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Overview

Mohsen Naghavi is affiliated with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a concentration in subfields such as General Health Professions, Epidemiology, Oncology, Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work covers several major topics, including:

  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes
  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mohsen Naghavi include:

  • Christopher J L Murray
  • Simon I Hay
  • Ali H. Mokdad
  • Déborah Carvalho Malta
  • Bruce Bartholow Duncan

The scientist's research is often published in journals such as:

  • Population Health Metrics
  • The Lancet
  • Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
  • Injury Prevention
  • Archives of Iranian Medicine

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Mohsen Naghavi include:

  • Global, regional, and national burden of congenital heart disease, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (2020), The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (2024), The Lancet

Other notable papers where Mohsen Naghavi contributed as an author include works published in The Lancet and JAMA, focusing on global sepsis incidence and mortality, and health care spending in the United States, reflecting interdisciplinary engagements in public health research.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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, 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 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 age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Mohsen Naghavi;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M Abbas

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

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

  • Global, regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990–2017: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study

    Kristina E Rudd;Sarah Charlotte Johnson;Kareha M Agesa;Katya Anne Shackelford

  • Mortality, morbidity, and risk factors in China and its provinces, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Maigeng Zhou;Haidong Wang;Xinying Zeng;Peng Yin

  • Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Emma Nichols;Cassandra E.I. Szoeke;Stein Emil Vollset;Nooshin Abbasi

  • The global, regional, and national burden of inflammatory bowel disease in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Sudabeh Alatab;Sadaf G Sepanlou;Kevin Ikuta;Homayoon Vahedi

  • A systematic analysis of global anemia burden from 1990 to 2010

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Rashmi Jasrasaria;Mohsen Naghavi;Sarah K. Wulf

  • Global, regional, and national burden of Parkinson's disease, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    E. Ray Dorsey;Alexis Elbaz;Emma Nichols;Foad Abd-Allah

  • Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis

    Christopher J L Murray;Lisa C Rosenfeld;Stephen S Lim;Kathryn G Andrews

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990-2015 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Megha Arora;Ryan M. Barber;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

  • Global burden of oral conditions in 1990-2010: a systematic analysis

    W Marcenes;N J Kassebaum;Eduardo Bernabe;A Flaxman

  • Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

    Joshua A. Salomon;Theo Vos;Daniel R. Hogan;Michael Gagnon

  • The Global Burden of Skin Disease in 2010: An Analysis of the Prevalence and Impact of Skin Conditions

    Roderick J. Hay;Nicole E. Johns;Hywel C. Williams;Ian W. Bolliger

  • Global burden of stroke and risk factors in 188 countries, during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

    Valery L Feigin;Gregory A Roth;Mohsen Naghavi;Priya Parmar

Frequent Co-Authors

Majid Ezzati
Majid Ezzati Imperial College London
Stein Emil Vollset
Stein Emil Vollset University of Washington
Peter Burney
Peter Burney Imperial College London
Anthony D. Woolf
Anthony D. Woolf Royal Cornwall Hospital
Traolach S. Brugha
Traolach S. Brugha University of Leicester
Valery L. Feigin
Valery L. Feigin Auckland University of Technology
Kevin A. Fenton
Kevin A. Fenton Public Health England
Guoqing Hu
Guoqing Hu Central South University
Nigel Bruce
Nigel Bruce University of Liverpool
Carol Brayne
Carol Brayne University of Cambridge

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