Ben Lacey
MBChB MSc DPhil FFPH
Senior Clinical Research Fellow
- Diverse Populations Group, Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (‘CTSU’)
Ben Lacey studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, with postgraduate training in epidemiology and public health in Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and an Honorary Consultant Physician in Public Health at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. His research uses large-scale epidemiological studies to understand the burden and major causes of chronic disease in different populations. He works on electronic health record studies in the UK, and on several prospective studies in low and middle income countries.
Recent publications
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Body Fat Distribution and Systolic Blood Pressure in 10,000 Adults with Whole-Body Imaging: UK Biobank and Oxford BioBank.
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Malden D. et al, (2019), Obesity (Silver Spring)
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Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016.
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GBD 2016 Neurology Collaborators None., (2019), Lancet Neurol, 18, 459 - 480
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Cohort Profile: the Cuba Prospective Study.
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Armas Rojas N. et al, (2019), Int J Epidemiol
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Burden of hypertension and associated risks for cardiovascular mortality in Cuba: a prospective cohort study.
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Armas Rojas N. et al, (2019), Lancet Public Health, 4, e107 - e115
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Blood Pressure and Risk of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in China.
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McGurgan IJ. et al, (2018), Stroke
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Body-mass index, blood pressure, and cause-specific mortality in India: a prospective cohort study of 500 810 adults.
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Gajalakshmi V. et al, (2018), Lancet Glob Health, 6, e787 - e794
Research groups
- Accurately estimating the burden of vascular disease using electronic health records
- 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
- Adiposity, body fat distribution and risk of cancer in UK Biobank
- 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