Dr Paul Aylin BChB FFPHM
Clinical Reader in Epidemiology and Public Health
Assistant Director (Dr Foster Unit)
Tel: +44 (0)7594 3334
Email: p.aylin@imperial.ac.uk
Areas of Interest
Health services research, epidemiology, surveillance and routine data
Biography
Paul Aylin is a Clinical Reader in Epidemiology and Public Health and is assistant director of the Dr Foster Unit at Imperial. He trained in Public Health Medicine and spent three years at the Office for National Statistics as a Medical Statistician before coming to Imperial in 1997. He became a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health in 2001. His current area of work is in health services research, particularly in comparing activity and outcomes using routinely collected administrative data. In the past he has worked on an investigation into patient mortality at general practice level for the Shipman Inquiry, the use Hospital Episode Statistics data to examine paediatric cardiac surgery at Bristol, carried out research into respiratory admissions surrounding coke works using HES data, examined the links between excess winter mortality, housing condition and deprivation using routine mortality and census data; and assisted in the development of a rapid inquiry facility for the investigation of disease clusters and disease mapping both as a national facility and within Europe. He has been an expert witness to both the Bristol and the Shipman Inquiry.