Dr Sofia Massa
Contact information
Research groups
- An analysis of multimorbidities associated with schistosomiasis infections in sub-Saharan Africa
- 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
- Statistical Editor, Cochrane Review Group
Sofia Massa is a Senior Statistician in the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. She has 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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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
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Body-mass index, blood pressure, diabetes and cardiovascular mortality in Cuba: prospective study of 146,556 participants.
Journal article
Armas Rojas NB. et al, (2021), BMC Public Health, 21
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Development and Internal Validation of a Risk Score to Detect Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis.
Journal article
Poorthuis MHF. et al, (2021), Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg
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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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Validation of Risk Prediction Models to Detect Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis.
Journal article
Poorthuis MHF. et al, (2020), J Am Heart Assoc