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NEW PUBLICATIONS (2024-2025):

Kaufman JS.  The Race Variable: How Statistical Practices Reinforce Inequality. Columbia University Press: New York, NY, November 2025.

Kaufman JS. Race/Ethnicity and Physical Health/Mortality. Unit 4, Chapter 13, Handbook of Social Epidemiology (Chandola T, Garcia-Alexander G, Hill TD, Eds), De Gruyter, 2025. 

Richardson DB, Costello S, Kaufman JS, Kelly-Reif K, Lewis S, Steenland K, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ. Chapter 3. Confounding: a routine concern in the interpretation of epidemiological studies. In: (Berrington de González A, Richardson DB, Schubauer-Berigan MK, Editors) Statistical methods in cancer research, Volume V. Bias assessment in case–control and cohort studies for hazard identification (IARC Scientific Publications No. 171). Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer. 2024. 

Mehrabadi A, Shapiro G, Kaufman JS, Yang S. Housing and preterm birth, stillbirth and neonatal death in Canada using 2006 and 2016 census. Epidemiology, in press.   

Wang C. Abrahamowicz M, Beauchamp ME, Kaufman JS, Steele R, Jespersen E, Wedderkopp N, Shrier I. Assessing the time-varying association between physical activity and injury risk among children. Pediatric and Perinatal Epid, in press. 

Chen H, Kaufman JS, Chen C, Wang J, Maier A, van Dijk A, Slipp N, Rana J, MacIntyre E, Su Y, Kim J, Benmarhnia T. Impact of the 2023 wildfire smoke episodes in Ontario, Canada, on asthma and other health outcomes: an interrupted time-series analysis. CMAJ 2025 May 4;197(17):E465-E477. PMID: 40324806.

Calderon-Anyosa R, Koski A, Carcamo C, Garcia PJ, Nandi A, Kaufman JS. Impact of Peru's women's emergency centres on the reporting of physical, psychological and sexual intimate partner violence. J Epidemiol Community Health 2025 Mar 12:jech-2024-222140. doi: 10.1136/jech-2024-222140. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40081880.

Banack HR, Kim CD, Cook CE, Wasser A, Kaufman JS, Stovitz SD. BMI-for-age percentile curves for older adults. Obesity 2025 Mar 10. doi: 10.1002/oby.24189. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40065555.

Al-Kassab-Córdova A, Mezones-Holguin E, Kaufman JS. Diminished returns of maternal education on children's vaccination status for indigenous women in Peru. Soc Sci Med 2025 Apr;370:117862. PMID: 40015143.

Chen C, Kaufman JS, Rana J, Benmarhnia T, Chen H. Do we need flexible machine-learning algorithms to assess the effect of long-term exposure to fine particulate matter on mortality?: An example from a Canadian national cohort. Environ Epidemiol 2025 Mar 4;9(2):e375. PMID: 40046729.

Kaufman JS. Variance Partition That Eludes Intuition. SSM-Population Health 2025 Feb 17;29:101763. PMID: 40046533.

Chen H, Quick M, Kaufman JS, Chen C, Kwong JC, van Donkelaar A, Martin RV, Tjepkema M, Benmarhnia T, Burnett RT. Impact of a 10-year shift in ambient air quality on mortality in Canada: a causal analysis of multiple pollutants. Lancet Planet Health 2025 Feb;9(2):e92-e102. PMID: 39986327

Mehrabadi A, Shapiro GD, Bushnik T, Kaufman JS, Yang S. Association of housing tenure and unaffordable housing with preterm birth and other adverse birth outcomes in Canada: a population-based study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2025 Feb 10;79(3):220-226. PMID: 39419525.

Wang C, Eliason P, Galarneau JM, Emery CA, Yusuf S, Steele RJ, Kaufman JS, Shrier I. The intention-to-treat effect of changes in planned participation on injury risk in adolescent ice hockey players: A target trial emulation. J Sci Med Sport 2025 Feb;28(2):132-139. PMID: 39490317.

Messer LC, Kaufman JS. But Did You See the Gorilla? Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 2025; 39: 12-14. PMID: 39777734.

Abrahamowicz M, Beauchamp ME, Boulesteix AL, Morris TP, Sauerbrei W, Kaufman JS, Stratos Simulation Panel OBOT. Data-driven simulations to assess the impact of study imperfections in time-to-event analyses. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Jan 8;194(1):233-242. PMID: 38717330.

Mezones-Holguin E, Al-kassab-Córdova A, Soto-Becerra P, Hernández-Díaz S, Kaufman JS.  La prueba de significancia de la hipótesis nula y la dicotomización del valor p: Errare humanum est. Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica 2025 Jan 31;41(4):422-430. Spanish, English. PMID: 39936767.

Stovitz SD, Shrier I, Banack HR, Kaufman JS. In Defense of Generalists: Primary Care Observations Have Systematic Advantages. J Am Board Fam Med 2024 Nov-Dec;37(6):1133-1139. PMID: 40118548.

Wang C, Kaufman JS, Shrier I. Exposure misclassification: an "immortal time" bias in observational studies of training load and injury. J Clin Epidemiol 2024 Dec;176:111581. PMID: 39447997.

Sowmyan SJ, Hirai AH, Kaufman JS. State and Local Government Expenditures and Infant Mortality. Pediatrics 2024 Dec 1;154(6):e2023063571. PMID: 39501762.

Bai L, Kwong JC, Kaufman JS, Benmarhnia T, Chen C, van Donkelaar A, Martin RV, Kim J, Lu H, Burnett RT, Chen H. Effect modification by statin use status on the association between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and cardiovascular mortality. Int J Epidemiol 2024 Jun 12;53(4):dyae084. PMID: 38961644

Wang C, Kaufman JS, Steele RJ, Shrier I. Target trial framework for determining the effect of changes in training load on injury risk using observational data: a methodological commentary. BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med. 2024 Jul 5;10(3):e002037. PMID: 38975026

Kaufman JS. Causal Inference Challenges in the Relationship Between Social Determinants and Cardiovascular Outcomes. Can J Cardiol 2024 Jun;40(6):976-988. PMID: 38365089.

Wang C, Stovitz SD, Kaufman JS, Steele RJ, Shrier I. Principles of musculoskeletal sport injuries for epidemiologists: a review. Inj Epidemiol 2024 May 27;11(1):21. PMID: 38802864.

Feelemyer J, Bershteyn A, Scheidell JD, Brewer R, Dyer TV, Cleland CM, Hucks-Ortiz C, Justice A, Mayer K, Grawert A, Kaufman JS, Braithwaite S, Khan MR. Impact of decarceration plus alcohol, substance use, and mental health screening on life expectancies of Black sexual minority men and Black transgender women (BSMM/BTW) living with HIV in the United States: A Simulation Study based on HPTN 061. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2024 March; 95(3): 283-290. PMID: 38032748.

Chen C, Chen H, Kaufman JS, Benmarhnia T. Differential Participation, a Potential Cause of Spurious Associations in Observational Cohorts in Environmental Epidemiology. Epidemiology 2024 Mar 1;35(2):174-184. PMID: 38290140

Hasan MS, Ganni E, Liu A, Guo L, Mackie AS, Kaufman JS, Marelli AJ. CanCHD Study of Hematopoietic Cancers in Children With and Without Genetic Syndromes. J Am Heart Assoc 2024 Jan 2;13(1):e026604. PMID: 38156460.

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