Research Fellow
- About
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- Email Address
- benjamin.mccormick@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Ben's current research focuses on the interplay between healthy and environmentally sustainable diet choices. Using modelling to simulate eating networks, he will investigage the possibility of behavioural spill-over resulting from interventions (e.g. constraints on meal choices) between discrete parts of a network.
Before joining The Rowett, Ben was a research fellow (contractor) at the Fogarty International Center (part of the NIH) in the US for 10 years, and was a consultant for other US institutes (Johns Hopkins, University of Virginia, Penn State). Ben was working on child growth and development in low- and middle-income settings, analysing longitudinal cohort data from an international consortium, MAL-ED. His recent research spans the aetiology and consequences of enteropathogen infection, biomarkers of environmental enteropathy, causes and recovery of growth deficits and patterns of cognitive development. Prior to this, he worked at SAC (now SRUC) modelling endemic livestock diseases. Ben trained as an ecologist and retains an interest in the factors that differentiate disease exposures and outcomes. Examining how research is turned into policy, with the Sabin Vaccine Institute, Ben has been looking at decision-support tools to better articulate the deliberative processes around vaccine introductions and use in low- and middle-income settings.
Qualifications
- PhD Zoology2005 - University of Oxford
- BSc Biological Sciences2002 - University of Oxford
- Publications
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Influences on catch-up growth using relative versus absolute metrics: evidence from the MAL-ED cohort study
BMC Public Health, vol. 21, no. 1, 1246Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMicronutrient intake and the probability of nutrient adequacy among children 9-24 months of age: results from the MAL-ED birth cohort study
Public Health Nutrition, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 2592 - 2602Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIntroducing a drift and diffusion framework for childhood growth research
Gates Open Research, vol. 4, no. 71, pp. 1-19Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSMART Vaccines 2.0 decision-support platform: A tool to facilitate and promote priority setting for sustainable vaccination in resource-limited settings
BMJ Global Health, vol. 5, no. 11, e003587Contributions to Journals: Review articlesEarly life experiences and trajectories of cognitive development
Pediatrics, vol. 146, no. 3, e20193660Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/PEDS.2019-3660
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Substantial and sustained reduction in under-5 mortality, diarrhea, and pneumonia in Oshikhandass, Pakistan: Evidence from two longitudinal cohort studies 15 years apart
BMC Public Health, vol. 20, no. 1, 759Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMetabolic maturation in the first 2 years of life in resource-constrained settings and its association with postnatal growths
Science Advances, vol. 6, no. 15, eaay5969Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIntestinal permeability and inflammation mediate the association between nutrient density of complementary foods and biochemical measures of micronutrient status in young children: Results from the MAL-ED study
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 110, no. 4, pp. 1015-1025Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqz151
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Early Life Child Micronutrient Status, Maternal Reasoning, and a Nurturing Household Environment have Persistent Influences on Child Cognitive Development at Age 5 years: Results from MAL-ED
Journal of Nutrition, vol. 149, no. 8, pp. 1460-1469Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/nxz055
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Effects of Child and Maternal Histo-Blood Group Antigen Status on Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Enteric Infections in Early Childhood
Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 220, no. 1, pp. 151-162Contributions to Journals: Articles