Prof Krishnan Bhaskaran

Professor of Statistical Epidemiology

United Kingdom

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 Data and Statistical Science for Health

Teaching

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

Epidemiology

Applied statistics (medical)

Statistical methods

Disease and Health Conditions

Cancer

Diabetes

Obesity

Cardiovascular diseases

Country

United Kingdom

United States of America

Sweden

Denmark

Selected Publications

The risk of acute kidney injury in colorectal cancer survivors: an english population-based matched cohort study.

ANDRESEN, K; CARREIRA, H; STRONGMAN, H; McDonald, HI; Benitez-Majano, S; MANSFIELD, KE; NITSCH, D; TOMLINSON, LA; BHASKARAN, K;

2023

BMC Cancer

Does Cardiovascular Mortality Overtake Cancer Mortality During Cancer Survivorship?: An English Retrospective Cohort Study.

STRONGMAN, H; Gadd, S; Matthews, AA; MANSFIELD, KE; Stanway, S; Lyon, AR; DOS-SANTOS-SILVA, I; SMEETH, L; BHASKARAN, K;

2022

JACC: CardioOncology

Factors associated with deaths due to COVID-19 versus other causes: population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform.

BHASKARAN, K; Bacon, S; EVANS, SJ; Bates, CJ; RENTSCH, CT; MacKenna, B; TOMLINSON, L; Walker, AJ; SCHULTZE, A; Morton, CE; GRINT, D; Mehrkar, A; EGGO, RM; Inglesby, P; DOUGLAS, IJ; MCDONALD, HI; Cockburn, J; WILLIAMSON, EJ; Evans, D; Curtis, HJ; Hulme, WJ; Parry, J; Hester, F; Harper, S; Spiegelhalter, D; ... GOLDACRE, B.

2021

The Lancet regional health. Europe

Associations between breast cancer survivorship and adverse mental health outcomes: A matched population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom.

CARREIRA, H; Williams, R; Funston, G; Stanway, S; BHASKARAN, K;

2021

PLoS medicine

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

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; Cockburn, J; MCDONALD, HI; MacKenna, B; TOMLINSON, L; DOUGLAS, IJ; RENTSCH, CT; MATHUR, R; WONG, AY S; GRIEVE, R; Harrison, D; FORBES, H; SCHULTZE, A; Croker, R; Parry, J; Hester, F; ... GOLDACRE, B.

2020

Nature

Medium and long-term risks of specific cardiovascular diseases in survivors of 20 adult cancers: a population-based cohort study using multiple linked UK electronic health records databases.

STRONGMAN, H; Gadd, S; MATTHEWS, A; MANSFIELD, KE; Stanway, S; Lyon, AR; DOS-SANTOS-SILVA, I; SMEETH, L; BHASKARAN, K;

2019

Lancet

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

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;