Dr Alana Cavadino is a Biostatistician in the Faculty of Medical and Health Science. She has worked at the University of Auckland since 2018, and took on the role of team lead for the FMHS biostatistics consulting team in 2022. Alana’s expertise is in statistical analysis for health research. She has experience working on a wide variety of public health and medical studies, and applying and advising on a range of statistical methods. As a consulting Biostatistician, Alana carries out statistical analyses and provides advice on all aspects of research study design, data collection, data management, application of appropriate statistical methods, interpretation, and presentation of findings. She collaborates with and advises academic staff and postgraduate students at the university about study design and statistical analysis.

Alana’s career has built upon a PhD in statistical methods for birth defects research from Queen Mary University of London, with this research covering epidemiological surveillance, pharmacovigilance, and the application of Bayesian statistics. Before embarking on her PhD, Alana worked as a statistician in genetic epidemiology at the University College London, after gaining her MSc in Medical Statistics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.