University of Glasgow - John Cowden
John Morton Cowden
Dr Cowden qualified in medicine from Sheffield University in 1977.
He entered public health in 1981, and joined the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre of the Public Health Laboratory Service in 1985, where he was appointed the first consultant in charge of the newly formed Gastrointestinal Diseases Section in 1989. In the early 1990s he was one of the founding members of the team that conducted the first study of Infectious Intestinal Disease in England (“IID 1”).
He was appointed Consultant Epidemiologist at Health Protection Scotland (formerly the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health) in 1995. Since then he has been the consultant epidemiologist responsible for national surveillance of, and operational support for, infectious intestinal disease (IID).
He is a member of numerous national and international bodies concerned with the surveillance and prevention of foodborne and other IID, and has published widely in the peer-reviewed literature.
Dr Cowden’s contribution to IID2 is one of his responsibilities as honorary senior clinical lecturer in the Public Health & Health Policy Section of the Division of Community Based Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Glasgow, a post he has held since 1995.
