Imperial College London

Dr Andrea Rodriguez Martinez

Faculty of MedicineSchool of Public Health

Honorary Research Associate
 
 
 
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Contact

 

andrea.rodriguez-martinez13

 
 
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Location

 

Norfolk PlaceSt Mary's Campus

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Summary

 

Summary

I am a Research Associate in Population Health in the Global Environmental Health research group. My current research projects focus on analysing the past, current, or expected future levels and trends in population health, with a particular emphasis on non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

I am also interested in innovative solutions for global health problems. In 2017, I co-founded Momoby, a startup company that aims to bring antenatal healthcare to isolated areas from low-income countries. This project has been awarded a number of prizes in national and international innovation competitions, including: IDea Incubator San Francisco 2018 (3rd Prize); Venture Catalyst Challenge 2018 (1st Prize); Althea-Imperial Innovation Program 2017 (2nd Prize); I3S-Hovione Capital Innovation Prize 2017 (finalist); Hello Tomorrow Challenge 2017 (shortlisted). 

I hold a BSc degree in Biotechnology from the University of Salamanca (Spain) and an MRes degree in Biomedical Research from Imperial College. My PhD (12/14 - 03/18) was funded by three independent PhD studentships from Imperial College, the Medical Research Council, and La Caixa Foundation. I was supervised by Dr. Marc-Emmanuel Dumas, Prof. Jeremy Nicholson and Dr. Joram Posma, and my research focused on the identification of novel molecular biomarkers for cardiometabolic disorders. 

Publications

Journals

Brial F, Chilloux J, Nielsen T, et al., 2021, Human and preclinical studies of the host-gut microbiome co-metabolite hippurate as a marker and mediator of metabolic health., Gut, Vol:70, ISSN:0017-5749, Pages:2105-2114

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), Iurilli N, 2021, Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body-mass index to change in obesity and underweight, Elife, Vol:10, ISSN:2050-084X

Rodriguez-Martinez A, Zhou B, Sophiea MK, et al., 2020, Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants, The Lancet, Vol:396, ISSN:0140-6736, Pages:1511-1524

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), 2020, Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol, Nature, Vol:582, ISSN:0028-0836, Pages:73-77

Zhou B, Danaei G, Stevens GA, et al., 2019, Long-term and recent trends in hypertension awareness, treatment, and control in 12 high-income countries: an analysis of 123 nationally representative surveys, Lancet, Vol:394, ISSN:0140-6736, Pages:639-651

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