Raha Pazoki is a medical doctor and an epidemiologist. She studied Epidemiology at the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES) and the University of Amsterdam. She has worked with various cohort and case–control studies, such as the Arrhythmia Genetics in the Netherlands (AGNES), the Rotterdam Study, the Airwave Health Monitoring Study, and the UK Biobank. In 2016, she joined the Department of Epidemiology and Bio-statistics at Imperial College London as a Research Associate. In 2020, she started a Teaching and Research academic position at Brunel University London. She specializes in the field of health data research, with a primary focus on the epidemiology of cardiometabolic diseases. She was the first to identify 517 novel genetic loci associated with liver enzymes and the first to show the causal effect of liver dysfunction on cardiovascular diseases. In addition, she was the first to show the effect of the alcohol consumption WDPCP gene in lipid metabolism and liver cirrhosis.
Brunel University London
London, City of London, UK