Consultant Profile

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Jennifer Rogers

Region of consultancy:
Worldwide

Profile

Professor Jennifer Rogers is Vice President, Statistical Research and Consultancy at PHASTAR, a leading global biometric Contract Research Organization (CRO) that provides expertise and processes to manage and deliver clinical trial planning, design, and analysis, clinical study reporting, data management, and data science services. Jen directs research strategy at PHASTAR, keeping them at the forefront of statistical innovation, supervising junior team members’ research projects, mentoring the next generation of statistical leaders. Jen instituted and manages PHASTAR’s Expert Strategic Consulting Group, PHASTAR’s most influential and talented statisticians, thought leaders with a proven track record of delivering the highest level of methodological expertise and innovative services. Jen works with journalists to aid the public’s understanding of statistics, and her numerous TV and radio appearances include BBC Radio 4’s “More or Less” and presenting the popular “Best or Worst” segment on Series 42 of BBC Watchdog in 2019. In 2020, she won the annual “HealthWatch” Award for improving the understanding of statistics through the media. A member of the Royal Statistical Society COVID-19 Task Force, Jen has been highly visible throughout the pandemic, with numerous interviews including BBC Panorama’s “The Race for a Vaccine”, BBC Radio 4’s “How to Vaccinate the World”, BBC Newscasts, and serving as ITV's resident COVID-19 statistician. In October 2019, Jen gave a TEDx talk, "Living is a Risky Business" looking at the statistics presented in the daily news and examining the pitfalls to be aware of in numbers published in the press.

Background

Jen has a PhD from the University of Warwick and a BSc and MSc from Lancaster University. She joined PHASTAR from the University of Oxford, where she was an Associate Professor and Director of Statistical Consultancy Services, her main research interests being clinical trial methodologies driven by applied problems with areas of expertise in survival analysis, analysis of recurrent events, and joint modelling strategies combining both. In 2013, Jen was awarded a NIHR Post-Doctoral Fellowship for “Analysis of Recurrent Events in Clinical Trials”. A highly active member of the Royal Statistical Society, Jen just finished a term sitting on Council and a four-year stint as their VP for External Affairs. Appointed President of the British Science Association Mathematical Sciences Section in 2018, she gave a keynote speech at the British Science Festival and was the London Mathematical Society Popular Lecturer for 2018. Jen is currently a trustee for the Florence Nightingale Museum. A dynamic and engaging personality, Jen regularly presents thought-provoking and stimulating statistical concepts driven by real-world problems throughout schools, pubs, and on stage. As a regular speaker for Maths Inspiration, she has travelled worldwide and also joined the National Theatre's “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” world tour. Jen presents at festivals and conferences with the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme, Maths in Action, and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and has given numerous lectures at The Royal Institution. Further, she is a Royal Statistical Society Statistics Ambassador and an expert statistician for the Science Media Centre and Sense about Science.

Specialisms

Clinical trials; Regulator interactions; Analysis and reporting; Clinical trial design; Sample size calculations; Real world evidence