Full List of Publications (Google Scholar)

PUBLICATIONS (2019-2020):

Kaufman JS.  Social Epidemiology.  In: Modern Epidemiology, 4th Edition (Rothman KJ, Lash T, VanderWeele, Haneusse, Eds).  Lippincott-Raven:  Philadelphia, PA, forthcoming in 2020.

Calderon-Anyosa RJC, Kaufman JS. Impact of COVID-19 lockdown policy on homicide, suicide, and motor vehicle deaths in Peru. Prev Med. 2020 Nov 21:106331. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.106331. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33232687

Carabali M, Harper S, Lima-Neto AS, Dos Santos de Sousa G, Caprara A, Nelly Restrepo B, Kaufman JS. Spatiotemporal Distribution and Socioeconomic Disparities of Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika in Two Latin American cities from 2007 to 2017. Trop Med Int Health 2020 Nov 20. doi: 10.1111/tmi.13530. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33219561

Jahagirdar D, Dimitris M, Strumpf EC, Kaufman JS, Harper S, Heymann J, Atabay E, Vincent I, Nandi A. Balancing work and care: the effect of paid adult medical leave policies on employment in Europe Journal of Social Policy 2020. Online ahead of print http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047279420000264

Safiri S, Kolahi AA, Cross M, Hill C, Smith E, Carson-Chahhoud K, Mansournia MA, Almasi-Hashiani A, Ashrafi-Asgarabad A, Kaufman JS, Sepidarkish M, Shakouri SK, Hoy D, Woolf AD, March L, Collins G, Buchbinder R.  Prevalence, deaths and disability adjusted life years (DALYs) due to musculoskeletal disorders for 195 countries and territories 1990-2017. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2020 Nov 4. doi: 10.1002/art.41571. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33150702

Melchior M, Desgrées du Loû A, Gosselin A, Datta GD, Carabali M, Merckx J, Kaufman JS. Migrant status, ethnicity and COVID-19: more accurate European data are greatly needed. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020 Oct 23:S1198-743X(20)30645-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.10.014. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33190796

Carabali M, Pérez D, Degroote S, Reyes A, Kaufman JS, Ridde V. Towards a better integration of social sciences in arbovirus research and decision-making: an experience from scientific collaboration between Cuban and Quebec institutions. Glob Health Promot. 2020 Aug 14:1757975920943859. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32794419

Safiri S, Kolahi AA, Cross M, Carson-Chahhoud K, Almasi-Hashiani A, Kaufman JS, Mansournia MA, Sepidarkish M, Ashrafi-Asgarabad A, Hoy D, Collins G, Woolf AD, March L, Smith E. Global, regional, and national burden of other musculoskeletal disorders 1990-2017: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2020 Aug 25: keaa315. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keaa315. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32840303

Kaufman JS. Commentary: Cynical epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol 2020 Jun 28:dyaa096. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaa096. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32594156

Safiri S, Kolahi AA, Cross M, Carson-Chahhoud K, Hoy D, Almasi-Hashiani A, Sepidarkish M, Ashrafi-Asgarabad A, Moradi-Lakeh M, Mansournia MA, Kaufman JS, Collins G, Woolf AD, March L, Smith E. Prevalence, incidence and years lived with disability due to gout and its attributable risk factors for 195 countries and territories 1990-2017: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2020; 72(11): 1916-27. PMID: 32755051 

Shah L, Rojas Peña M, Mori O, Zamudio C, Kaufman JS, Otero L, Gotuzzo E, Seas C, Brewer TF. A pragmatic stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of active case finding for household contacts within a routine tuberculosis program, San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima, Peru. Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Sep 18;100:95-103. PMID: 32950737

Samuel M, Batomen B, Rouette J, Kim J, Platt RW, Brophy JM, Kaufman JS. Evaluation of propensity score used in cardiovascular research: a cross-sectional survey and guidance document. BMJ Open 2020;10(8):e036961. Published 2020 Aug 26. PMID: 32847911

Kandasamy V, Hirai AH, Kaufman JS, James AR, Kotelchuck M. Regional variation in Black infant mortality: The contribution of contextual factors. PLoS One 2020 Aug 11;15(8):e0237314.  doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237314. eCollection 2020. PMID: 32780762

Merckx J, Labrecque JA, Kaufman JS. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by Children. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2020 Jul 21;117(33-34):553-560. PMID: 32705983

Safiri S, Kolahi AA, Smith E, Hill C, Bettampadi D, Mansournia MA, Hoy D, Ashrafi-Asgarabad A, Sepidarkish M, Almasi-Hashiani A, Collins G, Kaufman JS, Qorbani M, Moradi-Lakeh M, Woolf AD, Guillemin F, March L, Cross M. Global, regional and national burden of osteoarthritis 1990-2017: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Ann Rheum Dis. 2020 Jun;79(6):819-828. PMID: 32398285

Mallma P, Carcamo C, Kaufman JS. The impact of anti-tobacco legislation on birth weight in Peru. Glob Health Res Policy. 2020 Feb 28;5:5. PMID: 32161814

Durán D, Al-Soneidar WA, Madathil SA, Kaufman JS, Nicolau B. Quantitative Bias Analysis of misclassification in case-control studies: an example with Human Papillomavirus and Oropharyngeal Cancer. Community Dent Health 2020 Feb 27;37(1):96-101. PMID: 32031348

Yang S, Dahhou M, Bushnik T, Wilkins R, Kaufman JS, Sheppard AJ, Kramer MS. Perinatal health among foreign versus native-born mothers in Canada: variations across outcomes and cohorts. J Public Health (Oxf). 2020 Feb 28;42(1):e26-e33. PMID: 30715416

Hawkins SS, Ghiani M, Harper S, Baum CF, Kaufman JS. Impact of State-Level Changes on Maternal Mortality: A Population-Based, Quasi-Experimental Study. Am J Prev Med 2020 Feb;58(2):165-174. PMID: 31859173

Riddell CA, Kaufman JS, Torres JM, Harper S. Using change in a seat belt law to study racially-biased policing in South Carolina. Prev Med 2020 Jan; 130: 105884. PMID: 31705937

Cuadrado C, Monsalves MJ, Gajardo J, Bertoglia MP, Nájera M, Alfaro T, Canals M, Kaufman JS, Peña S.  Impact of small area lockdowns for the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. medRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2020.05.05.20092106

Stovitz SD, Banack HR, Kaufman JS. Selection bias can creep into unselected cohorts and produce counterintuitive findings [Letter] Int J Obes 2020, forthcoming [Comment on: Fekri et al. Int J Obes 2020;44(1):195-203]

Calderon-Anyosa RJC, Kaufman JS. Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown Policy on Homicide, Suicide, and Motor Vehicle Deaths in Peru. medRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2020.07.11.20150193

Banack HR, Kaufman JS, Stovitz SD. Re: The Obesity Paradox in COPD is Absent in US Never-Smokers [Letter] Am J Epidemiol 2020 May 5;189(5):481-482. PMID: 31673699 [Comment on: Wu TD, et al. Am J Epidemiol 2019 Nov 1;188(11):1977-1983]

Kaufman JS, Merckx J.  La réaction biologique au Covid-19 n’est pas une question d’appartenance raciale. Le Monde 11 June 2020.  https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2020/06/11/la-reaction-biologique-au-covid-19-n-est-pas-une-question-d-appartenance-raciale_6042455_3232.html

Merckx J, Kaufman JS. Inappropriate use of ethnicity in relation to COVID-19 leads to unwarranted conclusions [Letter] BMJ 2020 June 6; https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2094/rr-0 [Comment on:  Toubiana J, et al. BMJ 2020;369:m2094. Published 2020 Jun 3. doi:10.1136/bmj.m2094]

Kaufman JS, Labrecque JA, Merckx J. Generating Evidence in the Age of COVID-19: Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by Children 2020. OSF Preprint. doi:10.31219/osf.io/86hta.

Stovitz SD, Shrier I, Kaufman JS.  What was the goal of the analysis? [Letter] American Journal of Medicine 2020; 133(5): e213-4. PMID: 32450957 [Comment on Nakamura T, et al. Am J Med. 2019 Dec;132(12):1458-65]

Kaufman JS. A Systemic Disorder [Letter].  Issues in Science and Technology: Forum 2020, Spring Issue, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3
[Comment on: Cooper RS, Paneth N Issues in Science and Technology 2020, Winter]

Kaufman JS, Merckx J. Discutons de l'ouverture des écoles et des garderies.  La Presse. Publié le 25 avril 2020 à 16h00. 
https://www.lapresse.ca/debats/opinions/202004/24/01-5270799-discutons-de-louverture-des-ecoles-et-des-garderies.php

Kaufman JS, Merckx J. Opinion on COVID-19: These epidemiologists say let’s think about reopening daycares and elementary schools. 
National Post April 22, 2020. 2:30 PM EDT
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/opinion-on-covid-19-we-are-epidemiologists-and-its-probably-safe-to-reopen-some-schools

Merckx J, Siddiqi A, Kaufman JS. Unjustified assertions regarding race and ethnicity in clinical decision-making. Can Urol Assoc J 2020 Apr;14(4):143.  PMID: 32254015 [Comment on: Punjani et al. Can Urol Assoc J 2020 Feb;14(2):31-35]

Merckx J, Kaufman JS. Heterogeneous treatment response by race cannot be claimed in the absence of evidence [Letter]. Am J Hypertens. 2020 Feb; 33(2): e1. PMID:  31374115 [Comment on: Mehanna, et al. Am J Hypertens. 2019 Jun 11;32(7):668-75]

Labrecque JA, Kaufman JS, Huang JY. Genetic instruments with too many strings: acknowledging pleiotropy and population structure in Mendelian randomization studies [Letter] Eur Heart J. 2020 Feb 14;41(7):892-3.PMID: 31960031 [Comment on: Zeng L, et al. Eur Heart J 2019;40:2413–20]

Merckx J, Kaufman JS, Cooper RS. Step-Up Therapy in Black Patients with Asthma [Letter]. N Engl J Med. 2020 Jan 23;382(4):390-391. PMID: 31971688 [Comment on:  Wechsler et al. N Engl J Med. 2019 Sep 26;381(13):1227-1]

Kaufman JS, Riddell CA, Harper S. Black and White Differences in Life Expectancy in 4 US States, 1969-2013. Public Health Rep 2019; 134(6): 634-42. PMID: 31600482

Mokhayeri Y, Hashemi-Nazari SS, Khodakarim S, Safiri S, Mansournia N, Mansournia MA, Kaufman JS, Naimi AI. Effects of Hypothetical Interventions on Ischemic Stroke Using Parametric G-Formula. Stroke 2019 Nov;50(11):3286-3288. PMID: 31480969

Banack HR, Bea JW, Kaufman JS, Stokes A, Kroenke CH, Stefanick ML, Beresford SA, Bird CE, Garcia L, Wallace R, Wild RA, Caan B, Wactawski-Wende J. The Effect of Reverse Causality and Selective Attrition on the Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Mortality in Postmenopausal Women. Am J Epidemiol 2019 Oct 1;188(10):1838-1848. PMID: 31274146

Labrecque JA, Kaufman JS. State-level heterogeneity in the health profile of people living in households receiving Bolsa Família. Cad Saude Publica. 2019 Jul 4;35(6):e00141218. PMID: 31291427

Banack HR, Kaufman JS, Wactawski-Wende J, Troen BR, Stovitz SD. Investigating and Remediating Selection Bias in Geriatrics Research: The Selection Bias Toolkit. J Am Geriatr Soc 2019 Sep;67(9):1970-1976. PMID: 31211407

Blouin B, Casapia M, Kaufman JS, Joseph L, Larson C, Gyorkos TW. Bayesian methods for exposure misclassification adjustment in a mediation analysis: Hemoglobin and malnutrition in the association between Ascaris and IQ. Epidemiology 2019 Sep;30(5):659-668.PMID: 31205289

Oppong-Nkrumah O, Kaufman JS, Heymann J, Frank J, Nandi A.  The Impact of increasing the minimum legal age for work on school attendance in low- and middle-income countries SSM Popul Health 2019 Jun 6;8:100426. PMID: 31289742

Kaufman JS. Causal Inference for Social Exposures. Annu Rev Public Health. 2019 Apr 1; 40: 7-21. PMID: 30601720

Yang S, Dahhou M, Bushnik T, Wilkins R, Kaufman JS, Sheppard AJ, Kramer MS. Perinatal health among foreign versus native-born mothers in Canada: variations across outcomes and cohorts. J Public Health (Oxf). 2019 Jan 31. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdz006. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30715416

Shakiba M, Mansournia MA, Kaufman JS. Estimating Effect of Obesity on Stroke Using G-Estimation: The ARIC study. Obesity 2019 Feb;27(2):304-308. PMID: 30677257

Palmer RC, Ismond D, Rodriquez EJ, Kaufman JS. Social Determinants of Health: Future Directions for Health Disparities Research. Am J Public Health. 2019 Jan;109(S1):S70-S71. PMID: 30699027

Kaufman JS, Banack HR, Adams JW, Marshall BDL, Stovitz SD. Risk Factor Reversal in Studies of Infectious Disease: Making Counterintuitive Results Intuitive Again. Sex Transm Dis 2019 Jan; 46(1):e5-7.  PMID: 30234795