DrRicardo Segurado

Dr Ricardo Segurado is a Associate Professor in Public Health Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Sciences, and a consultant biostatistician and director of the UCD Centre for Support and Training in Analysis and Research (CSTAR).

He has a background in statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology (Trinity College Dublin and Cardiff University), and long experience in statistical consulting and collaboration on health and biological sciences research, encompassing randomised controlled trials, biomarker identification, survival analysis, longitudinal modelling, missing data handling, gene-mapping studies, and many more.

He collaborates with researchers in genetics, across the full range of medical specialties, basic biological sciences, and the social and psychological sciences. Ricardo is actively involved in developing statistical education for biological and clinical researchers through short professional programmes, the UCD Master in Public Health (MPH) programme, and upcoming new programmes in Health Data Analytics through the ADVANCE Centre. He is a founder of the Wales-Ireland Genetic Epidemiology Group.