Ben Lacey
MBChB MSc DPhil FFPH
Senior Clinical Research Fellow
Ben Lacey is an epidemiologist and public health physician. He is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the UK Biobank Epidemiology Group, based at the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), University of Oxford. His work is on the linkage of electronic health records in UK Biobank; the use of UK Biobank and other prospective studies to understand the major determinants of premature death and disability, with a particular focus on adiposity and other metabolic factors; and on the measurement of population health health using routine health data. He is also involved in several international collaborations. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and received postgraduate specialty training in public health in Oxford, which included an MSc in Global Health Science and a DPhil in Epidemiology from the University of Oxford.
Recent publications
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Low-intensity daily smoking and cause-specific mortality in Mexico: prospective study of 150 000 adults.
Journal article
Thomson B. et al, (2021), Int J Epidemiol
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Sixty-day consequences of COVID-19 in patients discharged from hospital: an electronic health records study.
Journal article
Islam N. et al, (2021), Eur J Public Health
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Social inequality and the syndemic of chronic disease and COVID-19: county-level analysis in the USA.
Journal article
Islam N. et al, (2021), J Epidemiol Community Health
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Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
Journal article
Roth GA. et al, (2020), Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 76, 2982 - 3021
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Alcohol consumption and cause-specific mortality in Cuba: prospective study of 120 623 adults
Journal article
Rojas NA. et al, (2020), EClinicalMedicine
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Authors' Reply: Physical distancing interventions and incidence of coronavirus disease 2019: natural experiment in 149 countries
Other
Islam N. et al, (2020)