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Sebastian Vollmer

Sebastian Vollmer

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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66
Citations
17689
World Ranking
972
National Ranking
29

Overview

Sebastian Vollmer is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with particular emphasis on nutrition and dietetics, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and economics and econometrics.

Their work encompasses a range of main topics including:

  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies

Some of the recent papers associated with Vollmer's research include:

  • Factors Associated With Child Stunting, Wasting, and Underweight in 35 Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2020, JAMA Network Open)
  • The state of diabetes treatment coverage in 55 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative, individual-level data in 680,102 adults (2021, The Lancet Healthy Longevity)
  • Improving health outcomes of people with diabetes: target setting for the WHO Global Diabetes Compact (2023, The Lancet)
  • Lifetime Prevalence of Cervical Cancer Screening in 55 Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2020, JAMA)
  • Diabetes Prevalence and Its Relationship With Education, Wealth, and BMI in 29 Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2020, Diabetes Care)

Frequent collaborators in Vollmer's research network include:

  • Till Bärnighausen
  • Pascal Geldsetzer
  • Justine Davies
  • Maja E. Marcus
  • Jennifer Manne-Goehler

Publication venues where Vollmer's work appears regularly include:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Global Health
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • PLOS Global Public Health

Vollmer has also contributed to book publications through various publishers such as:

  • World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, including the title Understanding Drivers of Decoupling of Global Transport CO 2 Emissions from Economic Growth: Evidence from 145 Countries (2021)
  • Duncker & Humblot, with the book Bearbeitungsentgelte im Darlehensrecht (2020)
  • World Bank policy research working paper, including The Labor Market Implications of Restricted Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya: Evidence from Nationally Representative Phone Surveys (2022)

Best Publications

  • Global Economic Burden of Diabetes in Adults: Projections From 2015 to 2030

    Christian Bommer;Vera Sagalova;Esther Heesemann;Jennifer Manne-Goehler;Jennifer Manne-Goehler

  • The global economic burden of diabetes in adults aged 20–79 years: a cost-of-illness study

    Christian Bommer;Esther Heesemann;Vera Sagalova;Jennifer Manne-Goehler

  • The state of hypertension care in 44 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative individual-level data from 1·1 million adults

    Pascal Geldsetzer;Jennifer Manne-Goehler;Maja Emilia Marcus;Cara Ebert;Cara Ebert

  • Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Rafael Lozano;Nancy Fullman;Degu Abate;Solomon M. Abay

  • Guidelines for clinical trial protocols for interventions involving artificial intelligence: the SPIRIT-AI extension

    S Cruz Rivera;X Liu;A W Chan;A K Denniston

  • Diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa: from clinical care to health policy

    Rifat Atun;Justine I Davies;Justine I Davies;Edwin A M Gale;Till Bärnighausen;Till Bärnighausen

  • Past, present, and future of global health financing: A review of development assistance, government, out-of-pocket, and other private spending on health for 195 countries, 1995-2050

    Angela Y. Chang;Krycia Cowling;Angela E. Micah;Abigail Chapin

  • Machine learning and artificial intelligence research for patient benefit: 20 critical questions on transparency, replicability, ethics, and effectiveness

    S Vollmer;B A Mateen;B A Mateen;B A Mateen;G Bohner;G Bohner;F J Király;F J Király

  • Antenatal care services and its implications for vital and health outcomes of children: evidence from 193 surveys in 69 low-income and middle-income countries.

    Jana Kuhnt;Sebastian Vollmer

  • Guidelines for clinical trial protocols for interventions involving artificial intelligence: the SPIRIT-AI extension.

    S Cruz Rivera;X Liu;A W Chan;A K Denniston

  • Diabetes and Hypertension in India: A Nationally Representative Study of 1.3 Million Adults

    Pascal Geldsetzer;Jennifer Manne-Goehler;Jennifer Manne-Goehler;Michaela Theilmann;Justine I. Davies;Justine I. Davies

  • Inequality and growth: evidence from panel cointegration

    Dierk Herzer;Sebastian Vollmer;Sebastian Vollmer;Sebastian Vollmer

  • Reporting guidelines for clinical trial reports for interventions involving artificial intelligence: the CONSORT-AI extension.

    X Liu;S Cruz Rivera;D Moher;M J Calvert

  • Health system performance for people with diabetes in 28 low- and middle-income countries: A cross-sectional study of nationally representative surveys.

    Jennifer Manne-Goehler;Pascal Geldsetzer;Kokou Agoudavi;Glennis Andall-Brereton

  • Factors Associated With Child Stunting, Wasting, and Underweight in 35 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Zhihui Li;Rockli Kim;Rockli Kim;Rockli Kim;Sebastian Vollmer;S. V. Subramanian;S. V. Subramanian

  • The Bouncy Particle Sampler: A Nonreversible Rejection-Free Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method

    Alexandre Bouchard-Côté;Sebastian J. Vollmer;Arnaud Doucet

  • Association between economic growth and early childhood undernutrition: evidence from 121 Demographic and Health Surveys from 36 low-income and middle-income countries

    Sebastian Vollmer;Sebastian Vollmer;Kenneth Harttgen;Malavika A Subramanyam;Jocelyn Finlay

  • Spectral gaps for a Metropolis–Hastings algorithm in infinite dimensions

    Martin Hairer;Andrew M. Stuart;Sebastian J. Vollmer

  • The state of diabetes treatment coverage in 55 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative, individual-level data in 680 102 adults

    David Flood;Jacqueline A Seiglie;Matthew Dunn;Scott Tschida

  • The long-run determinants of fertility: one century of demographic change 1900–1999

    Dierk Herzer;Holger Strulik;Sebastian Vollmer;Sebastian Vollmer

  • Quasi-experimental study designs series – Paper 4: uses and value

    Till Bärnighausen;Till Bärnighausen;Peter Tugwell;John-Arne Røttingen;Ian Shemilt

  • Consistency and fluctuations for stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics

    Yee Whye Teh;Alexandre H. Thiery;Sebastian J. Vollmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Rifat Atun
Rifat Atun Harvard University
S. V. Subramanian
S. V. Subramanian Harvard University
Yuming Guo
Yuming Guo Monash University
Mihajlo Jakovljevic
Mihajlo Jakovljevic University of Kragujevac
Mohamad-Hani Temsah
Mohamad-Hani Temsah King Saud Medical City
Florian Fischer
Florian Fischer Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Mustafa Z Younis
Mustafa Z Younis Jackson State University
Paul S. F. Yip
Paul S. F. Yip University of Hong Kong
Ole Frithjof Norheim
Ole Frithjof Norheim University of Bergen

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