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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Methods to assess the price of diets: a rapid literature review
Commissioned by Food Standards Scotland. Food Standards Scotland. 37 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsIron Deficiency is Related to Depressive Symptoms in United States Nonpregnant Women of Reproductive Age: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of NHANES 2005-2010
The Journal of Nutrition, vol. 153, no. 12, pp. 3521-3528Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAdequacy of Iodine Status and Associations with Gut Health: A Prospective Cohort Study among Infants in 8 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The Journal of Nutrition, vol. 153, no. 3, pp. 828-838Contributions to Journals: ArticlesModelling population responses to workplace minimum dietary standards introduced as workers return after social lockdowns
BMC Public Health, vol. 22, no. 1, 2390Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTrends in Risk Factors and Symptoms Associated With SARS-CoV-2 and Rhinovirus Test Positivity in King County, Washington, June 2020 to July 2022
JAMA Network Open, vol. 5, no. 12, e2245861Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFull breastfeeding protection against common enteric bacteria and viruses: results from the MAL-ED cohort study
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 115, no. 3, pp. 759-769Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDeterminants of vaccine coverage and timeliness in a northern Pakistani village
PloS ONE, vol. 17, no. 2, e0263712Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTrends in risk factors and symptoms associated with SARS-CoV-2 and Rhinovirus test positivity in King County, Washington: A Test-Negative Design Study of the Greater Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network
Working Papers: Preprint Papers- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.12.22278203
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Examining the relationships between early childhood experiences and adolescent and young adult health status in a resource-limited population: A cohort study
PLoS Medicine, vol. 18, no. 9, e1003745Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCharacteristics associated with the transition to partial breastfeeding prior to 6 months of age: Data from seven sites in a birth cohort study
Maternal and Child Nutrition, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. e13166Contributions to Journals: Articles