He took part in several state championships in mathematics, physics, and chess from 1983 to 1985. Igor Rudan attended the primary school Veljko Vlahović in Krajiška Street in Zagreb from 1977 until 1985. Family Rudan originates from the village of Bogomolje at the island of Hvar, Croatia.
Their father and Rudan's grandfather, Mario Rudan, was a judge of the Croatian Supreme Court, while his wife Lucija (nee Perinić) was a school teacher and a well-known Croatian poet. His uncle Pavao Rudan, Nikola's younger brother, was an anthropologist and an eminent Croatian scholar who later became Secretary-General of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His mother Tatjana (nee Valić) was a concert pianist. His father Nikola Rudan, was a surgeon at the Institute for Tumours and Allied Diseases in Zagreb. Igor Rudan was born in Zagreb, Croatia's capital in 1971, which was then a city in the former Yugoslavia.
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In 2017 he completed a documentary series "Survival: The Story of Global Health" which was broadcast on Croatian National TV and seen by more than 1 million people. He is most widely known for his popularizing of biomedical science. He founded or co-Founded Croatian Centre for Global Health at the University of Split, Croatia (in 2008), Edinburgh University Global Health Society (in 2011), Journal of Global Health (in 2011), World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for Population Health Research and Training (in 2013), Centre for Global Health at the University of Edinburgh (in 2015), Journal of Global Health Reports (in 2017) and the International Society of Global Health (in 2019). Both have been widely used by international agencies to prioritize investments in global health research and interventions, respectively. He developed the "CHNRI" methodology (in 2007) and EQUIST tool (in 2012). He served as a consultant of the World Health Organization, UNICEF, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The World Bank, Save the Children, and other organizations. In his later career, he focused on international health efforts to reduce global child mortality as the member of Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG). It also led to the discovery of biomedical role for more than 2,000 human genes through genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The biobank improved understanding of the effects of consanguinity and outbreeding on human health and led to “the outbreeding theory”. In his early scientific career, he founded the Croatian Biobank “10001 Dalmatians” in isolated populations of Croatian islands in Dalmatia region. He is a highly cited scientist who published more than 500 research papers, which have received more than 140,000 citations to date and with H-index of 130. degrees (in public health and genetic epidemiology).
Igor Rudan is a medical doctor with two master’s degrees (in anthropology and epidemiology) and two Ph.D. He creates popular science books and documentaries. Igor Rudan (born 7 March 1971) is a Croatian-British scientist, writer, and science communicator. Scientist, Writer, and Science Communicator West Charlotte High School, Charlotte, NC, USAįaculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Zagreb, Croatia
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