Professor Deborah Ashby On

8th March 2019

Women in Statistics: Present

Professor Deborah Ashby School of Public Health Imperial College London

Stella Cunliffe (1917-2012)

• one of the first from her school to attend university • In first group of civilians to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. • first female head of the Government Statistical Service, a position she held until 1977 • first female RSS President 1975 BSc Exeter MSc LSHTM, then PhD Royal Free Early days…..

Research Assistant, Royal Free Medical School

Chambers Medal awarded since 1977

• 1986 Joyce Snell • 2010 Sheila Bird • 2014 Jenny Lannon Early days….. University of Liverpool: Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer/ Reader

Guy Medal in Bronze- awarded since 1936

• 1988 Sarah Darby • 1989 Sheila Gore (now Bird) • 1990 Valerie Isham • 1994 Ms R F A Poultney • 2004 Nicky Best • 2008 Fiona Steele Greenfield Industrial Medal awarded since 1991

• 1995 Amy Racine-Poon • 2005 Sue Lewis Opportunity 2000….

..with thanks to Virginia Bottomley …….Commission on Human Medicines Denise Lievesley

• Many roles including • Director (1991-1997) of the UK Data Archive • President of the International Association for Official Statistics (1995 – 1997) • Director of Statistics at UNESCO • second female RSS President 1999 • President of the International Statistical Institute (2007 – 2009) • Principal of Green Templeton College Bradford Hill Medal awarded since 1994

• 2000 Sheila Bird • 2018 Nicky Best Honorary Fellows- 33 current

• 2001 Clare Short • 2007 Baroness Onora O’Neill • 2010 Janet Darbyshire West Medal awarded since 2002

• 2006 Angela Dale • 2018 Jill Leyland Guy Medal in Silver- awarded since 1893

• 1928 Ethel Newbold • 2009 Sylvia Richardson • 2016 Nancy Reid • 2019 Susan Murphy Valerie Isham

• won Guy Medal in Bronze • professor of probability and statistics at UCL since 1992 • research in applied probability in point processes, the dynamics of processes on networks, and hydrological applications. • third female RSS President 2011 • served on advisory committees and expert groups including official working groups on HIV, foot and mouth disease and the biological impacts of climate change. Howard Medal awarded since 2015

• 2015 Sheila Bird Sheila Bird Jane Hutton Louisa McCutcheon

Guy Medal in Gold- awarded since 1892 Diversity is multidimensional..…… Deborah Ashby

• Director of the School of Public Health, Imperial College • fourth female RSS President 2019 • served on advisory committees and expert groups including in UK and EU drug regulation 2019 Barnett Awarded since 2015

• 2019 Marian Scott