Dr Deepti Gurdasani

Associate Professor
Medicine & Health
The Kirby Institute

I am a clinical epidemiologist and bioinformatician by background. After completing my MBBS and MD in Internal Medicine at Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, I completed my MPhil in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Cambridge in 2010, followed by a PhD in examination of genetic factors associated with disease in genetically diverse populations (2013). My subsequent work as a post-doctoral fellows at the Wellcome Sanger Institute focused on the study of population h...

E-mail
d.gurdasani@unsw.edu.au

 

  • Oracle Research Project Cloud compute award ($21,000)
  • NIHR AI in Multimorbidity Development Award (£118,000), 2021
  • UKRI/Rutherford Fellowship (£319,509)
  • Cambridge-Africa Alborada Research Fund (£19,970)
  • Award of the Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship (£36,000)
  • Young Investigator Award for the Conference of Retrovirology and Opportunistic Infection
  • Distinction in MPhil Epidemiology
  • First rank in M.D. Medicine
  • Dr. R. Rajam Commemoration Gold Medal for First rank in MD Medicine
  • Dr. R. Vijayalakshmi Gold Medal for University First rank in MD Medicine
  • Prof. Dr. G. B. West Endowment Silver Medal for University First Rank in MD Medicine
  • Iraiyadimai E.A. Jiavudeen Endowment Prize for First Rank in MD Medicine
  • Kutumbiah Prize in Clinical Medicine
  • Second Rank in first M.B.B.S
  • Third Rank in second M.B.B.S
  • Fourth rank in Final M.B.B.S
  • Abhyankar Memorial Prize in Physiology
  • Thomas Dina Prize for the first rank in Physiology
  • Philip Simmons Prize in Psychiatry
  • Gwenda Lewis Prize in Anaesthesiology
  • Victor C Rambo Prize for first rank in Ophthalmology
  • First Certificate of Honor in Biochemistry, Physiology, Anatomy, Pharmacology, pathology, Microbiology and Ophthalmology
  • Second Certificate of honour in Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Community Medicine and Forensic Medicine
  • Second Prize in the All India Apollo Annual Medical Quiz

Using LLMs for Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)

 

  • Current member of OzSAGE

  • Former member of UK Independent SAGE

  • >100 interviews across the BBC, ITV, Sky News, Bloomberg TV, CNN, ABC, CBC, DW News, EuroNews, and podcasts, including with the Economist, the Guardian, the Naked Scientist

  • Opinion pieces for the Guardian, iNews, Foreign Policy Magazine, the Conversation, the Byline Times.

  • Comments and quotes for the Guardian, New York Times, WSJ, Sky News and New Statesman.

  • Patient and public engagement for severe mental illness multimorbidity research

  • Patient engagement for COVID research and policy (Long COVID Kids, Clinically Vulnerable Families, UK, Parents United, SafeEd4All)

  • Advocacy for a better culture in academia (@dobetteracademia)

  • Given public evidence to the UK parliamentary committee for COVID-19 pandemic response (APPG) and presenting updates and evidence at Independent SAGE