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Robert Aldridge

Professor

Rob Aldridge, MBBS MEng MSc FFPH PhD, is Professor in the Department of Health Metrics Sciences and is Team Lead for the Clinical Informatics at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). The Clinical Informatics team serve as stewards of clinical data sources from across the globe by facilitating data access, building data infrastructure that promotes research, and establishing best practices for data processing.

Rob's research aims to equitably improve the health of the public through the application of data science and public health approaches. He aims to make invisible populations visible by using data to understand the health needs of people experiencing homelessness, substance use, imprisonment or migration. Recently, Rob was Chief Investigator for the Virus Watch study which made a wide range of research contributions to the COVID pandemic response in the UK and globally.

Rob qualified in medicine from University College London (UCL) in 2007 and trained as a public health physician in the United Kingdom. Rob joined IHME in August 2023, previously having been a Professor of Public Health Data Science at UCL where he remains an honorary Full Professor. In this role he held honorary clinical positions at the UK Health Security Agency and University College London Hospital. Rob gained an MSc in Epidemiology at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2010 and completed his PhD in infectious disease epidemiology at UCL in 2015. Prior to his clinical training, he studied Mechanical Engineering at The University of Nottingham and worked in management consultancy.

Publications

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Steel N, Ford JA, Newton JN, et al. Changes in health in the countries of the UK and 150 English Local Authority areas 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet. 24 Oct 2018. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/.
GBD 2016 Mortality Collaborators. Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet. 14 Sept 2017: 390;1084–1150. 
GBD 2015 Child Mortality Collaborators. Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet. 2016 Oct 7; 388:1725–1774.
GBD 2015 Risk Factors Collaborators. Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioral, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet. 2016 Oct 7; 388:1659–1724.
GBD 2015 Mortality and Causes of Death Collaborators. Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet. 2016 Oct 7; 388:1459–1544.