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Professor Krishnan Bhaskaran

MSc PhD

Professor
of Statistical Epidemiology and Wellcome Senior Research Fellow

Room
Room 256

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Tel.
ext 2268

I am a Statisical Epidemiologist with a background in Mathematics and Medical Statistics. My research interests include the long-term health of cancer survivors, and the use of electronic health records data for research. I am the Associate Dean for Research in the LSHTM Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health. I am currently funded by a Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship.

Affiliations

Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Statistical Methodology

Teaching

I am joint Research Degrees Co-ordinator for the Department of Non-Communicable Diseases Epidemiology. I deliver several lectures and practical sessions on the MSc in Epidemiology. I teach on the Extended Epidemiology, and Advanced Statistical Methods for Epidemiology (ASME) MSc modules, and on the Advanced Course in Epidemiological Analysis (ACEA) and Practical Pharmacoepidemiology short courses. 

Research

My main research focus is on cancer epidemiology and cancer survivorship, and I lead the Beyond Cancer research group (https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/beyond-cancer), funded by my Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship. Our aims are to investigate the long-term health consequences of cancer and its treatment, including vascular health, mental health, and other outcomes.

I was one of the founding statistical leads of OpenSAFELY, a data platform and research collaboration set up at the start of the 2019 COVID-19 pandemic, and designed to use linked health data sources covering most of the population of England to answer key questions about this emerging disease.

I am also interested in pharmacoepidemiology, health effects of obesity, and methodological issues in the analysis of electronic health records.

Research Area
Statistical methods
Electronic health records
Medicines
Discipline
Pharmacoepidemiology
Epidemiology
Statistics
Disease and Health Conditions
Cancer
Diabetes
Obesity

Selected Publications

New insights into the association between body-mass index and severe COVID-19.
Bhaskaran K
2021
The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology
Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases Among Older Breast Cancer Survivors in the United States: A Matched Cohort Study.
Matthews AA; Peacock Hinton S; Stanway S; Lyon AR; Smeeth L; Bhaskaran K; Lund JL
2021
Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN
HIV infection and COVID-19 death: a population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform
Bhaskaran K; Rentsch CT; MacKenna B; Schultze A; Mehrkar A; Bates CJ; Eggo RM; Morton CE; Bacon SCJ; Inglesby P
2020
LANCET HIV
Prevalence of COVID-19-related risk factors and risk of severe influenza outcomes in cancer survivors: A matched cohort study using linked English electronic health records data.
Carreira H; Strongman H; Peppa M; McDonald HI; Dos-Santos-Silva I; Stanway S; Smeeth L; Bhaskaran K
2020
EClinicalMedicine
Endocrine therapy use and cardiovascular risk in postmenopausal breast cancer survivors.
Matthews AA; Peacock Hinton S; Stanway S; Lyon AR; Smeeth L; Lund JL; Bhaskaran K
2020
Heart (British Cardiac Society)
Factors associated with COVID-19-related death using OpenSAFELY.
Williamson EJ; Walker AJ; Bhaskaran K; Bacon S; Bates C; Morton CE; Curtis HJ; Mehrkar A; Evans D; Inglesby P
2020
Nature
Association of BMI with overall and cause-specific mortality: a population-based cohort study of 3·6 million adults in the UK.
Bhaskaran K; Dos-Santos-Silva I; Leon DA; Douglas IJ; Smeeth L
2018
The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology
Associations Between Breast Cancer Survivorship and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review.
Carreira H; Williams R; Müller M; Harewood R; Stanway S; Bhaskaran K
2018
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Long term adjuvant endocrine therapy and risk of cardiovascular disease in female breast cancer survivors: systematic review.
Matthews A; Stanway S; Farmer RE; Strongman H; Thomas S; Lyon AR; Smeeth L; Bhaskaran K
2018
BMJ (Clinical research ed)
Body-mass index and risk of 22 specific cancers: a population-based cohort study of 5·24 million UK adults.
Bhaskaran K; Douglas I; Forbes H; dos-Santos-Silva I; Leon DA; Smeeth L
2014
Lancet
Changes in the risk of death after HIV seroconversion compared with mortality in the general population.
Bhaskaran K; Hamouda O; Sannes M; Boufassa F; Johnson AM; Lambert PC; Porter K; CASCADE Collaboration
2008
JAMA
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