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Ben Armstrong is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a specialization in health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. Their work intersects several key areas including climate change and health impacts, air quality and health impacts, and global health care issues.

Their recent publications reflect a focus on the health effects of environmental factors such as temperature, air pollution, and wildfires. Some notable papers include:

  • The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Associations Between Extreme Temperatures and Cardiovascular Cause-Specific Mortality: Results From 27 Countries, 2022, Circulation
  • Mortality risk attributable to wildfire-related PM2·5 pollution: a global time series study in 749 locations, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Short term association between ozone and mortality: global two stage time series study in 406 locations in 20 countries, 2020, BMJ

Armstrong collaborates frequently with several scholars in their field, including Antonio Gasparrini, Francesco Sera, Aurelio Tobías, Éric Lavigne, and Masahiro Hashizume.

Their publications are often found in venues such as ISEE Conference Abstracts, The Lancet Planetary Health, Environment International, Nature Communications, and Environmental Epidemiology.

The subfields of study in which Armstrong has contributed include:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • General Health Professions
  • Physiology
  • Health
  • Global and Planetary Change

Major research topics covered in Armstrong's work involve:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Thermoregulation and physiological responses
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts

Best Publications

  • Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study

    Antonio Gasparrini;Yuming Guo;Masahiro Hashizume;Eric Lavigne

  • Distributed lag non-linear models

    A. Gasparrini;B. Armstrong;M. G. Kenward

  • Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport

    James Woodcock;Phil Edwards;Cathryn Tonne;Ben G Armstrong

  • Time series regression studies in environmental epidemiology

    Krishnan Bhaskaran;Antonio Gasparrini;Shakoor Hajat;Liam Smeeth

  • The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change

    A. M. Vicedo-Cabrera;A. M. Vicedo-Cabrera;N. Scovronick;F. Sera;F. Sera;D. Royé

  • Projections of temperature-related excess mortality under climate change scenarios

    Antonio Gasparrini;Yuming Guo;Yuming Guo;Francesco Sera;Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera

  • Reducing and meta-analysing estimates from distributed lag non-linear models.

    Antonio Gasparrini;Ben Armstrong

  • Multivariate meta-analysis for non-linear and other multi-parameter associations.

    A. Gasparrini;B. Armstrong;M. G. Kenward

  • Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study

    Qi Zhao;Qi Zhao;Yuming Guo;Tingting Ye;Antonio Gasparrini

  • Long-Term Effects of Traffic-Related Air Pollution on Mortality in a Dutch Cohort (NLCS-AIR Study)

    Rob Beelen;Gerard Hoek;Piet A. van den Brandt;R. Alexandra Goldbohm

  • International study of temperature,heat and urban mortality: the ‘ISOTHURM’ project

    Anthony J. McMichael;Paul Wilkinson;R. Sari Kovats;Sam Pattenden

  • Lung cancer risk after exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: a review and meta-analysis.

    Ben G. Armstrong;Emma J Hutchinson;John Unwin;Tony Fletcher

  • Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: overview and implications for policy makers

    Andy Haines;Anthony J McMichael;Kirk R Smith;Ian Roberts

  • Effect of measurement error on epidemiological studies of environmental and occupational exposures.

    Ben G Armstrong

  • Global variation in the effects of ambient temperature on mortality: a systematic evaluation.

    Yuming Guo;Antonio Gasparrini;Ben Armstrong;Shanshan Li

  • Models for the relationship between ambient temperature and daily mortality.

    Ben Armstrong

  • Impact of high temperatures on mortality: is there an added heat wave effect?

    Shakoor Hajat;Ben Armstrong;Michela Baccini;Annibale Biggeri

  • Effects of long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution on respiratory and cardiovascular mortality in the Netherlands: the NLCS-AIR study.

    Bert Brunekreef;Rob Beelen;Gerard Hoek;Leo Schouten

  • Cancer risks associated with occupational exposure to magnetic fields among electric utility workers in Ontario and Quebec, Canada, and France: 1970-1989.

    G. Thériault;M. Goldberg;A. B. Miller;B. Armstrong

  • Health and Climate Change 2 Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport

    J Woodcock;P Edwards;C Tonne;BG Armstrong

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Wilkinson
Paul Wilkinson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Masahiro Hashizume
Masahiro Hashizume University of Tokyo
Shilu Tong
Shilu Tong Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Eric Lavigne
Eric Lavigne University of Ottawa
Shakoor Hajat
Shakoor Hajat London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Yuming Guo
Yuming Guo Monash University
Yasushi Honda
Yasushi Honda University of Tsukuba
Antonella Zanobetti
Antonella Zanobetti Harvard University
Ho Kim
Ho Kim Seoul National University
Joel Schwartz
Joel Schwartz Harvard University

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