Emeka Chukwusa is a Research Fellow in Biostatistics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. His research to date focuses on using large-scale, routinely collected, structured, and unstructured health datasets from electronic health records (CPRD, HES, ONS death registry, KERRI) to understand the variations and factors associated with health outcomes. In his current role, he will be working on the Extreme Heat and Mental Health project. This project uses data from CRIS linked with environmental data (including pollution and temperature) to examine the impacts of extreme heat events on mental health in urban populations, using London as a case study.

Emeka joined King’s College in 2016, working at the Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care. My areas of expertise are biostatistics, epidemiology, big data, health service research, palliative care and geographic information science (GIS). He has a PhD from the University of Leicester.

Research interests

• Data from EHRs in the context of public mental health and palliative care
• Environmental epidemiology
• Data science
• Machine learning
• Clinical trials
• Social media