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  • 1994 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Dean T. Jamison is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and health professions, focusing particularly on global health challenges and policies.

The main fields of study for Jamison include Medicine with 32 publications and Health Professions with 20 publications. Subfields where Jamison has contributed include General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health, and Economics and Econometrics.

Jamison's primary topics of work cover Global Maternal and Child Health, Global Health Care Issues, Immune Responses and Vaccinations, Healthcare Systems and Reforms, COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology.

Recent papers highlight a range of health concerns and strategies, including:

  • Global health 2050: the path to halving premature death by mid-century, 2024, The Lancet
  • Old vaccines for new infections: Exploiting innate immunity to control COVID-19 and prevent future pandemics, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Protecting essential health services in low-income and middle-income countries and humanitarian settings while responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, BMJ Global Health
  • Scientific advances and the end of tuberculosis: a report from the Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis, 2023, The Lancet
  • Resource requirements for essential universal health coverage: a modelling study based on findings from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition, 2020, The Lancet Global Health

Jamison frequently publishes in several specialized venues, including:

  • The Lancet
  • The Lancet Global Health
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • World Journal of Surgery
  • BMJ Global Health

The scientist has frequently collaborated with other researchers such as Angela Y. Chang, Gavin Yamey, David Watkins, Donald A. P. Bundy, and Ole Frithjof Norheim.

Jamison has edited and contributed to book publications, including one with the publisher World Scientific titled Global Health in Practice, published in 2021.

Among professional recognitions, Jamison was named a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 1994.

Best Publications

  • Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data

    Alan D Lopez;Colin D Mathers;Majid Ezzati;Dean T Jamison;Dean T Jamison

  • Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries

    Dean T Jamison;Joel G Breman;Anthony R Measham;George Alleyne

  • World development report 1993 : investing in health

    Seth Berkley;Jose-Luis Bobadilla;Robert Hecht;Kenneth Hill

  • Global burden of disease and risk factors

    Alan D. Lopez;Colin D. Mathers;Majid Ezzati;Dean T. Jamison

  • [Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation].

    Dean T. Jamison;Lawrence H. Summers;George Alleyne;Kenneth J. Arrow

  • Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an imperative of universal health coverage: the Lancet Commission report

    Felicia Marie Knaul;Paul E Farmer;Eric L Krakauer;Eric L Krakauer;Liliana De Lima

  • Modeling the effects of health on economic growth

    Alok Bhargava;Dean T. Jamison;Lawrence J. Lau;Christopher J. L. Murray

  • Disease control priorities in developing countries, second edition

    Dean T. Jamison;Joel G. Breman;Anthony R. Measham;George Alleyne

  • Farmer education and farm efficiency: a survey

    M.E. Lockheed;D.T. Jamison;L.J. Lau

  • The global burden of disease in 1990: summary results, sensitivity analysis and future directions.

    C. J. L. Murray;A. D. Lopez;D. T. Jamison

  • Financing of global health: tracking development assistance for health from 1990 to 2007.

    Nirmala Ravishankar;Paul Gubbins;Rebecca J Cooley;Katherine Leach-Kemon

  • Measuring the Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, 1990–2001 -- Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors

    Lopez Ad;Mathers Cd;Ezzati M;Jamison Dt

  • The Effectiveness of Alternative Instructional Media: A Survey

    Dean Jamison;Patrick Suppes;Stuart Wells

  • The Burden of Disease and Mortality by Condition: Data, Methods, and Results for 2001 -- Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors

    Lopez Ad;Mathers Cd;Ezzati M;Jamison Dt

  • Public financing of health in developing countries: a cross-national systematic analysis

    Chunling Lu;Matthew T Schneider;Paul Gubbins;Katherine Leach-Kemon

  • Investing in Health

    Dean T. Jamison

  • Advancing social and economic development by investing in women's and children's health: a new Global Investment Framework

    Karin Stenberg;Henrik Axelson;Peter Sheehan;Ian Anderson

  • Investing in non-communicable disease prevention and management to advance the Sustainable Development Goals

    Rachel Nugent;Melanie Y Bertram;Stephen Jan;Louis W Niessen;Louis W Niessen

  • The global burden of neonatal hypothermia: systematic review of a major challenge for newborn survival

    Karsten Lunze;David E Bloom;Dean T Jamison;Davidson H Hamer

  • Advancement of global health: key messages from the Disease Control Priorities Project

    Ramanan Laxminarayan;Anne J Mills;Joel G Breman;Anthony R Measham

  • Education and economic growth: It’s not just going to school, but learning something while there that matters

    Eric Hanushek;Dean T. Jamison;Eliot A. Jamison;Ludger Wößmann

  • Measuring the Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, 1990–2001

    Alan D. Lopez;Colin D. Mathers;Majid Ezzati;Dean T. Jamison

  • Disease and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa, Second Edition

    Eduard R. Bos;Dean T. Jamison;Florence Baingana;Richard G. A Feacham

Frequent Co-Authors

Prabhat Jha
Prabhat Jha University of Toronto
Anne Mills
Anne Mills London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Stéphane Verguet
Stéphane Verguet Harvard University
Atul A. Gawande
Atul A. Gawande Brigham and Women's Hospital
Roy Radner
Roy Radner New York University
Margaret E. Kruk
Margaret E. Kruk Washington University in St. Louis
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Ramanan Laxminarayan Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy
Christopher J L Murray
Christopher J L Murray University of Washington
Lawrence H. Summers
Lawrence H. Summers Harvard University
David E. Bloom
David E. Bloom Harvard University

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