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David Rojas-Rueda is a researcher affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their academic work spans environmental science and social sciences, with a focus on specific subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, transportation, speech and hearing, organizational behavior and human resource management, and general health professions.

Their research addresses several main topics, including:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Health disparities and outcomes

David Rojas-Rueda has contributed to multiple publications, with recent notable papers including:

  • Premature mortality due to air pollution in European cities: a health impact assessment, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action, 2024, The Lancet
  • Green space and mortality in European cities: a health impact assessment study, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • The climate change mitigation effects of daily active travel in cities, 2021, Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • The climate change mitigation impacts of active travel: Evidence from a longitudinal panel study in seven European cities, 2021, Global Environmental Change

Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • The Lancet Planetary Health
  • The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
  • Current Environmental Health Reports

David Rojas-Rueda collaborates regularly with a group of co-authors, most notably:

  • Mark Nieuwenhuijsen (33 joint publications)
  • Natalie Mueller (11 joint publications)
  • Stella M. Hartinger (10 joint publications)
  • Michael D. Garber (8 joint publications)
  • Marta Cirach (7 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Theo Vos;Christine Allen;Megha Arora;Ryan M Barber

  • Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Haidong Wang;Mohsen Naghavi;Christine Allen;Ryan M Barber

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Simon I Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • The Global Burden of Cancer 2013

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Christina Fitzmaurice;Daniel Dicker;Daniel Dicker;Amanda Pain;Hannah Hamavid

  • Global Burden of Hypertension and Systolic Blood Pressure of at Least 110 to 115 mm Hg, 1990-2015

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Patrick Liu;Gregory A. Roth;Marie Ng

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016

    Simon I. Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990-2015 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Megha Arora;Ryan M. Barber;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013 : quantifying the epidemiological transition

    Christopher J. L. Murray;Ryan M. Barber;Kyle J. Foreman;Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren

  • The global burden of injury: incidence, mortality, disability-adjusted life years and time trends from the Global Burden of Disease study 2013

    Juanita A Haagsma;Nicholas Graetz;Ian Bolliger;Mohsen Naghavi

  • Global, regional, and national levels of maternal mortality, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Ryan M. Barber;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Lalit Dandona;Lalit Dandona

  • Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Haidong Wang;Chelsea A. Liddell;Matthew M. Coates;Meghan D. Mooney

  • Health impact assessment of active transportation: A systematic review

    Natalie Mueller;David Rojas-Rueda;Tom Cole-Hunter;Audrey de Nazelle

  • Residential green spaces and mortality: A systematic review.

    Mireia Gascon;Margarita Triguero-Mas;David Martínez;Payam Dadvand

  • Estimates of global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980-2015: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Haidong Wang;Tim M Wolock;Austin Carter;Grant Nguyen

  • The health risks and benefits of cycling in urban environments compared with car use: health impact assessment study

    David Rojas-Rueda;Audrey de Nazelle;Marko Tainio;Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen

  • Global and national burden of diseases and injuries among children and adolescents between 1990 and 2013: findings from the global burden of disease 2013 study.

    Hmwe H. Kyu;Christine Pinho;Joseph A. Wagner;Jonathan C. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Ferrán Catalá-López
Ferrán Catalá-López Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Robert G. Weintraub
Robert G. Weintraub Royal Children's Hospital
Ted R. Miller
Ted R. Miller Pacific Institute
Alan D. Lopez
Alan D. Lopez University of Melbourne
Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Zulfiqar A Bhutta Aga Khan University
Luc Int Panis
Luc Int Panis Hasselt University
Bach Xuan Tran
Bach Xuan Tran Vietnam National University, Hanoi
Juan Sanabria
Juan Sanabria Marshall University
Johan Ärnlöv
Johan Ärnlöv Karolinska Institute

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