Gary S. Collins PhD

Gary S. Collins, PhD, is a statistician with over 25 years of experience in both methodology and applied research. He is an expert in the development and validation of clinical prediction models/predictive AI tools. Gary’s current major research activity focuses on their evaluation, with a particular interest in fairness considerations.

Before joining the University of Birmingham, he was at the University of Oxford between 2006 and 2025, working alongside Professor Doug Altman. At Oxford, he was the Director of the Centre for Statistics in Medicine and made a Professor of Medical Statistics in 2016. During this period, he also became interested in tackling how to improve the quality and transparency of health research, evaluating published research, and driving/supporting initiatives to improve how research is designed, conducted, and reported. In recognition of this strand of his research, in 2018, he took on the directorship of the EQUATOR Network activities in the UK, which he still leads.

Gary is a steering group member and a former co-chair of the international STRATOS Initiative, which aims to provide accessible and accurate guidance in the design and analysis of observational studies, and currently sits on the external advisory board for the Centre for Open Science Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines. He is also on the advisory board of the LATITUDES Network. Gary has had multiple involvements with NIHR, including being a member of the NIHR HTA Commissioning Board from 2016 to 2020, andis currently on the NIHR doctoral research fellowship committee. He has been an NIHR Senior Investigator since 2024.