Dr Muhammad Faisal is Associate Professor at Centre for Digital Innovations in Health & Social Care, Faculty of Health Studies. He has been actively involved in applied health research for over 15 years, dedicated to utilising data to address health challenges.
Before joining the University of Bradford in January 2015, he served as Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad (Pakistan). He completed his MSc in Statistics in 2006 from Bahauddin Zakaryia University, Multan (Pakistan), followed by a PhD in Biostatistics from University of Vienna, Austria in 2012. Muhammad's PhD focused on addressing statistical challenges in big health data. With a track record of leading data scientist roles within multidisciplinary research teams and publishing over 100 peer-reviewed papers, he is passionate about translating research into practical solutions, particularly in applying clinical prediction tools collaboratively to bring about positive changes in population health.
He has been involved in establishing an NHS-R community to exploit the power of R for the NHS, which is funded by the Health Foundation
https://nhsrcommunity.com/. This project has now been highlighted in the Goldacre review as an exemplar of how to address the analytics challenges of the NHS. He has been leading the development of computer aided-risk scoring system (CARSS) for early detection of deteriorating patients in NHS hospitals
https://carssresearch.org/resources/#infographics. He was a co-investigator and lead statistician to explore the impact of the rapid adoption of health technologies on nurses and nursing care during the COVID-19 pandemic which has now been replicated in New Zealand and Australia.
Muhammad's current research focused on developing equitable prediction tools to enhance the quality and safety of healthcare. He is currently a lead data scientist for Yorkshire & Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration (awarded £5.8 Million) and leading a workstream to evaluate the intervention of increasing uptake of cancer screening in South Asian Muslim women in Bradford (awarded £440,699).
Muhammad is a Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research Fellow. He is also a Fellow of Advance HE. He is a member of Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and International Society For Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB). He reviewed several NIHR and UKRI grants. He served as a member of UKRI Peer Review College and associate member of NIHR HS&DR.