Associate Professor
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine / Yale School of Medicine, United Kingdom
Dr. Christopher T. Rentsch, PhD, FISPE is an Associate Professor specialising in the use of electronic health records, with a focus on creating real-world evidence for the safety and effectiveness of medications. In his roles at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Yale School of Medicine, he performs research using some of the largest clinical and genetic cohorts in the world today.
Dr Rentsch is committed to ISPE and has served as Chair of the ISPE Membership Committee and Co-Chair of the RWE Task Force Methods Training subgroup. In 2021, he received the ISPE Emerging Leader Award, and in 2022, he was awarded ISPE’s Special COVID-19 Award for his contributions to public health during the pandemic. He is a Fellow of ISPE and elected to the ISPE Board of Directors representing Academia (Europe/Africa) in 2024.
He is Programme Director for a suite of intensive short courses at LSHTM, including the "Professional Certificate in Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacovigilance" and "Real-World Evidence in Pharmacoepidemiology". More details: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/electronic-health-records#training
He is co-Editor of an open-source, ISPE-endorsed, online textbook entitled, “COVID-19 Real-World Evidence Primer,” which aims to promote careful design and methodological approaches supporting causal inferences that guide clinical and regulatory decisions, found here: https://evidenceaccelerator.org/covid-19-real-world-evidence-primer.
Christopher received his MPH in Global Epidemiology from Emory University in 2011 and his PhD in Epidemiology & Population Health from LSHTM in 2018. He was also awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Quantitative Research Methods with Distinction from LSHTM in 2017.
In his spare time, he can be found performing around the UK in the London City Brass band.