Current and future women luminaries with Professor Deborah Ashby OBE and Rachel Phillips
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Please join us for a special series of conversations to showcase our inspirational luminaries’ careers and to share lessons learned with the next generation of future stars. Imperial has amazing women who are leaders in their fields and provide inspiration to many inside and outside the College. When they talk about their research, teaching, and societal engagement, they inspire and motivate others.
Hosted by Professor Alice P. Gast, our next conversation will be with Professor Deborah Ashby OBE, Director of the School of Public Health, and Rachel Phillips who was awarded an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship in 2018 for her PhD at Imperial.
Professor Deborah Ashby OBE
Deborah Ashby is Director of the School of Public Health at Imperial College London where she holds the Chair in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials, and was Founding Co-Director of Imperial Clinical Trials Unit. She is a Chartered Statistician and her research interests are in clinical trials, risk-benefit decision making for medicines, and the utility of Bayesian approaches in these areas.
Deborah is the immediate past President of the Royal Statistical Society. She has sat on the UK Commission on Human Medicines and acted as adviser to the European Medicines Agency. Deborah was awarded an OBE for services to medicine in 2009.
Rachel Phillips
Rachel was awarded an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship in 2018 to undertake her PhD at Imperial College London. Her research focuses on the reporting and analysis of adverse events in drug trials and developing statistical methods to better identify adverse drug reactions. Alongside this Rachel works as a clinical trial statistician across a broad range of disease areas at Imperial Clinical Trials Unit and is a member of both the Trials Methodology team and Clinical Trial Statistics group within the unit.