I had a wonderful time, last week, when my amazing colleague Terry Soo arranged a re-union of present and past Heads for @statistics_UCL! It is such an incredible honour to be in this number and the day was truly nice!

Apparently, I won this...
https://www.globalresearchpartnerships.com/rci/awards/mathematics/
(and beating quite the colleagues to this, including my friend Anna Heath... 😅)

Now out
https://www.routledge.com/Bayesian-Models-in-Health-Technology-Assessment/Baio/p/book/9781041297383

(and more info at https://gianluca.statistica.it/books/bmhta/)!

#bayesian #hta

That's the latest episode in our departmental podcast! @statistics_UCL

https://sample-space.org/posts/features/2026-09-01-podcast/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matthew-hemstock-830140188_hta-heor-survivalanalysis-share-7474802110782439424-PRBr/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAGoMdkBosLv2Eq31w53vf1hgbB_ZdO3dO0

Evaluating Policy Implementations TO Predict MEntal health (EPITOME). End of grant dissemination workshop

This workshop consolidates and showcases the work of the EPITOME research grant, funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Speakers include: Dr Sophie Wickham, Dr Carl Bonander, Prof Thiemo Fetzer, Dr Connor Gascoigne, Dr Annie Jeffery, Dr Xuewen Yu and Dr Ioannis Rotous.

The event is free & in person only, with limited tickets, at UCL on 2 July 2026, 10am-5pm. Registration at https://tinyurl.com/epitome-workshop

Good things come to those who wait...

https://www.routledge.com/Bayesian-Methods-in-Health-Technology-Assessment/Baio/p/book/9781041297383

Hot off the press... It's been a long time in the making, but also a pleasure to work with amazing colleagues on this!

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0272989X261434969

Debating with myself whether I should come back from Costa Rica or just bugger off here forever...

Call for abstract open for the next Bayes Biostats conference!

https://www.bayes-pharma.org/abstract/

In front of the Quad

Thing is, on the very vast majority of days, I'm really proud to be part of UCL...

https://ucl200.com/

I'm super proud of @statistics_UCL who has now been conferred the Athena Swan Silver Award! Super thank you to all my colleagues! Awesome!

Many apologies for cross-posting, but I thought it may be of interest to some of you.

Summer school: Bayesian methods in health economics

Date: 15-19 June 2026

Venue: UCL Department of Statistical Science

More information can be found at the summer school webpage. Registration is available from the UCL Store. For more details or enquiries (including to discuss reduced fees for participants from low and middle-income countries), email me!

https://onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-mathematical-physical-sciences-c06/department-of-statistical-science-f61/f61-bayesian-methods-in-health-economics-2026

https://gianluca.statistica.it/teaching/summer-school/

My 2p on the proposal to change NICE regulation...

https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2622

If you can't be bothered to read the promotional material for our BCEA book (https://gianluca.statistica.it/books/bcea/), perhaps you can listen to this?... 😁 😉

I've had **lots** of fun on a fantastic visit to @karolinskainstitutet - thanks so much Mark Clements and Paul Dickman for the amazing organisation and hospitality!

I talked about Bayesian modelling and HTA (surprise!...)

https://gianluca.statistica.it/slides/karolinska/seminar/

https://gianluca.statistica.it/slides/karolinska/workshop/

On my way back home after ISPOR in Glasgow.

As usual, very busy but nice to see lots of a friends & colleagues! Had lots fun doing my short course on Hands-on modelling in R (with Rose Hart and Howard Thom -- and, in spirit only for this time, Felicity Lamrock) + the session on missing data in PRO (with Miranda Cooper, Neil Hawkins and Olivier CHASSANY).

Great to talk R-HTA with many people too!

https://gianluca.statistica.it/slides/ispor-2025t
https://gianluca.statistica.it/books/bcea
https://gianluca.statistica.it/books/r-hta