A5058758557- Malaria Research and Control
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Global Health Care Issues
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Global Health and Surgery
- Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment
- Science, Research, and Medicine
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
- Neonatal Health and Biochemistry
Centre for Global Health Research
2018-2024
University of Toronto
2017-2024
St. Michael's Hospital
2018-2022
St Michaels Hospital
2020
Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy
2011-2018
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
1999-2018
Cochrane
2017-2018
Resources For The Future
1999-2009
World Bank
2007
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
2007
India’s national COVID death totals remain undetermined. Using an independent nationally representative survey of 0.14 million (M) adults, we compared mortality during the 2020 and 2021 viral waves to expected all-cause mortality. constituted 29% (95% confidence interval, 28 31%) deaths from June July 2021, corresponding 3.2 M (3.1 3.4) deaths, which 2.7 (2.6 2.9) occurred in April (when doubled mortality). A subsurvey 57,000 adults showed similar temporal increases mortality, with non-COVID...
Abstract Background Antimicrobial resistance is a major contemporary public health threat. Strategies to contain antimicrobial have been comprehensively set forth, however in developing countries where the need for effective antimicrobials greatest implementation has proved problematic. A better understanding of patterns and determinants antibiotic use emerging economies may permit more appropriately targeted interventions. Viet Nam, with large population, high burden infectious disease...
Background Cost-effectiveness rankings of health interventions are useful inputs for national healthcare planning and budgeting. Previous comprehensive low- middle- income countries were undertaken in 2005 2006, accompanying the development strategies Millennium Development Goals. We update using studies published since 2000, as being considered Sustainable Methods Expert systematic searches literature a broad range interventions. results Disability Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs) outcome...
India accounts for about a fifth of cardiovascular deaths globally, but nationally representative data on mortality trends are not yet available. In this nationwide study, we aimed to assess the in ischaemic heart disease and stroke over 15 years using Million Death Study.We determined national subnational rates by sex birth cohort cause death ascertained verbal autopsy from 2001 2013 among 2·4 million households. We derived applying proportions UN estimates projected 2000...
The incidence of infection during SARS-CoV-2 viral waves, the factors associated with infection, and durability antibody responses to among Canadian adults remain undocumented.
Polymyxins (polymyxin B and colistin) are older bactericidal antibiotics that increasingly used to treat infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacteria. However, dosing clinical use of these drugs vary widely. This survey was undertaken reveal how polymyxins worldwide. Data were collected through a structured online questionnaire consisting 24 questions regarding colistin usage patterns indications as well dosage for adult patients. The disseminated in 2011 relevant...
Sierra Leone's child and maternal mortality rates are among the highest in world. However, little is known about causes of premature country. To rectify this, Ministry Health Sanitation Leone launched Sample Registration System (SL-SRS) births deaths. Here, we report cause-specific from first SL-SRS round, representing deaths 2018 to 2020.
Firearm mortality is a leading, and largely avoidable, cause of death in the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia. We aimed to assess changes over time demographic determinants firearm deaths these four countries between 1990 2015.In this comparative analysis mortality, we examined national vital statistics data from 1990-2015 publicly available repositories extracted medically-certified underlying population denominators calculate age-specific sex-specific risk at subnational level, by education...
Random population-based surveys to estimate prevalence of SARS-CoV2 infection causing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are useful understand distributions and predictors the infection. In April 2020, first-ever nationally representative survey in Canada polled 4,240 adults age 18 years older about self-reported COVID experience March, early epidemic. We examined levels symptoms, defined as fever plus difficulty breathing/shortness breath, dry cough so severe that it disrupts sleep, and/or loss...