Biography
Owen completed a BSc (Hons) in Nutrition (International) at the University of Leeds (2020), with a one-year study abroad to Queensland University of Technology, Australia. They then undertook an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2021). Owen is currently completing a British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence non-clinical PhD. Along side Owen's PhD, they are pursuing a postgraduate diploma in User-Experience Design whilst already gaining a postgraduate certificate in User-Interface design. Owen recently undertook a 6-month work internship at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia.
Research
Owen's interested into how tailoring visual communication of cardiovascular disease risk to different sub-populations may mitigate health inequalities within clinically informed decision-making. Owen has experience in, and are interested in working cross-disciplinary across public health, epidemiology, psychology, data science and user-centred design research.
Publications
SCORE2-Diabetes Working Group and the ESC Cardiovascular Risk Collaboration. (2023). SCORE2- Diabetes: 10-year cardiovascular risk estimation in type 2 diabetes in Europe. European Heart Journal, 2023;, ehad260, https://doi-org.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/10.1093/eurheartj/ehad260 Østergaard, H. B.*, Hageman, S. H. J.*, Read, S. H.*, Taylor, O.*, Pennells, L., Kaptoge, S., Petitjean, C., Xu, Z., Shi, F., McEvoy, J. W., Herrington, W., Visseren, F. L. J., Wood, A., Eliasson, B., Sattar, N., Wild, S., Di Angelantonio, E., Dorresteijn, J. A. N. (2022).
Estimating individual lifetime risk of incident cardiovascular events in adults with Type 2 diabetes: an update and geographical calibration of the DIAbetes Lifetime perspective model (DIAL2). European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 30(1), 61-69. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwac232. *contributed equally
