Biography
Aneel Bhangu is Professor of Global Surgery and Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the University of Birmingham, UK. After undertaking a Cancer Research UK funded PhD Fellowship at the Royal Marsden Hospital, he has developed expertise in pragmatic, multicentre, international surgical clinical trials for patient benefit. Within the NIHR Unit on Global Surgery, he leads a wide research portfolio that includes major randomised controlled trials and policy engagement. He led the research response into safe surgery during COVID-19, as Chief Investigator of the COVIDSurg Collaborative. Most recently, he is Director of a global research portfolio into how to make surgery more environmentally sustainable