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David Henderson is a Quantitative Research Fellow at the Usher Institute within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Based at the Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC), he is a member of the Primary Care Multimorbidity Research Group and holds active registration as an Adult Nurse with the Nursing & Midwifery Council.
His educational background includes a Masters in Health Research from the University of Stirling (completed during his 2012 NHS Education for Scotland Early Career Clinical Fellowship) and a PhD where he pioneered the UK's first national health-social care data linkage.
Henderson's research centers on exploiting large-scale administrative datasets to investigate population health, social care access, and health inequalities, with particular focus on multimorbidity and primary care systems. His work bridges clinical nursing expertise (acute/critical care, NHS24 triage) with advanced quantitative methods for cross-sectoral policy analysis.
His 2021 publications reveal a consistent trajectory in applying whole-systems data approaches to public health policy, examining both international social care models and Scotland-specific manifestations of the Inverse Care Law through integrated health-social care analytics.
Key recognitions include:
- Early Career Clinical Fellowship (NHS Education for Scotland, 2012)
- Edinburgh Career Development Scheme Awardee
Henderson currently supervises PhD candidate Lucie Wöllenstein's predictive modeling research on Scottish homelessness prevention. His active grants include an NIHR award (£147,893) for cross-sectoral data integration in public health policy and a Health Foundation grant (£98,925) analyzing responses to health inequalities. Previously, he secured ESRC PhD funding (2015) for multimorbidity-social care research.
He contributes to national policy through the National Care Service evidence review steering group and the CMO/CNO Data Analytics Steering Group for pandemic-era social care, operating primarily within the Advanced Care Research Centre's interdisciplinary framework.
