Prof Ben Armstrong
Emeritus Professor in Epidemiological Statistics
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom
I am an applied medical statistician with long-standing interest in the application of statistics to environmental and occupational health. I joined the LSHTM (Environmental Epidemiology Unit) in 1995, having previously been Associate Professor in the Department of Occupational Health at McGill University, Montreal. I formally retired in 2016, but continue academic engagement on a part time basis.
Affiliations
Department of Public Health, Environments and Society
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Centres
Centre for Data and Statistical Science for Health
Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health
Teaching
I teach statistical methods for aplication to public health research in the LSHTM and various international courses. Because I am retired I no longer take new doctoral students as primary supervisor but am happy to contribute as member of supervisory teams.
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 including 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.
Research Area
Applied statistics (medical)
Epidemiology
Environmental health
Selected Publications
The Role of Humidity in Associations of High Temperature with Mortality: A Multicountry, Multicity Study.
2019
Environmental health perspectives
How urban characteristics affect vulnerability to heat and cold: a multi-country analysis.
2019
International Journal of Epidemiology
A case study of time-series regression modeling: Risk factors for pond-level mortality of farmed grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) on a southern Chinese farm
2017
Aquaculture (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Projections of temperature-related excess mortality under climate change scenarios.
2017
The lancet Planetary health
Longer-Term Impact of High and Low Temperature on Mortality: An International Study to Clarify Length of Mortality Displacement.
2017
Environmental health perspectives
Mental health impacts of flooding: a controlled interrupted time series analysis of prescribing data in England.
2017
Journal of epidemiology and community health
Brief Report: Investigating Uncertainty in the Minimum Mortality Temperature: Methods and Application to 52 Spanish Cities.
2016
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass)
Perfluoroalkyl Substances, Sex Hormones, and Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 at 6-9 Years of Age: A Cross-Sectional Analysis within the C8 Health Project.
2016
Environmental health perspectives