Diego Aguilar Ramirez
MD, MSc, DPhil
Intermediate Research Fellow
Diego is an intermediate research fellow based in the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU). He works in the Mexico City Prospective Study (MCPS) leading research capacity-building efforts in Mexico in collaboration with Mexico-based researchers. His own research uses observational and genetic epidemiology methods to investigate the determinants of cardiovascular, renal, and metabolic diseases - and their impact to health - in the Mexican population.
In addition to this, Diego is a tutor for the Principles of Epidemiology module in the MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology, and for the Public Health thread in the standard undergraduate Medical School course. He also supervises postgraduate research students in Oxford and in Mexico.
Diego studied medicine at Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City where, after graduating in 2015, he worked as a junior researcher and lecturer until 2017. Following this, he obtained an MSc in Global Health Science and a DPhil in Population Health from Oxford Population Health.
Recent publications
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Alcohol and mortality in Mexico: prospective study of 150 000 adults.
Journal article
Trichia E. et al, (2024), Lancet Public Health, 9, e907 - e915
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Multinational evaluation of anthropometric age (AnthropoAge) as a measure of biological age in the USA, England, Mexico, Costa Rica, and China: a population-based longitudinal study
Preprint
Fermín-Martínez CA. et al, (2024)
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Cognitive impairment at older ages among 8000 men and women living in Mexico City: cross-sectional analyses of a prospective study
Preprint
González-Carballo C. et al, (2024)