Epidemiology and Global Health

Epidemiology and Global Health

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Latest articles

    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Shining light on the dark matter of pertussis: evidence for an asymptomatic carriage state from a longitudinal cohort of mother/infant dyads

    Christian E Gunning, Christopher J Gill, Pejman Rohani
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    From multiplicity of infection to force of infection for sparsely sampled Plasmodium falciparum populations at high transmission

    Qi Zhan, Kathryn E Tiedje ... Mercedes Pascual
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Medicine
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Five-Year Survival Outcomes for Breast Cancer Patients Across Continental Africa: A Contemporary Review of Literature with Meta Analysis

    Augustina Badu-Peprah, Ernest Kissi Kontor ... Nityanand Jain
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    A Sex-specific Mendelian Randomization-Phenome-Wide Association Study of Body Mass Index

    Zhu Liduzi Jiesisibieke, Io Ieong Chan ... C Mary Schooling
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Estimation of Rotavirus Vaccine Effectiveness Based on Whole Genome Sequences

    Jiye Kwon, Jose Jaimes ... Virginia E Pitzer
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Menopausal hormone therapy and the female brain: leveraging neuroimaging and prescription registry data from the UK Biobank cohort

    Claudia Barth, Liisa AM Galea ... Ann-Marie G de Lange
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Improving SARS-CoV-2 variants monitoring in the absence of genomic surveillance capabilities: a serological study in Bolivian blood donors in October 2021 and June 2022

    Lucia Inchauste, Elif Nurtop ... Stéphane Priet
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Useful
    • Compelling
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Understanding Pain in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Health Risks and Treatment Effectiveness

    Tess Cherlin, Stephanie Mohammed ... Shefali S Verma
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Compelling
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Founder effects arising from gathering dynamics systematically bias emerging pathogen surveillance

    Bradford P Taylor, William P Hanage
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Lifestyles and their relative contribution to biological aging across multiple-organ systems: Change analysis from the China Multi-Ethnic Cohort study

    Yuan Zhang, Dan Tang ... Xing Zhao
    Healthy lifestyle changes, particularly improvements in diet and smoking, were inversely related to comprehensive and organ-specific biological aging in Southwest China, highlighting key intervention targets to limit aging.
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Highlights

    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Medicine
    3. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    COVID-19: A collection of articles

    Edited by Diane M Harper et al.
    1. Medicine
    2. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Call for papers on the impact of COVID-19 on cancer prevention, control, care and survivorship

    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Antibiotic resistance and gonorrhoea

    Nicholas Medland

Senior editors

  1. Balram Bhargava
    Indian Council of Medical Research, India
  2. Eduardo Franco
    McGill University, Canada
  3. Diane M Harper
    University of Michigan, United States
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