Professor Jonathan Emberson
Jonathan Emberson
BA, MSc, PhD
Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology
- MSc in Global Health Science Module Lead: Clinical Trials and Meta-Analysis
Jonathan is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at Oxford Population Health. After graduating in Mathematics in 1998, he studied statistics and epidemiology at MSc and PhD level before joining the Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU) in 2004.
His main research involves studying the causes and prevention of cardiovascular diseases through the design, conduct and analysis of large-scale observational cohort studies, randomised controlled trials, and individual-participant-data meta-analyses of both types of study.
Jonathan is the UK Principal Investigator and MRC Population Health Research Unit (MRC-PHRU) Programme Leader for the Mexico City Prospective Study, a blood-based prospective cohort study of 150,000 Mexican adults followed for more than 15 years.
Recent publications
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Prediabetes and risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a prospective study of 114,062 adults in Mexico City.
Journal article
Fermín-Martínez CA. et al, (2025), J Clin Endocrinol Metab
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Type 2 diabetes and cause-specific mortality in Mexico City: a Mendelian randomisation analysis
Journal article
EMBERSON J. et al, (2025), The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
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Balancing the risk of major bleeding against vascular disease risk in people without atherosclerotic disease.
Journal article
Hammami I. et al, (2025), Heart
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Assessing the contribution of rare protein-coding germline variants to prostate cancer risk and severity in 37,184 cases.
Journal article
Mitchell J. et al, (2025), Nat Commun, 16
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Polygenic prediction of coronary artery disease among 130,000 Mexican adults
Conference paper
EMBERSON J. et al, (2025)