Ben Amies-Cull

Ben Amies-Cull is a clinical scientist in health policy and leads the simulation modelling work at the Health Behaviours Team. His interdisciplinary work spans health economics, epidemiology and policy analysis, complementing practice as a GP. 

His work addresses priority questions facing our healthcare and social care systems on how Public Health and Primary Care approaches can alleviate the unsustainable burden of preventable non-communicable disease, its associated costs and inequalities. He addresses important issues in how best to complete health economic evaluations for these interventions and present the evidence to policymakers for direct impact. His simulation modelling work involves the development and application of the PRIMEtime model structure, to estimate the long-term health impacts of interventions on non-communicable disease risk, particularly in diet and BMI. 

He is PI on the health economic evaluation of the Child Obesity Prevention Initiative, and Co-Investigator on SHIFTS-UPF (exploring health and environmental impacts of Ultra-Processed Food taxes), AMPHORA (modelling agricultural air pollution mitigation measures), SHOP (estimating the effects of voluntary restrictions on supermarket price promotions) and the MRC programme on Tackling Population Level Obesity, and delivering the modelled health economic evaluation for the FoodSEqual programme.

Alongside research, he has teaching experience on the NDPH Masters in Global Health Sciences and Epidemiology, Blavatnik School Masters in Public Policy, and BSc Human Sciences. He has a DPhil from Nuffield Department of Population Health (Imperial), MSc in Health Policy and MRes in qualitative research (Manchester). He works as a GP in an inner-city area.

He is recruiting potential DPhil students and always looking to grow contacts in policymaking bodies and think tanks - please contact via email.