Associate Professor Karen Lamb is a Principal Research Fellow in Biostatistics at The University of Melbourne. She co-Heads Biostatistics for the Methods and Implementation Support for Clinical and Health research (MISCH) Hub who provide biostatistical expertise to health and clinical researchers at the university and affiliated hospital partners.

Karen is passionate about mentoring and single-handedly created and launched a mentoring program in 2020 for the Statistical Society of Australia (SSA), the national organisation for professional statisticians. She was a 2025 Eureka Prize Finalist for Outstanding Mentor of Researchers and won the 2025 University of Melbourne Patricia Grimshaw Mentoring Award.

In addition, a key focus of Karen's is statistical communication. She gets a real buzz out of helping researchers in other disciplines use statistics to answer research questions. This is often more about successful communication of statistics than it is about the statistics themselves! Karen finds the process of making non-mathematicians comfortable with mathematics to be both challenging and hugely rewarding. As a result, the focus of her research has been as diverse as the people she has been fortunate enough to work with, including doctors, psychologists, epidemiologists, social scientists, biologists and many more!