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- Professor of Biostatistics
- Population, Policy & Practice Dept
- UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
- Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
Background and Qualifications
Mario Cortina Borja has been at the UCL Institute of ChildHealth since October 2000; he was appointed Professor of Biostatistics in thePopulation, Policy and Practice Programme in 2015. Mario has a BSc in ActuarialScience and an MSc in Statistics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma deMéxico, and a PhD in Statistics from the School of Mathematical Sciences at theUniversity of Bath for a thesis entitled Graph-theoretic nonparametricmultivariate procedures.
Before coming to UCL Mario was a statistician at theInstituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas at the National AutonomousUniversity of Mexico, a research officer in applied mathematics at the Schoolof Chemical Engineering in the University of Bath, a lecturer, then seniorlecturer, in Statistics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, and,for five years, consulting and teaching officer in the Department ofStatistics, University of Oxford.
Metrics
Mario’s h-index is 58from >14000 citations(google scholar, Nov 2022), and his Erdös number is 4. He has published over 440 peer-reviewed papers, contributions to discussions, letters, and book reviews in 165 different periodical publications and contributes to peer-reviewing for many academic journals.




Mario is an applied statistician with a background in Actuarial Science and Mathematics; he has worked in many scientific areas. His present research involves:
Epidemiology of infectious disease, particularly HIV and Hepatitis C
Seasonal patterns, especially birthdays and the effect of date of birth on adult health
Record linkage methods
Modelling discrete, long-tailed data
Modelling circular responses
Transformations in bounded outcome variables
Applications of copulae models
Mario was 1st supervisor of 13 MSc students at Oxford, 1 MPhil at Cambridge, and of 16 MSc/MRes students (2 as 2nd supervisor) and 30 PhD students (4 as 1st supervisor) at UCL.
01-OCT-2015 | Professor of Biostatistics | Population, Policy and Practice Programme | Institute of Child Health, University College London, United Kingdom |
01-OCT-2000 – 30-SEP-2015 | Senior Lecturer | Centre for Paediatic Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Institute of Child Health, University College London, United Kingdom |
01-JAN-1996 – 30-SEP-2000 | Consulting and Teaching Officer | Department of Statistics | University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
01-MAY-1992 – 31-DEC-1995 | Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in Statistics | Departamento de Estadística | Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico |
01-APR-1991 – 31-MAR-1992 | Research Officer | Department of Chemical Engineering | University of Bath, United Kingdom |
1992 | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Bath | |
1985 | Master of Science | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) | |
1984 | Bachelor of Science | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) |