Professor Dr. Bernard Baffour

Biography

Bernard Baffour completed his PhD in social statistics at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, where he investigated the statistical properties of triple system capture-recapture estimators used in population censuses. He subsequently undertook a post-doctoral fellowship examining the relationship between weather and health, quantifying the impact of drops in temperature on hospital admissions. Before joining the School of Demography at the Australian National University in 2017, he was a research fellow in social statistics at the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Queensland from 2012. During his time there, he contributed to various consultancy projects and provided methodological support to a wide range of social scientists, developing a research focus on survey research and official statistics. Bernard has extensive methodological expertise in survey methods and analyzing complex data, along with a diverse range of experience working across education, sociology, epidemiology, public health, and operational research.

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