Dr Haider Mannan is a Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics at Translational Health Research Institute and the School of Medicine, Western Sydney University.
His biostatistical expertise is wide including regression models for clustered and longitudinal data (e.g. multilevel mixed effects, GEE models), continuous, binary (e.g. logistic regression), survival (e.g. Cox regression, Weibull regression), categorical and ordinal outcomes, nonparametric methods, analysis of small studies and state transition models (e.g. Markov simulation/model, latent Markov model), to note a few, all in the context of epidemiological/health studies. He has published several software in peer reviewed journals for disease risk modelling using SAS macros.
He has published two monographs, 80 peer reviewed articles in epidemiology/biostatistics with 32 as first authored and 42 in Q1 journals including International Journal of Obesity, Obesity, Appetite, International Journal of Eating Disorders, American Journal of Epidemiology, BMJ Open, Preventive Medicine, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, Annals of Epidemiology, European Journal of Nutrition, Accident Analysis and Prevention, PLos One and Statistical Methods in Medical Research. He teaches and coordinates a biostatistics unit for Master of Epidemiology, MPH and MHSc courses during spring semester. This unit focuses on application of commonly used multivariate statistical methods in epidemiology and public health. He has excelled in teaching this unit having obtained a perfect score of 5 in spring 2019-2023. He also coordinates Epidemiology of Climate Change and teaches introductory biostatistics to MBBS and MD students, conducts internal workshops on multilevel and multivariate regression models.
He earned a Ph.D. in biostatistics and epidemiology from University of Western Australia with distinction in 2008, and then worked for 6 years at the Monash University Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and James Cook University as Senior Research Fellow.
