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Richard Matzopoulos is affiliated with the South African Medical Research Council in South Africa. Their research contributions primarily focus on Medicine and Social Sciences, with significant attention to subfields such as General Health Professions, Emergency Medicine, Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Epidemiology.

Their academic work centers around topics including Injury Epidemiology and Prevention, Trauma and Emergency Care Studies, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Intimate Partner and Family Violence, Crime Patterns and Interventions, Homelessness and Social Issues, and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology.

Notable recent publications authored or co-authored by Richard Matzopoulos include:

  • "Advancing alcohol research in low-income and middle-income countries: a global alcohol environment framework," 2020, BMJ Global Health
  • "The effect of lockdown on intentional and nonintentional injury during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa: A preliminary report," 2020, South African Medical Journal
  • "South Africa's COVID-19 Alcohol Sales Ban: The Potential for Better Policy-Making," 2020, International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • "Urban upgrading and levels of interpersonal violence in Cape Town, South Africa: The violence prevention through urban upgrading programme," 2020, Social Science & Medicine
  • "Psychedelic Mushrooms in the USA: Knowledge, Patterns of Use, and Association With Health Outcomes," 2022, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators of Richard Matzopoulos include Megan Prinsloo, Debbie Bradshaw, Charles Parry, Naeemah Abrahams, and Rachel Jewkes.

Key venues for publication consist of:

  • South African Medical Journal
  • BMJ Global Health
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

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

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gregory A Roth;Gregory A Roth;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Solomon M Abay

  • 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 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 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

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas

  • 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

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  • 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, 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

  • The global burden of injury: incidence, mortality, disability-adjusted life years and time trends from the Global Burden of Disease study 2013

    Juanita A Haagsma;Nicholas Graetz;Ian Bolliger;Mohsen Naghavi

  • Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Stephen S Lim;Kate Allen;Zulfiqar A Bhutta;Zulfiqar A Bhutta;Lalit Dandona;Lalit Dandona

  • The high burden of injuries in South Africa

    Rosana Norman;Richard Matzopoulos;Pam Groenewald;Debbie Bradshaw

  • Mortality trends and differentials in South Africa from 1997 to 2012: second National Burden of Disease Study

    Victoria Pillay-van Wyk;William Msemburi;Ria Laubscher;Rob E Dorrington

  • Global mortality from firearms, 1990-2016

    Mohsen Naghavi;Laurie B. Marczak;Michael Kutz;Katya Anne Shackelford

  • Rethinking the Trauma of War

    Richard G Matzopoulos

  • Injury-related mortality in South Africa: a retrospective descriptive study of postmortem investigations

    Richard Matzopoulos;Megan Prinsloo;Victoria Pillay-van Wyk;Nomonde Gwebushe

  • Interpersonal violence: an important risk factor for disease and injury in South Africa.

    Rosana Norman;Michelle Schneider;Debbie Bradshaw;Rachel Jewkes

  • 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

  • The High Burden of Injuries in South Africa/Forte Charge De Morbidite Due Aux Traumatismes En Afrique Du Sud/La Gran Carga De Lesiones En Sudafrica

    Rosana Norman;Richard Matzopoulos;Pam Groenewald;Debbie Bradshaw

Frequent Co-Authors

Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales
David C. Schwebel
David C. Schwebel University of Alabama at Birmingham
Charles D. H. Parry
Charles D. H. Parry South African Medical Research Council
Michelle L. Bell
Michelle L. Bell Yale University
Rakhi Dandona
Rakhi Dandona Public Health Foundation of India
Paul S. F. Yip
Paul S. F. Yip University of Hong Kong
Richard C. Franklin
Richard C. Franklin James Cook University
Guoqing Hu
Guoqing Hu Central South University
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Foad Abd-Allah
Foad Abd-Allah Cairo University

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