Research output per year
Research output per year
Prof, Professor of Health Data Science
KY16 9TF
United Kingdom
Accepting Postgraduate Research Students
Colin McCowan was appointed as Professor in Health Data Science from January 2019 at the University of St Andrews and is an Honorary Professor within the Institute of Health & Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow.
Colin was at the University of Glasgow between November 2012 and December 2018, most recently as Professor of Health Informatics in the Robertson Centre for Biostatistics. He has research interests in the use of existing routine data within epidemiological studies and in the support of clinical trials and other research methods. His work spans a number of clinical conditions including cancer, healthcare acquired infections, cardiovascular disease, multimorbidity and care of the elderly. He has been involved in developing services to provision routinely collected clinical data for research both at the Robertson Centre, jointly running the West of Scotland Safe Haven with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and before that at the Health Informatics Centre in Dundee.
He led the capacity building work stream of the Farr Institute, is one of the Scottish leads for training within HDR UK and has published widely in the epidemiological and data science literature.
Health data science, clinical epidemiology, development and evaluation of healthcare interventions including trials, use of routinely collected data, data infrastructure
Heath Data Science, Health Informatics, Clinical epidemiology, Routinely collected health data
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Honorary Professor at the Institute of Health & Wellbeing, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
1 Jan 2019 → …
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
McCowan, C. (Creator) & Murray, J. (Creator), GitHub, 2024
https://github.com/EAVE-II/Serology-Analysis/tree/master/analysis
Dataset: Software
Azcoaga-Lorenzo, A. (Creator) & McCowan, C. (Creator), GitHub, 2023
https://github.com/fadeniyi123/MM_HDRUK
Dataset: Software
Agrawal, U. (Creator), McCowan, C. (Creator), Azcoaga-Lorenzo, A. (Creator) & Fagbamigbe, A. (Creator), GitHub, 2021
https://github.com/EAVE-II/Covid-vaccine-failures
Dataset: Software
Agrawal, U. (Creator), McCowan, C. (Creator), Azcoaga-Lorenzo, A. (Creator) & Fagbamigbe, A. (Creator), GitHub, 20 Jul 2021
https://github.com/EAVE-II/EAVE-II-data-dictionary
Dataset
McCowan, C. (Creator), GitHub, 2023
https://github.com/EAVE-II/covid-obesity-humoral-response
Dataset: Software
McCowan, C. (PI), Mills, S. (CoI) & Donnelly, P. D. (CoI)
1/09/24 → 31/08/29
Project: Standard
McCowan, C. (PI)
1/08/24 → 31/07/27
Project: Studentship
McCowan, C. (PI)
2/08/23 → 31/07/27
Project: Standard
McCowan, C. (PI)
1/11/22 → 31/10/25
Project: Standard