Professor Chris Robertson
Mathematics and Statistics
Personal statement
Personal statement
Since 2002 I have been Professor of Public Health Epidemiology in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and also Head of Statistics at Health Protection Scotland (HPS). I have a joint appointment in the two institutes where I lead a team of researchers in statistics and public health epidemiology and manage the statistical research and consultancy service at HPS. In 2010 I was appointed as a senior research fellow with the International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France (http://www.i-pri.org/).
I am an applied statistician with interests in the application of Statistics over a wide variety of disciplines. Presently my main research interest is in statistical modelling of infectious diseases and in epidemiological studies. This involves work on statistical methods for the analyses of linked data, mapping diseases, pharmaco-epidemiology studies, which are linked to the FARR Institute Scotland, population simulation models for infectious diseases, meta analysis and the design of disease surveillance systems.
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Publications
- Deriving and validating a risk prediction model for long COVID : a population-based, retrospective cohort study in Scotland
- Jeffrey Karen, Hammersley Vicky, Maini Rishma, Crawford Anna, Woolford Lana, Batchelor Ashleigh, Weatherill David, White Chris, Millington Tristan, Kerr Robin, Basetti Siddharth, Macdonald Calum, Quint Jennifer K, Kerr Steven, Shah Syed Ahmar, Kurdi Amanj, Simpson Colin R, Katikireddi Srinivasa Vittal, Rudan Igor, Robertson Chris, Ritchie Lewis, Sheikh Aziz, Daines Luke
- Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, pp. 1-13 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/01410768241297833
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on influenza hospital admissions and deaths in Wales : descriptive national time series analysis
- Alsallakh Mohammad, Adeloye Davies, Vasileiou Eleftheria, Sivakumaran Shanya, Akbari Ashley, Lyons Ronan A, Robertson Chris, Rudan Igor, Davies Gwyneth A, Sheikh Aziz
- JMIR Public Health and Surveillance Vol 10 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.2196/43173
- COVID-19 and influenza vaccine uptake among pregnant women in national cohorts of England and Wales
- Gu Xinchun, Agrawal Utkarsh, Midgley William, Bedston Stuart, Anand Sneha N, Goudie Rosalind, Byford Rachel, Joy Mark, Jamie Gavin, Hoang Uy, Ordóñez-Mena Jose M, Robertson Chris, Hobbs F D Richard, Akbari Ashley, Sheikh Aziz, de Lusignan Simon
- npj Vaccines Vol 9 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41541-024-00934-9
- Selecting the most informative positive and negative controls for self-controlled case series (SCCS) : rationale, approach, and lessons from studies investigating the safety of COVID-19 vaccines
- Rudan Igor, Katikireddi Srinivasa Vittal, Kerr Steven, Millington Tristan, Grange Zoe, Sullivan Christopher, Fagbamigbe Adeniyi Francis, Swallow Ben, Kurdi Amanj, Morrison Kirsty, Jeffrey Karen, Simpson Colin R, Ritchie Sir Lewis, Robertson Chris, Sheikh Sir Aziz
- Journal of Global Health Vol 14 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.14.03037
- Sleeper frameworks for Pathogen X : surveillance, risk stratification, and the effectiveness and safety of therapeutic interventions
- de Lusignan Simon, Shi Ting, Fowler Tom, Andrews Nick, Todkill Dan, Gu Xinchun, Meza-Torres Bernardo, Robertson Chris, Sheikh Aziz
- The Lancet Infectious Diseases Vol 24, pp. E417-E418 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(24)00352-9
- Risk of winter hospitalisation and death from acute respiratory infections in Scotland : national retrospective cohort study
- Shi Ting, Millington Tristan, Robertson Chris, Jeffrey Karen, Katikireddi Srinivasa Vittal, McCowan Colin, Simpson Colin R, Woolford Lana, Daines Luke, Kerr Steven, Swallow Ben, Fagbamigbe Adeniyi, Vallejos Catalina A, Weatherill David, Jayacodi Sandra, Marsh Kimberley, McMenamin Jim, Rudan Igor, Ritchie Sir Lewis Duthie, Mueller Tanja, Kurdi Amanj, Sheikh Sir Aziz
- Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Vol 117, pp. 232-246 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/01410768231223584
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Professional Activities
- Advanced Statistical Analyses Using R
- Participant
- 17/3/2016
- Bayesian Statistical Methods for PhD Students
- Participant
- 22/2/2016
- Glasgow Caledonian University (External organisation)
- Member
- 15/2/2016
- International Prevention Research Institute (IPRI) (External organisation)
- Member
- 20/1/2016
- Statistical Analyses Using R
- Participant
- 17/1/2016
- Temporal Modelling of Disease Outbreaks using State Space and Delay Differential Equations
- External Examiner
- 25/10/2015
Projects
- Mobilising Scotland’s assets in equitable ways for epidemic control (MOSAEC)
- Flowers, Paul (Principal Investigator) Clark, Ruaridh (Co-investigator) Egan, Kieren (Co-investigator) MacIntyre, Gillian (Co-investigator) Robertson, Donald (Co-investigator) Robertson, Chris (Co-investigator)
- 01-Sep-2024 - 31-May-2025
- PHS Respiratory Modelling
- Robertson, Chris (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Apr-2023 - 31-Jul-2023
- Describing, characterising and predicting winter respiratory accident and emergency attendances, hospital and intensive care unit admissions and deaths
- Robertson, Chris (Principal Investigator)
- 05-Jan-2023 - 31-Mar-2023
- Use Of National Linked Healthcare data to Identify And Characterise Post-autumn Booster Dose Severe COVID-19 Outcomes Across the UK
- Robertson, Chris (Principal Investigator)
- 30-Sep-2022 - 31-Mar-2023
- Developing capacity and capability to undertake UK-wide studies on +65M people using COVID-19 as an exemplar (COALESCE)
- Robertson, Chris (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jun-2022 - 31-Mar-2023
- Characteristics and outcomes of patients receiving Sotrovimab for the early treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19
- Robertson, Chris (Principal Investigator) Mueller, Tanja (Co-investigator)
- Project for GSK - Subcontract to University of Edinburgh
- 27-May-2022 - 31-Dec-2022
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Contact
Professor
Chris
Robertson
Mathematics and Statistics
Email: chris.robertson@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3215