Professor Krish Nirantharakumar

Clinical Professor in Public Health and Health Data Science Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine

King’s College London and University Hospitals Birmingham


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Krish is a Professor in Public Health at the School of Population Health and Life Course Sciences  at King’s College London.

Krish is passionate about supporting junior staff, particularly from under-represented backgrounds to develop into self-sustaining leaders. His contribution was recognised and highlighted in BMJ as a role model. He has made significant achievements in three main research domains: 1) developing, implementing and evaluating digital technologies for learning health systems and real-world evidence research; 2) clinical and public health themes relating to diabetes epidemiology, women’s health and multimorbidity; and 3) 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 and have gained recognition internationally for innovative automated methodological approaches for clinical epidemiology research.