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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Examining the relationship between socioeconomic status, WASH practices and wasting
PloS ONE, vol. 12, no. 3, e0172134Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172134
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Burden of common illnesses and the protective effect of breastfeeding in early childhood in MAL-ED: An eight-site cohort study
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsDynamics and trends in fecal biomarkers of gut function in children from 1-24 months in the MAL-ED study
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 96, no. 2, pp. 465-472Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.16-0496
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Infant nutritional status, feeding practices, enteropathogen exposure, socioeconomic status, and illness are associated with gut barrier function as assessed by the lactulose mannitol test in the MAL-ED birth cohort
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 97, no. 1, pp. 281-290Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.16-0830
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Epidemiology and Impact of Campylobacter Infection in Children in 8 Low-Resource Settings: Results from the MAL-ED Study
Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 63, no. 9, pp. 1171-1179Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciw542
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How multiple episodes of exclusive breastfeeding impact estimates of exclusive breastfeeding duration: report from the eight-site MAL-ED birth cohort study
Maternal and Child Nutrition, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 740-756Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12352
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Diarrheal disease and enteric infections in lmic communities: How big is the problem
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines, vol. 2, no. 1, 11Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40794-016-0028-7
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Norovirus infection and acquired immunity in 8 countries: Results from the MAL-ED study
Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 62, no. 10, pp. 1210-1217Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciw072
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Beyond crystal balls: Crosscutting solutions in global health to prepare for an unpredictable future
BMC Public Health, vol. 15, no. 1, 955Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2285-1
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Pathogen-specific burdens of community diarrhoea in developing countries: A multisite birth cohort study (MAL-ED)
The Lancet Global Health, vol. 3, no. 9, pp. e564-e575Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00151-5
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