Prof Colin McCowan

Professor in Health Data Science

Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 3481
Email: cm434@st-andrews.ac.uk

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
Boyang Lin
Thu Nguyen

Selected publications

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Association between antibody responses post-vaccination and severe COVID-19 outcomes in Scotland
Macdonald, C., Palmateer, N., McAuley, A., Lindsay, L., Hasan, T., Hameed, S. S., Hall, E., Jeffrey, K., Grange, Z., Gousias, P., Mavin, S., Jarvis, L., Cameron, J. C., Daines, L., Tibble, H., Simpson, C. R., McCowan, C., Katikireddi, S. V., Rudan, I. & Fagbamigbe, A. F. & 6 others, Ritchie, L., Swallow, B., Moss, P., Robertson, C., Sheikh, A. & Murray, J., Dec 2024, In: npj Vaccines. 9, 12 p., 107.
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Association between antibody responses post-vaccination and severe COVID-19 outcomes in Scotland
Macdonald, C., Palmateer, N., McAuley, A., Lindsay, L., Hasan, T., Hameed, S. S., Hall, E., Jeffrey, K., Grange, Z., Gousias, P., Mavin, S., Jarvis, L., Cameron, J. C., Daines, L., Tibble, H., Simpson, C. R., McCowan, C., Katikireddi, S. V., Rudan, I., Fagbamigbe, A. F., & 6 others Ritchie, L., Swallow, B., Moss, P., Robertson, C., Sheikh, A. & Murray, J., Dec 2024, In: npj Vaccines. 9, 1, 107.
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Developing SysteMatic: prevention, precision and equity by design for people living with multiple long-term conditions
Mair, F. S., Nickpour, F., Nicholl, B., MacDonald, S., Joyce, D. W., Cooper, J., Dickson, N., Leason, I., Abbasi, Q. H., Akin, I. F., Deligianni, F., Camacho, E., Downing, J., Garrett, H., Johnston Gray, M., Lowe, D. J., Imran, M. A., Padmanabhan, S., McCowan, C. & Clarkson, P. J. & 2 others, Walker, L. E. & Buchan, I., 2024, In: Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity. 14, 9 p.
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Population-based cancer incidence and mortality rates and ratios among adults with intellectual disabilities in Scotland: a retrospective cohort study with record linkage
Ward, L. A., Cooper, S.-A., Sosenko, F., Morrison, D., Fleming, M., McCowan, C., Robb, K., Hanna, C. R., Hughes-McCormack, L., Dunn, K., Conway, D., Henderson, A., Smith, G., Truesdale, M. & Cairns, D., 14 Aug 2024, In: BMJ Open. 14, 8, 11 p., e084421.
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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, Kurdi, A., Sheikh, A. & Public Health Scotland and the EAVE II Collaborators, 12 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Online First, 15 p.
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Subclinical hypothyroidism in Wales from 2000 to 2021: A descriptive cohort study based on electronic health records
Bauer, B. S., Azcoaga-Lorenzo, A., Agrawal, U., Fagbamigbe, A. F. & McCowan, C., 21 May 2024, In: PLoS ONE. 19, 5 May, 18 p., e0298871.
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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, Mulroney, T. E., O’Reilly, M. J., Gurugama, T. P., Gurugama, L. P., Rust, M. A., Ferreira, A., Ebrahimi, S., Ceron-Gutierrez, L., Scotucci, J., Kronsteiner, B., Dunachie, S. J., Klenerman, P., PITCH Consortium, Park, A. J., Rubino, F., Lamikanra, A. A., Stark, H., Kingston, N., Estcourt, L., Harvala, H., Roberts, D. J., Doffinger, R., Linterman, M. A., Matheson, N. J., Sheikh, A., Farooqi, I. S. & Thaventhiran, J. E. D., 11 May 2023, In: Nature Medicine. 29, 5, p. 1146-1154 9 p.
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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, Kadam, U. T., Khunti, K., Abrams, K. R. & McCowan, C., 29 Nov 2023, In: PLoS ONE. 18, 11, 14 p., e0294666.
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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, Gale, C., Kurinczuk, J. J., Robertson, C., Sheikh, A., Stock, S. & Wood, R., 1 Jul 2023, In: Archives of Disease in Childhood. 108, 4, p. 367-372 6 p.
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Detection and evaluation of signals associated with exposure to individual and combination of medications in pregnancy: a signal detection study protocol
Subramanian, A., Lee, S. I., Hemali Sudasinghe, S. P. B., Wambua, S., Phillips, K., Singh, M., Azcoaga-Lorenzo, A., Cockburn, N., Wang, J., Fagbamigbe, A., Usman, M., Damase-Michel, C., Yau, C., Kent, L., McCowan, C., OReilly, D., Santorelli, G., Hope, H., Kennedy, J. & Mhereeg, M. & 10 others, Abel, K. M., Eastwood, K.-A., Black, M., Loane, M., Moss, N., Brophy, S., Brocklehurst, P., Dolk, H., Nelson-Piercy, C. & Nirantharakumar, K., Oct 2023, In: BMJ Open. 13, 10, 11 p., e073162.
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