Francesco Zaccardi is Clinical Epidemiologist and Deputy Director of the Leicester Real World Evidence Unit, Diabetes Research Centre, University of Leicester. After completing his residency in Internal Medicine and Diabetes at the Catholic University School of Medicine in Rome, he has been visiting researcher at the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, and at the Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland; he completed his PhD in epidemiology of hypoglycaemia at Leicester University in 2018.

His main interests are epidemiology of cardiometabolic diseases, comparative assessment of glucose-lowering drugs and medical statistics.