BSc Experimental Pathology, MBChB, MRCP, MSc Public Health & Health Service Research, MFPH (UK), FFPH
Personal Chair (Clinical)
- About
-
Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science,
1:042 Polwarth Building
School of Medicine, Medical Science and Nutrition
University of Aberdeen
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD
Biography
Professor Corri Black trained at the University of Glasgow graduating in 1996 and spent 5 years working in hospital medicine in Glasgow. She spent a year at the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Programme, University of Boston, USA on a Research Scholarship studying Clinical and Pharmacoepidemiology. On return to the UK, she joined the University of Aberdeen as a Clinical Lecturer in 2002 and completed specialist training in Public Health Medicine before being appointed as a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Public Health and Honorary NHS Consultant in 2007. She was awarded a personal Chair in 2015.
Professor Corri Black is a Co-Director of the Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science, Deputy Director of Farr Institute@Scotland, Associate Director of HDRUK@Scotland and has 18 years experience of harnessing electronic health record data for research. As a Consultant in Public Health, she works for NHS Grampian supporting the use of data to drive quality improvement and in population health surveillance. She is the Clinical Lead for the Grampian Data Safe Haven. Working with colleagues, her research has included real world data pharmaceutical research and now focuses on understanding complexity in health in long term conditions and across the life course.
External Memberships
NHS Grampian
Dr Corri Black is an Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine for NHS Grampian. She works with the Health Intelligence Team supporting the use of routine data for population health surveillance and healthcare planning, and coordinating:
- Evidence Synthesis Service: undertaking rapid reviews of evidence of effectiveness to support decision-making
- Monthly Evidence Updates [for more information...]
- Research
-
Research Overview
Health Informatics Research: Utilising electronic health & care data for health research
With over 10 years experience of using a wide range of health and care datasets for health research, Prof Corri Black is a member of Farr Institue @ Scotland and ADRC Scotland.
Her research interests focus on understanding complexity in health and care across the life course and fall into three core programmes:
Kidney Disease: epidemiology and service delivery
Prof Corri Black, with Dr A Marks and Dr S Sawhney, leads a programme of research focusing on developing risk prediction models to tailor and target the care of people with Kidney Disease.
Multimorbidity
Using routine healthcare data to understand the epidemiology and impact of multimorbidity. This work includes measurement of multimorbidity, polypharmacy and medication adherence, multimorbidity burden and impact on health outcomes.
Resilience
As part of the work programmes for Farr Institute @ Aberdeen and ADRC Scotland, Dr Black is involved in expoloring the early life influences on physical, cognitive and social resilience.
Collaborations
Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science
[ACHDS]
Our vision is to create innovative, interdisciplinary, data science solutions to the big challenges for health and health care, to improve health for individuals, local communities and internationally.
To achieve this, the Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science aims to bring focus to our:
- People - our research community is key to our success, working together to support a team science ethos
- Research - to build on our collaborative expertise and develop areas of strength
- Environment - with unique data assets and facilities
- Engagement with our population, and existing and future collaborators
National & International Collaborations
- Teaching
-
Teaching Responsibilities
Masters Programmes
MPH and Short Course: Health Informatics PU5532] (Coordinator)
Research Training Supervision
Supervisor for:
- BMed Science
- ARAS Summer Studentships
- MSc Public Health Research
- MRes
- Specialist Trainees in Public Health - Academic 3-6 month placements
PhD Opportunities
Supervising students with an interest in Health Data Science. Please contact corri.black@abdn.ac.uk
- Publications
-
Page 1 of 13 Results 1 to 10 of 126
Care processes and outcomes of deprivation across the clinical course of kidney disease: Findings from a high-income country with universal healthcare
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 1170-1182Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInequalities in children's mental health care: analysis of routinely collected data on prescribing and referrals to secondary care
BMC Psychiatry, vol. 23, no. 1, 22Contributions to Journals: ArticlesImplicating genes, pleiotropy, and sexual dimorphism at blood lipid loci through multi-ancestry meta-analysis
Genome Biology, vol. 23, no. 1, 268Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOutcomes among confirmed cases and a matched comparison group in the Long-COVID in Scotland study
Nature Communications, vol. 13, no. 1, 5663Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInequalities in children’s mental health prescribing and referrals for specialist mental health services
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsThe clinically extremely vulnerable to COVID: Identification and changes in healthcare while self-isolating (shielding) during the coronavirus pandemic
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsA multi-layer functional genomic analysis to understand noncoding genetic variation in lipids
American Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 109, no. 8, pp. 1366-1387Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2022.06.012
- [ONLINE] Pre-print available from BioRxiv
Do we need consent to obtain consent?: Public and participant feedback to using personal health data for recruitment
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol. 76, pp. 697-698Contributions to Journals: ArticlesImproving children and young people’s mental health services: Local data insights from England, Scotland and Wales
Commissioned by The Health Foundation. The Health Foundation. 38 pagesBooks and Reports: Other ReportsInequalities in children's mental health care: analysis of routinely collected data on prescribing and referrals to secondary care
Working Papers: Preprint Papers