Igor Rudan
Igor Rudan (born 7 March 1971) is a Croatian-British scientist, writer, and science communicator. He leads research projects in global health and genetics, writes books, and creates documentary series.Igor Rudan is a medical doctor with two master’s degrees (in anthropology and epidemiology) and two Ph.D. degrees (in public health and genetic epidemiology). He has published more than 600 research papers as of 1 October 2023, which have been cited more than 200,000 times.
In his early career, he developed a biobank in the isolate island populations of Croatia (“10001 Dalmatians”). He co-led the study that first identified associations between SLC2A9 genetic variants, uric acid levels and gout; and identified variants that regulate human protein N-glycosylation; and predispose to autoimmune diseases and cancers. He co-authored 12 Nature and 64 Nature Genetics papers that assigned biomedical function to more than 2000 human genetic variants.
In his later career, he focused on international health efforts to reduce global child mortality as the member of Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG). He served as a consultant of the World Health Organization, UNICEF, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The World Bank, Save the Children, and other organizations. He developed the "CHNRI" methodology (in 2007) and EQUIST tool (in 2012). Both have been widely used by international agencies to prioritize investments in global health research and interventions, respectively.
He founded or co-founded Croatian Centre for Global Health at the University of Split, Croatia (in 2008), Edinburgh University Global Health Society (in 2011), Journal of Global Health (in 2011), World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for Population Health Research and Training (in 2013), Centre for Global Health at the University of Edinburgh (in 2015), Journal of Global Health Reports (in 2017) and the International Society of Global Health (in 2019).
He is most widely known for his popularizing of biomedical science. In 2017 he completed a documentary series "Survival: The Story of Global Health" which was broadcast on Croatian National TV and seen by more than 1 million people. He published four No. 1 national bestsellers in popular science in Croatia: The Exact Colour of the Sky: The Story of Science (in 2017), Evil Air: The Story of Medicine (in 2018), In the Land of Clans: The Story of Adaptation (in 2019) and Awaiting the Fires: The Story of Sustainability (in 2020).
He was included among ISI/Thomson Reuters "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds". He received awards including the Wellcome Trust's International Research Development Award (in 2002), "Scientist of the Year" Award from The Croatian Parliament (in 2005), Visiting Professorship for Senior International Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (in 2012), The Chancellor's Award for Research (in 2012) and Principal’s Medal (in 2019). In 2016, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). In 2020 he was the adviser to the Croatian Government for COVID-19 response and he launched a health education campaign on the pandemics which reached up to three million people in eight countries. Subsequently, he has been admitted to the Academia Europaea (2022), the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2023), and the International Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Bosnia and Herzegovina as a Laureate (2023). Provided by Wikipedia
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41by Tom K. Roberts, Courtney A. Gravett, Prasad Palani Velu, Evropi Theodoratou, Thor A. Wagner, Jian Shayne F. Zhang, Harry Campbell, Craig E. Rubens, Michael G. Gravett, Igor RudanGet full text
Published 2011-12-01
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42by Wanting Chen, Caroline Hayward, Alan F Wright, Andrew A Hicks, Veronique Vitart, Sara Knott, Sarah H Wild, Peter P Pramstaller, James F Wilson, Igor Rudan, David J PorteousGet full text
Published 2011-01-01
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43by Lina Zgaga, Evropi Theodoratou, Janet Kyle, Susan M Farrington, Felix Agakov, Albert Tenesa, Marion Walker, Geraldine McNeill, Alan F Wright, Igor Rudan, Malcolm G Dunlop, Harry CampbellGet full text
Published 2012-01-01
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44by Iva Kirac, Petar Matošević, Goran Augustin, Iva Šimunović, Vedran Hostić, Sven Župančić, Caroline Hayward, Natasa Antoljak, Igor Rudan, Harry Campbell, Malcolm G Dunlop, Danko Velimir Vrdoljak, Dujo Kovačević, Lina ZgagaGet full text
Published 2013-01-01
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45by Emily N. Satinsky, Tomoki Kimura, Mathew V. Kiang, Rediet Abebe, Scott Cunningham, Hedwig Lee, Xiaofei Lin, Cindy H. Liu, Igor Rudan, Srijan Sen, Mark Tomlinson, Miranda Yaver, Alexander C. TsaiGet full text
Published 2021-07-01
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46by Peige Song, PhD, Diana Rudan, MD, Yajie Zhu, PhD, Freya J I Fowkes, ProfDPhil, Kazem Rahimi, ProfFRCP, F Gerald R Fowkes, ProfFRCPE, Igor Rudan, ProfFRSEGet full text
Published 2019-08-01
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47by Xing Lin Feng, Evropi Theodoratou, Li Liu, Kit Yee Chan, David Hipgrave, Robert Scherpbier, Hana Brixi, Sufang Guo, Wen Chunmei, Mickey Chopra, Robert E. Black, Harry Campbell, Igor Rudan, Yan GuoGet full text
Published 2012-06-01
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48by Yoshitaka Nagamine, Ricardo Pong-Wong, Pau Navarro, Veronique Vitart, Caroline Hayward, Igor Rudan, Harry Campbell, James Wilson, Sarah Wild, Andrew A Hicks, Peter P Pramstaller, Nicholas Hastie, Alan F Wright, Chris S HaleyGet full text
Published 2012-01-01
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49by Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Alvin Zipursky, Kerri Wazny, Myron M. Levine, Robert E. Black, Diego G. Bassani, Mathuram Shantosham, Stephen B. Freedman, Adenike Grange, Margaret Kosek, William Keenan, William Petri, Harry Campbell, Igor RudanGet full text
Published 2013-06-01
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50by Elisa Benedetti, Maja Pučić-Baković, Toma Keser, Nathalie Gerstner, Mustafa Büyüközkan, Tamara Štambuk, Maurice H. J. Selman, Igor Rudan, Ozren Polašek, Caroline Hayward, Hassen Al-Amin, Karsten Suhre, Gabi Kastenmüller, Gordan Lauc, Jan KrumsiekGet full text
Published 2020-10-01
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51by Xia Shen, Lucija Klarić, Sodbo Sharapov, Massimo Mangino, Zheng Ning, Di Wu, Irena Trbojević-Akmačić, Maja Pučić-Baković, Igor Rudan, Ozren Polašek, Caroline Hayward, Timothy D. Spector, James F. Wilson, Gordan Lauc, Yurii S. AulchenkoGet full text
Published 2017-09-01
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52by Olivier Fontaine, Margaret Kosek, Shinjini Bhatnagar, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Kit Yee Chan, Christopher Duggan, Homero Martinez, Hugo Ribeiro, Nigel C Rollins, Mohammed A Salam, Mathuram Santosham, John D Snyder, Alexander C Tsai, Beth Vargas, Igor RudanGet full text
Published 2009-03-01
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53by Tanya Doherty, Wanga Zembe, Nobubelo Ngandu, Mary Kinney, Samuel Manda, Donela Besada, Debra Jackson, Karen Daniels, Sarah Rohde, Wim van Damme, Kate Kerber, Emmanuelle Daviaud, Igor Rudan, Maria Muniz, Nicholas P Oliphant, Texas Zamasiya, Jon Rohde, David SandersGet full text
Published 2015-12-01
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54by Peige Song, PhD, Zhe Fang, MD, Hanyu Wang, BA, Yutong Cai, PhD, Kazem Rahimi, DM, Yajie Zhu, PhD, F Gerald R Fowkes, ProfPhD, Freya J I Fowkes, ProfDPhil, Igor Rudan, ProfPhDGet full text
Published 2020-05-01
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55by Peter K Joshi, James Prendergast, Ross M Fraser, Jennifer E Huffman, Veronique Vitart, Caroline Hayward, Ruth McQuillan, Dominik Glodzik, Ozren Polašek, Nicholas D Hastie, Igor Rudan, Harry Campbell, Alan F Wright, Chris S Haley, James F Wilson, Pau NavarroGet full text
Published 2013-01-01
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56by Igor Rudan, Simrita Sidhu, Angeliki Papana, Shi–Jiao Meng, Yu Xin–Wei, Wei Wang, Ruth M. Campbell–Page, Alessandro Rhyll Demaio, Harish Nair, Devi Sridhar, Evropi Theodoratou, Ben Dowman, Davies Adeloye, Azeem Majeed, Josip Car, Harry Campbell, Wei WangGet full text
Published 2015-06-01
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57by Elisa Benedetti, Nathalie Gerstner, Maja Pučić-Baković, Toma Keser, Karli R. Reiding, L. Renee Ruhaak, Tamara Štambuk, Maurice H. J. Selman, Igor Rudan, Ozren Polašek, Caroline Hayward, Marian Beekman, Eline Slagboom, Manfred Wuhrer, Malcolm G. Dunlop, Gordan Lauc, Jan KrumsiekGet full text
Published 2020-07-01
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58by Wenhua Wei, Gibran Hemani, Andrew A Hicks, Veronique Vitart, Claudia Cabrera-Cardenas, Pau Navarro, Jennifer Huffman, Caroline Hayward, Sara A Knott, Igor Rudan, Peter P Pramstaller, Sarah H Wild, James F Wilson, Harry Campbell, Malcolm G Dunlop, Nicholas Hastie, Alan F Wright, Chris S HaleyGet full text
Published 2011-01-01
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59by Andrew D Bretherick, Oriol Canela-Xandri, Peter K Joshi, David W Clark, Konrad Rawlik, Thibaud S Boutin, Yanni Zeng, Carmen Amador, Pau Navarro, Igor Rudan, Alan F Wright, Harry Campbell, Veronique Vitart, Caroline Hayward, James F Wilson, Albert Tenesa, Chris P Ponting, J Kenneth Baillie, Chris HaleyGet full text
Published 2020-07-01
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60by David A McAllister, MD, Li Liu, PhD, Ting Shi, PhD, Yue Chu, MSPH, Craig Reed, PhD, John Burrows, MBChB, Davies Adeloye, PhD, Igor Rudan, ProfPhD, Robert E Black, ProfMD, Harry Campbell, ProfMD, Harish Nair, ProfPhDGet full text
Published 2019-01-01
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