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 research interests are in population health metrics, health inequalities, and the enhancement of large-scale observational epidemiology, focusing particularly on the use of linked administrative records.
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 a master’s degree in Global Health Science and a doctorate 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 Foundation Trust, and Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians.