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James Stanley, UOW

PhD
Biostatistician, Research Professor

Contact details

Tel +64 4 918 6044
Fax +64 4 389 5319
Email james.stanley@otago.ac.nz

Research interests and activities

I joined the University of Otago, Wellington as a Research Fellow in April 2007. In 2024 I was promoted to Research Professor. I am also currently the Director of the Biostatistical Group at the University of Otago, Wellington.

Since joining Otago as a biostatistician, I have been a coinvestigator on over 20 large externally funded projects, including work with the C3 research group (led by Professor Diana Sarfati) on multimorbidity in New Zealand, and multiple projects on cancer-related outcomes. I also work with Research Professor Ricci Harris and Dr Donna Cormack on several projects on how racism influences health (including an HRC project for which I am the Principal Investigator, HRC 17/066), and with Professor Richard Edwards and Andrew Waa on several tobacco control projects through the ASPIRE research group. I am also a co-director of the Integrated Data Research Group.

I am currently Director of the Biostatistical Group for the Wellington campus, where my role includes coordinating colleagues and collaborating with researchers across the campus and the broader community. As well as these roles, I teach biostatistical and research methods in several formal courses at UOW (including co-convening the HASC417 Research Methods paper), as well as developing and running practical workshops on statistical methods for staff and students.

Prior to joining the University of Otago as a biostatistician, I trained and worked as an experimental psychologist, with a PhD from the University of Otago (graduated 2004) and post-doctoral experience in cognitive neuroscience (University of Birmingham in the UK, 2004-2006).

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Other research links

Our work on comorbidity and multimorbidity has included several indices for adjusting for morbidity load in epidemiological and population-level studies.
We have SAS code available for these indices (C3, PBCI, M3 and P3).

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Publications

Monk, N. J., Cunningham, R., Stanley, J., Fitzjohn, J., Kerdemelidis, M., Lockett, H., McLachlan, A. D., Porter, R. J., … Lacey, C. (2024). Inequity in cardiometabolic hospital admissions and blood screening in New Zealand Indigenous Māori with psychosis. BJPsych Open, 10, e159. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2024.759 Journal - Research Article

Stanley, J. (2024, June). Science and sensibility. University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand. [Inaugural Professorial Lecture]. Other Research Output

Clough, S., Wheeler, M., Stanley, J., Signal, V., Ruka, M., Koea, J., & Gurney, J. (2024). Blood cancer incidence, mortality and survival for Māori in New Zealand. Cancer Epidemiology, 93, 102656. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2024.102656 Journal - Research Article

Monk, N. J., Cunningham, R., Stanley, J., Crengle, S., Fitzjohn, J., Kerdemelidis, M., Lockett, H., McLachlan, A. D., Waitoki, W., & Lacey, C. (2024). The physical health and premature mortality of Indigenous Māori following first-episode psychosis diagnosis: A 15-year follow-up study. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 58(11), 963-976. doi: 10.1177/00048674241270981 Journal - Research Article

Harris, R., Li, C., Stanley, J., King, P. T., Priest, N., Curtis, E., … Paine, S.-J. (2024). Racism and health among Aotearoa New Zealand young people aged 15–24 years: Analysis of multiple national surveys. Journal of Adolescent Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.04.021 Journal - Research Article

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