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Sheila Bird

Sheila Bird
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Sheila Bird
Born (1952-05-18) 18 May 1952 (age 72)
NationalityScottish
Alma materUniversity of Aberdeen
Known forStatistical thinking at the interface of public health and other jurisdictions.
SpouseDr A Graham Bird (deceased)[2]
AwardsOBE

FRSE

Royal Statistical Society medals (Guy bronze, 1989;Bradford Hill, 2000; Chambers, 2010; Howard, 2015).[1]
Scientific career
FieldsBiostatistics
InstitutionsMedical Research Council
University of Strathclyde

Sheila Macdonald Bird OBE FRSE FMedSci (née Gore; born 18 May 1952) is a Scottish biostatistician whose assessment of misuse of statistics in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and BMJ series ‘Statistics in Question’ led to statistical guidelines for contributors to medical journals.[3] Bird's doctoral work on non-proportional hazards in breast cancer found application in organ transplantation where beneficial matching was the basis for UK's allocation of cadaveric kidneys for a decade. Bird led the Medical Research Council (MRC) Biostatistical Initiative in support of AIDS/HIV studies in Scotland, as part of which Dr A. Graham Bird and she pioneered Willing Anonymous HIV Surveillance (WASH) studies in prisons.[4] Her work with Cooper on UK dietary bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) exposure revealed that the 1940–69 birth cohort was the most exposed and implied age-dependency in susceptibility to clinical vCJD progression from dietary BSE exposure since most vCJD cases were younger, born in 1970–89. Bird also designed the European Union's robust surveillance for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in sheep which revolutionised the understanding of scrapie.[5]

Record linkage studies in Scotland were central to Bird's work (with others) on the late sequelae of Hepatitis C virus infection and on the morbidity and mortality of opioid addiction. Her team first quantified the very high risk of drugs-related death in the fortnight after prison-release, in response to which Bird and Hutchinson proposed a prison-based randomized controlled trial of naloxone, the opioid antagonist, for prisoners-on-release who had a history of heroin injection.[6][7][8][9] Bird introduced the Royal Statistical Society’s statistical seminars for journalists and awards for statistical excellence in journalism. She is the first female statistician to have been awarded four medals by the Royal Statistical Society (Guy bronze, 1989; Austin Bradford Hill, 2000; Chambers, 2010, Howard, 2015).[6][10]

  1. ^ "Achievements – MRC Biostatistics Unit". Mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference StraightStatistics was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "1980s". Mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  4. ^ Bird, A G.; Gore, S. M; Hutchinson, S. J; Lewis, S. C; Cameron, S.; Burns, S. (1997). "Harm reduction measures and injecting inside prison versus mandatory drugs testing: Results of a cross sectional anonymous questionnaire survey". BMJ. 315 (7099): 21–4. doi:10.1136/bmj.315.7099.21. PMC 2127021. PMID 9233321.
  5. ^ Cooper, J.; Bird, S. M. (2003). "Predicting incidence of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from UK dietary exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy for the 1940 to 1969 and post-1969 birth cohorts". International Journal of Epidemiology. 32 (5): 784–91. doi:10.1093/ije/dyg248. PMID 14559750.
  6. ^ a b "Sheila Bird". Mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  7. ^ Parmar MK, Strang J, Choo L, Meade AM, Bird SM (2016). "Randomized controlled pilot trial of naloxone-on-release to prevent post-prison opioid overdose deaths". Addiction. 2016 (24 Oct) (3): 502–515. doi:10.1111/add.13668. PMC 5324705. PMID 27776382.
  8. ^ Bird SM, Strang J, Ashby D, Podmore J, Robertson JR, Welch S, Meade AM, Parmar MK (2017). "External data required timely response by the Trial Steering-Data Monitoring Committee for the NALoxone InVEstigation (N-ALIVE) pilot trial". Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. 2017, 5: 1–7. doi:10.1016/j.conctc.2017.01.006. PMC 5389338. PMID 28424796.
  9. ^ Bird SM, McAuley A, Perry S, Hunter C (2016). "Effectiveness of Scotland's National Naloxone Programme for reducing opioid-related deaths: a before (2006-2010) versus after (2011-2013) comparison". Addiction. 111 (5): 883–891. doi:10.1111/add.13265. PMC 4982071. PMID 26642424.
  10. ^ "Sheila Bird presented with RSS Howard Medal | MRC Biostatistics Unit". www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
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