Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Scotland

Co-Directors

• Professor David Robertson, Head of College of Science & Engineering, University of Edinburgh
• Katie Wilde, Head of Digital Research, University of Aberdeen

Associate Directors

• Professor Marion Bennie, Professor of Pharmacy, University of Strathclyde
• Professor Corri Black, Professor of Public Health Medicine, University of Aberdeen
• Professor Chris Dibben, Director of ADRC– Scotland, University of Edinburgh
• Professor Ewan Pearson, Professor of Diabetic Medicine, University of Dundee
• Professor Mark Parsons, Director of EPCC, The University of Edinburgh
• Professor Jill Pell, Director of The Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow
• Professor Aziz Sheikh, Director of Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh
• Professor Colin McCowan, Professor of Health Data Science, University of St Andrews

Management Team

• Serena Tricarico, Research Manager at Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh
• Rebecca Lees, Research Administrator, University of Edinburgh

Partners

• University of Aberdeen
• University of Dundee
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Glasgow
• University of St. Andrews
• University of Strathclyde

Research initiatives

• A national e-cohort for 21st century public health research
  Principal Investigator: Professor Jill Pell
• Deriving and applying health-related phenotypes at scale
  Principal Investigator: Professor Cathie Sudlow
• Computational tools for very large scale genetic and environmental risk prediction and causal inference
  Principal Investigator: Professor Albert Tenesa
• Precision therapeutics
  Principal Investigator: Professor Ewan Pearson