Kate Tilling

Kate Tilling is a British statistician who specialises in developing and applying statistical methods to overcome problems encountered in epidemiological research. Tilling has been a professor in medical statistics. in population health sciences within Bristol Medical School (previously the School of Social and Community Medicine), University of Bristol, since 2011. She joined the University of Bristol in 2002 as a Senior Lecturer, following nine years as a lecturer at King's College London.

Tilling leads a programme of research within the Medical Research Council (MRC) Integrative Epidemiology Unit in Bristol and co-leads the effectiveness theme within the NIHR CLAHRC West (Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West), which focus on novel statistical methods for understanding causal relationships in health research.

Tilling is a member of the MRC Methodology Research Panel and the MRC Cohort Strategy Group.

Education In 1991, Tilling received a first-class BSc with honours in mathematics from the University of Warwick. She received her MSc in Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford the following year.

Research After receiving her PhD, Tilling joined the Department of Public Health Sciences, King's College London as a lecturer in medical statistics in 1993. The effectiveness team uses large volumes of data in order to understand patterns in health and service use.