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Overview

Sam Harper is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and works primarily in the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Oncology, Epidemiology, Health, and General Health Professions.

The research topics covered by Sam Harper include:

  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Health disparities and outcomes

The scientist has published numerous papers in various respected venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Value in Health
  • The Lancet Regional Health - Europe

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Sam Harper are:

  • Factors associated with COVID-19-related death using OpenSAFELY, 2020, Nature
  • OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 million adult NHS patients, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ethnic differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19-related hospitalisation, intensive care unit admission, and death in 17 million adults in England: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform, 2021, The Lancet
  • Long COVID burden and risk factors in 10 UK longitudinal studies and electronic health records, 2022, Nature Communications
  • HIV infection and COVID-19 death: a population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform, 2020, The Lancet HIV

Sam Harper frequently collaborates with several researchers, with notable co-authors being:

  • Ben Goldacre
  • Frank Hester
  • Jonathan Cockburn
  • Brian MacKenna
  • Seb Bacon

Best Publications

  • Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 1. A Systematic Review

    John Lynch;George Davey Smith;Sam Harper;Marianne Hillemeier

  • Global Variability in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

    Justin N. Hall;Spencer Moore;Spencer Moore;Sam B. Harper;John W. Lynch;John W. Lynch;John W. Lynch

  • Long COVID burden and risk factors in 10 UK longitudinal studies and electronic health records

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  • Ethnic differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19-related hospitalisation, intensive care unit admission, and death in 17 million adults in England: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform.

    Rohini Mathur;Christopher T Rentsch;Caroline E Morton;William J Hulme

  • HIV infection and COVID-19 death: a population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform.

    Krishnan Bhaskaran;Christopher T Rentsch;Brian MacKenna;Anna Schultze

  • Implicit Value Judgments in the Measurement of Health Inequalities

    Sam Harper;Nicholas B King;Stephen C Meersman;Marsha E Reichman

  • Trends in the Black-White Life Expectancy Gap in the United States, 1983-2003

    Shirley Harper;J. Lynch;Scott Burris;G. Davey Smith

  • Determinants of Increased Opioid-Related Mortality in the United States and Canada, 1990–2013: A Systematic Review

    Nicholas B. King;Veronique Fraser;Constantina Boikos;Robin Richardson

  • An Overview of Methods for Monitoring Social Disparities in Cancer With an Example Using Trends in Lung Cancer Incidence by Area-Socioeconomic Position and Race-Ethnicity, 1992-2004

    Sam Harper;John Lynch;Stephen C. Meersman;Nancy Breen

  • Trends in Area-Socioeconomic and Race-Ethnic Disparities in Breast Cancer Incidence, Stage at Diagnosis, Screening, Mortality, and Survival among Women Ages 50 Years and Over (1987-2005)

    Sam Harper;John Lynch;Stephen C. Meersman;Nancy Breen

  • Use of relative and absolute effect measures in reporting health inequalities: structured review

    Nicholas B King;Sam Harper;Meredith E Young

  • Do Medical Marijuana Laws Increase Marijuana Use? Replication Study and Extension

    Sam Harper;Erin C. Strumpf;Jay S. Kaufman

  • Health, United States, 2001; with Urban and rural health chartbook

    Mark Stephen Eberhardt;Virginia M. Freid;Sam Harper;Deborah D. Ingram

  • Socioeconomic inequality in the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: Results from the World Health Survey

    Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor;Nicole Bergen;Shanthi Mendis;Sam Harper

  • Methods for Measuring Cancer Disparities: Using Data Relevant to Healthy People 2010 Cancer-Related Objectives

    Sam Harper;John Lynch

  • Factors associated with deaths due to COVID-19 versus other causes: population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform

    Krishnan Bhaskaran;Sebastian Bacon;Stephen Jw Evans;Chris J Bates

  • Life course socioeconomic conditions and adult psychosocial functioning

    Sam Harper;John Lynch;Wan Ling Hsu;Susan A. Everson

  • Explaining the social gradient in coronary heart disease: comparing relative and absolute risk approaches

    John Lynch;George Davey Smith;Sam Harper;Kathleen Bainbridge

  • Social Determinants and the Decline of Cardiovascular Diseases: Understanding the Links

    Sam Harper;John Lynch;George Davey Smith

  • Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 2. U.S. National and Regional Trends in Income Inequality and Age- and Cause-Specific Mortality

    John Lynch;George Davey Smith;Sam Harper;Marianne Hillemeier

  • Removing user fees for facility-based delivery services: a difference-in-differences evaluation from ten sub-Saharan African countries.

    Britt McKinnon;Sam Harper;Jay S Kaufman;Yves Bergevin

  • Validation of population-based disease simulation models: a review of concepts and methods

    Jacek A Kopec;Philippe Finès;Douglas G Manuel;David L Buckeridge

  • Case fatality risk of the SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern B.1.1.7 in England

    Daniel J Grint;Kevin Wing;Elizabeth Williamson;Helen I McDonald

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay S. Kaufman
Jay S. Kaufman McGill University
Arijit Nandi
Arijit Nandi McGill University
David Evans
David Evans University of Bristol
Marianne M. Hillemeier
Marianne M. Hillemeier Pennsylvania State University
Nancy A. Ross
Nancy A. Ross Queen's University
Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor
Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor World Health Organization
Mark Daniel
Mark Daniel University of Canberra
Jody Heymann
Jody Heymann University of California, Los Angeles
Marina B. Klein
Marina B. Klein McGill University
Dirk Berkvens
Dirk Berkvens Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

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