Alison Jill Macfarlane

Background

Macfarlane, Alison Jill was born on March 29, 1942 in Watford, England. Daughter of William Angus and Joan Morton Macfarlane.

Education

Bachelor, Oxford (England) University, 1964; diploma in statistics, University College, London, 1965.

Career

Statistician, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Herpenden, England, 1965-1967; statistician, Hertfordshire County Council Planning Department, Hertford, England, 1967-1970; computer programmer, Royal College Art Experimental Cartography Unit, London, 1971-1972; statistician, Medical Research Council Air Pollution Unit, London, 1972-1975; research fellow in statistics, London School Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1975-1978; medical statistician, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Oxford, England, since 1978; reader perinatal public health statistics, Oxford University, since 1997. Member management committee Maternity Alliance. Member of national advisory body Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Death in Infancy, 1993-1996, member professional steering group, since 1996.

Achievements

• Alison Jill Macfarlane has been listed as a noteworthy Statistician by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Birth Counts Vol. 1 : Statistics of Pregnancy and Childbirth

Membership

Member Radical Statistics Health Group, United Kingdom, since 1976. Musician and organizerfolk music events in St. Albans. Fellow Royal Statistical Society (medical statistics section committee 1986-1990, official statistics section committee 1989-1998, county member 1993-1998), Faculty Public Health Medicine (honorary.

Information committee).

Interests

• Avocations: playing traditional folk music, politics, history, hill walking.

Connections

Father:

William Angus Macfarlane

Mother:

Joan Morton Macfarlane