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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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91
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World Ranking
166
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79

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Overview

Jagdish Khubchandani is affiliated with New Mexico State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, particularly focusing on health, public health, clinical psychology, and infectious diseases. Their published work spans a wide array of topics related to health disparities, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, and injury epidemiology and prevention.

The scientist's research output includes notable papers such as "COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy in the United States: A Rapid National Assessment" (2021, Journal of Community Health), "The Nature and Extent of COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy in Healthcare Workers" (2021, Journal of Community Health), and "COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy in Hispanics and African-Americans: A review and recommendations for practice" (2021, Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health). Other contributions include "Burden of Neurological Disorders Across the US From 1990-2017" (2020, JAMA Neurology) and "The burden of unintentional drowning: global, regional and national estimates of mortality from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study" (2020, Injury Prevention).

The list of frequent co-authors associated with this researcher includes:

  • Srikanta Banerjee
  • James H. Price
  • Kavita Batra
  • Fern J. Webb
  • Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula

The venues where the scientist most often publishes are:

  • Journal of Community Health
  • Journal of Medicine Surgery and Public Health
  • Epidemiologia
  • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Their primary fields of study include medicine with subfields focused on:

  • Health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • General Health Professions
  • Infectious Diseases

Research topics frequently addressed in their publications are:

  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Theo Vos;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gregory A Roth;Gregory A Roth;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Solomon M Abay

  • Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2016: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study.

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Christina Fitzmaurice;Christina Fitzmaurice;Tomi F. Akinyemiju;Faris Hasan Al Lami;Tahiya Alam

  • Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Valery L Feigin;Benjamin A Stark;Catherine Owens Johnson;Gregory A Roth

  • Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years.

    Ashkan Afshin;Mohammad Forouzanfar;Marissa Reitsma;Patrick Sur

  • Mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest

    Michael Holzer;Fritz Sterz;J. M. Darby;S. A. Padosch

  • 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 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 cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Degu Abate;Naghmeh Abbasi;Hedayat Abbastabar

  • Estimation of the global prevalence of dementia in 2019 and forecasted prevalence in 2050: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Unknown

  • Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990-2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Valery L Feigin;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Foad Abd-Allah

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Mohsen Naghavi;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M Abbas

  • Global, regional, and national burden of cardiovascular diseases for 10 causes, 1990 to 2015

    Gregory A. Roth;Catherine Johnson;Amanuel Abajobir;Foad Abd-Allah

  • Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    Unknown

  • 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

  • Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Max G Griswold;Nancy Fullman;Caitlin Hawley;Nicholas Arian

  • Global, regional, and national burden of stroke, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Catherine Owens Johnson;Minh Nguyen;Gregory A. Roth;Emma Nichols

  • 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 burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Emma Nichols;Cassandra E.I. Szoeke;Stein Emil Vollset;Nooshin Abbasi

  • Global, regional, and national deaths, prevalence, disability-adjusted life years, and years lived with disability for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Joan B Soriano;Joan B Soriano;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Semaw Ferede Abera

  • 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

  • Smoking prevalence and attributable disease burden in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Marissa B Reitsma;Nancy Fullman;Marie Ng;Joseph S Salama

  • Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders during 1990-2015

    Valery L. Feigin;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Foad Abd-Allah

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Fischer
Florian Fischer Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Rakhi Dandona
Rakhi Dandona Public Health Foundation of India
Mustafa Z Younis
Mustafa Z Younis Jackson State University
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Felix Akpojene Ogbo
Felix Akpojene Ogbo Western Sydney University
Mihajlo Jakovljevic
Mihajlo Jakovljevic University of Kragujevac
Foad Abd-Allah
Foad Abd-Allah Cairo University
James H. Price
James H. Price University of Toledo
David C. Schwebel
David C. Schwebel University of Alabama at Birmingham

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