Dr Caroline Jeffery PhD

Personal Statement

Caroline Jeffery joined the Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Liverpool in January 2023 as a Research Associate. Her post sits jointly with the Department of Health Data Science. She conducts statistical analyses for the InFLUenza Vaccines – in Use Epidemiology (FLUVUE) projects, within the University of Liverpool and Seqirus collaboration.

Previously she worked in the Department of International Public Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. From March 2010, she served as expert in Biostatistics for the Monitoring and Evaluation Technical assistance and Research (METRe) group, led by Prof Joe Valadez. From July 2021, she conducted statistical and health economic analyses for RESPOND AFRICA.

She completed her PhD in Biostatistics at Harvard University. Her research focuses on disease mapping and the use of spatial information on cases in public health surveillance, in particular the inclusion of residential history in mapping, mapping multiple diseases, and studying the effect of aggregation on the performance of spatial methods. She also holds a MA in Mathematics from Boston College and a Maîtrise in Applied Mathematics and Social Sciences from Paris IX Dauphine.

Key words: #fixedterm biostatistics public health