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Professor Rohini Mathur serves as Professor and Chair of Health Data Science at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London. An epidemiologist, she specializes in applying precision medicine approaches to globally diverse electronic health datasets to address health inequalities, particularly in cardiometabolic diseases. Her research integrates causal inference methods, observational epidemiology, and pharmacoepidemiology using large-scale routine data to inform clinical practice, guidelines, and policy. Previously, she was Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she undertook a Wellcome Trust-funded postdoctoral fellowship examining ethnic inequalities in type 2 diabetes care and outcomes, and participated in the OpenSAFELY collaborative on COVID-19 projects. Earlier roles include research positions at Queen Mary University of London from 2009 to 2014. Currently, she contributes to the Clinical Effectiveness Group through the Barts Charity-funded Precision Medicine Part 2 programme, leads a workstream on phenotype development in the Genes & Health Executive using linked electronic health records and cohort data, and collaborates across Wolfson Institute centres on health inequalities initiatives. Mathur chairs the Membership Committee of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology, sits on Diabetes UK Research Steering Groups, and is a member of the South Asian Health Foundation. She has delivered keynote addresses, such as at the ADR UK annual conference in 2023, and leads a £2.2 million NIHR-funded international trial on learning health systems for disease management in Thailand.