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.
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, forthcoming 2020.
Kaufman JS. Cynical Epidemiology [Comment] International Journal of Epidemiology forthcoming 2020.
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 A, March L, Smith E. Global, regional, and national burden of other musculoskeletal disorders 1990-2017: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Rheumatology, forthcoming 2020.
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 Arthritis & Rheumatology, forthcoming 2020.
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 Arthritis & Rheumatology, forthcoming 2020.
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 May 12:annrheumdis-2019-216515. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-216515. Online ahead of print. 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
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]
Banack HR, Kaufman JS, Stovitz SD. Re: The Obesity Paradox in COPD is Absent in US Never-Smokers [Letter] Am J Epidemiol 2019 Nov 1. pii: kwz244. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwz244. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31673699 [Comment on: Wu TD, et al. Am J Epidemiol 2019 Nov 1;188(11):1977-1983]
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. 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