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Environmental Sciences

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124
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National Ranking
6

Medicine

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163
Citations
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World Ranking
664
National Ranking
78

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Majid Ezzati is a researcher affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, General Health Professions, Transportation, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of issues related to health and the environment. These include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Energy and Environment Impacts

Ezzati has a selection of frequently published venues, showing a broad engagement with both scientific and public health communities. These publication venues include:

  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • The Lancet
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Wellcome Open Research

Some of the scientist's recent notable papers are:

  • "Global epidemiology, health burden and effective interventions for elevated blood pressure and hypertension" (2021, Nature Reviews Cardiology)
  • "Body-mass index and obesity in urban and rural China: findings from consecutive nationally representative surveys during 2004-18" (2021, The Lancet)
  • "Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries" (2020, Nature Medicine)
  • "National, regional, and global estimates of anaemia by severity in women and children for 2000-19: a pooled analysis of population-representative data" (2022, The Lancet Global Health)
  • "NCD Countdown 2030: pathways to achieving Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4" (2020, The Lancet)

Ezzati has collaborated frequently with a number of other researchers, notably:

  • James E. Bennett
  • Jill Baumgartner
  • Raphael E. Arku
  • Michael Bräuer
  • Sierra Clark

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences

    Robert E. Black;Lindsay H. Allen;Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta;Laura E. Caulfield

  • 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 and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data

    Alan D Lopez;Colin D Mathers;Majid Ezzati;Dean T Jamison;Dean T Jamison

  • 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

  • Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of disease

    Majid Ezzati;Alan D. Lopez;Anthony Rodgers;Stephen Vander Hoorn

  • Worldwide Epidemiology of Atrial Fibrillation: A Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study

    Sumeet S. Chugh;Rasmus Havmoeller;Kumar Narayanan;David Singh

  • National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes prevalence since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 370 country-years and 2·7 million participants

    Goodarz Danaei;Mariel M Finucane;Yuan Lu;Gitanjali M Singh

  • Global and regional burden of stroke during 1990–2010: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Valery L Feigin;Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Rita Krishnamurthi;George A Mensah

  • 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

  • National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants

    Mariel M Finucane;Gretchen A Stevens;Melanie J Cowan;Goodarz Danaei

  • 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

  • The State of US Health, 1990-2010: Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors

    Christopher J. L. Murray;Jerry Abraham;Mohammed K. Ali;Miriam Alvarado

  • Global burden of disease and risk factors

    Alan D. Lopez;Colin D. Mathers;Majid Ezzati;Dean T. Jamison

  • The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report

    Boyd A Swinburn;Boyd A Swinburn;Vivica I Kraak;Steven Allender;Vincent J Atkins

  • Fine-particulate air pollution and life expectancy in the United States.

    C. Arden Pope;Majid Ezzati;Douglas W. Dockery;Abstr Act

  • The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States: Comparative Risk Assessment of Dietary, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Risk Factors

    Goodarz Danaei;Eric L. Ding;Dariush Mozaffarian;Bruce Taylor;Bruce Taylor

  • Comparative quantification of health risks : global and regional burden of disease attributable to selected major risk factors

    Majid Ezzati;Alan D Lopez;Anthony Rodgers;Christopher Jl Murray

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J L Murray
Christopher J L Murray University of Washington
Jill Baumgartner
Jill Baumgartner McGill University
Alan D. Lopez
Alan D. Lopez University of Melbourne
Farshad Farzadfar
Farshad Farzadfar Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Colin Mathers
Colin Mathers Rochester Institute of Technology
Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
Mohsen Naghavi
Mohsen Naghavi Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Dariush Mozaffarian
Dariush Mozaffarian Tufts University
Paul Elliott
Paul Elliott Imperial College London
Kenji Shibuya
Kenji Shibuya King's College London

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