Professor Philip Schluter BSc (Hons 1), MSc (Distinction) PhD

Philip is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at the Auckland University of Technology. Philip is interested in thinking about, developing and applying Bayesian methods to public health problems. Bayesian methods depart from the conventional objectivist theories of probability and provide an alternative to hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation. Philip has utilised these methods for the identification of motor accident 'black-spots', for the 'change-point' analysis of an intervention amongst assault-related hospital admissions in an Aboriginal community, and the assessment of treatment response in a series of single patient (n-of-1) trials, to name a few examples. Philip's current areas of research include the extension of the n-of-1 analytical strategy which he developed, sudden infant death syndrome epidemiology, and injury prevention epidemiology. In collaboration with colleagues, he is developing reference ranges for first and second trimester ultrasound scans and will use this information to develop improved methods for predicting foetal abnormalities.