Kate Tilling is Professor of Medical Statistics and MRC Investigator in the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol.

She leads a multidisciplinary team of health data scientists developing and applying statistical methods for causal inference.

Her main research interests are in the development and application of statistical methods to causal problems in epidemiology/health services research. Two particular areas are methods for analysis of longitudinal data, and methods for minimising bias due to missing data.

She is part of Bristol BRC’s translational data science theme.