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Karen J. Hofman is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Medicine, Health Professions, and Business, Management and Accounting. They have contributed extensively to Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

Their work addresses significant topics including Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life.

Recent publications by Karen J. Hofman include:

  • Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health, 2023, The Lancet
  • Towards unified and impactful policies to reduce ultra-processed food consumption and promote healthier eating, 2021, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Public health response to ultra-processed food and drinks, 2020, BMJ
  • Industry strategies in the parliamentary process of adopting a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in South Africa: a systematic mapping, 2020, Globalization and Health
  • Changes in beverage purchases following the announcement and implementation of South Africa's Health Promotion Levy: an observational study, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health

Frequent collaborators in their research include Agnes Erzse, Safura Abdool Karim, Susan Goldstein, Petronell Kruger, and Anne Marie Thow.

Karen J. Hofman has published notably in the following venues:

  • Global Health Action
  • Public Health Nutrition
  • South African Medical Journal
  • BMC Public Health
  • BMJ

Best Publications

  • The global burden of chronic diseases: overcoming impediments to prevention and control.

    Derek Yach;Corinna Hawkes;C. Linn Gould;Karen J. Hofman

  • 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

  • Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health

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  • Evidence that a tax on sugar sweetened beverages reduces the obesity rate: a meta-analysis

    Maria A Cabrera Escobar;J Lennert Veerman;Stephen M Tollman;Melanie Y Bertram

  • Addressing the growing burden of trauma and injury in low- and middle-income countries

    Karen Hofman;Aron Primack;Gerald Keusch;Sharon Hrynkow

  • Public health. Implementation science.

    Temina Madon;Karen J Hofman;Linda Kupfer;Roger I Glass

  • Towards unified and impactful policies to reduce ultra-processed food consumption and promote healthier eating

    Barry M Popkin;Simon Barquera;Camila Corvalan;Karen J Hofman

  • Physicians' knowledge of genetics and genetic tests.

    Karen J. Hofman;Ellen S. Tambor;Gary A. Chase;Gail Geller

  • Neurofibromatosis type 1: The cognitive phenotype

    Karen J. Hofman;Emily L. Harris;R. Nick Bryan;Martha B. Denckla

  • Offering cystic fibrosis carrier screening to an HMO population: factors associated with utilization.

    Ellen S. Tambor;Barbara A. Bernhardt;Gary A. Chase;Ruth R. Faden

  • The global burden of chronic diseases.

    Yach D;Hawkes C;Gould L;Hofman Kj

  • A novel disease with deficiency of mitochondrial very-long-chain Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase

    Toshifumi Aoyama;Yasushi Uchida;Richard I. Kelley;Michael Marble

  • Scaling Up Family Planning to Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality: The Potential Costs and Benefits of Modern Contraceptive Use in South Africa.

    Lumbwe Chola;Shelley McGee;Aviva Tugendhaft;Eckhart Buchmann

  • Priority-setting for achieving universal health coverage

    Kalipso Chalkidou;Amanda Glassman;Robert Marten;Jeanette Vega

  • The potential impact of a 20% tax on sugar-sweetened beverages on obesity in South African adults: a mathematical model

    Mercy Manyema;Lennert J. Veerman;Lumbwe Chola;Aviva Tugendhaft

  • The cost of injury and trauma care in low- and middle-income countries: a review of economic evidence.

    Hadley K H Wesson;Nonkululeko Boikhutso;Abdulgafoor M Bachani;Karen J Hofman

  • Improving response rates through incentive and follow-up: the effect on a survey of physicians' knowledge of genetics.

    E S Tambor;G A Chase;R R Faden;G Geller

  • Deletion of Huntington's disease-linked G8 (D4S10) locus in Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome

    James F. Gusella;Rudolph E. Tanzi;Patricia I. Bader;Mary C. Phelan

  • Relationship between T2-weighted hyperintensities (unidentified bright objects) and lower IQs in children with neurofibromatosis-1

    M. B. Denckla;K. Hofman;M. M.M. Mazzocco;E. Melhem

  • Neurofibromatosis type 1: the evolution of deep gray and white matter MR abnormalities.

    T. Itoh;S. Magnaldi;R. M. White;M. B. Denckla

  • Closing the mental health treatment gap in South Africa: a review of costs and cost-effectiveness

    Helen Jack;Ryan G. Wagner;Inge Petersen;Rita Thom

  • Determinants of Obesity and Associated Population Attributability, South Africa: Empirical Evidence from a National Panel Survey, 2008-2012.

    Benn Sartorius;Lennert J. Veerman;Mercy Manyema;Lumbwe Chola

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Tollman
Stephen Tollman University of the Witwatersrand
Gail Geller
Gail Geller Johns Hopkins University
Anne Marie Thow
Anne Marie Thow University of Sydney
Ruth R. Faden
Ruth R. Faden Johns Hopkins University
Dean T. Jamison
Dean T. Jamison University of California, San Francisco
Kathleen Kahn
Kathleen Kahn University of the Witwatersrand
Stéphane Verguet
Stéphane Verguet Harvard University
Martha B. Denckla
Martha B. Denckla Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Mary Barker
Mary Barker University of Southampton
Alan Stein
Alan Stein University of Oxford

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