Associate Professor Ben Lacey
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Ben Lacey
MBChB MSc DPhil FFPH
UK BIOBANK
Ben Lacey is Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at UK Biobank, Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford.
His work seeks to further understanding of the burden of disease and major risk factors in populations, mainly through the design, conduct and analysis of large-scale cohort studies. He has worked on cohorts in the UK, India, Cuba and elsewhere.
He studied Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, qualifying in 2004. After a few years clinical work, he undertook specialty training in Public Health Medicine, and received an MSc in Global Health Science and a DPhil in Epidemiology from the University of Oxford. He joined Oxford Population Health in 2015.
He is also an Honorary Consultant Physician in Public Health at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, and Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford.