External Affairs

Chair: Ray Harris

PSI External Affairs Committee (EA) role is to maintain and develop links between PSI and other appropriate external organisations. Its activities are:

  • Represent PSI on the Council of EFSPI.
  • Develop and maintain oversight of links with external organisations. Actively engage with external organisations as appropriate.
  • Encourage PSI members to volunteer to support not-for-profit organisations who need statistical advice, and identify organisations that may need such support. EA maintains a database of volunteers and links volunteers and organisations.
  • Manage the ‘Need Statistical/Data Science Advice’ page of the PSI web site.
  • Facilitate interactions between PSI and the media. This includes interaction with the Science Media Centre.

 

Upcoming Events

PSI Book Club

PSI are starting a book club! We will be reading/discussing non-technical books relevant to our roles. Participants will be split into smaller groups to network with each other and practice exercises.

PSI VisSIG Wonderful Wednesday Webinar Series

This is a good opportunity to develop your knowledge by thinking through a practical example, practicing how to apply graphics principles, and developing your coding skills.

PSI Training Course: Use of Historical Data in Clinical Trials: An Evidence Synthesis Approach

In this short course, we will provide a statistical framework to incorporate external information into a trial. Bayesian Dynamic Borrowing designs based on the meta-analytic predictive (MAP) model will be detailed, and a practice session will be proposed with applications using the R package RBesT.

PSI Webinar: Tipping Point Analyses - Introduction & Case Studies

What is a tipping point analysis, and how is one performed? What are the different approaches for continuous, binary and time to event data? Our speakers will present and discuss some practical examples.

PSI Careers - MEDMathS: Medicine Empowered by Data, Maths and Statistics

In just 1 hour, learn about the field of medical statistics and how it plays a crucial role in developing ground-breaking new medicines, vaccines and healthcare products.

PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event

Our annual PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event, will be held online on Wednesday 2nd March 2022. The event will include a live online panel discussion and a virtual exhibition session.

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