Staff Profile

Obi Ukoumunne is a medical statistician in the University of Exeter College of Medicine and Health, based in the Health Statistics Group. He is in the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration South West Peninsula (PenARC). He collaborates on and leads the statistical aspects of health research studies at the University and in PenARC. He teaches statistics at the University to undergraduate and postgraduate students and on PenARC’s Making Sense of Evidence workshops. 

His methodological area of expertise is the design, conduct and analysis of cluster randomised trials where clusters (e.g., schools, general practices) are allocated to different interventions. Much of his research has been in the area of children’s mental health and well-being.

He is the lead statistician on several randomised controlled trials, including: (a) mindfulness training to improve the well-being of secondary school children (funded by the Wellcome Trust); (b) an intervention for identifying primary school children with anxiety problems and delivering online advice to parents to resolve these (funded by NIHR); and (c) using a dementia support worker in a General Practice-based system of dementia support (funded by NIHR).

He is on the editorial board of the British Journal of General Practice.