Pollyanna Hardy
BSc, MSc
Clinical Trialist and Director of National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit Clinical Trials Unit (NPEU CTU)
Pollyanna Hardy is responsible for the management and strategic direction of the NPEU CTU, and overseeing a programme of neonatal and maternal clinical trials.
Polly graduated from the University of Sussex in 1990 with a BSc in Mathematics and European Studies, and obtained an MSc in Statistics from University of Sheffield in 1994. She has previously worked as a medical statistician at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia. Polly joined the NPEU CTU as a Senior Statistician in 2010. In 2017 she then took up a post as a Statistics Lead at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, University of Birmingham, where she spent four years working on a diverse portfolio of Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT), including perinatology, global surgery, mental health and health services delivery. She then returned to the NPEU in 2021 as Director of the CTU.
Polly has extensive experience in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of RCTs, with a keen interest in complex RCT design methodology, and has particular expertise in RCTs in the field of obstetrics and neonatology. She is the statistics lead for the National Institute for Health Research Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery RCT portfolio, and a member of a national Steering Group to develop a set of principles for handling end of follow-up events in clinical trials research (PeRSEVERE). She also currently sits on the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Commissioning Board.
Recent publications
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Planned Delivery for Pre-eclampsia between 34 and 37 weeks of gestation: the PHOENIX randomised controlled trial.
Journal article
HARDY P. et al, (2022), Health Technology Assessment
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National priority setting partnership using a Delphi consensus process to develop neonatal research questions suitable for practice-changing randomised trials in the United Kingdom.
Journal article
Evans K. et al, (2022), BMJ Open, 12
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Corrigendum to A randomized trial of synthetic osmotic cervical dilator for induction of labor vs dinoprostone vaginal insert American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM Volume 4, Issue 4, July 2022, 100628
Journal article
Gupta JK. et al, (2022), American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM, 100702 - 100702
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Individual participant data meta-analysis of trials comparing frozen versus fresh embryo transfer strategy (INFORM) - a protocol
Journal article
HARDY P., (2022), BMJ Open
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Enhancing the Health of NHS Staff: eTHOS. Protocol for a randomised controlled pilot trial of an employee health screening clinic for NHS staff to reduce absenteeism and presenteeism, compared with usual care
Journal article
HARDY P., (2022), Pilot and Feasibility Studies