Dr Malcolm James Price BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Associate Professor of Biostatistics

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 2530
Email: m.price.2@bham.ac.uk

Address: Institute of Applied Health Research
Public Health Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Malcolm Price is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis and Modelling (BESTEAM), and Health Informatics research groups in the Institute of Applied Health Research. He is also a member of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Global Women’s Health.

Malcolm trained as a medical statistician and has extensive experience of collaborating on projects in a broad range of clinical areas. He has a keen interest in tackling challenging and important applications in medical statistics, epidemiology and decision modelling that require development of new methodology.

Malcom has published over 100 research papers in the fields of statistics, epidemiology, health economics, psychology, and clinical sciences. He has been either principal or co-investigator on over a dozen grants from funders such as the National Institute of Health Research, (NIHR) and the Medical Research Council (MRC). He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Malcolm has presented his work at numerous academic conferences to audiences including statisticians, health economists, epidemiologists, clinicians and policy makers. He has attended policy meetings by invitation for organisations, such as the World Health Organisation, the US Centres for Disease Control and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Qualifications

Lecturer in Biostatistics.

PhD entitled “Estimation of Markov models for decision analysis”. University of Bristol, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 2009,
MSc in Applied Statistics, (Distinction) Sheffield Hallam University, 2006
BSc (Hons) in Maths, Stats and Computing, (First) Liverpool John Moores University, 2000

Teaching

Malcolm teaches on several courses in the Masters of Public Health (MPH) program:

Epidemiology, Statistics and Research Methods (ESRM)
Practical Epidemiology and Statistics (PEAS)
Epidemiology Statistics and Research Methods Advanced Statistics
Systematic reviews and evidence synthesis

Malcolm is the statistics module lead for ESRM, module lead for Advanced statistics and deputy module lead for PEAS.

He teaches statistics to medical MBChB students

Postgraduate supervision

Multi-parameter evidence synthesis

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Albon, E, Afentou, N, Dretzke, J, Hall, J, Ogwulu, CO, Price, M, Clare, K, Singhal, R, Tahrani, A, Frew, E & Moore, D 2025, 'Cost-effectiveness of endoscopic treatments for obesity: a clinical evidence map and systematic review to inform a model-based cost-effectiveness analysis', Health Technology Assessment.

Tryposkiadis, K, Nayar, S, Pucino, V, Smith, CG, Brown, RM, Bates, T, Bowman, SJ, Sitch, A, Price, M, Barone, F, Deeks, J & Fisher, BA 2025, 'Increasing the number of minor salivary glands from patients with Sjögren's disease improves the diagnostic and measurement precision of the histological focus score', Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ard.2025.01.038

Beese, S, Saygin Avsar, T, Price, M, Quinn, D, Lim, HS, Dretzke, J, Okeke Ogwulu, D, Barton, P, Jackson, L & Moore, D 2024, 'Clinical and Cost-effectiveness of Left Ventricular Assist Devices as Destination Therapy for Advanced Heart Failure: Systematic Review and Economic Evaluation', Health Technology Assessment, vol. 28, no. 38, pp. 1-237. https://doi.org/10.3310/MLFA4009

Saygın Avşar, T, Jackson, L, Barton, P, Beese, S, Lim, HS, Quinn, D, Price, M & Moor, DJ 2024, 'Cost-effectiveness of Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs) as destination therapy in the UK: An economic modelling study', PLOS One, vol. 19, no. 12, e0312912. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312912

Alruqayb, WS, Paudyal, V, Price, M, Sarwar, A, Aston, J & Cox, AR 2024, 'Drug utilisation study in hospitalised chronic kidney disease patients, using World Health Organisation prescribing indicators: an observational study', Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, vol. 17, no. 1, 2430436. https://doi.org/10.1080/20523211.2024.2430436

Gokhan, T, Price, MJ & Lee, M 2024, 'Graphs in clusters: a hybrid approach to unsupervised extractive long document summarization using language models', Artificial Intelligence Review, vol. 57, no. 7, 189. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-024-10828-w

Albabtain, B, Bawazeer, G, Paudyal, V, Cheema, E, Alqahtani, A, Bahatheq, A, Price, MJ & Hadi, MA 2024, 'Impact of a community pharmacy-based medication therapy management program on clinical and humanistic outcomes in patients with uncontrolled diabetes: a randomised controlled trial', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 17818. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-65759-x

Chung, Y, Melo, P, Easter, C, Price, MJ, Dhillon‐Smith, R, Quenby, S, Devall, A & Coomarasamy, A 2024, 'The Association Between Periconceptual Maternal Dietary Patterns and Miscarriage Risk in Women With Recurrent Miscarriages: A Multicentre Cohort Study', BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.18022

Wang, J, Nirantharakumar, K, Sainsbury, C, Moore, DJ, Sinclair, A, Thomas, GN, Hanif, W, Singh, M, Tan, L, Wang, Z, Simms-Williams, N, Yao, M, Gunathilaka, MN, Singh, P, Toulis, K, Tsapas, A, Coomar, D & Price, MJ 2024, 'The optimal second-line therapy for older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis using individual participant data (IPD)', Systematic Reviews, vol. 13, no. 1, 155. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-024-02558-5

Ralapanawe, MSB, Gajaweera, SL, Karunaratne, N, Dissnayake, VHW, Price, MJ, Melo, P, Coomarasamy, A & Gallos, ID 2023, 'A comprehensive analysis of chromosomal polymorphic variants on reproductive outcomes after intracytoplasmic sperm injection treatment', Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 1319. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28552-w

Review article

Beese, SE, Price, MJ, Tomlinson, C, Sharma, P, Harris, IM, Adriano, A, Quinn, LM, Gada, R, Horgan, TJ, Maggs, F, Burrows, M, Nirantharakumar, K, Thomas, GN, Andrews, RC, Moore, DJ & Narendran, P 2025, 'A systematic review and network meta-analysis of interventions to preserve insulin-secreting beta cell function in people newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes: results from randomised controlled trials of immunomodulatory therapies', BMC medicine, vol. 23, no. 1, 351. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04201-z

Yunas, I, Islam, MA, Sindhu, KN, Devall, AJ, Podesek, M, Alam, SS, Kundu, S, Mammoliti, K-M, Aswat, A, Price, MJ, Zamora, J, Oladapo, OT, Gallos, I & Coomarasamy, A 2025, 'Causes of and risk factors for postpartum haemorrhage: a systematic review and meta-analysis', The Lancet, vol. 405, no. 10488, pp. 1468-1480. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00448-9

Saygin Avsar, T, Jackson, L, Barton, P, Beese, S, Okeke Ogwulu, D, Lim, HS, Quinn, D, Price, M & Moore, D 2025, 'Cost Effectiveness of Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs) as Destination Therapy: A Systematic Review', PharmacoEconomics - Open, vol. 9, pp. 351-362. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41669-025-00564-4

Gallos, I, Yunas, I, Devall, AJ, Podesek, M, Tobias, A, Price, MJ, Oladapo, OT & Coomarasamy, A 2025, 'Uterotonic agents for preventing postpartum haemorrhage: a network meta-analysis', Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, vol. 2025, no. 4, CD011689. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD011689.pub4

Dretzke, J, Abou-Foul, AK, Albon, E, Hillier, B, Scandrett, K, Price, MJ, Moore, DJ, Mehanna, H, Nankivell, P & PETNECK2 Research Team 2024, 'A systematic review of prognostic models for predicting recurrence and survival in patients with treated oropharyngeal cancer', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 12, e090393. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-090393

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