Keith Abrams, PhD, is a Professor of Medical Statistics in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Leicester, having previously held appointments at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and a Chartered Statistician. His research interests are primarily concerned with the development and application of Bayesian statistical methods in Health Technology Assessment (HTA), in particular their application to clinical trials, evidence synthesis, and decision modelling, and Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) epidemiology. This work is primarily supported with funding from EU, Medical Research Council (MRC), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and industry. Professor Abrams has been extensively involved with the UK NIHR Health HTA Programme and UK National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) appraisal process since their inception. He was a member of the NICE Technology Appraisals Committee for over 8 years until 2015, is a member of the NICE Decision Support Unit and Technical Support Unit, and a NIHR Senior Investigator Emeritus.  He has published widely in both substantive and methodological areas including co-Authoring books on Methods for Meta-Analysis in Medical Research, Bayesian Approaches to Clinical Trials and Healthcare Evaluation, and Evidence Synthesis for Decision Making in Healthcare, in addition to co-Editing one of the first texts on Methods for Evidence-based Healthcare.