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
2019
Environmental health perspectives
2019
International Journal of Epidemiology
2017
Aquaculture (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2017
The lancet Planetary health
2017
Environmental health perspectives
2017
Journal of epidemiology and community health
2016
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass)
2016
Environmental health perspectives
2015
Environmental research
2015
Lancet