Prof John Carlin
Prof John Carlin
John Carlin has an international reputation in biostatistics, the discipline underpinning the use of statistical methods for designing and analysing quantitative studies in health and medical research.
He has been involved in a wide range of areas, especially relating to child and adolescent health research (including allergy and asthma, cystic fibrosis, cardiac disease, neonatology, rotavirus disease, vaccines, and adolescent mental health and behaviour) while his methodological research has focussed on methods for handling incompleteness in data and (more recently) causal inference.
He has strong interests in the public and scientific usage and understanding of statistical methods and concepts (such as the widely misunderstood idea of "statistical significance") and also has long-standing interests in Bayesian statistical methods. Prof. Carlin has been based at the Melbourne Children's campus since 1991, and was head of the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit within the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (also supported by the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics) for 21 years until 2022.
He also holds an honorary professorial appointment within the Department of Paediatrics, and was Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Melbourne's School of Population & Global Health from 2002 to 2025.
In the latter role he established the Master of Biostatistics program at the University of Melbourne, in conjunction with the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia, which he co-founded. In 2012 he led the establishment of the Victorian Centre for Biostatistics (ViCBiostat), a collaboration between the MCRI, University of Melbourne and Monash University, under a Centre of Research Excellence grant from the National Health & Medical Research Council to conduct research and provide advanced training in biostatistics.
In 2018 he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
He has been involved in a wide range of areas, especially relating to child and adolescent health research (including allergy and asthma, cystic fibrosis, cardiac disease, neonatology, rotavirus disease, vaccines, and adolescent mental health and behaviour) while his methodological research has focussed on methods for handling incompleteness in data and (more recently) causal inference.
He has strong interests in the public and scientific usage and understanding of statistical methods and concepts (such as the widely misunderstood idea of "statistical significance") and also has long-standing interests in Bayesian statistical methods. Prof. Carlin has been based at the Melbourne Children's campus since 1991, and was head of the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit within the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (also supported by the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics) for 21 years until 2022.
He also holds an honorary professorial appointment within the Department of Paediatrics, and was Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Melbourne's School of Population & Global Health from 2002 to 2025.
In the latter role he established the Master of Biostatistics program at the University of Melbourne, in conjunction with the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia, which he co-founded. In 2012 he led the establishment of the Victorian Centre for Biostatistics (ViCBiostat), a collaboration between the MCRI, University of Melbourne and Monash University, under a Centre of Research Excellence grant from the National Health & Medical Research Council to conduct research and provide advanced training in biostatistics.
In 2018 he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
John Carlin has an international reputation in biostatistics, the discipline underpinning the use of statistical methods for designing and analysing quantitative studies in health and medical research.
He has been involved in a wide range of areas,...
He has been involved in a wide range of areas,...
John Carlin has an international reputation in biostatistics, the discipline underpinning the use of statistical methods for designing and analysing quantitative studies in health and medical research.
He has been involved in a wide range of areas, especially relating to child and adolescent health research (including allergy and asthma, cystic fibrosis, cardiac disease, neonatology, rotavirus disease, vaccines, and adolescent mental health and behaviour) while his methodological research has focussed on methods for handling incompleteness in data and (more recently) causal inference.
He has strong interests in the public and scientific usage and understanding of statistical methods and concepts (such as the widely misunderstood idea of "statistical significance") and also has long-standing interests in Bayesian statistical methods. Prof. Carlin has been based at the Melbourne Children's campus since 1991, and was head of the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit within the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (also supported by the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics) for 21 years until 2022.
He also holds an honorary professorial appointment within the Department of Paediatrics, and was Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Melbourne's School of Population & Global Health from 2002 to 2025.
In the latter role he established the Master of Biostatistics program at the University of Melbourne, in conjunction with the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia, which he co-founded. In 2012 he led the establishment of the Victorian Centre for Biostatistics (ViCBiostat), a collaboration between the MCRI, University of Melbourne and Monash University, under a Centre of Research Excellence grant from the National Health & Medical Research Council to conduct research and provide advanced training in biostatistics.
In 2018 he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
He has been involved in a wide range of areas, especially relating to child and adolescent health research (including allergy and asthma, cystic fibrosis, cardiac disease, neonatology, rotavirus disease, vaccines, and adolescent mental health and behaviour) while his methodological research has focussed on methods for handling incompleteness in data and (more recently) causal inference.
He has strong interests in the public and scientific usage and understanding of statistical methods and concepts (such as the widely misunderstood idea of "statistical significance") and also has long-standing interests in Bayesian statistical methods. Prof. Carlin has been based at the Melbourne Children's campus since 1991, and was head of the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit within the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (also supported by the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics) for 21 years until 2022.
He also holds an honorary professorial appointment within the Department of Paediatrics, and was Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Melbourne's School of Population & Global Health from 2002 to 2025.
In the latter role he established the Master of Biostatistics program at the University of Melbourne, in conjunction with the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia, which he co-founded. In 2012 he led the establishment of the Victorian Centre for Biostatistics (ViCBiostat), a collaboration between the MCRI, University of Melbourne and Monash University, under a Centre of Research Excellence grant from the National Health & Medical Research Council to conduct research and provide advanced training in biostatistics.
In 2018 he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
Top Publications
- Moreno-Betancur, M, Wijesuriya, R, Carlin, JB. The Ideal Trial: Defining Causal Estimands that Balance Relevance and Feasibility in Target Trial Emulations and Actual Randomized Trials.. Epidemiology 37(2) : 153 -162 2026 view publication
- Wijesuriya, R, Hughes, RA, Carlin, JB, Peters, RL, Koplin, JJ, Moreno-Betancur, M. A roadmap for systematic identification and analysis of multiple biases in causal inference. 2026 view publication
- Patton, GC, Coffey, C, Posterino, M, Carlin, JB, Wolfe, R. Adolescent depressive disorder: a population‐based study of ICD‐10 symptoms. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 34(5) : 741 -747 2026 view publication
- AL, P, A, P, FJ, C, C, R, AS, K, JB, C, H, H, A, S-K, T, D, JA, E, et al. Higher parental occupational social contact is associated with a reduced risk of incident pediatric T1DM: mediation through molecular enteroviral indices. 2026 view publication
- Seaman, S, Galati, J, Jackson, D, Carlin, J. What Is Meant by “Missing at Random”?. Statistical Science 28(2) : 257 -268 2026 view publication
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