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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

Gurtner, M., Gage, R., Smith, M., Stanley, J., & Signal, L. (2025). Child's-eye views of smartphone-based gaming content: Objective insights from Aotearoa New Zealand. Health Promotion International, 40, daae195. doi: 10.1093/heapro/daae195 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. (2025). Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding '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. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/00048674251315648 Journal - Research Other

Mala, K., Baker, M. G., Stanley, J., & Bennett, J. (2025). Epidemiology of skin infections in Auckland, New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1609), 56-69. Retrieved from https://www.nzmj.org.nz/ Journal - Research Article

Nip, J., Stanley, J., Zhang, J., Waa, A., Ball, J., Tautolo, E.-S., Johnson, E., … Edwards, R. (2025). Support for and likely impacts of endgame measures in the Smokefree Aotearoa Action Plan: Findings from the 2020-2021 International Tobacco Control New Zealand (EASE) surveys. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1608), 40-83. Retrieved from https://www.nzmj.org.nz/ Journal - Research Article

Teng, A., Stanley, J., Krebs, J., Jackson, C. G. C. A., Koea, J., Scott, N., Sika-Paotonu, D., Stairmand, J., … Gurney, J. (2025). Projected increases in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2020–2044. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1608), 94-106. Retrieved from https://www.nzmj.org.nz/ Journal - Research Article

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