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Medicine

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117
Citations
85474
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National Ranking
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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Joanne Katz is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a primary focus on pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. Their research portfolio includes 142 publications, spanning several subfields including nutrition and dietetics, general health professions, obstetrics and gynecology, and epidemiology.

Their prominent areas of study concentrate on global maternal and child health, child nutrition and water access, birth, development, and health, maternal and neonatal healthcare, and pregnancy and preeclampsia studies. Research also touches on food security and health in diverse populations as well as obesity, physical activity, and diet.

Frequent publication venues for Joanne Katz's work include:

  • BMJ Open
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

They have collaborated extensively with several researchers, including Subarna K. Khatry, James M. Tielsch, Steven C. LeClerq, Luke C. Mullany, and Tsering Pema Lama.

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Joanne Katz include:

  • "Micronutrient deficiencies among preschool-aged children and women of reproductive age worldwide: a pooled analysis of individual-level data from population-representative surveys" (2022) published in The Lancet Global Health
  • "Small babies, big risks: global estimates of prevalence and mortality for vulnerable newborns to accelerate change and improve counting" (2023) published in The Lancet
  • "How countries can reduce child stunting at scale: lessons from exemplar countries" (2020) published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • "Efficacy, duration of protection, birth outcomes, and infant growth associated with influenza vaccination in pregnancy: a pooled analysis of three randomised controlled trials" (2020) published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • "Association of Parental Myopia With Higher Risk of Myopia Among Multiethnic Children Before School Age" (2020) published in JAMA Ophthalmology

Best Publications

  • Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries

    Robert E Black;Cesar G. Victora;Susan P. Walker;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • Racial variations in the prevalence of primary open-angle glaucoma. The Baltimore Eye Survey.

    James M. Tielsch;Alfred Sommer;Joanne Katz;Richard M. Royall

  • Relationship between intraocular pressure and primary open angle glaucoma among white and black Americans. The Baltimore Eye Survey.

    Alfred Sommer;James M. Tielsch;Joanne Katz;Harry A. Quigley

  • Clinically detectable nerve fiber atrophy precedes the onset of glaucomatous field loss.

    Alfred Sommer;Joanne Katz;Harry A. Quigley;Neil R. Miller

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Racial differences in the cause-specific prevalence of blindness in east Baltimore

    Alfred Sommer;James M. Tielsch;Joanne Katz;Harry A. Quigley

  • Hypertension, Perfusion Pressure, and Primary Open-angle Glaucoma: A Population-Based Assessment

    James M. Tielsch;Joanne Katz;Alfred Sommer;Harry A. Quigley

  • National and regional estimates of term and preterm babies born small for gestational age in 138 low-income and middle-income countries in 2010

    Anne C.C. Lee;Anne C.C. Lee;Joanne Katz;Hannah Blencowe;Simon Cousens

  • Mortality risk in preterm and small-for-gestational-age infants in low-income and middle-income countries: a pooled country analysis.

    Joanne Katz;Anne C. C. Lee;Anne C. C. Lee;Naoko Kozuki;Joy E. Lawn;Joy E. Lawn

  • An evaluation of optic disc and nerve fiber layer examinations in monitoring progression of early glaucoma damage.

    Harry A. Quigley;Joanne Katz;Robert J. Derick;Donna Gilbert

  • Blindness and Visual Impairment in an American Urban Population: The Baltimore Eye Survey

    James M. Tielsch;Alfred Sommer;Kathe Witt;Joanne Katz

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • The Value of Routine Preoperative Medical Testing before Cataract Surgery

    Oliver D. Schein;Joanne Katz;Eric B. Bass;James M. Tielsch

  • Epidemiology of Myopia

    Seang Mei Saw;Joanne Katz;Oliver D. Schein;Sek Jin Chew

  • Increased risk of respiratory disease and diarrhea in children with preexisting mild vitamin A deficiency.

    A Sommer;J Katz;I Tarwotjo

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Tielsch
James M. Tielsch George Washington University
Alfred Sommer
Alfred Sommer Johns Hopkins University
Keith P. West
Keith P. West Johns Hopkins University
Janet A. Englund
Janet A. Englund Seattle Children's Hospital
David S. Friedman
David S. Friedman Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Helen Y. Chu
Helen Y. Chu University of Washington
Harry A. Quigley
Harry A. Quigley Johns Hopkins University
Oliver D. Schein
Oliver D. Schein Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Mark C. Steinhoff
Mark C. Steinhoff Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Gary L. Darmstadt
Gary L. Darmstadt Stanford University

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