University of Manchester
Northwest Institute for Bio-Health Informatics
1.311 Jean Radcliffe Building
Oxford Road
Manchester,
N/A
United Kingdom
M13 9PL
Email:
buchan@manchester.ac.uk
Biographical Sketch:
Iain Buchan is Professor of Public Health Informatics and Director of the Northwest Institute for Bio-Health Informatics, at the University of Manchester, and an honorary Consultant in Public Health in Salford in the English National Health Service (NHS). He has backgrounds in clinical medicine, public health and computational statistics, and runs a multi-disciplinary team bridging health sciences, computer science, social science, management science and mathematics. His work centres on the research and development of informatics methods for understanding and improving the public’s health, partly focusing on applications in obesity and metabolic health. He works closely with the English NHS and international bodies to develop population-based e-infrastructure to enable both: large-scale, realistically-complex epidemiology; and future e-health interventions.