Ben Lacey
MBChB MSc DPhil FFPH
Senior Clinical Research Fellow
Ben Lacey is an epidemiologist and public health physician, and a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is part of the Global Population Studies Group at the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU).
His research is on large-scale epidemiological studies of the determinants of chronic diseases, with a focus on the effects of adiposity and other metabolic factors. His work uses both routine health data and large prospective studies.
He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and undertook specialist training in public health in Oxford, during which time he received an MSc in Global Health Science and a DPhil in Epidemiology. He was made a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health in 2012.
Recent publications
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Childhood smoking, adult cessation, and cardiovascular mortality: Prospective study of 390,000 US adults
Journal article
Thomson B. et al, (2020), Journal of the American Heart Association
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Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17
Journal article
Deshpande A. et al, (2020), The Lancet Global Health, 8, e1162 - e1185
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Mapping geographical inequalities in oral rehydration therapy coverage in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-17.
Journal article
Local Burden of Disease Diarrhoea Collaborators None., (2020), The Lancet. Global health, 8, e1038 - e1060
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Physical distancing interventions and incidence of coronavirus disease 2019: natural experiment in 149 countries.
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Islam N. et al, (2020), BMJ, 370
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Mapping geographical inequalities in childhood diarrhoeal morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-17: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.
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Local Burden of Disease Diarrhoea Collaborators None., (2020), Lancet, 395, 1779 - 1801
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Association of childhood smoking and adult mortality: prospective study of 120 000 Cuban adults.
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Thomson B. et al, (2020), Lancet Glob Health, 8, e850 - e857
Research groups
- Accurately estimating the burden of vascular disease using electronic health records
- Adiposity, body fat distribution and risk of chronic disease in Asian and European populations
- Adiposity, body fat distribution and risk of chronic disease in Asian and European populations
- Analysing big data from electronic health records to understand the determinants of cardiovascular disease
- Analysing big data from electronic health records to understand the determinants of cardiovascular disease
- Deep phenotyping of vascular events in large-scale epidemiological studies using electronic health records
- Understanding and modelling the geographical variation in relative risks for smoking and other major risk factors for burden of disease analyses