Ian Hambleton

Ian Hambleton

Professor of Biostatistics and Informatics

The University of the West Indies

PhD-level statistician / data scientist. I have worked as a statistician for 25 years in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. I organise project data handling and analytics, including the management of solutions for robust and secure online data collection. I have published around 200 peer-reviewed articles covering a range of chronic and infectious diseases. Working with colleagues, I have secured over 14 million US dollars of funding for health-related research. I am committed to open-access data, and am developing an infrastructure for collecting and sharing Caribbean research data. I work with a range of Caribbean and international agencies involved in health and wellness.

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Employment and Committee Work

The University Appointments…

 
 
 
 
 
Professor of Biostatistics and Informatics
The University of the West Indies
January 2010 – Present Barbados, West Indies
Head, Data Group. Data handling for, and analysis of population surveys, longitudinal health cohorts, and clinical trials. National disease registries in cancer, stroke, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Statistical advisor to PAHO, EU, UNICEF, Barbados Government, CARPHA, CDEMA, regional NGOs involved in health and wellness.
 
 
 
 
 
Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics
The University of the West Indies
January 2006 – January 2010 Barbados, West Indies
Data Management and analysis of Clinical Trials, Population Surveys and Epidemiological studies. National disease registries in cancer, stroke, and cardiovascular disease. National risk factor health surveys. Advisor to PAHO, EU, Barbados Government, other regional NGO involved in health.
 
 
 
 
 
Clinical Trials Statistician
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
January 2005 – January 2006 Mwanza, Tanzania
Study management, data management and statistical analysis of two double-blind, randomised clinical trials of HIV interventions in women (1) Aciclovir for HSV-2 infection for HIV prevention (2) Microbicide gel for HIV prevention.
 
 
 
 
 
Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics
The University of the West Indies
January 2002 – January 2005 Kingston, Jamaica
Analyses of ongoing studies, teaching, consultancy. Development of Masters programme in Biostatistics. Managing the activities of the TMRI Statistics Group (Jamaica and Barbados).
 
 
 
 
 
MRC Scientist - statistician
UK Medical Research Council Laboratories (Jamaica), The Jamaican Sickle Cell Unit
August 1996 – January 2002 Kingston, Jamaica
Statistical analysis of all Unit research. Statistical consultancy. Teaching of statistical software. MRC-funded cohort study analytics using the Jamaican Sickle Cell Disease Cohort Study. Development of guidelines for good practice when analysing observational sickle-cell disease data.
 
 
 
 
 
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Charing Cross Medical School, Department of Public Health and Primary Care
August 1995 – July 1996 London, UK
Statistical consultancy. Analysis of major funded projects. Teaching of statistical techniques and software.

Employment and Committee Work

The Committee Appointments…

Statistician on Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) for HLB SIMPLe.
National Institutes for Health, National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Review of late-stage implementation research strategies for proven-effective prevention and treatment interventions in people living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
Member of Expert Committee. Digital Transformation and Data Science in the Americas
Pan American Health Organization, PAHO Jan 2020 – Dec 2021
Development of PAHO strategy for Public Health implications of AI / Digital Transformation in the Americas.
Member of Technical Advisory group for COVID-19 outbreak surveillance and modelling
CARICOM, Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) Jan 2020 – Dec 2022
Presentation of COVID-19 outbreak surveillance to Council.
Chair, Yale-TCC Data Sharing Working Group (Ongoing).
Yale University Jan 2018
Yale-TCC operates an adult and child cohort in 4 Eatern Caribbean territories (Barbados, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, USVI). This group provides advice and support for the dissemination of research results to Caribbean stakeholders.'
Steering Committee Member, Cohorts Collaboration of Latin America and the Caribbean (Ongoing).
Imperial College, Global Environmental Health Jan 2017
Funded initially by a Wellcome Trust Centre for Global Health Research, the Cohorts Consortium of Latin American and the Caribbean (CC_LAC) is a regional data pooling project to examine the association between cardio-metabolic risk factors (e.g. blood pressure, glucose and lipids) and non-fatal and fatal cardiovascular outcomes (e.g. stroke or myocardial infarction).
Member of technical advisory committee for the development of methods to analyze mortality in the presence of small numbers.
Pan-American Health Organization Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
The committee has supported the development of materials to guide analysts in the Small Island Developing States (SIDS), where small numbers of health events often limit the analytic options available.
Analytics and training on measuring inequality across the SDGs.
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
Approved statistician for provision of statistical support to UNICEF research output.
Committee member for the Diabetes Atlas.
International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Jan 2012 – Jan 2019
Contributed to diabetes Atlas (6th / 7th / 8th editions). Included focus on methodology for prevalence rate sensitivity analyses.
HIV/AIDS National Surveillance reporting (Ongoing).
Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW), Government of Barbados Jan 2011
Statistical Support and member of writing committee for the analysis & production of the annual Barbados HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report.
Barbados National Ethics Committee (Joint UWI / MOHW committee) (Ongoing).
The University of the West Indies (UWI) Jan 2010
Member of University of the West Indies / Ministry of Health Institutional Review Board (Ethics Board) for the review of research involving human subjects.
Statistical Editor, Cystic Fibrosis and Genetic Disorders Group (CFGD) (Ongoing)
The Cochrane Collaboration Jan 2009
Appointed statistical editor with the Cochrane Collaboration (Cystic Fibrosis and Genetic Disorders Group). Full editorial duties for this global network for systematic reviews of randomised clinical trials. Also provide haemoglobinopathy editorial support as required.

Projects

My involvement in recent funded projects. Usually offering statistical and data handling support.

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All Current Completed Analytics Data handling
CaribData

CaribData

CaribData - Developing an Ecosystem for Caribbean Data-Driven Resilience

NCD-RisC

NCD-RisC

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration.

FoodScapes.

FoodScapes.

Assessing the foodscape of a small island developing state - The case of Barbados

StreetScapes

StreetScapes

Neighbourhood Walkability and Physical Activity in Barbados

Systems Science for Caribbean Health.

Systems Science for Caribbean Health.

Development of a Diabetes Policy Model

Walkability in a United Nations Heritage Site.

Walkability in a United Nations Heritage Site.

An assessment of walkability in the UN World Heritage site of Bridgetown and the Historic Garrison

Assessing the Barbados SSB Tax

Assessing the Barbados SSB Tax

Evaluating and guiding policy decision-making in the Caribbean on the taxation of Sugar Sweetened Beverages

Community Food and Health

Community Food and Health

CFaH

The Cohorts Consortium of Latin America and the Caribbean

The Cohorts Consortium of Latin America and the Caribbean

CC-LAC

The FaN Project

The FaN Project

Improving Household Nutrition Security and Public Health in the CARICOM

Pediatric ECHORN

Pediatric ECHORN

Pediatric ECHORN.

Health of the Nation

Health of the Nation

The Barbados National Risk Factor Survey (HotN)

The US-Caribbean Health Disparities Research Collaboration

The US-Caribbean Health Disparities Research Collaboration

Secondary analyses of regional health inequalities using publically available data

The Jamaican Sickle Cell Disease Cohort

The Jamaican Sickle Cell Disease Cohort

A 45-year birth cohort for people living with sickle cell disease

Barbados National Registry

Barbados National Registry

The Barbados National Registry for Chronic Non-Communicable Disease

Cohort development for assessing health disparities

Cohort development for assessing health disparities

Extending a Jamaican cohort to facilitate research addressing health disparities among African descent populations.

GDAR

GDAR

The Global Diet and Activity Research Group and Network

ECHORN

ECHORN

Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network.

Recent Publications

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Lee Randall, Anna Brugulat-Panes, James Woodcock, Lisa Jayne Ware, Caitlin Pley, Safura Abdool Karim, Lisa Micklesfield, Gudani Mukoma, Lambed Tatah, Philip Mbulalina Dambisya, Sostina Spiwe Matina, Ian Hambleton, Gabriel Okello, Felix Assah, Megha Anil, Haowen Kwan, Alice Charity Awinja, Georgina Pujol-Busquets Guillén, Louise Foley (2023). Active travel and paratransit use in African cities: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography. Journal of Transport & Health.

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Knight-Madden, Jennifer M, Hambleton, Ian R (2022). Inhaled bronchodilators for acute chest syndrome in people with sickle cell disease.. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews.

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Serjeant, Graham R, Serjeant, Beryl E, Mason, Karlene P, Gibson, Felicea, Gardner, Ruth-Ann, Warren, Lansford, Hambleton, Ian R, Thein, Swee L, Happich, Margit (2022). Newborn screening for abnormal haemoglobins in Jamaica: Practical issues in an island programme.. Journal of medical screening.

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Walker, Thomas M, Hambleton, Ian R, Mason, Karlene P, Serjeant, Graham R (2022). Spleen size in homozygous sickle cell disease: trends in a birth cohort using ultrasound. The British journal of radiology.

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Evans-Gilbert, Tracy, Lashley, Paula Michele, Lerebours, Emmeline, Sin Quee, Corrine, Singh-Minott, Indira, Fernandes, Maritza, Thomas, Joycelyn Walter, Nelson, Beverly, Braithwaite, Jozan, Hambleton, Ian (2022). Children and the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: a Caribbean perspective. Pan American journal of public health.

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