Vittal Katikireddi is a NRS Senior Clinical Research Fellow and an honorary Consultant in Public Health at NHS Health Scotland. He started a prestigious five year externally funded fellowship in 2016 to develop and analyse confidentially linked administrative welfare and health data in the UK. His chief research interests are in improving the development and application of evidence to inform healthy public policy. He co-leads the research theme on the evaluation of natural experiments.

Vittal studied at the University of Edinburgh, completing an intercalated degree in Medical Sciences (Genetics) in 2001 and a degree in Medicine (MBChB) in 2004. Following graduation, he worked in hospital medicine for four years in various parts of the UK during which time he gained membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP). He carried out his public health training at NHS Lothian (MSc 2009, MFPH 2010), including attachments at the World Health Organization and Scottish Government.