Rate My Professor Josip Car

Professor Josip Car is Professor of Population and Digital Health Sciences and Head of the School of Life Course & Population Sciences at King’s College London. He serves as Director of King’s Population Health Institute and Director of Population Health for King’s Health Partners, with visiting professorships at the National University of Singapore and Imperial College London. A clinically trained physician, he worked as a general practitioner for over 25 years and continues as an honorary NHS consultant. His frontline clinical experience informs his research at the intersection of population health, digital health, and artificial intelligence, focusing on translating evidence into real-world impact through scalable, personalised interventions. Professor Car advances digital and AI-enabled transformation of healthcare, developing models of human-AI collaboration in clinical care, personalised medicine, and population health. He explores health system and policy innovations to improve population health, including strengthened primary care, population health management, and data-driven prevention and chronic disease management. Additionally, he promotes digital health education for professionals and patients to ensure confident, safe, and effective use of digital and AI tools. Reducing health inequities threads through his work. He leads the EMBRACE programme, establishing one of the world’s largest prospective digital cohorts of 60,000 pregnant women, partners, and babies across global regions to enhance maternal, child, and lifelong health via personalised human-AI interventions.