Research Fellow
- About
-
- 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
-
Page 6 of 8 Results 51 to 60 of 75
A Holistic Approach to Climate and Health Research: Respiratory and Infectious Diseases
AGUFM, A31K-04Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDisease surveillance methods used in the 8-site MAL-ED cohort study
Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 59, pp. S220-S224Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu435
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Methods of analysis of enteropathogen infection in the MAL-ED cohort study
Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 59, pp. S233-S238Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu408
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Modeling environmental influences on child growth in the MAL-ED cohort study: Opportunities and challenges
Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 59, pp. S255-S260Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu436
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
The MAL-ED cohort study: Methods and lessons learned when assessing early child development and caregiving mediators in infants and young children in 8 low-and middle-income countries
Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 59, pp. S261-S272Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu437
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
The MAL-ED study: A multinational and multidisciplinary approach to understand the relationship between enteric pathogens, malnutrition, gut physiology, physical growth, cognitive development, and immune responses in infants and children up to 2 years of age in resource-poor environments
Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 59, pp. S193-S206Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu653
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Postpartum depressive symptoms across time and place: Structural invariance of the Self-Reporting Questionnaire among women from the international, multi-site MAL-ED study
Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 167, pp. 178-186Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2014.05.039
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Influenza and specific humidity in French Guiana: When analytical simplicity is golden
Journal of Infection, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 604-605Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2014.02.002
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Association between stool enteropathogen quantity and disease in Tanzanian children using TaqMan Array Cards: A nested case-control study
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 133-138Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.13-0439
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Frequent symptomatic or asymptomatic infections may have long-term consequences on growth and cognitive development
Working Papers: Working Papers