Richard Kirubakaran is  Director, at CBEBM Vellore. He was a research scientist in Biostatistics at  Prof BV Moses Centre for Evidence Informed healthcare and  Health Policy is an Project of Clinical epidemiology Unit at Christian Medical College – Vellore. He is a member of the  Cochrane  statistical methods group,  and Method support group on Indian first evidence based guidelines/policy on Extra Pulmonary tuberculosis developed at AIIMS New Delhi.

 He has more than 15 years of experience in field of Biostatistics, Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. He has been a part of many Cochrane systematic reviews and Non Cochrane systematic reviews in Reproductive medicine, ADHD, Paediatrics, Infectious diseases and Public health.