Céire Costelloe is a Professor of Health Informatics at the ICR. Céire is an expert in the use of data to predict, inform, develop and evaluate interventions within the real-world healthcare setting
Professor Céire Costelloe is a Medical Statistician with experience in building and leading research teams using real world healthcare data to improve health service delivery and patient outcomes.
She is trained in Medical Statistics and Immunology. She obtained her PhD in Immunology from Trinity College, Dublin. She undertook a postdoctoral research post at the UKCRC Clinical Trials unit at the University of Bristol during which time she secured a NIHR training fellowship to allow her to undertaken a MSc in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
She was awarded a NIHR postdoctoral fellowship in 2009 which focussed on the examination of risk factors for the development of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) infection, using real world healthcare data. This led to a highly cited BMJ publication reporting, for the first time, the association between antibiotic use and the risk of AMR at an individual patient level. This research led to changes in UK and EU guidelines on antibiotic use in primary care.
