Professor Mark Woodward, PhD

Mark Woodward is Professor of Medical Statistics at the University of New South Wales and Chair of Statistics, Epidemiology and Women’s Health at Imperial College London. Mark has led work on sex differences in health and medicine for over 20 years, including authorship of 130 peer-reviewed publications and presentation of 16 invited talks on this subject.
Overall, Mark has over 40 years’ experience of research work, mainly in cardiovascular disease, leading epidemiological projects and statistical analyses of clinical trials. He is the author of over 930 peer-reviewed publications, 17 of which have over 1000 citations, and two text-books on statistical methods in medical research. He has been named amongst the world’s most citied researchers in each of the last 11 years, with a H-index of around 180.
Mark has served on the governing councils of both the Institute of Statisticians and the Royal Statistical Society. His pioneering work on cardiovascular risk scores has informed national guidelines in Australia and elsewhere. In the last 25 years his grant awards total to around ₤120 million from 64 successful applications. He has previously been a full professor at New York University, Johns Hopkins University (adjunct), Sydney University and Oxford University.