Joanna L Whisnant

ORCID: 0000-0001-5439-5093
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Research Areas
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Malaria Research and Control
  • Folate and B Vitamins Research
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
  • Healthcare Systems and Public Health
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
2018-2025

University of Washington
2018-2025

University of York
2020

BackgroundHuman capital is recognised as the level of education and health in a population considered an important determinant economic growth. The World Bank has called for measurement annual reporting human to track motivate investments enhance productivity. We aim provide new comprehensive measure across countries globally.MethodsWe generated period expected capital, defined each birth cohort years lived from age 20 64 adjusted educational attainment, learning or quality, functional...

10.1016/s0140-6736(18)31941-x article EN cc-by The Lancet 2018-09-25

As a leading behavioral risk factor for numerous health outcomes, smoking is major ongoing public challenge. Although evidence on the effects of has been widely reported, few attempts have evaluated dose-response relationship between and diverse range outcomes systematically comprehensively. In present study, we re-estimated relationships current 36 by conducting systematic reviews up to 31 May 2022, employing meta-analytic method that incorporates between-study heterogeneity into estimates...

10.1038/s41591-022-01978-x article EN cc-by Nature Medicine 2022-10-01

Abstract Despite a gradual decline in smoking rates over time, exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) continues cause harm nonsmokers, who are disproportionately children and women living low- middle-income countries. We comprehensively reviewed the literature published by July 2022 concerning adverse impacts of SHS on nine health outcomes. Following, we quantified each exposure–response association accounting for various sources uncertainty evaluated strength evidence supporting our analyses...

10.1038/s41591-023-02743-4 article EN cc-by Nature Medicine 2024-01-01

Malaria remains a leading cause of illness and death globally, with countries in sub-Saharan Africa bearing disproportionate burden. Global high-resolution maps malaria prevalence, incidence, mortality are crucial for tracking spatially heterogeneous progress against the disease to inform strategic control efforts. We present latest such maps, first since 2019, which cover years 2000-22. The accompanied by administrative-level summaries include estimated COVID-19 pandemic-related impacts on...

10.1016/s0140-6736(25)00038-8 article EN cc-by The Lancet 2025-03-01

Education is a key dimension of well-being and crucial indicator development

10.1038/s41586-020-2198-8 article EN cc-by Nature 2020-04-15

Life expectancy (LE) differences within and between states by race/ethnicity have not been examined.To estimate LE for selected groups in from 1990 to 2019.Cross-sectional time-series analysis.United States.Deidentified death records Census data were used construct regression models with smoothed time series of mortality 2019.LE at birth, sex year, subgroups people reporting Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black, or White race/ethnicity.Disparities across 8.0 years females 12.2 males 7.9 7.8 2019....

10.7326/m21-3956 article EN Annals of Internal Medicine 2022-06-27
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