Professor Krish Nirantharakumar
position
Joint Director of the Centre for Health Data Science
Bio
Krish is a Professor in Health Data Science and Public Health, as well as the joint-Director for the Centre for Health Data Science and Deputy Director for the Institute of Applied Health Research at University of Birmingham.
Krish has made significant achievements in three main research domains:
- developing, implementing and evaluating digital technologies for learning health systems and real-world evidence research
- clinical and public health themes relating to diabetes epidemiology, women’s health and multimorbidity
- global health.
Krish has gained large-scale external funding (over £15 million) and published over 100 peer-reviewed original research publications in the last three years. He has gained recognition internationally for innovative automated methodological approaches for clinical epidemiology research.
