Name: Rohini Mathur

Job title: Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Faculty: EPH

Q1. Tell us about a project you are working on right now?

I’m working on a Wellcome Funded fellowship examining ethnic inequalities in trajectories of diabetes care and outcomes in the UK.

Q2. What are your top skills/areas of expertise?

Using routinely collected electronic health record data to conduct observational epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology research focussed on ethnic inequalities in chronic conditions, particularly diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Q3. If everything goes to plan with your current work, what will you have achieved in 5 years’ time?

Hopefully developed an international network of colleagues working on characterizing diabetes and its association with major outcomes and treatment response in diverse settings in order to better understand the differential aetiology and progression of diabetes in different ethnic and migrant populations.

Q4. Describe your career journey so far – what were you doing before this role?

Before this role I was working at Queen Mary University in quality improvement research, around addressing ethnic inequalities in primary care settings. Prior to that I was at McGill University in Montreal at the Institute for health and social policy working on adolescent health and early life experiences in Tanzania

Q5. Are there any books/series/podcasts you’d recommend?

I’ve really been enjoying the Netflix Documentary High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America (based on the book by Stephen Satterfield) and the podcast Drive All Night: The Songs of Tori Amos

Q6. If you could have dinner with any current or historical figure, who would you pick? Why?

Martha Argerich, one of the greatest pianists of our generation. She has such an interesting and unusual life.

Q10. How can people get in contact with you?

Rohini.mathur@lshtm.ac.uk