Researcher biography

Professor Robert Ware is a biostatistician and clinical epidemiologist. Robert has worked as an academic biostatistician for more than 15-years, and has extensive experience working with clinical colleagues on both randomised trials and cohort studies. His research expertise centres on the design and analysis of longitudinal studies, with a methodological focus on developing statistical methods to deal with the impact attrition, missing data and non-compliance have on effect estimators. As a consequence of his research program and his collaborative work with clinicians he has developed an extensive theoretical and practical knowledge of the design, conduct and analysis of both observational and experimental studies.

Robert was appointed as Griffith University’s inaugural Professor of Biostatistics in September 2016 with Menzies Health Institute Queensland. He now leads the Griffith Biostatistics Unit within Griffith Health. Prior to joining Griffith University Robert completed his PhD in Statistics at the University of Canterbury (NZ) in 2003, before being employed at The University of Queensland as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (2003-07) and Research-Focused Academic (2008-16). Robert’s applied interests include vaccine epidemiology and childhood infectious disease. Robert has co-authored more than 450 peer-reviewed articles including publications in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Lancet.

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