Professor of Medicine and Director, Biostatistics Core
Department of Medicine
The Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, USA

Mark Woodward currently works at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, and also holds long-term honourary academic appointments at Mahidol University, Bangkok; the George Institute, Sydney; and Glasgow and Dundee universities in Scotland.

Professor Woodward obtained his PhD from the Department of Applied Statistics at the University of Reading, UK, where he subsequently worked for several years, most recently as Senior Lecturer in Statistical Epidemiology. He was previously the Director of the Institute of Statisticians' Training and Development Centre in the UK and has served on the governing Councils of both this Institute and the Royal Statistical Society. Professor Woodward has written two textbooks on medical statistics, the latest of which, Epidemiology: Study Design and Data Analysis, had its second edition published in 2005. He is also the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications.

Professor Woodward has extensive experience of work in developing countries, including more than two years as Training Advisor to the Central Statistics Office in Zimbabwe. He has also worked for several aid agencies, including the Asian Development Bank, the World Health Organization and the UK Department for International Development. In 2004/5 he worked for the United Nations on developing a training package for the Millennium Development Goals.