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Prof Mario Cortina Borja
WTB 1.01
UCL Institute of Child Health
30 Guilford Street
London
UK
WC1N 1EH
Appointment
- Professor of Biostatistics
- ICH Pop, Policy & Practice Prog
- UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
- Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
Biography
Background and Qualifications
Mario Cortina Borja has been at the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the UCL Institute of Child Health since October 2000; he was appointed Professor of Biostatistics in 2015. Mario has a BSc in Actuarial Science and an MSc in Statistics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and a PhD in Statistics from the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath for a thesis entitled Graph-theoretic nonparametric multivariate procedures.
Before coming to UCL Mario was a statistician at the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, a research officer in applied mathematics at the School of Chemical Engineering in the University of Bath, a lecturer, then senior lecturer, in Statistics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, and, for five years, consulting and teaching officer in the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford.
Metrics
Mario’s h-index is 45 from 7354 citations (3899 from 2012) according to google scholar, (Feb 2017), and his Erdös number is 4. He has published over 230 peer-reviewed papers, contributions to discussions, letters, and book reviews in 113 different periodical publications and contributes to peer-reviewing for many academic journals, notably Archives of Disease in Childhood, The Lancet, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, Psychiatryc Bulletin, Statistics in Medicine, Metrika, and Biostatistics.
Research Groups
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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
- Modelling physical activity using accelerometry data
- Seasonal patterns, especially birthdays and the effect of date of birth on adult health
- Record linkage methods
- Modelling discrete, long-tailed data
- Modelling multivariate circular responses
- Transformations in bounded outcome variables
- Applications of copulae models
Teaching Summary
Mario supervised 13 PG students in Applied Statistics in Oxford
between 1996 and 2000. In UCL he has been 1st supervisor to nine MSc students at the Statistical Science Department..
PhD Students (UCL Institute of Child Health)
1. Linsay Gray: Clinical and biological disease progression in vertically
HIV-infected children in Europe, with M-L Newell 2003
2. Susan Cliffe: Estimating HIV prevalence in the general female population in
the UK using data from pregnant women, with M-L Newell 2005
3. Deven Patel: Statistical modelling of virological and immunological patterns
in HIV-1 infected pregnant women in Europe, with M-L Newell and C Thorne 2007
4. Kirsty Little: Measuring the impact of public health programmes for HIV
infected pregnant women and their children, with M-L Newell 2008
5. Claire Townsend: Antiretroviral therapy and pregnancy outcome in
HIV-infected women in the UK and Ireland, with P Tookey and M-L Newell 2009.
6. Pia Hardelid: The seroepidemiology of rubella in pregnant women in North
Thames, 1st supervisor, with C Dezateux, P Tookey and C Peckham 2009
7. Pamela Leighton: Monitoring blood stream infection in neonatal ICUs, with R
Gilbert 2010
8. Fiona McElduff: Models for discrete epidemiological and clinical data, 1st
supervisor with A Wade 2012
9. Diane Berry: Vitamin D and health: modelling threshold effects and seasonal
variations, with E Hyppönen, 2012
10. Carly Rich: Accelerometer-based assessments of children’s habitual physical
activity, with L Griffiths and C Dezateux, 2013
11. Naufil Alam: Body fat alterations and metabolic abnormalities in
HIV-infected children and adolescents in Europe, with C Thorne, 2013
12. Heather Bailey: HIV-infected childbearing women in Europe: health,
treatment and care, with C Thorne and Dr Townsend, 2013
13. Clare French: Sequential pregnancies in HIV-infected women in Europe, with P
Tookey and C Thorne, 2015
14. Francesco Sera: Missing data and dynamic models in life course studies, 1st
supervisor with C Dezateux and M Geraci, student withdrew.
15. Eirini Koutoumanou: Copula models for epidemiological research and
practice, with A Wade, 4th year, part time
16. Dr Nadine Seward: The influence of clean delivery practices
and clean delivery kit use on maternal and neonatal mortality in South Asia, with
A Prost, L Li and A Costello, 2015
18. Dr Laura Byrne: Antiretroviral therapy, drug resistance in
pregnancy, and preventing mother-to-child-transmission of HIV in UK and Ireland,
with P Tookey, C Thorne and Dr Townsend, 3rd year
19. Dr Helen Harris-Fry, Measuring and
explaining intra-household food allocation in rural Nepal, with Dr Saville and A
Costello, 2016.
20. Dr Avi Marks, Functional outcomes in adolescents with
osteonecrosis secondary to treatment of developmental dysplasia of the hip,
with A Roposch, 3rd year, part time
Appointments
| 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 |
Academic Background
| 1992 | PhD | Doctor of Philosophy – Statistics | University of Bath |
| 1985 | MSc | Master of Science – Mathematics | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) |
| 1984 | BSc | Bachelor of Science – Actuarial Science | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) |
