Dr Malcolm James Price BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD

Dr Malcolm Price

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Associate Professor of Biostatistics

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 2530
Email
m.price.2@bham.ac.uk
Address
Institute of Applied Health Research
Public Health Building
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Malcolm Price is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Modelling (BESTEAM), and Health Informatics research groups in the Institute of Applied Health Research.  He is also a member of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Global Women’s Health.

Malcolm trained as a medical statistician and has extensive experience of collaborating on projects in a broad range of clinical areas. He has a keen interest in tackling challenging and important applications in medical statistics, epidemiology and decision modelling that require development of new methodology.

Malcom has published over 100 research papers in the fields of statistics, epidemiology, health economics, psychology, and clinical sciences. He has been either principal or co-investigator on over a dozen grants from funders such as the , (NIHR) and the  (MRC). He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the UK  (ESRC).

Malcolm has presented his work at numerous academic conferences to audiences including statisticians, health economists, epidemiologists, clinicians and policy makers. He has attended policy meetings by invitation for organisations, such as the World Health Organisation, the US Centres for Disease Control and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Qualifications

Lecturer in Biostatistics.

  • PhD entitled “Estimation of Markov models for decision analysis”. University of Bristol, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 2009,
  • MSc in Applied Statistics, (Distinction) Sheffield Hallam University, 2006
  • BSc (Hons) in Maths, Stats and Computing, (First) Liverpool John Moores University, 2000

Teaching

Malcolm teaches on several courses in the Masters of Public Health (MPH) program:

  • Epidemiology, Statistics and Research Methods (ESRM)
  • Practical Epidemiology and Statistics (PEAS)
  • Epidemiology Statistics and Research Methods Advanced Statistics
  • Systematic reviews and evidence synthesis

Malcolm is the statistics module lead for ESRM, module lead for Advanced statistics and deputy module lead for PEAS.

He teaches statistics to medical MBChB students

Postgraduate supervision

Multi-parameter evidence synthesis

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Albon, E, Afentou, N, Dretzke, J, Hall, J, Ogwulu, CO, Price, M, Clare, K, Singhal, R, Tahrani, A, Frew, E & Moore, D 2025, '', Health Technology Assessment.

Tryposkiadis, K, Nayar, S, Pucino, V, Smith, CG, Brown, RM, Bates, T, Bowman, SJ, Sitch, A, Price, M, Barone, F, Deeks, J & Fisher, BA 2025, '', Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

Gallos, I, Williams, CR, Price, MJ, Tobias, A, Devall, A, Allotey, J, Althabe, F, Cresswell, JA, Durocher, J, Gulmezoglu, AM, Haslinger, C, Pacagnella, RC, Sentilhes, L, Sobhy, S, Yunas, I, Deeks, JJ, Coomarasamy, A, Oladapo, OT & WHO Consortium on Postpartum Haemorrhage Definition 2025, '', The Lancet.

Beese, S, Saygin Avsar, T, Price, M, Quinn, D, Lim, HS, Dretzke, J, Okeke Ogwulu, D, Barton, P, Jackson, L & Moore, D 2024, '', Health Technology Assessment, vol. 28, no. 38, pp. 1-237.

Sayg谋n Av艧ar, T, Jackson, L, Barton, P, Beese, S, Lim, HS, Quinn, D, Price, M & Moor, DJ 2024, '', PLOS One, vol. 19, no. 12, e0312912.

Alruqayb, WS, Paudyal, V, Price, M, Sarwar, A, Aston, J & Cox, AR 2024, '', Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, vol. 17, no. 1, 2430436.

Gokhan, T, Price, MJ & Lee, M 2024, '', Artificial Intelligence Review, vol. 57, no. 7, 189.

Albabtain, B, Bawazeer, G, Paudyal, V, Cheema, E, Alqahtani, A, Bahatheq, A, Price, MJ & Hadi, MA 2024, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 17818.

Chung, Y, Melo, P, Easter, C, Price, MJ, Dhillon鈥怱mith, R, Quenby, S, Devall, A & Coomarasamy, A 2024, '', BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology.

Wang, J, Nirantharakumar, K, Sainsbury, C, Moore, DJ, Sinclair, A, Thomas, GN, Hanif, W, Singh, M, Tan, L, Wang, Z, Simms-Williams, N, Yao, M, Gunathilaka, MN, Singh, P, Toulis, K, Tsapas, A, Coomar, D & Price, MJ 2024, '', Systematic Reviews, vol. 13, no. 1, 155.

Review article

Beese, SE, Price, MJ, Tomlinson, C, Sharma, P, Harris, IM, Adriano, A, Quinn, LM, Gada, R, Horgan, TJ, Maggs, F, Burrows, M, Nirantharakumar, K, Thomas, GN, Andrews, RC, Moore, DJ & Narendran, P 2025, '', BMC medicine, vol. 23, no. 1, 351.

Yunas, I, Islam, MA, Sindhu, KN, Devall, AJ, Podesek, M, Alam, SS, Kundu, S, Mammoliti, K-M, Aswat, A, Price, MJ, Zamora, J, Oladapo, OT, Gallos, I & Coomarasamy, A 2025, '', The Lancet, vol. 405, no. 10488, pp. 1468-1480.

Saygin Avsar, T, Jackson, L, Barton, P, Beese, S, Okeke Ogwulu, D, Lim, HS, Quinn, D, Price, M & Moore, D 2025, '', PharmacoEconomics - Open, vol. 9, pp. 351-362.

Gallos, I, Yunas, I, Devall, AJ, Podesek, M, Tobias, A, Price, MJ, Oladapo, OT & Coomarasamy, A 2025, '', Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, vol. 2025, no. 4, CD011689.

Dretzke, J, Abou-Foul, AK, Albon, E, Hillier, B, Scandrett, K, Price, MJ, Moore, DJ, Mehanna, H, Nankivell, P & PETNECK2 Research Team 2024, '', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 12, e090393.