Prof Colin McCowan
Professor in Health Data Science
Biography
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.
PhD supervision
- Elbina Avdich
- Polly Black
- Boyang Lin
- Elbina Avdich
- Brenda Bauer
Selected publications
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Risk of winter hospitalisation and death from acute respiratory infections in Scotland: national retrospective cohort study
Shi, T., Millington, T., Robertson, C., Jeffrey, K., Katikireddi, S. V., McCowan, C., Simpson, C. R., Woolford, L., Daines, L., Kerr, S., Swallow, B., Fagbamigbe, A., Vallejos, C. A., Weatherill, D., Jayacodi, S., Marsh, K., McMenamin, J., Rudan, I., Ritchie, L. D., Mueller, T., & 3 others , 12 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Online First, 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Accelerated waning of the humoral response to COVID-19 vaccines in obesity
van der Klaauw, A. A., Horner, E. C., Pereyra-Gerber, P., Agrawal, U., Foster, W. S., Spencer, S., Vergese, B., Smith, M., Henning, E., Ramsay, I. D., Smith, J. A., Guillaume, S. M., Sharpe, H. J., Hay, I. M., Thompson, S., Innocentin, S., Booth, L. H., Robertson, C., McCowan, C., Kerr, S., & 27 others , 11 May 2023, In: Nature Medicine. 29, 5, p. 1146-1154 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Clustering long-term health conditions among 67728 people with multimorbidity using electronic health records in Scotland
Fagbamigbe, A. F., Agrawal, U., Azcoaga-Lorenzo, A., MacKerron, B., Özyiğit, E. B., Alexander, D. C., Akbari, A., Owen, R. K., Lyons, J., Lyons, R. A., Denaxas, S., Kirk, P., Miller, A. C., Harper, G., Dezateux, C., Brookes, A., Richardson, S., Nirantharakumar, K., Guthrie, B., Hughes, L., & 4 others , 29 Nov 2023, In: PLoS ONE. 18, 11, 14 p., e0294666.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in Scottish neonates 2020-2022: a national, population-based cohort study
Goulding, A., McQuaid, F., Lindsay, L., Agrawal, U., Auyeung, B., Calvert, C., Carruthers, J., Denny, C., Donaghy, J., Hillman, S., Hopcroft, L., Hopkins, L., McCowan, C., McLaughlin, T., Moore, E., Ritchie, L., Simpson, C. R., Taylor, B., Fenton, L., Pollock, L., & 6 others , 1 Jul 2023, In: Archives of Disease in Childhood. 108, 4, p. 367-372 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Effect on life expectancy of temporal sequence in a multimorbidity cluster of psychosis, diabetes, and congestive heart failure among 1·7 million individuals in Wales with 20-year follow-up: a retrospective cohort study using linked data
Owen, R. K., Lyons, J., Akbari, A., Guthrie, B., Agrawal, U., Alexander, D. C., Azcoaga-Lorenzo, A., Brookes, A. J., Denaxas, S., Dezateux, C., Fagbamigbe, A., Harper, G., Kirk, P. D. W., Özyiğit, E. B., Richardson, S., Staniszewska, S., McCowan, C., Lyons, R. A. & Abrams, K. R., 7 Jul 2023, In: The Lancet Public Health. 8, 7, p. e535-e545 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ethnic inequalities in positive SARS-CoV-2 tests, infection prognosis, COVID-19 hospitalisations, and deaths: analysis of two years of a record linked national cohort study in Scotland
Amele, S., Kibuchi, E., McCabe, R., Pearce, A., Henery, P., Hainey, K., Fagbamigbe, A., Kurdi, A., McCowan, C., Simpson, C. R., Dibben, C., Buchanan, D., Demou, E., Almaghrabi, F., Anghelescu, G., Taylor, H., Tibble, H., Rudan, I., Nazroo, J., Bécares, L., & 6 others , Oct 2023, In: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 77, 10, p. 641-648 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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External validation of the QCovid 2 and 3 risk prediction algorithms for risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation and mortality in adults: national cohort study in Scotland
Kerr, S., Millington, T., Rudan, I., McCowan, C., Tibble, H., Jeffrey, K., Fagbamigbe, A., Simpson, C. R., Robertson, C., Hippisley-Cox, J. & Sheikh, A., Dec 2023, In: BMJ Open. 13, 12, 8 p., e075958.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Increasing uptake of FIT colorectal screening: protocol for the TEMPO randomised controlled trial testing a suggested deadline and a planning tool
Robb, K. A., Kotzur, M., Young, B., McCowan, C., Hollands, G. J., Irvine, A., Macdonald, S., McConnachie, A., O'Carroll, R. E., O'Connor, R. C. & Steele, R. J. C., 18 May 2023, In: BMJ Open. 13, 5, 9 p., e066136.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Intranasal steroid use and COVID-19 mortality among patients with asthma and COPD: a retrospective cohort study
Hernandez Santiago, V., Fagbamigbe, A. F., Sullivan, F. M., Agrawal, U., Morales, D., McCowan, C. & Lipworth, B., 1 Oct 2023, In: Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology. 131, 4, p. 474-481Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Key outcomes for reporting in studies of pregnant women with multiple long-term conditions and their children: a qualitative study
Lee, S. I., Hanley, S., Vowles, Z., Plachcinski, R., Azcoaga-Lorenzo, A., Taylor, B., Nelson-Piercy, C., McCowan, C., O’Reilly, D., Hope, H., Abel, K. M., Eastwood, K-A., Locock, L., Singh, M., Moss, N., Brophy, S., Nirantharakumar, K., Thangaratinam, S. & Black, M., 1 Aug 2023, In: BMJ Open. 23, 15 p., 551.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review