Ben Maruthappu

Mahiben (Ben) Maruthappu is a British physician, academic researcher, health policy specialist and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Cera, a tech-enabled homecare company, and was the first president of the United Kingdom Medical Students’ Association (UKMSA). He co-founded the National Health Service (NHS) Innovation Accelerator (NIA), a program that supports and accelerates the adoption of new healthcare treatments and technologies, and served as NHS England’s Innovation Adviser to the CEO on their $100 billion of annual health spending. He has published more than 100 research papers in peer-reviewed journals. Maruthappu led the 2016 study that linked the global economic crisis to 260,000 additional cancer deaths in a group of developed countries while demonstrating the protective effect of universal health coverage. The study, published in The Lancet, was ranked as one of the most influential research papers of 2016.