Professor Peter Diggle

Group Leader for Combining Health Information, Computation and Statistics

Personal Introduction

Professor Peter Diggle is currently an EPSRC Senior Fellow (2004-2008), leading a research programme in Spatial and Longitudinal Data Analysis.

Current methodological themes include: geostatistical analysis; spatial and spatio-temporal point processes; joint modelling of repeated measurement and time-to-event outcomes in longitudinal studies. Current areas of application include: real-time disease surveillance; environmental exposure measurement; tropical disease prevalence mapping.

In addition to his substantive post in the Department of Medicine, Prof Diggle is an Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, founding co-editor of the journal "Biostatistics" and a trustee for the Biometrika Trust.