Bastian Bohrmann
BSc, MSc, MSc, DPhil
Health Data Research UK Fellow
Bastian’s work is mainly in global large-scale prospective studies with ethnically diverse participants. As part of the HDR UK Molecules to Health Records Driver Programme, he is involved in developing methods for active and passive prospective follow-up, and deeper phenotyping, of historically understudied populations in South and Southeast Asia. The main goal of his research is to understand the relationship between granular measures of adiposity, such as those derived from DXA and MRI, and objectively measured physical activity with a range of health outcomes, such as cardiometabolic and infectious diseases in populations around the globe.
Bastian completed his DPhil in Population Health at the University of Oxford in 2024. His project assessed associations of different body composition measures (the distribution of fat and fat-free mass throughout the body and its regions) with the risk of severe infectious respiratory diseases in the UK Biobank. Prior to this, he obtained an MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology (University of Oxford) and an MSc in International Health Policy and Health Economics (The London School of Economics and Political Science).
Recent publications
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Reproductive factors and risk of lung cancer among 300,000 Chinese female never-smokers: evidence from the China Kadoorie Biobank study.
Elbasheer MMA. et al, (2024), BMC Cancer, 24
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Associations of general and central adiposity with hypertension and cardiovascular disease among South Asian populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Re F. et al, (2023), BMJ Open, 13