Professor Catherine Hewitt
Director, York Trials Unit

Profile

Biography

Catherine is a Professor of Trials and Statistics, Director of York Trials Unit and Deputy Head of Department for Research with the Department of Health Sciences. 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.

She is Co-director of the NIHR RSS Hub delivered by University of York and Partners

Qualifications

• BSc Mathematics and Statistics
• MSc Mathematics
• PhD  Health Sciences

Departmental roles

• Senior Statistician
• Director of York Trials Unit
• Deputy Head of Department for Research
• Department of Health Sciences Senior Management Team

Research

Projects

• Catherine Hewitt's Projects

Research group(s)

• Trials and Statistics

Supervision

Catherine supervises PhDs within a broad area of research.

Current PhD Supervisees

• Fiona Ashton
• Claire Gill
• Adam Watts
• Faraz Siddiqui
• Nasso Gkekas
• Stuart Jarvis
• John Ratcliffe
• Abayomi Sanusi
• Lucy Tindall
• John Randall

Publications

Full publications list

• Catherine Hewitt's publications

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Mechanisms to Therapies

Postgraduate

• Module leader for Introduction to Health Statistics
• Module leader for Understanding Clinical Statistics
• Measurement in Health and Disease
• Health Policy
• Sytematic Reviews
• Research Design

External activities

Memberships

Catherine is a member of the following panels/boards:

Catherine is also a member of the following committees:

Trial Steering Committees (TSC):

• CARE, University of Edinburgh
• C-Gall, University of Aberdeen
• DAFNE+, University of Sheffield
• EME sub STAR, Kings College London
• ESORT, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Member Advisory Group)
• EYE2, Queen Mary University London
• FREDA, University of East London
• GAP, Bristol Trials Centre (Chair TSC)
• INSPIRE, Bristol Trials Centre (Chair TSC)
• MSS3, University of Sheffield
• ORIF, Nottingham/University of Oxford
• PROACTIVE, Leeds General Infirmary (Chair TSC)
• STAR, Kings College London
• SURFON, University of Oxford
• WAVE, Keele University (Chair TSC)

Data monitoring and ethics committees (DMEC):

• COACH, University of Nottingham
• HOT2, University of Edinburgh (Chair DMC)
• PROCURE, University of Oxford
• PROP OA, Keele University (Chair DMC)