Ruby Tsang
PhD
Researcher - Clinical Informatics
I am a researcher in the Clinical Informatics and Health Outcomes Research Group. My current research is focused on influenza and COVID-19 surveillance using the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC) database.
I hold a PhD in Psychiatry. Prior to joining this group, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychiatry, during which I worked on projects that examined (i) vascular contributions to cognition and mental health, (ii) longitudinal associations between cognition and mental health, and (iii) the impact of childhood adversity on cognitive ageing trajectories. I have extensive experience of working with longitudinal cohort datasets, including UK Biobank as well as various ageing studies from the UK, the USA and Australia.
My other research interests include: cognitive ageing, late-life mental health, multimorbidity, and dementia knowledge translation.
Key publications
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Disparities in the excess risk of mortality in the first wave of COVID-19: Cross sectional study of the English sentinel network
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de Lusignan S. et al, (2020), Journal of Infection
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Depression and memory function-evidence from cross-lagged panel models with unit fixed effects in ELSA and HRS
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Jindra C. et al, (2020), Psychological Medicine
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of genetic studies of late-life depression
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Tsang RSM. et al, (2017), Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 75, 129 - 139
Recent publications
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Long covid: Coding is caring
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Mayor N. et al, (2021), The BMJ, 373
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Interim findings from first-dose mass COVID-19 vaccination roll-out and COVID-19 hospital admissions in Scotland: a national prospective cohort study
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Vasileiou E. et al, (2021), The Lancet, 397, 1646 - 1657
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Adverse events of interest following influenza vaccination, a comparison of cell culture-based with egg-based alternatives: English sentinel network annual report paper 2019/20
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de Lusignan S. et al, (2021), The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 2, 100029 - 100029
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First-dose ChAdOx1 and BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccines and thrombocytopenic, thromboembolic and hemorrhagic events in Scotland
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Simpson CR. et al, (2021), Nature Medicine
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Comparing the incidence of common adverse events of interest following influenza vaccination in the first season adjuvanted trivalent immunisation was introduced: English sentinel network annual report paper 2018/19 (Preprint)
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de Lusignan S. et al, (2020)