INSTRUCTOR
Dr Anita Rao
Fourteen years designing and analysing clinical trials, six of them at a contract research organisation where she was the person everyone brought a broken dataset to. She teaches the statistics track here and marks every assignment herself, which is why her modules cap at ninety students.
Modules taught by Anita
Live from the catalogue.
How she got here
- 2011
PhD, Biostatistics
Thesis on adaptive trial designs, which nobody was doing yet and everybody does now.
- 2012
Junior statistician
First job. Learned more from the trial that went wrong than from the four that did not.
- 2016
Lead, trial design
Ran design for eleven studies. Started writing internal training because the manuals were unreadable.
- 2019
First online module
Put the internal training online. Two hundred people signed up in a fortnight.
- 2022
Full time here
Left the CRO. Still consults two days a month so the examples stay current.
What students say
She marks the assignments herself and the comments are longer than my answers. I have never had feedback like it.
I came in unable to read a confidence interval. I now build them for a living. That is the whole review.
The pace is unforgiving in week three and she says so up front. I appreciated being warned rather than flattered.
Office hours are on Thursdays
Anyone enrolled on one of her modules can join. No agenda, bring the thing you are stuck on.