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Jeremy Shiffman is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine, health professions, and social sciences, with particular emphasis on global public health policies and epidemiology.

Shiffman's work frequently appears in several prominent publication venues. These include:

  • The Lancet
  • Children and Youth Services Review
  • PLOS Global Public Health
  • International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • BMJ Global Health

Their research addresses a range of topics centered around global maternal and child health, poverty, education and child welfare, and the implementation of health policies. Main topics of focus include:

  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Global Health and Surgery
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access

Within these areas, Shiffman's subfields of study include pediatrics, perinatology and child health, public health along with environmental and occupational health, general health professions, and sociology and political science. They also have a significant focus on organizational behavior and human resource management.

Frequent collaborators in Shiffman's work consist of researchers such as Yusra Ribhi Shawar, Nehla Djellouli, Kasonde Mwaba, Kohenour Akter, and Gloria Seruwagi.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "A future for the world's children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission," published in 2020 in The Lancet
  • "Small vulnerable newborns-big potential for impact," published in 2023 in The Lancet
  • "Framing and the formation of global health priorities," published in 2022 in The Lancet
  • "Global health policy in the 21st century: Challenges and opportunities to arrest the global disability burden from musculoskeletal health conditions," published in 2020 in Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
  • "The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling," published in 2024 in The Lancet Public Health

Best Publications

  • Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course

    Maureen M Black;Maureen M Black;Susan P Walker;Lia C H Fernald;Christopher T Andersen

  • Doing health policy analysis: methodological and conceptual reflections and challenges

    Gill Walt;Jeremy Shiffman;Helen Schneider;Susan F Murray

  • A future for the world's children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission

    Helen Clark;Awa Marie Coll-Seck;Anshu Banerjee;Stefan Peterson

  • Generation of political priority for global health initiatives: a framework and case study of maternal mortality.

    Jeremy Shiffman;Stephanie Smith

  • Stillbirths: why they matter

    J Frederik Frøen;Joanne Cacciatore;Elizabeth M McClure;Oluwafemi Kuti

  • Generating Political Priority for Maternal Mortality Reduction in 5 Developing Countries

    Jeremy Shiffman

  • Has donor prioritization of HIV/AIDS displaced aid for other health issues?

    Jeremy Shiffman

  • The emergence of global attention to health systems strengthening

    Tamara Hafner;Jeremy Shiffman

  • Gender equality and gender norms: framing the opportunities for health.

    Geeta Rao Gupta;Nandini Oomman;Caren Grown;Kathryn Conn

  • A social explanation for the rise and fall of global health issues

    Jeremy Shiffman

  • Donor funding priorities for communicable disease control in the developing world.

    Jeremy Shiffman

  • Knowledge, Moral Claims and the Exercise of Power in Global Health

    Jeremy Shiffman

  • Issue attention in global health: the case of newborn survival

    Jeremy Shiffman

  • Generating political will for safe motherhood in Indonesia.

    Jeremy Shiffman

  • Scaling up health service innovations: a framework for action.

    R. Simmons;J. Shiffman;P. Fajans;L. Ghiron

  • Framing and the formation of global health priorities

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  • Holding health providers in developing countries accountable to consumers: a synthesis of relevant scholarship

    David Berlan;Jeremy Shiffman

  • Can poor countries surmount high maternal mortality

    Jeremy Shiffman

  • Generation of political priority for global surgery: a qualitative policy analysis.

    Yusra Ribhi Shawar;Jeremy Shiffman;David A Spiegel

  • The emergence of global disease control priorities

    Jeremy Shiffman;Tanya Beer;Yonghong Wu

  • The state of political priority for safe motherhood in India.

    J. Shiffman;Rr R. Ved

  • The emergence and effectiveness of global health networks: findings and future research

    Jeremy Shiffman;Hans Peter Schmitz;David Berlan;Stephanie L Smith

  • A Social Explanation for the Rise and Fall of Global Health issues/Explication Sociale De la Montee Ou De la Baisse De L'interet Pour Un Probleme De Sante D'ampleur mondiale/Explicacion Social del Auge Y Caida De Los Problemas Sanitarios Mundiales

    Jeremy Shiffman

Frequent Co-Authors

Lucy Gilson
Lucy Gilson University of Cape Town
Gill Walt
Gill Walt London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Asha George
Asha George University of the Western Cape
Fadi El-Jardali
Fadi El-Jardali American University of Beirut
Shanthi Ameratunga
Shanthi Ameratunga University of Auckland
Helen Schneider
Helen Schneider University of the Western Cape
Joy E Lawn
Joy E Lawn London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Qingyue Meng
Qingyue Meng Peking University
Maureen M. Black
Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore
Kent Buse
Kent Buse Imperial College London

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