Ben Armstrong PhD
- Room S43
- LSHTM
- 15-17 Tavistock Place
- London
- WC1H 9SH
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I am an applied medical statistician with long-standing interest in the application of statistics to environmental and occupational health. I joined the Environmental Epidemiology Unit in 1995, having previously been Associate Professor in the Department of Occupational Health at McGill University, Montreal.
Affiliation
Teaching
I teach statistical methods for aplication to public health research in the LSHTM and various international courses. I supervise doctoral students in the area of my research interests. I am also currently Research Degrees Directors for PHP
Research
My research interests cover most of environmental epidemiology and the statistical methods required for it. Specific methodological research includes that on the regression analysis of time series of health events and in particular interrupted time series, and on effects of measurement errors on estimates of exposure-health relationships. Current substantive research topics of interest, on which I work in collaboration with colleagues, focus mainly on the impacts of weather and climate change on health, but also include health risks of air and water pollution, primarily in the general environment but also in occupational groups.
Research areas
- Climate change
- Environment
- Occupational health
- Statistical methods
Disciplines
- Epidemiology
- Statistics
Disease and Health Conditions
- Cancer
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Selected publications
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Association of mortality with high temperatures in a temperate climate: England and Wales
Armstrong, B.G.; Chalabi, Z.; Fenn, B.; Hajat, S.; Kovats, S.; Milojevic, A.; Wilkinson, P.;
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2011; 65(4):340-5
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The impact of heat waves on mortality.
Gasparrini, A.; Armstrong, B.;
Epidemiology, 2011; 22(1):68-73
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The short-term influence of temperature on daily mortality in the temperate climate of Montreal, Canada.
Goldberg, M.S. ; Gasparrini, A. ; Armstrong, B. ; Valois, M.F. ;
Environ Res, 2011; 111(6):853-60
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Cholera in Bangladesh: Climatic Components of Seasonal Variation.
Hashizume, M.; Faruque, A.S.; Wagatsuma, Y.; Hayashi, T.; Armstrong, B.;
Epidemiology, 2010; 21(5):706-10
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Distributed lag non-linear models.
Gasparrini, A.; Armstrong, B.; Kenward, M.G.;
Stat Med, 2010; 29(21):2224-34
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Models for the Relationship Between Ambient Temperature and Daily Mortality.
Armstrong, B.;
Epidemiology, 2006; 17(6):624-31
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Mortality Displacement of Heat-Related Deaths: A Comparison of Delhi, Sao Paulo, and London.
Hajat, S.; Armstrong, B.G.; Gouveia, N.; Wilkinson, P.;
Epidemiology, 2005; 16(5):613-620
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Fixed factors that modify the effects of time-varying factors: applying the case-only approach
Armstrong, B. G.
Epidemiology, 2003; 14(4):467-72
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