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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61by Igor Rudan, Shams El Arifeen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Robert E Black, Abdullah Brooks, Kit Yee Chan, Mickey Chopra, Trevor Duke, David Marsh, Antonio Pio, Eric A F Simoes, Giorgio Tamburlini, Evropi Theodoratou, Martin W Weber, Cynthia G Whitney, Harry Campbell, Shamim A Qazi, WHO/CHNRI Expert Group on Childhood PneumoniaGet full text
Published 2011-09-01
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62by Wilmar Igl, Asa Johansson, James F Wilson, Sarah H Wild, Ozren Polasek, Caroline Hayward, Veronique Vitart, Nicholas Hastie, Pavao Rudan, Carsten Gnewuch, Gerd Schmitz, Thomas Meitinger, Peter P Pramstaller, Andrew A Hicks, Ben A Oostra, Cornelia M van Duijn, Igor Rudan, Alan Wright, Harry Campbell, Ulf Gyllensten, EUROSPAN ConsortiumGet full text
Published 2010-01-01
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63by Igor Rudan, Mickey Chopra, Yurii Aulchenko, Abdullah H. Baqui, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Karen Edmond, Bernardo L. Horta, Keith P. Klugman, Claudio F. Lanata, Shabir A. Madhi, Harish Nair, Zeshan Qureshi, Craig Rubens, Evropi Theodoratou, Cesar G. Victora, Wei Wang, Martin W. Weber, James F. Wilson, Lina Zgaga, Harry CampbellGet full text
Published 2011-06-01
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64by Gretchen A. Stevens, Leontine Alkema, Robert E. Black, J. Ties Boerma, Gary S. Collins, Majid Ezzati, John T. Grove, Daniel R. Hogan, Margaret C. Hogan, Richard Horton, Joy E. Lawn, Ana Marušic, Colin D. Mathers, Christopher J. L. Murray, Igor Rudan, Joshua A. Salomon, Paul J. Simpson, Theo Vos, Vivian WelchGet full text
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65by Rajiv Bahl Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Jose Martines, Nita Bhandari, Zrinka Biloglav, Karen Edmond, Sharad Iyengar, Michael Kramer, Joy E. Lawn, D. S. Manandhar, Rintaro Mori, Kathleen M. Rasmussen, H. P. S. Sachdev, Nalini Singhal, Mark Tomlinson, Cesar Victora, Anthony F. Williams, Kit Yee Chan, Igor RudanGet full text
Published 2012-06-01
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66by Gretchen A Stevens, Leontine Alkema, Robert E Black, J Ties Boerma, Gary S Collins, Majid Ezzati, John T Grove, Daniel R Hogan, Margaret C Hogan, Richard Horton, Joy E Lawn, Ana Marušić, Colin D Mathers, Christopher J L Murray, Igor Rudan, Joshua A Salomon, Paul J Simpson, Theo Vos, Vivian Welch, GATHER Working GroupGet full text
Published 2016-08-01
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67by Brian Wahl, PhD, Katherine L O'Brien, ProfMD, Adena Greenbaum, MD, Anwesha Majumder, MHS, Li Liu, PhD, Yue Chu, MSPH, Ivana Lukšić, MD, Harish Nair, ProfPhD, David A McAllister, MD, Harry Campbell, ProfMD, Igor Rudan, ProfMD, Robert Black, ProfMD, Maria Deloria Knoll, PhDGet full text
Published 2018-07-01
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68by Gretchen A Stevens, Leontine Alkema, Robert E Black, J Ties Boerma, Gary S Collins, Majid Ezzati, John T Grove, Daniel R Hogan, Margaret C Hogan, Richard Horton, Joy E Lawn, Ana Marušić, Colin D Mathers, Christopher J L Murray, Igor Rudan, Joshua A Salomon, Paul J Simpson, Theo Vos, Vivian Welch, GATHER Working GroupGet full text
Published 2016-06-01
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69by Joy E Lawn, Rajiv Bahl, Staffan Bergstrom, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Gary L Darmstadt, Matthew Ellis, Mike English, Jennifer J Kurinczuk, Anne C C Lee, Mario Merialdi, Mohamed Mohamed, David Osrin, Robert Pattinson, Vinod Paul, Siddarth Ramji, Ola D Saugstad, Lyn Sibley, Nalini Singhal, Steven N Wall, Dave Woods, John Wyatt, Kit Yee Chan, Igor RudanGet full text
Published 2011-01-01
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70by Tabish Hazir, Khadija Begum, Shams El Arifeen, Amira M Khan, M Hamidul Huque, Narjis Kazmi, Sushmita Roy, Saleem Abbasi, Qazi Sadeq-Ur Rahman, Evropi Theodoratou, Mahmuda Shayema Khorshed, Kazi Mizanur Rahman, Sanwarul Bari, M Mahfuzul Islam Kaiser, Samir K Saha, A S M Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, Igor Rudan, Jennifer Bryce, Shamim Ahmad Qazi, Harry CampbellGet full text
Published 2013-01-01
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71by Sohni Dean, Igor Rudan, Fernando Althabe, Aimee Webb Girard, Christopher Howson, Ana Langer, Joy Lawn, Mary-Elizabeth Reeve, Katherine C Teela, Mireille Toledano, Chandra-Mouli Venkatraman, José M Belizan, Josip Car, Kit Yee Chan, Subidita Chatterjee, Stanley Chitekwe, Tanya Doherty, France Donnay, Majid Ezzati, Khadija Humayun, Brian Jack, Zohra S Lassi, Reynaldo Martorell, Ysbrand Poortman, Zulfiqar A BhuttaGet full text
Published 2013-01-01
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72by Jared O'Connell, Deepti Gurdasani, Olivier Delaneau, Nicola Pirastu, Sheila Ulivi, Massimiliano Cocca, Michela Traglia, Jie Huang, Jennifer E Huffman, Igor Rudan, Ruth McQuillan, Ross M Fraser, Harry Campbell, Ozren Polasek, Gershim Asiki, Kenneth Ekoru, Caroline Hayward, Alan F Wright, Veronique Vitart, Pau Navarro, Jean-Francois Zagury, James F Wilson, Daniela Toniolo, Paolo Gasparini, Nicole Soranzo, Manjinder S Sandhu, Jonathan MarchiniGet full text
Published 2014-04-01
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73by Gordan Lauc, Abdelkader Essafi, Jennifer E Huffman, Caroline Hayward, Ana Knežević, Jayesh J Kattla, Ozren Polašek, Olga Gornik, Veronique Vitart, Jodie L Abrahams, Maja Pučić, Mislav Novokmet, Irma Redžić, Susan Campbell, Sarah H Wild, Fran Borovečki, Wei Wang, Ivana Kolčić, Lina Zgaga, Ulf Gyllensten, James F Wilson, Alan F Wright, Nicholas D Hastie, Harry Campbell, Pauline M Rudd, Igor RudanGet full text
Published 2010-12-01
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74by Chunhua He, MD, Dr. Li Liu, PhD, Yue Chu, MSPH, Jamie Perin, PhD, Li Dai, PhD, Xiaohong Li, MD, Lei Miao, BA, Leni Kang, PhD, Qi Li, MD, Robert Scherpbier, MPH, Sufang Guo, MD, Prof. Igor Rudan, MD, Peige Song, MSc, Kit Yee Chan, PhD, Prof. Yan Guo, MPH, Prof. Robert E Black, MD, Prof. Yanping Wang, MD, Prof. Jun Zhu, MDGet full text
Published 2017-02-01
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75by Elisa Benedetti, Maja Pučić-Baković, Toma Keser, Annika Wahl, Antti Hassinen, Jeong-Yeh Yang, Lin Liu, Irena Trbojević-Akmačić, Genadij Razdorov, Jerko Štambuk, Lucija Klarić, Ivo Ugrina, Maurice H. J. Selman, Manfred Wuhrer, Igor Rudan, Ozren Polasek, Caroline Hayward, Harald Grallert, Konstantin Strauch, Annette Peters, Thomas Meitinger, Christian Gieger, Marija Vilaj, Geert-Jan Boons, Kelley W. Moremen, Tatiana Ovchinnikova, Nicolai Bovin, Sakari Kellokumpu, Fabian J. Theis, Gordan Lauc, Jan KrumsiekGet full text
Published 2017-11-01
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76by Elisa Benedetti, Maja Pučić-Baković, Toma Keser, Annika Wahl, Antti Hassinen, Jeong-Yeh Yang, Lin Liu, Irena Trbojević-Akmačić, Genadij Razdorov, Jerko Štambuk, Lucija Klarić, Ivo Ugrina, Maurice H. J. Selman, Manfred Wuhrer, Igor Rudan, Ozren Polasek, Caroline Hayward, Harald Grallert, Konstantin Strauch, Annette Peters, Thomas Meitinger, Christian Gieger, Marija Vilaj, Geert-Jan Boons, Kelley W. Moremen, Tatiana Ovchinnikova, Nicolai Bovin, Sakari Kellokumpu, Fabian J. Theis, Gordan Lauc, Jan KrumsiekGet full text
Published 2018-02-01
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77by Narendra K Arora, Soumya Swaminathan, Archisman Mohapatra, Hema S Gopalan, Vishwa M Katoch, Maharaj K Bhan, Reeta Rasaily, Chander Shekhar, Vasantha Thavaraj, Malabika Roy, Manoja K Das, Kerri Wazny, Rakesh Kumar, Ajay Khera, Neerja Bhatla, Vanita Jain, Avula Laxmaiah, M.K.C. Nair, Vinod K Paul, Prema Ramachandran, Siddharth Ramji, Umesh Vaidya, I.C. Verma, Dheeraj Shah, Rajiv Bahl, Shamim Qazi, Igor Rudan, Robert E Black, for the ICMR INCLEN Research Priority Setting NetworkGet full text
Published 2017-01-01
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78by Brian Wahl, PhD, Apoorva Sharan, ScM, Maria Deloria Knoll, PhD, Rajesh Kumar, ProfMD, Li Liu, PhD, Yue Chu, MSPH, David A McAllister, MD, Harish Nair, ProfPhD, Harry Campbell, ProfMD, Igor Rudan, ProfMD, Usha Ram, ProfPhD, Molly Sauer, MPH, Anita Shet, MD, Robert Black, ProfMD, Mathuram Santosham, ProfMD, Katherine L O'Brien, ProfMD, Narendra K Arora, ProfMDGet full text
Published 2019-06-01
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79by Gordan Lauc, Jennifer E Huffman, Maja Pučić, Lina Zgaga, Barbara Adamczyk, Ana Mužinić, Mislav Novokmet, Ozren Polašek, Olga Gornik, Jasminka Krištić, Toma Keser, Veronique Vitart, Blanca Scheijen, Hae-Won Uh, Mariam Molokhia, Alan Leslie Patrick, Paul McKeigue, Ivana Kolčić, Ivan Krešimir Lukić, Olivia Swann, Frank N van Leeuwen, L Renee Ruhaak, Jeanine J Houwing-Duistermaat, P Eline Slagboom, Marian Beekman, Anton J M de Craen, André M Deelder, Qiang Zeng, Wei Wang, Nicholas D Hastie, Ulf Gyllensten, James F Wilson, Manfred Wuhrer, Alan F Wright, Pauline M Rudd, Caroline Hayward, Yurii Aulchenko, Harry Campbell, Igor RudanGet full text
Published 2013-01-01
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80by Andrew A Hicks, Peter P Pramstaller, Asa Johansson, Veronique Vitart, Igor Rudan, Peter Ugocsai, Yurii Aulchenko, Christopher S Franklin, Gerhard Liebisch, Jeanette Erdmann, Inger Jonasson, Irina V Zorkoltseva, Cristian Pattaro, Caroline Hayward, Aaron Isaacs, Christian Hengstenberg, Susan Campbell, Carsten Gnewuch, A Cecilej W Janssens, Anatoly V Kirichenko, Inke R König, Fabio Marroni, Ozren Polasek, Ayse Demirkan, Ivana Kolcic, Christine Schwienbacher, Wilmar Igl, Zrinka Biloglav, Jacqueline C M Witteman, Irene Pichler, Ghazal Zaboli, Tatiana I Axenovich, Annette Peters, Stefan Schreiber, H-Erich Wichmann, Heribert Schunkert, Nick Hastie, Ben A Oostra, Sarah H Wild, Thomas Meitinger, Ulf Gyllensten, Cornelia M van Duijn, James F Wilson, Alan Wright, Gerd Schmitz, Harry CampbellGet full text
Published 2009-10-01
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