Professor John Carlin is internationally recognised for research and leadership in biostatistics. He is a leading figure in this key enabling discipline in Australia, having established the Victorian Centre for Biostatistics and previously co-founding the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia. His reputation is built on a combination of influential methodological research, an extensive array of major collaborations with global impact in child and adolescent health and leadership in teaching and training in statistical methods. He is co-author of a very highly cited textbook in Bayesian statistical methods and has been Associate Editor of the leading international journals Biometrics and Statistics in Medicine.