Ben Lacey
MBChB MSc DPhil FFPH
Senior Clinical Research Fellow
- Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (‘CTSU’)
Ben Lacey is an epidemiologist and public health physician. His research focuses on the use of electronic health records to improve the measurement of population health, and large-scale prospective studies of the major determinants of vascular and other chronic diseases. He holds a degree in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh, and an MSc in Global Health Science and a DPhil in Epidemiology from the University of Oxford. He was made a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health in 2013, and was appointed as an Honorary Consultant Physician in Public Health at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust in 2017.
Recent publications
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What "Medicare for All" Could Mean for US Medical Research: Lessons From the United Kingdom.
Journal article
Thomson B. et al, (2019), Circulation, 140, 1527 - 1529
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Body Fat Distribution and Systolic Blood Pressure in 10,000 Adults with Whole-Body Imaging: UK Biobank and Oxford BioBank.
Journal article
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.
Journal article
GBD 2016 Neurology Collaborators None., (2019), Lancet Neurol, 18, 459 - 480
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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
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Adiposity and risk of ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke in Chinese men and women: a prospective study of 0.5 million adults
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Chen Z. et al, (2018), The Lancet Global Health
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