Athula Herath, PhD, MBCS, CITP, CEng
Athula Herath is the Global Head of Real World Evidence Epidemiology and affiliated with the Center of Excellence for Real World Evidence at Novartis. Prior to that, Athula worked for 10 years as Statistical Director for Medimmune/AstraZeneca. Athula joined pharmaceutical industry having spent 10 years tenure as a University Lecturer/Assistant Professor in academia in the U.K.
Athula is a data and statistical scientist specializing in design and analysis of (uncommon) clinical, pragmatic and real world evidence/observational and biomarker studies, statistical modelling and simulation of biomarkers (genetics, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics) for disease onset, progression, clinical effect and outcome.