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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Enteric dysfunction and other factors associated with attained size at 5 years: MAL-ED birth cohort study findings
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 110, no. 1, pp. 131-138Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIdentifying Influences on Catch-up Growth Using Relative versus Absolute Metrics: Evidence from the MAL-ED Study (P10-014-19)
Current developments in nutrition, vol. 3, no. Supplement_1, pp. 767Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzz034.P10-014-19
Intestinal Permeability and Inflammation Mediate Dietary Intake Associated Risks of Micronutrient Deficiencies at 15 Months: Results from the MAL-ED Study (OR07-04-19)
Current developments in nutrition, vol. 3, no. Suppl 1, pp. 726-726Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzz034.OR07-04-19
Nurturing environments and nutrient-rich diets may improve cognitive development: analysis of cognitive trajectories from six to sixty months from the MAL-ED study (OR10-01-19)
Current developments in nutrition, vol. 3, no. supplement_1, pp. 733Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzz034.OR10-01-19
DETERMINANTS OF VACCINE COVERAGE IN A COHORT OF CHILDREN IN OSHIKHANDASS, A NORTHERN PAKISTANI VILLAGE
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAssessing development across cultures: Invariance of the Bayley-III scales across seven international MAL-ED sites
School Psychology Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 604-614Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/spq0000264
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Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Cryptosporidiosis in Children from 8 Low-income Sites: Results from the MAL-ED Study
Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 1660-1669Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUse of quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to assess the aetiology, burden, and clinical characteristics of diarrhoea in children in low-resource settings: a reanalysis of the MAL-ED cohort study
The Lancet Global Health, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. e1309-e1318Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUse of quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to investigate the effect of enteropathogen infections on linear growth in children in low-resource settings: longitudinal analysis of results from the MAL-ED cohort study
The Lancet Global Health, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. e1319-e1328Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUrban Ecology and the Effectiveness of Aedes Control
Dengue Fever-a Resilient Threat in the Face of Innovation. Abelardo Falcón-Lezama, J., Betancourt-Cravioto, M., Tapia-Conyer, R. (eds.). InTechChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.78688