Daniil Shirokov

researcher · medicine & data

Hi, I'm Danya. I work with data, requirements, and people: from population-based studies to building the HIS.

Clinical research, health-data analytics, and evidence-based practice — between Scandinavia Clinic in Saint Petersburg and doctoral work in Tampere.

About

Daniil Shirokov
Daniil Shirokov
Daniil Shirokov
Saint Petersburg · Tampere

Researcher, epidemiologist, and business analyst with experience across a clinic, a university, and an international publisher. My focus: quality of care, register and population data, research-impact assessment, digital processes in medicine, and putting evidence-based approaches into practice.

I develop the clinic's healthcare information system while doing doctoral research at Tampere University — studying type 2 diabetes among migrant and native Finnish populations through national registers. I teach scientometrics at the university, design patient pathways with the team, and build the analytics.

I care about turning routine health data into evidence teams can actually act on — and explaining it in plain language.

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Experience

Head of Science Department
Scandinavia (AVA-PETER) Clinic · Saint Petersburg
2020 — present

Improving quality of care, developing the clinic's healthcare information system (HIS), and clinical research. Testing hypotheses on care processes with data, translating evidence into practice, and working with clinical stakeholders.

Doctoral Researcher
Tampere University · Finland
2024 — present

Type 2 diabetes trends and direct / indirect costs among migrant and native Finnish populations (Statistics Finland, FinDM).

Head, Publication Activity Development Center
ITMO University · Saint Petersburg
2021 — 2022

Designing and running local research-evaluation procedures, analytical breakdowns for university management, and designing a data-collection system.

Business Analyst, Life Sciences & Healthcare
EPAM Systems
2021 — 2022

Business analysis and requirements for life-sciences and healthcare software.

Associate Professor, ITMO University
MSc Science Communication
2019 — present

Teaching research-evaluation methods and scientometrics to MSc Science Communication students, and supervising master's theses.

Science Editor
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
2018 — 2020

Covering research at the university — interviewing engineers, writing popular-science articles, and collecting scientometric data.

Junior Researcher
Institute of Biomedical Technologies · NNSMA, Nizhny Novgorod
2014 — 2016

Biophysics and biomedical research.

Selected publications

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Saint Petersburg, Russia: a population-based study
Scientific Reports · 2021
CiteScore 6.4·17 citations
COVID-19 pandemic in Saint Petersburg, Russia: combining population-based serological study and surveillance data
PLOS One · 2022
CiteScore 4.8·10 citations
Evaluation of the performance of SARS-CoV-2 antibody assays for a longitudinal population-based study of COVID-19 spread in St. Petersburg, Russia
Journal of Medical Virology · 2021
CiteScore 9.9·17 citations
Interrogation of metabolic and oxygen states of tumors with fiber-based luminescence lifetime spectroscopy
Optics Letters · 2017
CiteScore 5.9·35 citations

Education

PhD, Epidemiology (in progress)
Tampere University, Finland · expected 2028
MSc, Systems Analysis and Control
ITMO University, Saint Petersburg · 2018
BSc, Biophysics / Biomedicine
Lobachevsky State University, Nizhny Novgorod · 2016

Languages — Russian (native), English (IELTS 8.0)

Grants & recognition

Deputy PI — €400,000 COVID-19 seroprevalence grant
Polymetal International · Saint Petersburg · 2020–2021
"Heroes of Saint Petersburg" Award
RBC Saint Petersburg · 2020

Contact

Let's talk.

Open to research collaborations, real-world-evidence projects, and academic work.