Professor Jonathan Emberson
Jonathan Emberson
BA, MSc, PhD
Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology
- MSc in Global Health Science Module Lead: Clinical Trials and Meta-Analysis
Jonathan is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology within the Nuffield Department of Population Health. After graduating in Mathematics in 1998, he studied statistics and epidemiology at MSc and PhD level before joining the Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU) in 2004.
His main research involves studying the causes and prevention of cardiovascular diseases through the design, conduct and analysis of large-scale observational cohort studies, randomised controlled trials, and individual-participant-data meta-analyses of both types of study. He is the UK Principal Investigator and MRC Population Health Research Unit (MRC-PHRU) Programme Leader for the Mexico City Prospective Study, a blood-based prospective cohort study of 150,000 Mexican adults followed for more than 15 years.
Recent publications
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Protein-truncating variants in BSN are associated with severe adult-onset 2 obesity, type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease
Journal article
EMBERSON J., (2024), Nature Genetics
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Lifetime and 10-year risks of cardiovascular mortality in relation to risk factors in middle and old age: 50-year follow-up of the Whitehall study of London Civil Servants.
Journal article
Clarke R. et al, (2024), Public Health, 230, 73 - 80
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Lifetime effects and cost-effectiveness of standard and higher-intensity statin therapy across population categories in the UK: a microsimulation modelling study
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MIHAYLOVA B. et al, (2024), The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
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Design, recruitment, and baseline characteristics of the LENS trial
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PREISS D. et al, (2024), Diabetic Medicine
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Author Correction: Genotyping, sequencing and analysis of 140,000 adults from Mexico City.
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Ziyatdinov A. et al, (2024), Nature, 626