Dr Benjamin Woolf
MSc, MSc, PhD
Current positions
Senior Research Associate in Integrative Epidemiology
Epidemiology and Health Data Science
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Publications
Recent publications
01/08/2026Assessing the causal effects of environmental tobacco smoke exposure: a meta-analytic Mendelian randomization study
Nicotine and Tobacco Research
Context‐Stratified Mendelian Randomization: Exploiting Regional Exposure Variation to Explore Causal Effect Heterogeneity and Nonlinearity
Statistics in Medicine
Exploring the Relationship Between Caffeine Consumption, Caffeine Metabolism, and Sleep Behaviours: A Mendelian Randomisation Study
Journal of Sleep Research
Extending the Use of Mendelian Randomisation With Non-Inherited Variants to Assess Socially Transmitted Parental Exposures Under Assortative Mating
Genetic Epidemiology
Quasi-experiments rely on design choices: a reflection on Renson and Westreich's 'What makes a study design quasi-experimental'?
International Journal of Epidemiology
Thesis
Using Mendelian randomization to assess the causal effects of familial environmental tobacco smoke exposure.
Supervisors
Award date
20/01/2026
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