Question: how does your job involve maths

Jan McKendrick answered on 6 Mar 2025:

I work with doctors and researchers who are trying to find new medicines that can help people that are sick. To find out if something works or not you need to do experiments – I help to work out what that experiment needs to be so that we can do good analyses of data afterwards. Its not any good if there is a good new medicine but you cant prove it – so maths is really important.

Lots of new medicines use very clever science and so they can cost a lot. Part of my job is to work out what you are getting for your money – can people have a shorter time in hospital, can they get back to work earlier, can they avoid traveling to a specialist medical centre and be treated nearer home; all those things are also costs.

So my job is a little maths, a little finances and a little economics