Philip Anyanwu

Philip Anyanwu is an epidemiologist specialising in infectious disease epidemiology, digital health, and global health. His research uses multisource data, including population-level healthcare data, routinely collected administrative datasets, and emerging multimodal data, to understand disease patterns and evaluate the mechanisms and equity impacts of social and public health interventions.

He leads the applied health research stream within the School of Pharmacy. His current projects span AI-enabled respiratory diagnostics, climate-sensitive malaria control, frugal, AI-enabled medical devices for respiratory disease management, and digital interventions to support antimicrobial stewardship.

Philip has contributed to national research programmes, including the NIHR HPRU in Gastrointestinal Infections, the NIHR SPHR PHRESH Consortium, the NIHR PHIRST, and the NIHR ARC West Midlands. He has served as PI and Co I on projects funded by UKRI, NIHR, Cancer Research UK, UKHSA, Horizon Europe, and EDCTP.

He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, an External Examiner for several UK MPH programmes, and a Visiting Professor at the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean, Jamaica.