David Henderson

Quantitative Research Fellow

  • Usher Institute
  • College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Contact details

Address

Street

Advanced Care Research Centre
Usher Institute, Usher Building
The University of Edinburgh
5-7 Little France Road
Edinburgh BioQuarter ‒ Gate 3

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH16 4UX

Background

Currently an Edinburgh Career Development Scheme Awardee, I am a Quantitative Research Fellow with experience is in analysis of large cross-sectoral administrative data with a particular interest in population health and social care, access to these services, and health inequalities. As part of my PhD, I lead the first national linkage of health and social care data sources in the UK. 

In my most recent role as part of the primary care and multimorbidity research group,  I was responsible for conducting the quantitative elements of the Transforming primary care in Scotland and China project (https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/primary-care-multimorbidity/projects/transforming-primary-care-in-scotland-and-china). I am also  a registered nurse. 

My clinical experience is in acute medicine, including critical care, and NHS24 unscheduled care/telephone triage. in 2012 I was awarded an Early Career Clinical Fellowship by NHS Education for Scotland. As part of this fellowship I completed a Masters in Health Research from the University of Stirling. 

Prior to my nursing and research careers I had careers in HM Forces and TV & Film Drama production.

Responsibilities & affiliations

Member of a steering group for National Care Service  rapid review of evidence conducted by Public Health Scotland on Nordic and Scandinavian social care models.

Member of the Chief Medical Officer/Chief Nursing Officer Data and Analytics Steering Group for Care Homes and Social Care set-up during 2020 pandemic.

Member of the Primary Care Multimorbidity Research Group, and based in the Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC).

Advanced Care Research Centre website

Adult Nurse registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council

 

Current PhD students supervised

Lucie Wöllenstein: An evaluation of homelessness prevention for single adults in Scotland using predictive modelling on administrative datasets. School of Health & Social Care. College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Current project grants

Co-investigator
• Tweed, E., Craig, P., Mayor, C., Henderson, D., Brown, D., Allik, M., Pell, J., Watson, N., Meier, P. (2021) Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice: decision-maker perspectives on the use of cross-sectoral data as part of a whole-systems approach. National Institute for Health Research. ref:NIHR133585. £147,893.60 https://dev.fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR133585

*Blane, D., Henderson, D., Lunan, C., Mercer, SW. (2021) Responses to the Inverse Care Law in Scotland. The Health Foundation. ref:2746270 £98,925 https://www.health.org.uk/funding-and-partnerships/programmes/responses-...

Past project grants

PhD funding
• Henderson, D. Multimorbidity and social care: exploiting emerging data sources in Scotland (2015). Economic & Social Research Council.