Francesca Pesola

Dr Francesca Pesola is a Senior Lecturer in Statistics at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), affiliated with the Wolfson Institute of Population Health and the Centre for Evaluation and Methods. She collaborates with the Centre for Public Health and Policy on projects involving smoking cessation and weight management. As a Chartered Statistician, she specializes in designing and analyzing data from randomized controlled trials, cancer registries, GP records, national surveys, and longitudinal cohort studies. She serves on multiple clinical trial steering committees as a statistician and holds roles as Deputy Statistics & Methodology Editor for Addiction and Scientific Advisor for the Medito Foundation.

• Education: MSc and PhD (institutions unspecified).

Her research interests span medical statistics, tobacco harm reduction, time series analysis, clinical trials, and cancer screening. She emphasizes methodological rigor in evaluating public health interventions and healthcare systems.

Her publications focus on optimizing healthcare workflows, e-cigarette efficacy in pregnancy, cancer screening outcomes, and randomized trials comparing nicotine replacement therapies. Though no awards are explicitly listed, her editorial and advisory roles highlight professional recognition.

Dr. Pesola advises clinical trials and contributes to the NIHR School for Primary Care Research. She collaborates across disciplines within QMUL’s Wolfson Institute, fostering methodological advancements in population health research.