Dr Duolao Wang is Professor and Chair in Biostatistics, Head of Biostatistics Unit, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK. He is a statistical reviewer to the Lancet and its specialty journals and an associate editor to the Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics.

His research interests focus on the following areas: medical statistics, clinical trials, clinical epidemiology, and global health. He has published over 380 peer-reviewed papers on various diseases such as cardiovascular disease, mental health, infectious disease, respiratory disease, HIV, diabetes, maternal and child health, nursing care, drug development and translation research in the international journals including 8 in NEJM, 9 in Lancet and 6 in Lancet specialty journals, 8 in JAMA, which have been cited over 43K times with H-index of 75.

His methodological interests include big data, machine learning, Bayesian analysis, multilevel modelling, and non-parametric regression. He has published over 30 methodological papers. The win ratio method proposed by him and his colleagues has been used in many trial reports published in NEJM, the Lancet and JAMA, and recommended by FDA for the analysis of composite endpoints. He is the author of the book “Clinical Trials: A Practical Guide to Design, Analysis and Reporting”.