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Overview

Thomas Benfield is affiliated with Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark. Their research focuses predominantly on fields related to Environmental Science and Medicine, where they have contributed to a substantial body of work.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Medicine

Within these broad fields, Benfield has specialized in several subfields, including:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Infectious Diseases
  • General Health Professions
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Epidemiology

Their research covers significant topics such as:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Health and Conflict Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Benfield has published frequently in scientific venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • AIDS

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Benfield are:

  • "Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 - Final Report", 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Risk of COVID-19 in health-care workers in Denmark: an observational cohort study", 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "A Neutralizing Monoclonal Antibody for Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19", 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers", 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • "Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity, and protect health", 2021, BMJ

Collaborations feature prominently in Benfield's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Peush Sahni
  • Stephen Hancocks
  • Laurie Laybourn-Langton
  • Richard Horton
  • Virginia Barbour

Best Publications

  • Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 - Final Report.

    John H. Beigel;Kay M. Tomashek;Lori E. Dodd;Aneesh K. Mehta

  • Circulating microRNAs in sera correlate with soluble biomarkers of immune activation but do not predict mortality in ART treated individuals with HIV-1 infection : a case control study

    Daniel D. Murray;Kazuo Suzuki;Matthew Law;Jonel Trebicka

  • Changing patterns of mortality across Europe in patients infected with HIV-1.

    A Mocroft;S Vella;TL Benfield;A Chiesi

  • Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health.

    Lukoye Atwoli;Abdullah H Baqui;Thomas Benfield;Raffaella Bosurgi

  • Risk of COVID-19 in health-care workers in Denmark: an observational cohort study.

    Kasper Iversen;Henning Bundgaard;Rasmus B Hasselbalch;Jonas H Kristensen

  • Influence of diabetes and hyperglycaemia on infectious disease hospitalisation and outcome

    T. Benfield;J. S. Jensen;B. G. Nordestgaard

  • Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers : A Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Henning Bundgaard;Johan Skov Bundgaard;Daniel Emil Tadeusz Raaschou-Pedersen;Christian von Buchwald

  • A Neutralizing Monoclonal Antibody for Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19.

    Jens D Lundgren;Birgit Grund;Christina E Barkauskas;Thomas L Holland

  • Effects of CCR5-Delta32, CCR2-64I, and SDF-1 3'A alleles on HIV-1 disease progression: An international meta-analysis of individual-patient data

    J. P.A. Ioannidis;P. S. Rosenberg;J. J. Goedert;L. J. Ashton

  • Pneumococcal Serotypes and Mortality following Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study

    Zitta B. Harboe;Reimar W. Thomsen;Anders Hammerich Riis;Palle Valentiner-Branth

  • YKL-40, a mammalian member of the chitinase family, is a matrix protein of specific granules in human neutrophils.

    Volck B;Price Pa;Johansen Js;Sørensen O

  • Impact of 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination in Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Incidence and Mortality

    Zitta Barrella Harboe;Tine Dalby;Daniel M. Weinberger;Thomas Benfield

  • Effects of mutations in Pneumocystis carinii dihydropteroate synthase gene on outcome of AIDS-associated P carinii pneumonia

    Jannik Helweg-Larsen;Thomas L Benfield;Jesper Eugen-Olsen;Jens D Lundgren

  • Nontuberculous pulmonary mycobacteriosis in Denmark: incidence and prognostic factors

    Claire Andréjak;Vibeke Ø Thomsen;Isik Somuncu Johansen;Anders Riis

  • Heterozygosity for a deletion in the CKR-5 gene leads to prolonged AIDS-free survival and slower CD4 T-cell decline in a cohort of HIV-seropositive individuals.

    Jesper Eugen-Olsen;Astrid K.N. Iversen;Peter Garred;Uffe Koppelhus

  • Mortality outcomes with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in COVID-19 from an international collaborative meta-analysis of randomized trials.

    Cathrine Axfors;Cathrine Axfors;Andreas M. Schmitt;Andreas M. Schmitt;Perrine Janiaud;Janneke van’t Hooft;Janneke van’t Hooft

  • Syphilis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 coinfection: influence on CD4 T-cell count, HIV-1 viral load, and treatment response.

    Kristian Kofoed;Jan Gerstoft;Lars R Mathiesen;Thomas Benfield

  • Effect of 12 mg vs 6 mg of Dexamethasone on the Number of Days Alive Without Life Support in Adults With COVID-19 and Severe Hypoxemia: The COVID STEROID 2 Randomized Trial.

    Marie W Munch;Sheila N Myatra;Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan;Sanjith Saseedharan

  • Mortality, Cancer, and Comorbidities Associated With Chronic Pancreatitis: A Danish Nationwide Matched-Cohort Study

    Ulrich Christian Bang;Thomas Benfield;Thomas Benfield;Lars Hyldstrup;Lars Hyldstrup;Flemming Bendtsen;Flemming Bendtsen

  • Increasing incidence but decreasing in-hospital mortality of adult Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia between 1981 and 2000.

    T. Benfield;F. Espersen;N. Frimodt-Møller;A.G. Jensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens D. Lundgren
Jens D. Lundgren Rigshospitalet
Jan Gerstoft
Jan Gerstoft Rigshospitalet
Børge G. Nordestgaard
Børge G. Nordestgaard University of Copenhagen
Anders Rhod Larsen
Anders Rhod Larsen Statens Serum Institut
Jørgen Vestbo
Jørgen Vestbo University of Manchester
Robert Skov
Robert Skov Statens Serum Institut
Henrik Westh
Henrik Westh University of Copenhagen
Jesper Eugen-Olsen
Jesper Eugen-Olsen Copenhagen University Hospital
Amanda Mocroft
Amanda Mocroft University College London
Andreas Petersen
Andreas Petersen Copenhagen University Hospital

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