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  • 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Thomas R. Frieden is affiliated with Resolve to Save Lives in the United States. Their research spans the field of Medicine, including significant work in subfields such as Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Economics and Econometrics.

The primary topics of their research include Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Sodium Intake and Health, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, and COVID-19 and healthcare impacts.

Frequent publication venues for their work encompass The Lancet, Journal of Clinical Hypertension, JAMA, Global Heart, and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Andrew E. Moran
  • Renu Garg
  • Amanda McClelland
  • Laura K. Cobb
  • Marine Buissonnière

Notable papers authored by Thomas R. Frieden include:

  • Identifying and Interrupting Superspreading Events-Implications for Control of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, 2020, Emerging infectious diseases
  • 7-1-7: an organising principle, target, and accountability metric to make the world safer from pandemics, 2021, The Lancet

Other recent papers from their research network in related areas include:

  • Priority Actions to Advance Population Sodium Reduction, 2020, Nutrients
  • Disease surveillance for the COVID-19 era: time for bold changes, 2021, The Lancet
  • Leveraging Telemedicine for Chronic Disease Management in Low- and Middle-Income Countries During Covid-19, 2020, Global Heart

Thomas R. Frieden is a member of the National Academy of Medicine since 2009.

Best Publications

  • A Framework for Public Health Action: The Health Impact Pyramid

    Thomas R. Frieden

  • The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in New York City.

    Thomas R. Frieden;Timothy Sterling;Ariel Pablos-Mendez;James O. Kilburn

  • Medication-Assisted Therapies — Tackling the Opioid-Overdose Epidemic

    Nora D. Volkow;Thomas R. Frieden;Pamela S. Hyde;Stephen S. Cha

  • Tuberculosis in New York City--turning the tide.

    Thomas R. Frieden;Paula I. Fujiwara;Rita M. Washko;Margaret A. Hamburg

  • Nosocomial transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A risk to patients and health care workers.

    Michele L. Pearson;John A. Jereb;Thomas R. Frieden;Jack T. Crawford

  • Ounces of Prevention — The Public Policy Case for Taxes on Sugared Beverages

    Kelly D. Brownell;Thomas R. Frieden

  • Evidence for Health Decision Making — Beyond Randomized, Controlled Trials

    Thomas R. Frieden

  • Global health security: the wider lessons from the west African Ebola virus disease epidemic

    David L Heymann;Lincoln Chen;Keizo Takemi;David P Fidler

  • A Multi-institutional Outbreak of Highly Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Epidemiology and Clinical Outcomes

    Thomas R. Frieden;Lisa Fine Sherman;Khin Lay Maw;Paula I. Fujiwara

  • Emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in New York City

    T.R. Frieden;S.S. Munsiff;G. Williams;Y. Faur

  • Risk factors associated with default, failure and death among tuberculosis patients treated in a DOTS programme in Tiruvallur District, South India, 2000.

    T Santha;R Garg;T R Frieden;V Chandrasekaran

  • The "Million Hearts" initiative--preventing heart attacks and strokes.

    Thomas R Frieden;Donald M Berwick

  • Six Components Necessary for Effective Public Health Program Implementation

    Thomas R. Frieden

  • Purchasing Behavior and Calorie Information at Fast-Food Chains in New York City, 2007

    Mary T. Bassett;Tamara Dumanovsky;Christina Huang;Lynn D. Silver

  • The Relationship Between Delayed or Incomplete Treatment and All-Cause Mortality in Patients With Tuberculosis

    Ariel Pablos-Méndez;Timothy R. Sterling;Thomas R. Frieden

  • Ebola 2014 — New Challenges, New Global Response and Responsibility

    Thomas R Frieden;Inger Damon;Beth P Bell;Thomas Kenyon

  • Deaths Preventable in the U.S. by Improvements in Use of Clinical Preventive Services

    Thomas A. Farley;Mehul A. Dalal;Farzad Mostashari;Thomas R. Frieden

  • The Future of Public Health

    Thomas R. Frieden

  • An Overview of 9/11 Experiences and Respiratory and Mental Health Conditions among World Trade Center Health Registry Enrollees

    Mark Farfel;Laura DiGrande;Robert Brackbill;Angela Prann

  • Gender disparities in tuberculosis: report from a rural DOTS programme in south India.

    R. Balasubramanian;R. Garg;T. Santha;P. G. Gopi

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorna E. Thorpe
Lorna E. Thorpe New York University
Mary T. Bassett
Mary T. Bassett Harvard University
Thomas Matte
Thomas Matte New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Jordan W. Tappero
Jordan W. Tappero Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Timothy R. Sterling
Timothy R. Sterling Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Francis S. Collins
Francis S. Collins National Institutes of Health
Jonathan E. Fielding
Jonathan E. Fielding University of California, Los Angeles
Barry N. Kreiswirth
Barry N. Kreiswirth Center for Discovery and Innovation
Anne Schuchat
Anne Schuchat Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Scott F. Dowell
Scott F. Dowell Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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