Mona Kanaan
Professor, Senior Fellow of HEA
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Biography
Mona is a Professor in Applied Health Research & Statistics and Senior Fellow of HEA. Mona was the Programme Leader for the Postgraduate certificate in Health Research and Statistics and is currently the Director of Post Graduate Education and Chair of the Post Graduate Teaching Committee at the Department.
Mona has worked on statistical modelling of childhood infectious diseases, analysis of randomised controlled trials in the health and social sciences including cluster randomised trials and stepped wedge trials, and spatial statistics. She has published extensively in health and social sciences and statistical journals. She has been involved in the analysis of datasets from both the UK and internationally (Lebanon, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Syria, and South Africa) with applications ranging from maternity outcomes to MMR vaccines, tobacco control, reablement and criminal justice data.
She also serves on a number of data monitoring committees and trial/study steering committees and has served on an NIHR regional funding committee and NIHR Health Services & Delivery Research Committee. She is an associate editor of Ethnicity and Health, Deputy Statistics and Methodology Editor of Addiction.
Mona is currently a member of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Council and a member of the RSS Medical Section (and has previously acted as its Chair) and led on the Statistics workstream of the NIHR Methodology Incubator. Mona serves on the NIHR Advanced Fellowship Committee.
Mona trained initially as a Mathematician at the American University of Beirut supported by a Hariri Foundation Scholarship. She then moved on to study Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge supported by the Karim Rida Said Foundation. Mona then completed her PhD studies in Spatial Statistics at the Open University supported by an Open University studentship and an Overseas Research Studentship Award. This was followed by a post-doctoral post at the Open University working with Prof. Paddy Farrington on parameter estimation for infectious diseases. Mona then took an Assistant Professor in Biostatistics position at the Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut before joining the University of York.
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Qualifications
- BSc in Mathematics (with distinction), American University of Beirut
- Postgraduate degree in Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge
- PhD (statistics), The Open University
Departmental roles
- Director of Post Graduate Education
- Chair of the Post Graduate Teaching Committee
- Member of the Research Committee
- Member of the Research Degrees Committee
- Member of the Board of Studies
- Member of the PG Exams board
- Member of the PG Student Staff Forum
- Mona previously served:
- on the University of York Senate.
- as Programme Leader for the Post graduate certificate in Health Research and Statistics
- as the Postgraduate Admissions Tutor
- on the Research Governance Committee
- as a Chair of the Departmental Library Committee
- as a Member of the University Library Committee
Contact details
@MonaKanaan3