- Who is Florence Nightingale, and what is impressive about her?
- Why would it be interesting to talk about her at the upcoming PSI conference?
- She’s famous for her visualization. What could statisticians today learn from her about visualization?
Despite her having a weak position in society at the time – being a nurse and a woman – she still was very influential and achieved a lot. Many statisticians feel like they are not part of key decisions and don’t have the impact they could have. What can we learn from her to be more influential?
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Deborah Ashby
Director of the School of Public Health
Professor Deborah Ashby is the Director of the School of Public Health at Imperial College London where she holds the Chair in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials and was the Founding Co-Director of the Imperial Clinical Trials Unit. She is currently President of the Royal Statistical Society. She has sat on the UK Commission on Human Medicines and acts as an adviser to the European Medicines Agency. Deborah was awarded the OBE for services to medicine in 2009, appointed an NIHR Senior Investigator in 2010, and elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2012. Deborah’s talk will pay tribute to Florence Nightingale, as 2020 has been deemed the Year of the Nurse, in honor of the bicentenary of her birth and she was the first female member of the RSS as well as one of the world’s most prominent statisticians.
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I want to help the community of statisticians, data scientists, programmers and other quantitative scientists to be more influential, innovative, and effective. I believe that as a community we can help our research, our regulatory and payer systems, and ultimately physicians and patients take better decisions based on better evidence.
I work to achieve a future in which everyone can access the right evidence in the right format at the right time to make sound decisions.
When my kids are sick, I want to have good evidence to discuss with the physician about the different therapy choices.
When my mother is sick, I want her to understand the evidence and being able to understand it.
When I get sick, I want to find evidence that I can trust and that helps me to have meaningful discussions with my healthcare professionals.
I want to live in a world, where the media reports correctly about medical evidence and in which society distinguishes between fake evidence and real evidence.
Let’s work together to achieve this.
