Rate My Professor Claire Cameron

Cameron's research specializations encompass biostatistics, public health, and epidemiology, with particular expertise in the methods and design of health-related research. She leads a team that supports Health Sciences researchers on the Dunedin campus from project design through to publication. Her contributions include over 100 publications in high-impact journals such as The Lancet Infectious Diseases, many heavily cited, and securing substantial grants from the Health Research Council of New Zealand. She has authored a dozen statistics primers for the New Zealand Medical Student Journal. Recent key publications include 'Reflections of their homelands: Early life enamel formation disruption in nineteenth century settlers of Otago, New Zealand' (2026, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand) and 'Woven: The intersections of disability and doctoral study, and the lives of students who navigate these intersections' (2026, Studies in Graduate & Postdoctoral Education). In 2025, she received the New Zealand Statistical Association's Campbell Award for sustained contributions to promoting statistics, leadership in biostatistics, and community-building efforts. Cameron has advanced the biostatistics field through founding the Box Plot network in 2013, organizing the NZ Biostatistics Symposium (2021) and Conference (2023), leading NZSA mentoring programmes since 2022, and serving as New Zealand's representative on the Caucus of Women in Statistics and Data Science since 2020.