Seminar announcement: Anna Heath: Value of Information for Clinical Trial Design: Challenges and Opportunities 23 April, 9:30am AEST via Zoom Further details: www.vicbiostat.org.au/seminars

ViCBiostat is thrilled to formally announce that Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social has been appointed as our new Chair. We extend our heartfelt thanks to John Carlin for his leadership over the past 14 years, and best wishes for his retirement! www.vicbiostat.org.au/news/margari...

Summer school starts in less than a month - make sure you secure you spot soon! Course details and links to register can be found here 👇 www.vicbiostat.org.au/short-courses

Mark your diaries! The ViCBiostat Summer School returns from 13-20 Feb 2026, in Melbourne and online. Courses include causal inference, cluster randomised trials, meta-analysis and the estimand framework. Further details TBA shortly - sign up to our mailing list at www.vicbiostat.org.au #statistics

Looking forward to speaking at the CAUSALab methods seminar series next week! 👇

Join us Wed 14 May as our biostatisticians @drkarenlamb.bsky.social & Phoebe Fitzpatrick address p-value misconceptions, explain the interpretation of p-values & confidence intervals & emphasise the importance of clinical significance in health research. Register ➡️ ow.ly/yB4W50VAzoo #EMCR

Congratulations to Margarita on this prestigious award! 🏅 The Moran Medal is awarded every 2 years to an outstanding emerging leader in statistical science. This recognises Margarita's outstanding scientific leadership in the fields of causal inference and missing data. More details in the 📼 below

Seminar announcement🗣️ Prof Kelley Kidwell (Uni of Michigan): SMARTer Trials: Integrating Patient Treatment Preferences for Pragmatic Multi-Stage Trial Design & Analyses 27 Mar, 9:30am AEDT Online + in person @ Monash SPHPM, Melbourne Details - www.vicbiostat.org.au/seminars

Exciting Monday news with two of our brilliant researchers awarded NHMRC Investigator Grants 🎊 Congratulations Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social and Julie Simpson @julieasimpson50.bsky.social More: www.vicbiostat.org.au/news @mischhub.bsky.social @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social

Another successful workshop from our missing data methods research group ✔️Led by Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social, with presenters Kate Lee, Ghazaleh Dashti @ghazalehd.bsky.social, Jiaxin Zhang, Cattram Nguyen, Melissa Middleton and Jessica Xu. Thank you to all who came along!

We're off and away with Summer School 2025! Jonathan Sterne @jonathanasterne.bsky.social is leading our Advanced causal inference course, ably assisted by tutors Ghazaleh Dashti @ghazalehd.bsky.social, Marnie Downes, Daisy Shepherd and Jiaxin Zhang from CEBU.