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Christopher J L Murray
Researcher at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Publications - 833
Citations - 393064
Christopher J L Murray is an academic researcher from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Mortality rate. The author has an hindex of 209, co-authored 754 publications receiving 310329 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher J L Murray include Harvard University & University of Washington.
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Impact of insurance and supply of health professionals on coverage of treatment for hypertension in Mexico: population based study
TL;DR: Expansion of healthcare coverage to uninsured people in Mexico was associated with greater use of antihypertensive treatment and blood pressure control, particularly in areas with a greater supply of health professionals.
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The Potential Future of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Will SARS-CoV-2 Become a Recurrent Seasonal Infection?
TL;DR: The authors discusses the prospect that COVID-19 could become a recurrent seasonal disease like influenza and proposes strategies to mitigate the consequences for communities and health systems, including changes in surveillance, medical and public health response, and socioeconomic programs.
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Mapping diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine coverage in Africa, 2000–2016: a spatial and temporal modelling study
Jonathan F. Mosser,William C. Gagne-Maynard,Puja C Rao,Aaron Osgood-Zimmerman,Nancy Fullman,Nicholas Graetz,Roy Burstein,Rachel L Updike,Patrick Y Liu,Sarah E Ray,Lucas Earl,Aniruddha Deshpande,Daniel C Casey,Laura Dwyer-Lindgren,Elizabeth A. Cromwell,Elizabeth A. Cromwell,David M. Pigott,David M. Pigott,Freya M Shearer,Heidi J. Larson,Heidi J. Larson,Daniel J. Weiss,Samir Bhatt,Peter W. Gething,Christopher J L Murray,Christopher J L Murray,Stephen S Lim,Stephen S Lim,Robert C. Reiner,Robert C. Reiner,Simon I. Hay,Simon I. Hay +31 more
TL;DR: Despite substantial progress in Africa, marked national and subnational inequalities in DPT coverage persist throughout the continent, and these results can help identify areas of low coverage and vaccine delivery system vulnerabilities and can ultimately support more precise targeting of resources.
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Effect of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation on diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine coverage: an independent assessment
TL;DR: The success of ISS funding in countries with baseline DTP3 coverage of 65% or less provides evidence that a public-private partnership can work to reverse a negative trend in global health and that performance-related disbursement can work in some settings.
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Validation of the symptom pattern method for analyzing verbal autopsy data.
TL;DR: A statistical strategy for analyzing VA data that overcomes the limitations of PCVA is developed and validated, and the results suggest that PCVA relies heavily on household recall of medical records and related information, limiting its applicability in low-resource settings.