About

Scott is an epidemiologist and researcher based in Vancouver, Canada.

Currently he is the Senior Epidemiologist within the Epidemiology and Population Program of the BC Centre for Excellence (BC-CfE), Providence Health Care, based at St Paul's Hospital (Vancouver, Canada). In this role he supports capacity-building, educational, and quality assurance initiatives - providing guidance to scientists, students, and technical team members on research and operational needs related to administrative record linkages. He leads a monthly seminar series focused on methodologic, conceptual, and technical issues related to leveraging administrative records for research purposes.

He serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal: the International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS).

He is also a consultant with the University of British Columbia where he provides scientific writing and analytic support for pediatric research leveraging population-based data linkages in British Columbia, Canada. Previously, Scott was an Epidemiologist at ICES (the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences) in Toronto, and has held several analytic roles including at a contract research organization, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, and Interior Health Authority.

Scott has authored/co-authored over 25 peer-reviewed journal article publications and 50+ conference presentations, including live workshops, oral talks, and poster presentations. Research topics have included healthcare service use, algorithm validation, hospitalization trends, neighbourhood influences, survey data validity, and educational trajectories. After time as a writing tutor during university, and as a reviewer for a student psychology journal, he since served as reviewer for 15 peer-reviewed journals - spanning topic areas such as public health, psychiatric epidemiology, quality of life, immigration, psychology, and health policy.

Scott completed an MSc in epidemiology from the University of British Columbia's (UBC) School of Population and Public Health (SPPH). His MSc was supported by federal funding from the Tri-Agency Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's (CGS-M), as well as a UBC Faculty of Medicine award. His thesis focused on evaluating measurement validity of a quality of life assessment, employing multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA) to assess measurement invariance. Prior to pursing graduate studies, he completed a BA(Hons.) in Psychology from UBC, where his coursework and research projects focused on measurement, scale development, and social-personality psychology.