Professor Igor Rudan

Professor Igor Rudan, FRSE, MAE, MEASA is a Visiting Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. He is a British-Croatian scientist, writer and science communicator and joint Director of the Centre for Global Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre at the University of Edinburgh, presently on a one-year sabbatical leave.

Professor Rudan is the President of the International Society of Global Health and the founder and the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Health. He published about 700 research papers and 18 books, with H-index of 200; also, he led research grants totaling about £42 million, and received numerous awards for his work.

In his efforts to reduce global child mortality, mainly through addressing childhood pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis, he served as a consultant of the WHO, UNICEF, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The World Bank, Save the Children, and others.

Professor Rudan developed the CHNRI method and the EQUIST tool, which have been widely used by international agencies to prioritise investments in global health research and interventions. He also leads Global Health Epidemiology Research Group (GHERG), which produced numerous estimates of the global, regional and national burden of diseases that mainly affect underprivileged populations.