Author: Jitendra Jonnagaddala
Bio: Dr. Jitendra Jonnagaddala is a Research Fellow with the School of Population Health (SPH) under the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Jitendra’s research interests are in the secondary usage of routinely collected electronic health records (EHRs) data. His focus is on linking and harmonising primary care data with hospital admissions data, social media and wearable devices data to Observational Health Data Sciences
and Informatics (OHDSI) Common Data Model

He is also secretary of OHDSI-Australia chapter. Jitendra as part of his PhD investigated the methods to assess absolute risk assessment for Coronary artery Disease in Type 2 Diabetes patients using EHRs. He is also the main organiser and editor of the International Workshop on Digital Disease Detection using Social Media (DDDSM). He is also a WHO international consultant on eHealth and Health information systems. As part of his consulting assignments he worked with funding agencies, health ministries, and technical assistance agencies and not for profit organisations.

Source: [About the author](https://sph.med.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/sphcm/events/Jitendra-Jonnagaddala-Seminar-11-Nov-20.pdf)