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PUBLICATIONS (2020-2021):
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Kaufman JS. Social Epidemiology. In: Modern Epidemiology, 4th Edition (Lash, VanderWeele, Haneusse, Rothman, Eds). Lippincott-Raven: Philadelphia, PA, 2021.
Kaufman JS. Social Epidemiology. In: Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition (George Ritzer & Chris Rojek, Eds). Wiley-Blackwell, in press.
PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS:
Gajardo AIJ, Wagner TD, Howell KD, González-Santa Cruz A, Kaufman JS, Castillo-Carniglia A. Effects of 2019’s social protests on emergency health services utilization and case severity in Santiago, Chile. Lancet Regional Health Americas 2021, forthcoming.
Behlim T, Basso O, Bushnik T, Kramer M, Kaufman JS, Yang S. Differences in Birthweight by Maternal and Paternal Nativity Status in Canada. Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2021, forthcoming.
Kaufman JS, Merckx J, Cooper RS. Race and ethnicity in medical testing and diagnosis: Primum non nocere. Clinical Chemistry 2021, forthcoming.
Murphy TJ, Kaufman JS, Li P, Steele R, Yang S. Effect of preschool childcare on school-aged children's adiposity in Quebec, Canada. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2021 Jun 24. doi: 10.1111/ppe.12790. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34164836
Shapiro GD, Sheppard AJ, Mashford-Pringle A, Bushnik T, Kramer MS, Kaufman JS, Yang S. Housing conditions and adverse birth outcomes among Indigenous people in Canada. Can J Public Health 2021 May 26. doi: 10.17269/s41997-021-00527-2. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34037966
Kutcher SA, Brophy JM, Banack HR, Kaufman JS, Samuel M. Emulating a randomized controlled trial with observational data: An introduction to the target trial framework. Can J Cardiol 2021 Jun 3:S0828-282X(21)00288-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2021.05.012. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34090982 Review.
Safiri S, Pourfathi H, Eagan A, Mansournia MA, Khodayari MT, Sullman MJ, Kaufman JS, Collins G, Dai H, Bragazzi NL, Kolahi AA. Global, regional and national burden of migraine in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019. Pain March 26, 2021 in Press. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002275
Dimitris MC, Hutcheon JA, Platt RW, Himes KP, Bodnar LM, Kaufman JS. Comparison of Methods for Interpolating Gestational Weight Gain Between Clinical Visits in Twin and Singleton Pregnancies. Ann Epidemiol Aug 2021; 60: 45–52. PMID: 33894387
Ahern J, Kaufman JS, Werler MM. Commentary on: A Data-Based Approach to Evaluate Representation by Gender and Affiliation in Key Presentation Formats at the SER Annual Meeting. Am J Epidemiol 2021 Apr 8:kwab083. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwab083. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33831166
Carabali M, Maheu-Giroux M, Kaufman JS. Dengue, Severity Paradox, and Socioeconomic Distribution among Afro-Colombians. Epidemiology. 2021 July 1;32(4):541-550. PMID: 33767115
Calderon-Anyosa RJC, Bilal U, Kaufman JS. Variation in Non-external and External Causes of Death in Peru in Relation to the COVID-19 Lockdown. Yale J Biol Med. 2021 Mar 31;94(1):23-40. PMID: 33795980
Melchior M, Desgrées du Loû A, Gosselin A, Datta GD, Carabali M, Merckx J, Kaufman JS. À quand une prise en compte des disparités ethnoraciales vis-à-vis de l’infection à COVID-19 en France? Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique. 2021 Feb 17;69(2):96-8. PMID: 33610336
Remch M, Duncan DT, Geller A, Turpin R, Dyer T, Scheidell JD, Cleland CM, Kaufman JS, Brewer R, Hucks-Ortiz C, van der Mei W, Mayer KH, Khan MR. Police harassment and psychosocial vulnerability, distress, and depressive symptoms among black men who have sex with men in the U.S.: Longitudinal analysis of HPTN 061. SSM - Population Health 2021; 13: 100753.
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. 2021 Feb; 27(2): 160-2. PMID: 33190796
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) 2021 Feb; 60(2): 855-65. PMID: 32840303
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 2021; 26(3): 301-15. 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 July 2021; 50(3): 552-568.
DOI: https://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. 2021 April; 73(4): 702-14. PMID: 33150702
Calderon-Anyosa RJC, Kaufman JS. Impact of COVID-19 lockdown policy on homicide, suicide, and motor vehicle deaths in Peru. Prev Med. 2021 Feb: 143; 106331. PMID: 33232687
Benmarhnia T, Hajat A, Kaufman JS. Inferential challenges when assessing racial/ethnic health disparities in environmental research. Environ Health. 2021 Jan 12;20(1):7. PMID: 33430882
Kaufman JS. Commentary: Cynical epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol 2020 Oct 1;49(5):1507-8 PMID: 32594156
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 Dec;27(4):157-163. PMID: 32794419
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
RESEARCH LETTERS, BOOK REVIEWS, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, PERIODICALS:
Merckx J, Haeck C, Van der Linden D, Kaufman JS. COVID-19 back to school Q&A: Is it safe for unvaccinated children to go to school in person? Is the harm of school closures greater than the risk of the virus? The Conversation 2021; 31 August.
Merckx J, Van der Linden D, Kaufman JS. Retour en classe et Covid-19 : le variant Delta, la prévention, le dépistage, et quelques exemples d’ailleurs dans le monde. The Conversation 2021; 2 September.
Merckx J, Van der Linden D, Kaufman JS. Back-to-school FAQs on children’s health & COVID-19: Delta variant, preventing infection, testing and international examples. The Conversation 2021; 30 August.
Carabali M, Schmidt AM, Restrepo BN, Kaufman JS. A joint spatial marked point process model for dengue and severe dengue in Medellin, Colombia. medRxiv 2021. doi: 10.1101/2021.07.06.21260108
Stovitz SD, Banack HR, Kaufman JS. Selection bias can creep into unselected cohorts and produce counterintuitive findings [Letter] Int J Obes (Lond). 2021; 45: 276-277. PMID: 33235356 [Comment on: Fekri et al. Int J Obes 2020;44(1):195-203]
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. 2020. doi: 10.1101/2020.05.05.20092106
Calderon-Anyosa RJC, Kaufman JS. Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown Policy on Homicide, Suicide, and Motor Vehicle Deaths in Peru. medRxiv. 2020. 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. OSF Preprint. 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]
PUBLICATIONS (2020-2021):
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Kaufman JS. Social Epidemiology. In: Modern Epidemiology, 4th Edition (Lash, VanderWeele, Haneusse, Rothman, Eds). Lippincott-Raven: Philadelphia, PA, 2021.
Kaufman JS. Social Epidemiology. In: Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition (George Ritzer & Chris Rojek, Eds). Wiley-Blackwell, in press.
PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS:
Gajardo AIJ, Wagner TD, Howell KD, González-Santa Cruz A, Kaufman JS, Castillo-Carniglia A. Effects of 2019’s social protests on emergency health services utilization and case severity in Santiago, Chile. Lancet Regional Health Americas 2021, forthcoming.
Behlim T, Basso O, Bushnik T, Kramer M, Kaufman JS, Yang S. Differences in Birthweight by Maternal and Paternal Nativity Status in Canada. Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2021, forthcoming.
Kaufman JS, Merckx J, Cooper RS. Race and ethnicity in medical testing and diagnosis: Primum non nocere. Clinical Chemistry 2021, forthcoming.
Murphy TJ, Kaufman JS, Li P, Steele R, Yang S. Effect of preschool childcare on school-aged children's adiposity in Quebec, Canada. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2021 Jun 24. doi: 10.1111/ppe.12790. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34164836
Shapiro GD, Sheppard AJ, Mashford-Pringle A, Bushnik T, Kramer MS, Kaufman JS, Yang S. Housing conditions and adverse birth outcomes among Indigenous people in Canada. Can J Public Health 2021 May 26. doi: 10.17269/s41997-021-00527-2. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34037966
Kutcher SA, Brophy JM, Banack HR, Kaufman JS, Samuel M. Emulating a randomized controlled trial with observational data: An introduction to the target trial framework. Can J Cardiol 2021 Jun 3:S0828-282X(21)00288-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2021.05.012. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34090982 Review.
Safiri S, Pourfathi H, Eagan A, Mansournia MA, Khodayari MT, Sullman MJ, Kaufman JS, Collins G, Dai H, Bragazzi NL, Kolahi AA. Global, regional and national burden of migraine in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019. Pain March 26, 2021 in Press. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002275
Dimitris MC, Hutcheon JA, Platt RW, Himes KP, Bodnar LM, Kaufman JS. Comparison of Methods for Interpolating Gestational Weight Gain Between Clinical Visits in Twin and Singleton Pregnancies. Ann Epidemiol Aug 2021; 60: 45–52. PMID: 33894387
Ahern J, Kaufman JS, Werler MM. Commentary on: A Data-Based Approach to Evaluate Representation by Gender and Affiliation in Key Presentation Formats at the SER Annual Meeting. Am J Epidemiol 2021 Apr 8:kwab083. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwab083. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33831166
Carabali M, Maheu-Giroux M, Kaufman JS. Dengue, Severity Paradox, and Socioeconomic Distribution among Afro-Colombians. Epidemiology. 2021 July 1;32(4):541-550. PMID: 33767115
Calderon-Anyosa RJC, Bilal U, Kaufman JS. Variation in Non-external and External Causes of Death in Peru in Relation to the COVID-19 Lockdown. Yale J Biol Med. 2021 Mar 31;94(1):23-40. PMID: 33795980
Melchior M, Desgrées du Loû A, Gosselin A, Datta GD, Carabali M, Merckx J, Kaufman JS. À quand une prise en compte des disparités ethnoraciales vis-à-vis de l’infection à COVID-19 en France? Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique. 2021 Feb 17;69(2):96-8. PMID: 33610336
Remch M, Duncan DT, Geller A, Turpin R, Dyer T, Scheidell JD, Cleland CM, Kaufman JS, Brewer R, Hucks-Ortiz C, van der Mei W, Mayer KH, Khan MR. Police harassment and psychosocial vulnerability, distress, and depressive symptoms among black men who have sex with men in the U.S.: Longitudinal analysis of HPTN 061. SSM - Population Health 2021; 13: 100753.
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. 2021 Feb; 27(2): 160-2. PMID: 33190796
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) 2021 Feb; 60(2): 855-65. PMID: 32840303
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 2021; 26(3): 301-15. 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 July 2021; 50(3): 552-568.
DOI: https://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. 2021 April; 73(4): 702-14. PMID: 33150702
Calderon-Anyosa RJC, Kaufman JS. Impact of COVID-19 lockdown policy on homicide, suicide, and motor vehicle deaths in Peru. Prev Med. 2021 Feb: 143; 106331. PMID: 33232687
Benmarhnia T, Hajat A, Kaufman JS. Inferential challenges when assessing racial/ethnic health disparities in environmental research. Environ Health. 2021 Jan 12;20(1):7. PMID: 33430882
Kaufman JS. Commentary: Cynical epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol 2020 Oct 1;49(5):1507-8 PMID: 32594156
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 Dec;27(4):157-163. PMID: 32794419
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
RESEARCH LETTERS, BOOK REVIEWS, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, PERIODICALS:
Merckx J, Haeck C, Van der Linden D, Kaufman JS. COVID-19 back to school Q&A: Is it safe for unvaccinated children to go to school in person? Is the harm of school closures greater than the risk of the virus? The Conversation 2021; 31 August.
Merckx J, Van der Linden D, Kaufman JS. Retour en classe et Covid-19 : le variant Delta, la prévention, le dépistage, et quelques exemples d’ailleurs dans le monde. The Conversation 2021; 2 September.
Merckx J, Van der Linden D, Kaufman JS. Back-to-school FAQs on children’s health & COVID-19: Delta variant, preventing infection, testing and international examples. The Conversation 2021; 30 August.
Carabali M, Schmidt AM, Restrepo BN, Kaufman JS. A joint spatial marked point process model for dengue and severe dengue in Medellin, Colombia. medRxiv 2021. doi: 10.1101/2021.07.06.21260108
Stovitz SD, Banack HR, Kaufman JS. Selection bias can creep into unselected cohorts and produce counterintuitive findings [Letter] Int J Obes (Lond). 2021; 45: 276-277. PMID: 33235356 [Comment on: Fekri et al. Int J Obes 2020;44(1):195-203]
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. 2020. doi: 10.1101/2020.05.05.20092106
Calderon-Anyosa RJC, Kaufman JS. Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown Policy on Homicide, Suicide, and Motor Vehicle Deaths in Peru. medRxiv. 2020. 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. OSF Preprint. 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]