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Julian Higgins

Professor of Evidence Synthesis

Email: julian.higgins@york.ac.uk
Tel: 01904 321076
Fax: 01904 321041

Julian joined CRD as Professor of Evidence Synthesis in September 2011. Julian will combine his new position with his continued role as a Programme Leader at the MRC Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge. He previously worked at the Royal Free and University College Medical School, and at Imperial College School of Medicine in London. He is an active contributor to The Cochrane Collaboration, currently being a member of its Steering Group and Co-convenor of its Methods Board and Methods Executive.

His broad range of interests in the field of meta-analysis include investigating heterogeneity, handling missing data, individual participant data, Bayesian approaches and multiple treatments meta-analysis (network meta-analysis). His systematic review methods interests include question formulation, assessing risk of bias, data collection and interpretation.

Julian is Co-editor of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions , and co-author of the Wiley-Blackwell text book Introduction to Meta-analysis with Michael Borenstein, Larry Hedges and Hannah Rothstein. He was a founding trustee of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology, and sits on advisory committees for the Campbell Collaboration and the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence. He is associate editor of the International Journal of Epidemiology and of Research Synthesis Methods.

Julian will pursue a programme of methodological development in evidence synthesis.

Selected publications

Salanti G, Higgins JPT, Ades AE, Ioannidis JPA. Evaluation of networks of randomized trials. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 2008; 17: 279-301; doi:10.1177/0962280207080643

Sutton AJ, Higgins JPT. Recent developments in meta-analysis. Statistics in Medicine 2008; 27: 625-650; doi:10.1002/sim.2934

Higgins JPT, Thompson SG, Spiegelhalter DJ. A re-evaluation of random-effects meta-analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 2009; 172: 137-159; doi: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2008.00552.x

Sagoo GS, Butterworth AS, Sanderson S, Shaw-Smith C, Higgins JPT, Burton H. Array CGH in patients with learning disability: updated systematic review and meta-analysis of 19 studies and 13,926 subjects. Genetics in Medicine 2009; 11: 139-146; doi: 10.1097/GIM.0b013e318194ee8f

Sterne JAC, Sutton AJ, Ioannidis JPA, Terrin N, Jones D, Lau J, Carpenter J, Rücker G, Harbord R, Schmid CH, Tetzlaff J, Deeks J, Peters J, Macaskill P, Schwarzer G, Duval S, Altman DG, Moher D, Higgins JPT. Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials. BMJ 2011; 343: d4002; doi: 10.1136/bmj.d4002

Higgins JPT, Altman DG, Gøtzsche PC, Jüni P, Moher D, Oxman AD, Savovic J, Schulz KF, Weeks L, Sterne JAC, Cochrane Bias Methods Group, Cochrane Statistical Methods Group. The Cochrane Collaboration’s tool for assessing risk of bias in randomized trials. BMJ 2011; 343: d5928. doi: 10.1136/bmj.d5928