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Kenji Shibuya is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has a research focus primarily in the field of Medicine, with a significant emphasis on Infectious Diseases. Their publication record includes a substantial number of papers in related subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Health, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their research addresses a variety of topics central to contemporary health challenges. Notable areas of work include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Global Maternal and Child Health, COVID-19 and Mental Health, as well as Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy.

Kenji Shibuya has coauthored frequently with a group of collaborators, including Shuhei Nomura, Yasuharu Tokuda, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Daisuke Yoneoka, and Aya Ishizuka. These working relationships have contributed to a diverse and extensive publication output.

Publication venues where Kenji Shibuya has contributed multiple articles include:

  • Journal of General and Family Medicine
  • BMC Public Health
  • PLoS ONE
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Kenji Shibuya include:

  • "Lessons learnt from easing COVID-19 restrictions: an analysis of countries and regions in Asia Pacific and Europe" (2020, The Lancet)
  • "Are high-performing health systems resilient against the COVID-19 epidemic?" (2020, The Lancet)
  • "Public health utility of cause of death data: applying empirical algorithms to improve data quality" (2021, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making)
  • "Plasmodium falciparum resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Africa: a systematic analysis of national trends" (2020, BMJ Global Health)
  • "Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Hesitancy: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Fukushima Vaccination Community Survey" (2022, Vaccines)

Best Publications

  • Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Rafael Lozano;Mohsen Naghavi;Kyle Foreman;Stephen Lim

  • Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Stephen S. Lim;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas

  • Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Marie Ng;Tom P Fleming;Margaret W. Robinson;Blake Thomson

  • Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Theo Vos;Rafael Lozano;Mohsen Naghavi

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Mohsen Naghavi;Rafael Lozano

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • 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 life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Haidong Wang;Mohsen Naghavi;Christine Allen;Ryan M Barber

  • 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

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • 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

  • 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

  • WHO estimates of the causes of death in children

    Jennifer Bryce;Cynthia Boschi-Pinto;Kenji Shibuya;Robert E Black

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan D. Lopez
Alan D. Lopez University of Melbourne
Christopher J L Murray
Christopher J L Murray University of Washington
Jost B. Jonas
Jost B. Jonas Heidelberg University
Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Zulfiqar A Bhutta Aga Khan University
Farshad Farzadfar
Farshad Farzadfar Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Mohsen Naghavi
Mohsen Naghavi Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Theo Vos
Theo Vos Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Joshua A. Salomon
Joshua A. Salomon Stanford University
Ted R. Miller
Ted R. Miller Pacific Institute
Sadaf G. Sepanlou
Sadaf G. Sepanlou Tehran University of Medical Sciences

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