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  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Robert Reiner is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on public health, environmental and occupational health, modeling and simulation, infectious diseases, epidemiology, and nutrition and dietetics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including COVID-19 epidemiological studies, mosquito-borne diseases and control, malaria research and control, child nutrition and water access, viral infections and vectors, pneumonia and respiratory infections, and COVID-19 pandemic impacts.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert Reiner include:

  • Global prevalence and burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in 204 countries and territories in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic (2021) published in The Lancet
  • Global antibiotic consumption and usage in humans, 2000-18: a spatial modelling study (2021) published in The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Global, regional, and national burden of congenital heart disease, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (2020) published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • Modeling COVID-19 scenarios for the United States (2020) published in Nature Medicine
  • Past SARS-CoV-2 infection protection against re-infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2023) published in The Lancet

Robert Reiner has frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Lancet, Nature Communications, PLoS Computational Biology, and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Frequent collaborators include Simon I Hay, David M. Pigott, Thomas W. Scott, Amy C. Morrison, and Moritz U. G. Kraemer.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Global prevalence and burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in 204 countries and territories in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Damian F Santomauro;Ana M Mantilla Herrera;Jamileh Shadid;Peng Zheng

  • The politics of the police

    Robert Reiner

  • 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

  • Estimates of the global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of lower respiratory infections in 195 countries, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Christopher Troeger;Brigette Blacker;Ibrahim A Khalil;Puja C Rao

  • Estimates of the global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of diarrhoea in 195 countries: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Christopher Troeger;Brigette F Blacker;Ibrahim A Khalil;Puja C Rao

  • The current and future global distribution and population at risk of dengue

    Jane P Messina;Oliver Jerome Brady;Nick Golding;Moritz U G Kraemer;Moritz U G Kraemer;Moritz U G Kraemer

  • The Oxford Handbook of Criminology

    Mike Maguire;Rodney Morgan;Robert Reiner

  • Drinking to death: the changing face of liver disease

    MG Griswold;N Fullman;C Hawley;N Arian

  • Global, regional, and national burden of multiple sclerosis 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Mitchell T Wallin;William J Culpepper;Emma Nichols;Zulfiqar A Bhutta

  • Estimates of the global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of lower respiratory tract infections in 195 countries: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Christopher Troeger;Mohammad Forouzanfar;Puja C. Rao;Ibrahim Khalil

  • Rotavirus Vaccination and the Global Burden of Rotavirus Diarrhea Among Children Younger Than 5 Years.

    Christopher Troeger;Ibrahim A. Khalil;Puja C. Rao;Shujin Cao

  • The global burden of typhoid and paratyphoid fevers: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D Stanaway;Robert C Reiner;Brigette F. Blacker;Ellen M Goldberg

  • Global, regional, and national burden of congenital heart disease, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Meghan S. Zimmerman;Alison Grace Carswell Smith;Craig A. Sable;Michelle Marie Echko

  • Morbidity and mortality due to shigella and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhoea: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2016.

    Ibrahim A Khalil;Christopher Troeger;Brigette F Blacker;Puja C Rao

  • Global, Regional, and National Burden of Brain and Other Cns Cancer, 1990-2016: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Anoop P. Patel;James L. Fisher;Emma Nichols;Foad Abd-Allah

  • The global burden of non-typhoidal salmonella invasive disease: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    J D Stanaway;A Parisi;K Sarkar;B F Blacker

  • Mapping HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2017

    Laura Dwyer-Lindgren;Michael A. Cork;Amber Sligar;Krista M. Steuben

  • Morbidity, mortality, and long-term consequences associated with diarrhoea from Cryptosporidium infection in children younger than 5 years: a meta-analyses study

    Ibrahim A Khalil;Christopher Troeger;Puja C Rao;Brigette F Blacker

  • Law and Order: An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control

    Robert Reiner

  • Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: all-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

    Katherine R Paulson;Aruna M Kamath;Tahiya Alam;Kelly Bienhoff

  • Policing a Postmodern Society

    Robert Reiner

  • The Blue-Coated Worker: A Sociological Study of Police Unionism

    Robert Reiner

Frequent Co-Authors

Moritz U G Kraemer
Moritz U G Kraemer University of Oxford
David L. Smith
David L. Smith University of Washington
Florian Fischer
Florian Fischer Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Rakhi Dandona
Rakhi Dandona Public Health Foundation of India
Fares Alahdab
Fares Alahdab Mayo Clinic
Felix Akpojene Ogbo
Felix Akpojene Ogbo Western Sydney University
Salman Rawaf
Salman Rawaf Imperial College London
Mustafa Z Younis
Mustafa Z Younis Jackson State University
Mohamad-Hani Temsah
Mohamad-Hani Temsah King Saud Medical City
Deborah Carvalho Malta
Deborah Carvalho Malta Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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