Dr Christian Cole is Reader in Health Informatics. His research interests are in developing tools and infrastructure to advance data analysis capabilities within Trusted Research Environments (TREs) where healthcare data are securely held. He is interested in making AI/ML more directly clinically relevant by using real-world datasets to better model the diversity of data.

He is Academic co-Director of the Health Informatics Centre (HIC) at the School of Medicine, University of Dundee which is one of four Scottish regional Safe Havens providing safe and secure access to NHS data for public benefit. HIC was established in 2004 and supported over 1000 projects.

Chris is also Director of the Alleviate Pain Data Hub which is an HDR UK national data hub specialising pain and chronic pain with the Advanced Pain Discovery Platform (APDP) consortium. The aim of Alleviate is to be the hub for UK pain data in a federated manner by removing data silos. Pain data is made more accessible and FAIR via the OMOP common data model in collaboration with HDR UK.

He has been a successful PI or Co-I in over £40m in grant funding since 2021.

He has held previous roles as a Principle Investigator in Data Science at the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS) and lead of the Data Analysis Group (DAG) in the School of Life Science at the University of Dundee.

Co-lead on MSc module: Fundamentals of Applied Health Data Science for Precision Medicine Research module (GM51084)

Chris co-leads the Population and Digital Health research theme within the School of Medicine. This is a three-year position.