Ben Kearns

HEDS, ScHARR
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield, UK
S1 4DA

Office: 1011

Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 6380
Fax: (+44) (0)114 272 4095

E-mail: b.kearns@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

Ben joined HEDs in June 2011, having previously worked in public health intelligence within the NHS for several years. During this time he worked for a Cancer Registry, Public Health Observatory and a Primary Care Trust, whilst also providing commissioned work for NHS Kidney Care. He has an MSc in Applied Statistics (Merit) and a BSc in Mathematics (1st) which included an "Institute for Mathematics and its Applications" prize for outstanding achievement. Both awards are from Sheffield Hallam University.

Examples of Bens work include Chronic Kidney Disease profiles for all 152 Primary Care Trusts (link) and a model to predict the prevalence of this disease for any given population (link).

Research Interests

• The use of statistics in health economics.
• Mathematical modelling, including simulation.
• The epidemiology of chronic kidney disease.
• Time-series analysis (exponential smoothing).

Teaching Interests

In addition to his research interests, Ben currently teaches on the Health Research Methods module of the Masters in Health Economics and Decision Modelling. 

• HAR669: Primary Research Designs: Non-Randomised Studies.

Key Publications

Hollinshead JFV, Kearns B, Meechan DF. Kidney Disease Profiles. British Journal of Renal Medicine 16(1 Supplement):5-5 (link).