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.

Prior to King’s, Professor Car was Founding Director of the WHO Centre for Digital Health and Health Education, Director of Public Health, Primary and Integrated Care at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Director of the NIHR Primary Care Research Network for London (North West London), and Director of the Global eHealth Unit at Imperial College London. A Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Faculty of Public Health, he has authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications, policy reports, and book chapters. Key recent publications include 'Primary-AI: outcomes-based standards to safeguard primary care in the AI era' (Nature Medicine, 2026), 'The Digital Health Competencies in Medical Education Framework: An International Consensus Statement Based on a Delphi Study' (JAMA Network Open, 2025), 'Interpretable multimodal machine learning model for predicting health risks of patients with heart failure' (Methods, 2026), and 'Differences in Expert Perspectives on AI Training in Medical Education: Secondary Analysis of a Multinational Delphi Study' (2025). Professor Car supervises PhD students, mentors early-career investigators, and leads innovative curricula in digital and AI-enabled health, welcoming prospective PhD students in population health, digital health, and AI.