she provided specialist statistical and methodological expertise as a co-investigator on multi-million funding applications submitted to the HTA and other funding streams. She was awarded a highly competitive National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Research Doctoral Fellowship and completed a DPhil in Population Health. She also previously advised on the NIHR Patient Benefit Regional Advisory Panel, evaluating grant applications, and making recommendations for funding.

Louise has diverse methodological experience, ranging from clinical trials, systematic reviews and meta-analysis to large prospective cohort studies, case-control studies, and cross-sectional surveys. She also has extensive experience of analysing longitudinal datasets with repeated measures and the complex analysis of large routinely collected datasets. She also contributed to the design and analysis of the world-leading Recovery platform trial investigating hospital treatments for SARS-CoV-2.

Louise has extensive experience of writing research papers and disseminating results at national and international conferences and other events. She has over 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals and is first author on a book chapter entitled, “Statistics in Medical Research” in “Introduction to Research Methodology for Medical Specialists & Trainees”.