Prof Colin McCowan

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 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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
  • Sukhmeet Singh

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Lin, B., Alexander, R., Fritzen, R., Mills, S., Stewart, A. J. & McCowan, C., 25 Apr 2025, In: Nutrients. 17, 9, p. 1-14 14 p., 1447.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Dambha-Miller, H., Simpson, G., Smith, L., Finney, J., Zghebi, S. S., Hughes, S. E., Keevil, V. L., Yu, G., MacRae, C., Khunti, K., McCowan, C. & NIHR MLTC Cross-NIHR Collaboration Methodologies workstream, 2025, In: Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity. 15, p. 1-9 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Petrov, D., Nguyen, T., Manataki, A. & McCowan, C., 28 Mar 2025, Process mining workshops: ICPM 2024 international workshops, Lyngby, Denmark, October 14–18, 2024, revised selected papers. Delgado, A. & Slaats, T. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, p. 460-472 13 p. (Lecture notes in business information processing; vol. 533).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Open access
    Robb, K. A., Young, B., Murphy, M. K., Duklas, P., McConnachie, A., Hollands, G. J., McCowan, C., Macdonald, S., O'Carroll, R. E., O'Connor, R. C. & Steele, R. J. C., 29 Mar 2025, In: The Lancet. 405, 10484, p. 1081-1092 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Wambua, S., Crowe, F. L., Thangaratinam, S., O'Reilly, D., McCowan, C., Brophy, S., Yau, C., Nirantharakumar, K., Riley, R. D., Snell, K. I. E. & MuM-PreDiCT Group, 29 Aug 2025, In: BMC Medicine. 21, p. 1-16 16 p., 508.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    McCabe, R., Kibuchi, E., Amele, S., Irizar, P., Sheikh, A., Jeffrey, K., Ruden, I., Simpson, C. R., McCowan, C., Ritchie, L., Robertson, C., Leyland, A. H., Demou, E., Pearce, A. & Katikireddi, S. V., 14 Apr 2025, In: BMJ Open. 15, 4, p. e092727

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Alexander, R., Bhaskar, S., Azcoaga-Lorenzo, A., Fagbamigbe, A. F., Chow, C. Y. C., Kuan, K. K. W., Stock, S. J., Unger, S. A., Swallow, B., McCowan, C. & Unger, H. W., 21 Jul 2025, In: PLoS One. 20, 7, 17 p., e0326001.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Sullivan, F. M., Mair, F. S., Anderson, W., Chew, C., Dorward, A., Haughney, J., Hogarth, F., Kendrick, D., Littleford, R., McConnachie, A., McCowan, C., McMeekin, N., Patel, M., Rauchhaus, P., Daly, F., Ritchie, L., Robertson, J., Sarvesvaran, J., Sewell, H. & Taylor, T. & 3 others, Treweek, S., Vedhara, K. & Schembri, S., 8 Jan 2025, In: PLoS ONE. 20, 1, 14 p., e0306163.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Mikula-Noble, N., Cormie, V., McCowan, R. E. & McCowan, C., 22 Aug 2025, In: PLoS One. 20, 8, p. 1-14 14 p., e0329794.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Amele, S., Kibuchi, E., McCabe, R., Demou, E., Leyland, A. H., Hainey, K., Rudan, I., Kurdi, A., Simpson, C. R., Ritchie, L. D., McCowan, C., Shi, T., Irizar, P., Becares, L., Sheikh, A., Pearce, A. & Katikireddi, S. V., Aug 2025, In: European Journal of Public Health. 35, 4, p. 788–794 7 p., ckaf078.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review