Biography
Ian McDowell, PhD, is an emeritus professor in the School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine. His academic interests include health measurement (author of Measuring Health: a Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires, Oxford, New York, third edition, 2006); the epidemiology of cognitive impairments and dementia (principal investigator of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging, 1989-2006); and the manner in which social factors influence health (author of Understanding Health Determinants: Explanatory Theories for Social Epidemiology, Springer, 2023). He has taught courses in the Epidemiology and the Population Health graduate programmes at the University of Ottawa, as well as in the School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong. From 2006 to 2015, he coordinated the undergraduate medical curriculum component on Society, the Individual and Medicine. Relating to this, in 2024 he co-authored the third edition of an online textbook for medical students on public and population health.