Dr Mohammad Ali

Dr Ali is an Epidemiologist and Health Data Scientist at the Leicester Real World Evidence Unit, Leicester Diabetes Centre, University of Leicester. His research focuses on ethnic health inequalities, cardiometabolic disease, and heart failure, using large-scale routinely collected healthcare datasets to generate real-world evidence that informs policy and improves patient outcomes.

He has extensive experience working with complex UK electronic health records, including the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), UK Biobank, and other longitudinal cohort studies. His work spans advanced statistical modelling and trial emulation methods, with applications across diabetes, obesity, multiple long-term conditions, and inequities shaped by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and deprivation. He is committed to improving the quality, accessibility, and interpretation of real-world data for population health research.

Dr Ali has strong global health interests and serves as Co-Chair of the Global Health Committee at the Faculty of Public Health, where he contributes to national efforts addressing international health challenges and advocating for equity-driven public health policy. Beyond this, he is engaged in interdisciplinary research on misdiagnosis of type 1 diabetes and the impact of advanced diabetes therapies such as SGLT2 inhibitors and incretin-based therapies (commonly referred to as weight-loss drugs).