Dr Surendra Karki
Research Fellow
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Monash University
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Surendra is an experienced epidemiologist and health researcher. He collaborates with other teams both within and outside of Lifeblood to establish and run strategically valuable long-term donor health studies.
As a part of Biostatistics and Epidemiology team at Lifeblood, he ensures high quality epidemiology and statistical methods are applied to get study results that guide decision making for donor health policies.
He is keen to collaborate with universities and students on blood donor health research, and train the next generation of epidemiologists and health data scientists.
Awards
- Dana Devine Fellowship in Donor Studies (2025)
- ECDHM Award for best short presentation (2021)
- ISBT Award for best poster presentation (2021)
- UNSW High Quality Research Papers Scheme Incentive (2019)
Leadership
- Epidemiologist member, National Immunoglobulin Governance and Advisory Committee, National Blood Authority (2020-current)
- Australian higher degree by research (HDR) supervisor
Key publications
sociation of ABO blood group and coronary heart disease in blood donors—Results from a cohort study in Australia
2026
Transfusion
66(5):941-951
Higher uptake of common adult vaccines in Australian blood donors: An analysis of linked registry data
2025
Vox Sanguinis
121(5)570-580
Frequent apheresis donation is not associated with adverse bone health in donors aged 45 years and over-Results from a cohort study in Australia
2025
Transfusion
doi.org/10.1111/trf.18146
Regular whole blood donation and gastrointestinal, breast, colorectal and haematological cancer risk among blood donors in Australia
2024
Vox Sanguinis
119(12):1234-1244
Regular high-frequency whole blood donation and risk of cardiovascular disease in middle-aged and older blood donors in Australia
2023
Transfusion
63(5):1012-1022
Dr Surendra Karki articles
