Iain Buchan
Public health and data science research, and Chair of Data Governance group.
University of Liverpool Chair in Public Health and Clinical Informatics, Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Innovation.
Iain Buchan is Chair in Public Health and Clinical Informatics and Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Innovation at the University of Liverpool. As a public health physician and data scientist, he recently led world-first evaluation of , risk-mitigated reopening of for UK COVID-19 responses, and designed the and .
Previously, he founded Manchester’s health informatics research centre, where he raised and led over £150m of research. Qualified in pharmacology, medicine, public health, statistics and informatics, Iain pursues data-intensive methodological and applied research into major population health challenges, and how health systems may respond more systematically. He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and won the 2022 Faculty of Public Health Alwyn-Smith Prize.
