Professor Catherine Hewitt, Co-investigator
Biography
Catherine is a Professor of Medical Statistics and Trials and Deputy Director of York Trials Unit. Within the trials unit Catherine has responsibility for the quantitative portfolio and manages the team of statisticians, health economists, data managers, software developers and research group administrators.
Her research portfolio is currently in excess of £40 million from a number of funders across different disciplinary boundaries including several NIHR programmes, charities and international sources. Catherine has been invited and currently sits as an independent statistician to a large number of external studies at UK Universities and is currently a statistical advisor to the Office of National Statistics fora COVID trial based within secondary schools. She was invited to undertake rigorous methodological reviews for the Urgent Public Health Group during the pandemic to nationally prioritise sets of studies of novel therapeutics, diagnostics and vaccines. Catherine is the Deputy Chair of the NIHR HTA commissioning committee, Chair of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration Statistics Operational Group and member of the Cross-Whitehall Trials Advice Panel.
Role on ComBAT
Catherine has vast experience of designing and analysing trials, particularly in mental health and also school based interventions. She was a co-applicant and the senior statistician on the CASPER, CHEMIST, MODS, BASIL and BASIL+ trials – which use Behavioural Activation for early depression in adults – and will be leading on the design and statistical analysis of the proposed evaluation within COMBAT.