Dr Sofia Massa
Contact information
Research groups
- An analysis of multimorbidities associated with schistosomiasis infections in sub-Saharan Africa
- Assessing liver multimorbidities for individuals with schistosome infections in rural Uganda
- Assessing multimorbidity of non-communicable diseases and schistosomiasis in rural Uganda
- Causes and consequences of frailty in 0.5M adults living in China
- Prediction of cardiovascular disease in 0.5M adults living in the UK: evaluation of novel risk factors using modern statistical approaches
Colleges
Sofia Massa
PhD
Senior Statistician
- Module Lead in Statistics
- Statistical Editor, Cochrane Review Group
Sofia Massa is a senior statistician in the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. She holds an MSc in Mathematics (University of Udine, Italy) and a PhD in Statistical Science (University of Padua, Italy). Before joining NDPH she was a postdoc at the University of Padua and a departmental lecturer at the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford where she was also the course co-ordinator of the MSc in Applied Statistics.
Her main research interests are on probabilistic graphical models on aspects related to evidence synthesis, gene-set analysis and neuropsychology modelling. She is also working on statistical models for high-dimensional population health studies.
Recent publications
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Systematic review of the utility of the frailty index and frailty phenotype to predict all-cause mortality in older people.
Journal article
Kim DJ. et al, (2022), Syst Rev, 11
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Development of a Model to Predict 10-Year Risk of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke and Ischemic Heart Disease Using the China Kadoorie Biobank.
Journal article
Yang S. et al, (2022), Neurology, 98, e2307 - e2317
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Variability and agreement of frailty measures and risk of falls, hospital admissions and mortality in TILDA.
Journal article
Kim DJ. et al, (2022), Sci Rep, 12
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Independent effects of adiposity measures on risk of atrial fibrillation in men and women: a study of 0.5 million individuals.
Journal article
Camm CF. et al, (2021), Int J Epidemiol
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The impact of case and contact characteristics on contact tracing during the West Africa Ebola epidemic
Journal article
Longley JL. et al, (2021), Journal of Infection