Dr Bernet S Kato

Dr.  Bernet Kato is Research Associate in Medical Statistics at the Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health group, National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI).

Bernet  trained in Mathematics and Statistics.  He started his university education in Uganda where he obtained a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in Mathematics at Makerere university.  Thereafter he moved to Belgium to study Biostatistics. After a master’s degree in Biostatistics at the center for statistics, Hasselt University in Belgium (www.censtat.be), Bernet joined the department of Methodology and Statistics, University of Utrecht in the Netherlands where he worked as a Research Assistant and also pursued a PhD in Statistics. On completion of his doctorate degree, Bernet joined the department of Twin research and genetic epidemiology (www.twinsuk.ac.uk) at King’s College London  (KCL) in 2005 as a Statistician.

In 2010, Bernet moved to Imperial College and is now overseeing the data management and statistical analyses of data from the Burden of Lung Disease (BOLD) (www.boldstudy.org) initiative – an international survey of the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and its economic burden.

Dr.  Kato’s research interests are in respiratory epidemiology, statistical genetics and genomics, survey methodology, multilevel/hierarchical modelling and order constrained inference.

Dr.  Kato is a member of the executive committee of the BOLD project.