Professor William Goggins joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong as an Instructor in Biostatistics for the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the School of Public Health and Primary Care in October 2003. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in September of 2004. Professor Goggins also joined CUHK’s Nethersole School of Nursing in May 2006 and is now appointed jointly between the Schools of Public Health and Nursing.

Professor Goggins obtained his doctorate in Biostatistics from Harvard University in 1997. His thesis topic was “Monte Carlo EM Methods for Analyzing Survival Data in the Presence of Interval Censoring”, which was completed under the supervision of Professor Dianne Finkelstein. He then did a 16 month post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Public Health of Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan, where he was the first scholar from Harvard to be supported by the Harvard-KMU exchange program to work at KMU. While at KMU, Professor Goggins worked on projects related to lung cancer epidemiology, burn epidemiology and survival of kidney dialysis patients. He also completed a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Biostatistics Center of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, working on several projects related to cancer epidemiology and survival. Before joining CUHK Professor Goggins was an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Mathematics Department of Hong Kong Baptist University. Professor Goggins is a member of the editorial board of the Hong Kong Medical Journal. In addition to doing independent research on cancer epidemiology Professor Goggins serves as a collaborator and statistical consultant for numerous projects within the CUHK School of Public Health and Primary Care and other Departments of the CUHK Faculty of Medicine. He is presently involved in projects on social predictors of infant birthweight in Hong Kong, predictors of child abuse in mainland China, and usage of hospital services in Hong Kong.