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Overview

David M. Murray is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a focus on several subfields including Statistics and Probability, General Health Professions, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Other areas of expertise include Health, Economics, and Econometrics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas centered on health disparities, statistical methodologies, and health policy. The main topics of their work include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
  • Children's Physical and Motor Development
  • Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference

David M. Murray has collaborated frequently with several co-authors. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Charlotte Pratt
  • June Stevens
  • George A. Mensah
  • Larry S. Webber
  • John P. Elder

The scientist's publications appear predominantly in the venue UNC Libraries, with 20 documented works. Other venues with multiple publications include Clinical Trials, Prevention Science, and Ethnicity & Disease, with one publication in The Lancet.

Recent publications by David M. Murray include:

  • "Defining Accelerometer Thresholds for Activity Intensities in Adolescent Girls" (2020), published in UNC Libraries
  • "Life expectancy by county, race, and ethnicity in the USA, 2000-19: a systematic analysis of health disparities" (2022), published in The Lancet
  • "The Science of Precision Prevention" (2023), published in JACC Advances
  • "Two weights make a wrong: Cluster randomized trials with variable cluster sizes and heterogeneous treatment effects" (2022), published in Contemporary Clinical Trials
  • "Influential methods reports for group-randomized trials and related designs" (2022), published in Clinical Trials

The scope of their research includes statistical methods applied to clinical trials and health policy, often focusing on improving understanding of health disparities and outcomes through advanced analytic techniques.

Best Publications

  • Design and analysis of group-randomized trials: a review of recent methodological developments.

    David M. Murray;Sherri P. Varnell;Jonathan L. Blitstein

  • Community education for cardiovascular disease prevention: risk factor changes in the Minnesota Heart Health Program.

    R V Luepker;D M Murray;D R Jacobs;M B Mittelmark

  • Defining Accelerometer Thresholds for Activity Intensities in Adolescent Girls

    Margarita S Treuth;Kathryn Schmitz;Diane J Catellier;Robert G McMurray

  • Actigraphy validation with insomnia.

    Kenneth L. Lichstein;Kristen C. Stone;James Donaldson;Sidney D. Nau

  • RJR Nabisco's cartoon camel promotes camel cigarettes to children.

    Joseph R. DiFranza;John W. Richards;Paul Mark Paulman;Nancy Wolf-Gillespie

  • Changing fruit and vegetable consumption among children: The 5-a-day power plus program in St. Paul, Minnesota

    Cheryl L. Perry;Donald B. Bishop;Gretchen Taylor;David M. Murray

  • Imputation of Missing Data When Measuring Physical Activity by Accelerometry

    Diane J. Catellier;Peter J. Hannan;David M. Murray;Cheryl L. Addy

  • Communitywide smoking prevention : long-term outcomes of the Minnesota heart health program and the class of 1989 study

    Cheryl L Perry;Steven H Kelder;D. M. Murray;K. I. Klepp

  • Promoting Physical Activity in Middle School Girls: Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls

    Larry S. Webber;Diane J. Catellier;Leslie A. Lytle;David M. Murray

  • The validity of smoking self-reports by adolescents: a reexamination of the bogus pipeline procedure

    David M. Murray;Catherine M. O'Connell;Linda A. Schmid;Cheryl L. Perry

  • Social desirability bias in self-reported dietary, physical activity and weight concerns measures in 8- to 10-year-old African-American girls: results from the Girls Health Enrichment Multisite Studies (GEMS).

    Lisa M Klesges;Tom Baranowski;Bettina Beech;Karen Cullen

  • Psychosocial correlates of physical activity and sedentary leisure habits in young adolescents: the Teens Eating for Energy and Nutrition at School study.

    Kathryn H. Schmitz;Leslie A. Lytle;Glenn A. Phillips;David M. Murray

  • Pricing strategy to promote fruit and vegetable purchase in high school cafeterias.

    Simone A. French;Mary Story;Robert W. Jeffery;Pat Snyder

  • The effects of community policies to reduce youth access to tobacco.

    Jean L. Forster;David M. Murray;Mark Wolfson;Therese M. Blaine

  • Communities mobilizing for change on alcohol: outcomes from a randomized community trial.

    Alexander C. Wagenaar;David M. Murray;John P. Gehan;Mark Wolfson

  • Parent involvement with children's health promotion: the Minnesota Home Team.

    C. L. Perry;Russell V Luepker;D. M. Murray;C. Kurth

  • Predictors of weight gain in the Pound of Prevention study

    Nancy E Sherwood;Robert W Jeffery;Simone A French;P. J. Hannan

  • Planning for the Appropriate Analysis in School-Based Drug-Use Prevention Studies

    David M. Murray;Peter J. Hannan

  • A Meta-Analysis of Smoking Prevention Programs After Adjustment for Errors in the Unit of Analysis

    Brenda L. Rooney;David M. Murray

  • Community-wide prevention of cardiovascular disease: Education strategies of the Minnesota Heart Health Program

    Maurice B. Mittelmark;Russell V. Luepker;David R. Jacobs;Neil F. Bracht

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell V. Luepker
Russell V. Luepker University of Minnesota
Cheryl L. Perry
Cheryl L. Perry The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Leslie A. Lytle
Leslie A. Lytle University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter J. Hannan
Peter J. Hannan University of Minnesota
June Stevens
June Stevens University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alexander C. Wagenaar
Alexander C. Wagenaar Emory University
Mary Story
Mary Story Duke University
Maurice B. Mittelmark
Maurice B. Mittelmark University of Bergen
Robert W. Jeffery
Robert W. Jeffery University of Minnesota
David R. Jacobs
David R. Jacobs University of Minnesota

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