Christopher Rentsch
Associate Professor
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChristopher Rentsch is an associate professor and pharmacoepidemiologist with over a decade of experience building and analyzing large-scale cohorts and biobanks from electronic health records across the UK and US. Based in London with joint affiliation at Yale School of Medicine, he focuses on real-world pharmacogenomics and drug repurposing for substance misuse, translating observational data into actionable clinical and public health insights. He directs long-standing courses in pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacovigilance at LSHTM and serves on the Board of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology, combining rigorous methods with education and policy engagement. Trained with a PhD from LSHTM and an MPH from Emory, he blends quantitative epidemiology with practical drug-safety applications and a track record of building reproducible large-EHR research platforms.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Epidemiology and Population Health, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Epidemiology and Population Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of LondonMaster of Public Health - MPH, Global Epidemiology, Master of Public Health - MPH, Global Epidemiology at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Sociology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Sociology at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (5)
relationship8
examine8
dummy-data2
databases1
deep-learning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LSHTM-ALPHAnetwork/PIRL_RecordLinkageSoftware
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:8 commits in 3 months
opensafely/ethnicity-covid-research
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
Study to examine the relationship between ethnicity and adverse covid outcomes in England
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 24 commits in 2 months
examineethnicityrelationshipadverseengland
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