Stephen Bremner

Stephen Bremner is Professor of Medical Statistics at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School. After completing a BSc in mathematical sciences (University of Strathclyde, 1995) and an MSc in medical statistics (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 1996), Stephen spent three years as a statistician at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London, working on studies of the short term effects of air pollution on health. Following a year in Brazil, conducting data analysis in air pollution epidemiology and advising at the Brazilian Cochrane Centre, Stephen returned to St. George's in 2000 to conduct further research in air pollution and to undertake his PhD in primary care epidemiology.

In 2007, employed as a statistician at the Healthcare Commission in London, Stephen analysed Hospital Episode Statistics and data from the NHS Surveys Programme. Between 2008 and 2015, he was employed as a lecturer at the Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London where he was also seconded to the Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Newham Centre for Mental Health.

Stephen joined BSMS in 2015 as a senior lecturer and has been closely involved with the development of the Brighton and Sussex Clinical Trials Unit (BSCTU) which achieved provisional registration with the UK Clinical Research Collaboration in 2018. In 2021, he became a Senior Editor for BMC Pilot & Feasibility Studies. He is also the senior statistician in the NIHR Centre for Global Health Research in Neglected Tropical Diseases at BSMS. Stephen is a member of the Pre-Sponsorship Review Panel, run by the Joint Clinical Research Office. He also sits on the NIHR Regional Advisory Committee Southeast & Central which makes funding recommendations to the Research for Patient Benefit Programme.