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Cyrus Shahpar
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 15
Citations - 385
Cyrus Shahpar is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Global health & International Health Regulations. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 15 publications receiving 316 citations. Previous affiliations of Cyrus Shahpar include Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine & World Health Organization.
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The health benefits of interventions to reduce indoor air pollution from solid fuel use: a cost-effectiveness analysis
Sumi Mehta,Cyrus Shahpar +1 more
TL;DR: This analysis offers further support for the argument that, from a public health point of view, there should be a continued emphasis on the promotion of improved stoves, as well as other locally appropriate means to reduce exposures within solid fuel-using households, until everyone can be given access to cleaner fuels.
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Homicide Mortality in the United States, 1935–1994: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects
Cyrus Shahpar,Guohua Li +1 more
TL;DR: A significant increase in homicide mortality risk beginning with males born around 1965 was found by examining the residuals of median polish, and the second-order changes in the regression coefficients from the age-period-cohort model.
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A global public health convention for the 21st century.
Johnathan H. Duff,Anicca Liu,Jorge Saavedra,Jorge Saavedra,Jacob N Batycki,Kendra Morancy,Barbara Stocking,Lawrence O. Gostin,Sandro Galea,Stefano M. Bertozzi,José M. Zuniga,Carmencita Alberto-Banatin,Akua Sena Dansua,Carlos del Rio,Maksut Kulzhanov,Kelley Lee,Gisela Scaglia,Cyrus Shahpar,Andrew J Ullmann,Andrew J Ullmann,Steven J. Hoffman,Michael Weinstein,José Szapocznik +22 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the necessary characteristics for a new global public health security convention designed to optimise prevention, preparedness, and response to pandemic infectious diseases, and propose ten recommendations to strengthen global health governance and promote compliance with global health security regulations.
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Secular trends of motor vehicle mortality in the United States, 1910-1994.
TL;DR: The authors compiled annual population and mortality data for the United States from 1910 to 1994 and performed an age-period-cohort analysis through graphical presentation, median polish, and Poisson regression modeling, finding a crossover characterized by a downward trend in death rates among the elderly and an upward trend among adolescents and young adults.
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Notes from the field: hepatitis E outbreak among refugees from South Sudan - Gambella, Ethiopia, April 2014-January 2015.
Lauren B Browne,Zeray Menkir,Vincent Kahi,Gidraf Maina,Solomon Asnakew,Michelle Tubman,Hajir Z Elyas,Alemayehu Nigatu,David Dak,U Aye Maung,Jolene H Nakao,Oleg O. Bilukha,Cyrus Shahpar +12 more
TL;DR: In early April 2014, two South Sudanese refugees in the Gambella region of western Ethiopia experienced acute onset of jaundice, accompanied by fever, which led to a total of 1,117 suspected cases of hepatitis E meeting the case definition of AJS were reported among refugees in camps across Gambella.