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  • 2005 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Neil Pearce is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a substantial body of work covering infectious diseases, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, health toxicology and mutagenesis, physiology, and modeling and simulation.

The scientist has published extensively in multiple venues, including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 27 publications, ISEE Conference Abstracts with 11, Occupational and Environmental Medicine with 9, SSRN Electronic Journal with 8, and International Journal of Epidemiology with 7 publications.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Neil Pearce include Martie van Tongeren, Maurício L. Barreto, Sarah Rhodes, Charlotte E Rutter, and Lucy Pembrey. These collaborations have resulted in research outputs on a range of topics related to respiratory and infectious diseases.

Prominent recent papers authored or co-authored by Neil Pearce include:

  • Improving lung health in low-income and middle-income countries: from challenges to solutions, 2021, The Lancet
  • Worldwide trends in the burden of asthma symptoms in school-aged children: Global Asthma Network Phase I cross-sectional study, 2021, The Lancet
  • Trends in worldwide asthma prevalence, 2020, European Respiratory Journal
  • The COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change: Emerging research needs, 2020, Environment International
  • The burden of asthma, hay fever and eczema in children in 25 countries: GAN Phase I study, 2022, European Respiratory Journal

Their work often addresses topics such as COVID-19 epidemiological studies, asthma and respiratory diseases, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, infection control and ventilation, climate change and health impacts, and vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Neil Pearce was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Theo Vos;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • 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, 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 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

  • 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

  • International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC): rationale and methods.

    M. I. Asher;U. Keil;H. R. Anderson;R. Beasley

  • 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

  • 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

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Worldwide variation in prevalence of symptoms of asthma, allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, and atopic eczema: ISAAC. The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) Steering Committee.

    R Beasley;N Pearce;E Von Mutius

  • 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

    Simon I. Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa;Megan S. Coggeshall;Katya A. Shackelford

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013 : quantifying the epidemiological transition

    Christopher J. L. Murray;Ryan M. Barber;Kyle J. Foreman;Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren

  • Bioaerosol Health Effects and Exposure Assessment: Progress and Prospects

    Douwes J;Thorne P;Pearce N;Heederik D

  • Worldwide trends in the prevalence of asthma symptoms: phase III of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC)

    Neil Pearce;Nadia Aït-Khaled;Richard Beasley;Javier Mallol

  • 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

  • Research Methods in Occupational Epidemiology

    Harvey Checkoway;Neil E. Pearce;David Kriebel

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Beasley
Richard Beasley Medical Research Institute of New Zealand
Hans Kromhout
Hans Kromhout Utrecht University
Theo Vos
Theo Vos Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Charles R. Newton
Charles R. Newton University of Oxford
Mohsen Naghavi
Mohsen Naghavi Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Robert G. Weintraub
Robert G. Weintraub Royal Children's Hospital
Christopher J L Murray
Christopher J L Murray University of Washington
Alan D. Lopez
Alan D. Lopez University of Melbourne
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay University of Washington
Eduardo Bernabé
Eduardo Bernabé Queen Mary University of London

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