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Simon Brooker
Researcher at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Publications - 274
Citations - 41606
Simon Brooker is an academic researcher from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Malaria. The author has an hindex of 81, co-authored 274 publications receiving 37565 citations. Previous affiliations of Simon Brooker include University of London & Kenyatta National Hospital.
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Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
Theo Vos,Abraham D. Flaxman,Mohsen Naghavi,Rafael Lozano,Catherine Michaud,Majid Ezzati,Kenji Shibuya,Joshua A. Salomon,Safa Abdalla,Victor Aboyans,Jerry Abraham,Ilana N. Ackerman,Rakesh Aggarwal,Stephanie Y. Ahn,Mohammed K. Ali,Mohammad A. AlMazroa,Miriam Alvarado,H. Ross Anderson,Laurie M. Anderson,Kathryn G. Andrews,Charles Atkinson,Larry M. Baddour,Adil N. Bahalim,Suzanne Barker-Collo,Lope H Barrero,David Bartels,María-Gloria Basáñez,Amanda J Baxter,Michelle L. Bell,Emelia J. Benjamin,Derrick A Bennett,Eduardo Bernabé,Kavi Bhalla,Bishal Bhandari,Boris Bikbov,Aref A. Bin Abdulhak,Gretchen L. Birbeck,James A. Black,Hannah Blencowe,Jed D. Blore,Fiona M. Blyth,Ian Bolliger,Audrey Bonaventure,Soufiane Boufous,Rupert R A Bourne,Michel Boussinesq,Tasanee Braithwaite,Carol Brayne,Lisa Bridgett,Simon Brooker,Peter Brooks,Traolach S. Brugha,Claire Bryan-Hancock,Chiara Bucello,Rachelle Buchbinder,Geoffrey Buckle,Christine M. Budke,Michael Burch,Peter Burney,Roy Burstein,Bianca Calabria,Benjamin L. Campbell,Charles E. Canter,Hélène Carabin,Jonathan R. Carapetis,Loreto Carmona,Claudia Cella,Fiona J Charlson,Honglei Chen,Andrew T. A. Cheng,David Chou,Sumeet S. Chugh,Luc E. Coffeng,Steven D. Colan,Samantha M. Colquhoun,K. Ellicott Colson,John R. Condon,Myles Connor,Myles Connor,Myles Connor,Leslie T. Cooper,Matthew A. Corriere,Monica Cortinovis,Karen Courville De Vaccaro,William G. Couser,Benjamin C Cowie,Michael H. Criqui,Marita Cross,Kaustubh Dabhadkar,Manu Dahiya,Nabila Dahodwala,James Damsere-Derry,Goodarz Danaei,Adrian Davis,Diego De Leo,Louisa Degenhardt,Robert P. Dellavalle,Allyne Delossantos,Julie O. Denenberg,Sarah Derrett,Don C. Des Jarlais,Samath D Dharmaratne,Samath D Dharmaratne,Mukesh Dherani,Cesar Diaz-Torne,Helen Dolk,E. Ray Dorsey,Tim Driscoll,Herbert C. Duber,Beth E. Ebel,Karen Edmond,Alexis Elbaz,S. Ali,Holly E. Erskine,Patricia J. Erwin,Patricia Espindola,Stalin E. Ewoigbokhan,Farshad Farzadfar,Valery L. Feigin,David T. Felson,Alize J. Ferrari,Cleusa P. Ferri,Eric M. Fèvre,Mariel M. Finucane,Seth Flaxman,Louise Flood,Kyle J Foreman,Mohammad H. Forouzanfar,F.G.R. Fowkes,Richard C. Franklin,Richard C. Franklin,Marlene Fransen,Michael Freeman,Belinda J. Gabbe,Sherine E. Gabriel,Emmanuela Gakidou,Hammad A. Ganatra,Bianca Garcia,Flavio Gaspari,Richard F. Gillum,Gerhard Gmel,Richard A. Gosselin,Rebecca Grainger,Justina Groeger,Francis Guillemin,David Gunnell,R Gupta,Juanita A. Haagsma,Holly Hagan,Yara A. Halasa,Wayne Hall,Diana Haring,Josep Maria Haro,James Harrison,Rasmus Havmoeller,Roderick J. Hay,Hideki Higashi,Christopher Hill,Bruno Hoen,Howard J. Hoffman,Peter J. Hotez,Damian G Hoy,John J Huang,Sydney E. Ibeanusi,Kathryn H. Jacobsen,Spencer L. James,Deborah Jarvis,Rashmi Jasrasaria,Sudha Jayaraman,Nicole E. Johns,Jost B. Jonas,Ganesan Karthikeyan,Nicholas J Kassebaum,Norito Kawakami,Andre Keren,Jon Paul Khoo,Charles H. King,Lisa M. Knowlton,Olive Kobusingye,Olive Kobusingye,Adofo Koranteng,Rita Krishnamurthi,Ratilal Lalloo,Laura L Laslett,Tim Lathlean,Janet L Leasher,Yong Yi Lee,James Leigh,Stephen S Lim,Elizabeth S Limb,John K Lin,Michael S Lipnick,Steven E. Lipshultz,Wei Liu,Maria Loane,Summer Lockett Ohno,Ronan A Lyons,Jixiang Ma,Jacqueline Mabweijano,Michael F. MacIntyre,Reza Malekzadeh,Leslie Mallinger,Sivabalan Manivannan,Wagner Marcenes,Lyn March,David J. Margolis,Guy B. Marks,Robin Marks,Akira Matsumori,Richard Matzopoulos,Richard Matzopoulos,Bongani M. Mayosi,John H. McAnulty,Mary M. McDermott,Neil McGill,John J. McGrath,María Elena Medina-Mora,Michele Meltzer,Ziad A. Memish,George A. Mensah,Tony R. Merriman,Ana-Claire Meyer,Valeria Miglioli,Matthew J. Miller,Ted R. Miller,Philip B. Mitchell,Ana Olga Mocumbi,Terrie E. Moffitt,Ali A. Mokdad,Lorenzo Monasta,Marcella Montico,Maziar Moradi-Lakeh,Andrew E. Moran,Lidia Morawska,Rintaro Mori,Michele E. Murdoch,Michael K Mwaniki,Kovin Naidoo,M. Nathan Nair,Luigi Naldi,K.M. Venkat Narayan,Paul K. Nelson,Robert G. Nelson,Michael C. Nevitt,Charles R. Newton,Sandra Nolte,Paul Norman,Rosana E. Norman,Martin O'Donnell,Simon J. O’Hanlon,Casey Olives,Saad B. Omer,Katrina F Ortblad,Richard H. Osborne,Doruk Ozgediz,Andrew Page,Bishnu Pahari,Jeyaraj D Pandian,Andrea Panozo Rivero,Scott B. Patten,Neil Pearce,Rogelio Perez Padilla,Fernando Perez-Ruiz,Norberto Perico,Konrad Pesudovs,David Phillips,Michael R. Phillips,Kelsey Pierce,Sébastien D. S. Pion,Guilherme V. Polanczyk,Suzanne Polinder,C. Arden Pope,Svetlana Popova,Esteban Porrini,Farshad Pourmalek,Martin Prince,Rachel L. Pullan,Kapa D. Ramaiah,Dharani Ranganathan,Homie Razavi,Mathilda Regan,Jürgen Rehm,David B. Rein,G. Remuzzi,Kathryn Richardson,Frederick P. Rivara,Thomas Roberts,Carolyn Robinson,Felipe Rodriguez De Leòn,Luca Ronfani,Robin Room,Lisa C. Rosenfeld,Lesley Rushton,Ralph L. Sacco,Sukanta Saha,Uchechukwu Sampson,Lidia Sanchez-Riera,Ella Sanman,David C. Schwebel,James Scott,Maria Segui-Gomez,Saeid Shahraz,Donald S. Shepard,Hwashin Shin,Rupak Shivakoti,Donald H. Silberberg,David Singh,Gitanjali M Singh,Jasvinder A. Singh,Jessica Singleton,David A. Sleet,Karen Sliwa,Emma Smith,Jennifer L. Smith,Nicolas J. C. Stapelberg,Andrew C Steer,Timothy J. Steiner,Wilma A. Stolk,Lars Jacob Stovner,Christopher R. Sudfeld,Sana Syed,Giorgio Tamburlini,Mohammad Tavakkoli,Hugh R. Taylor,Jennifer A. Taylor,William J. Taylor,Bernadette Thomas,W. Murray Thomson,George D. Thurston,Imad M. Tleyjeh,Marcello Tonelli,Jeffrey A. Towbin,Thomas Truelsen,Miltiadis K. Tsilimbaris,Clotilde Ubeda,Eduardo A. Undurraga,Marieke J. van der Werf,Jim van Os,Monica S. Vavilala,Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian,Mengru Wang,Wenzhi Wang,Kerrianne Watt,David Weatherall,Martin A. Weinstock,Robert G. Weintraub,Marc G. Weisskopf,Myrna M. Weissman,Richard A. White,Harvey Whiteford,Steven T. Wiersma,James D. Wilkinson,Hywel C Williams,Sean R.M. Williams,Emma Witt,Frederick Wolfe,Anthony D. Woolf,Sarah Wulf,Pon Hsiu Yeh,Anita K. M. Zaidi,Zhi Jie Zheng,David Zonies,Alan D. Lopez,Christopher J L Murray +363 more
TL;DR: Prevalence and severity of health loss were weakly correlated and age-specific prevalence of YLDs increased with age in all regions and has decreased slightly from 1990 to 2010, but population growth and ageing have increased YLD numbers and crude rates over the past two decades.
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Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
Christopher J L Murray,Theo Vos,Rafael Lozano,Mohsen Naghavi,Abraham D. Flaxman,Catherine Michaud,Majid Ezzati,Kenji Shibuya,Joshua A. Salomon,Safa Abdalla,Victor Aboyans,Jerry Abraham,Ilana N. Ackerman,Rakesh Aggarwal,Stephanie Y. Ahn,Mohammed K. Ali,Mohammad A. AlMazroa,Miriam Alvarado,H. Ross Anderson,Laurie M. Anderson,Kathryn G. Andrews,Charles Atkinson,Larry M. Baddour,Adil N. Bahalim,Suzanne Barker-Collo,Lope H Barrero,David Bartels,María-Gloria Basáñez,Amanda J Baxter,Michelle L. Bell,Emelia J. Benjamin,Derrick A Bennett,Eduardo Bernabé,Kavi Bhalla,Bishal Bhandari,Boris Bikbov,Aref A. Bin Abdulhak,Gretchen L. Birbeck,James A. Black,Hannah Blencowe,Jed D. Blore,Fiona M. Blyth,Ian Bolliger,Audrey Bonaventure,Soufiane Boufous,Rupert R A Bourne,Michel Boussinesq,Tasanee Braithwaite,Carol Brayne,Lisa Bridgett,Simon Brooker,Peter Brooks,Traolach S. Brugha,Claire Bryan-Hancock,Chiara Bucello,Rachelle Buchbinder,Geoffrey Buckle,Christine M. Budke,Michael Burch,Peter Burney,Roy Burstein,Bianca Calabria,Benjamin L. Campbell,Charles E. Canter,Hélène Carabin,Jonathan R. Carapetis,Loreto Carmona,Claudia Cella,Fiona J Charlson,Honglei Chen,Andrew T. A. Cheng,David Chou,Sumeet S. Chugh,Luc E. Coffeng,Steven D. Colan,Samantha M. Colquhoun,K. Ellicott Colson,John R. Condon,Myles Connor,Myles Connor,Myles Connor,Leslie T. Cooper,Matthew A. Corriere,Monica Cortinovis,Karen Courville De Vaccaro,William G. Couser,Benjamin C Cowie,Michael H. Criqui,Marita Cross,Kaustubh Dabhadkar,Manu Dahiya,Nabila Dahodwala,James Damsere-Derry,Goodarz Danaei,Adrian Davis,Diego De Leo,Louisa Degenhardt,Louisa Degenhardt,Robert P. Dellavalle,Allyne Delossantos,Julie O. Denenberg,Sarah Derrett,Don C. Des Jarlais,Samath D Dharmaratne,Samath D Dharmaratne,Mukesh Dherani,Cesar Diaz-Torne,Helen Dolk,E. Ray Dorsey,Tim Driscoll,Herbert C. Duber,Beth E. Ebel,Karen Edmond,Alexis Elbaz,S. Ali,Holly E. Erskine,Patricia J. Erwin,Patricia Espindola,Stalin E. Ewoigbokhan,Farshad Farzadfar,Valery L. Feigin,David T. Felson,Alize J. Ferrari,Cleusa P. Ferri,Eric M. Fèvre,Mariel M. Finucane,Seth Flaxman,Louise Flood,Kyle J Foreman,Mohammad H. Forouzanfar,F.G.R. Fowkes,Marlene Fransen,Michael Freeman,Belinda J. Gabbe,Sherine E. Gabriel,Emmanuela Gakidou,Hammad A. Ganatra,Bianca Garcia,Flavio Gaspari,Richard F. Gillum,Gerhard Gmel,Diego Gonzalez-Medina,Richard A. Gosselin,Rebecca Grainger,Bridget F. Grant,Justina Groeger,Francis Guillemin,David Gunnell,R Gupta,Juanita A. Haagsma,Holly Hagan,Yara A. Halasa,Wayne Hall,Diana Haring,Josep Maria Haro,James Harrison,Rasmus Havmoeller,Rasmus Havmoeller,Roderick J. Hay,Hideki Higashi,Christopher Hill,Bruno Hoen,Howard J. Hoffman,Peter J. Hotez,Damian G Hoy,John J Huang,Sydney E. Ibeanusi,Kathryn H. Jacobsen,Spencer L. James,Deborah Jarvis,Rashmi Jasrasaria,Sudha Jayaraman,Nicole E. Johns,Jost B. Jonas,Ganesan Karthikeyan,Nicholas J Kassebaum,Norito Kawakami,Andre Keren,Jon Paul Khoo,Charles H. King,Lisa M. Knowlton,Olive Kobusingye,Olive Kobusingye,Adofo Koranteng,Rita Krishnamurthi,Francine Laden,Ratilal Lalloo,Laura L Laslett,Tim Lathlean,Janet L Leasher,Yong Yi Lee,James Leigh,Daphna Levinson,Stephen S Lim,Elizabeth S Limb,John K Lin,Michael S Lipnick,Steven E. Lipshultz,Wei Liu,Maria Loane,Summer Lockett Ohno,Ronan A Lyons,Jacqueline Mabweijano,Michael F. MacIntyre,Reza Malekzadeh,Leslie Mallinger,Sivabalan Manivannan,Wagner Marcenes,Lyn March,David J. Margolis,Guy B. Marks,Robin Marks,Akira Matsumori,Richard Matzopoulos,Richard Matzopoulos,Bongani M. Mayosi,John H. McAnulty,Mary M. McDermott,Neil McGill,John J. McGrath,María Elena Medina-Mora,Michele Meltzer,Ziad A. Memish,George A. Mensah,Tony R. Merriman,Ana-Claire Meyer,Valeria Miglioli,Matthew J. Miller,Ted R. Miller,Philip B. Mitchell,Charles Mock,Ana Olga Mocumbi,Terrie E. Moffitt,Ali A. Mokdad,Lorenzo Monasta,Marcella Montico,Maziar Moradi-Lakeh,Andrew E. Moran,Lidia Morawska,Rintaro Mori,Michele E. Murdoch,Michael K Mwaniki,Kovin Naidoo,M. Nathan Nair,Luigi Naldi,K.M. Venkat Narayan,Paul K. Nelson,Robert G. Nelson,Michael C. Nevitt,Charles R. Newton,Sandra Nolte,Paul Norman,Rosana E. Norman,Martin O'Donnell,Simon J. O’Hanlon,Casey Olives,Saad B. Omer,Katrina F Ortblad,Richard H. Osborne,Doruk Ozgediz,Andrew Page,Bishnu Pahari,Jeyaraj D Pandian,Andrea Panozo Rivero,Scott B. Patten,Neil Pearce,Rogelio Perez Padilla,Fernando Perez-Ruiz,Norberto Perico,Konrad Pesudovs,David Phillips,Michael Phillips,Kelsey Pierce,Sébastien D. S. Pion,Guilherme V. Polanczyk,Suzanne Polinder,C. Arden Pope,Svetlana Popova,Esteban Porrini,Farshad Pourmalek,Martin Prince,Rachel L. Pullan,Kapa D. Ramaiah,Dharani Ranganathan,Homie Razavi,Mathilda Regan,Jürgen Rehm,David B. Rein,G. Remuzzi,Kathryn Richardson,Frederick P. Rivara,Thomas Roberts,Carolyn Robinson,Felipe Rodriguez De Leòn,Luca Ronfani,Robin Room,Robin Room,Lisa C. Rosenfeld,Lesley Rushton,Ralph L. Sacco,Sukanta Saha,Uchechukwu Sampson,Lidia Sanchez-Riera,Ella Sanman,David C. Schwebel,James Scott,Maria Segui-Gomez,Saeid Shahraz,Donald S. Shepard,Hwashin Shin,Rupak Shivakoti,Donald H. Silberberg,David Singh,Gitanjali M Singh,Jasvinder A. Singh,Jessica Singleton,David A. Sleet,Karen Sliwa,Emma Smith,Jennifer L. Smith,Nicolas J. C. Stapelberg,Andrew C Steer,Timothy J. Steiner,Wilma A. Stolk,Lars Jacob Stovner,Christopher R. Sudfeld,Sana Syed,Giorgio Tamburlini,Mohammad Tavakkoli,Hugh R. Taylor,Jennifer A. Taylor,William J. Taylor,Bernadette Thomas,W. Murray Thomson,George D. Thurston,Imad M. Tleyjeh,Marcello Tonelli,Jeffrey A. Towbin,Thomas Truelsen,Miltiadis K. Tsilimbaris,Clotilde Ubeda,Eduardo A. Undurraga,Marieke J. van der Werf,Jim van Os,Monica S. Vavilala,Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian,Mengru Wang,Wenzhi Wang,Kerrianne Watt,David J. Weatherall,Martin A. Weinstock,Robert G. Weintraub,Marc G. Weisskopf,Myrna M. Weissman,Richard A. White,Harvey Whiteford,Natasha Wiebe,Steven T. Wiersma,James D. Wilkinson,Hywel C Williams,Sean R.M. Williams,Emma Witt,Frederick Wolfe,Anthony D. Woolf,Sarah Wulf,Pon Hsiu Yeh,Anita K. M. Zaidi,Zhi Jie Zheng,David Zonies,Alan D. Lopez +369 more
TL;DR: The results for 1990 and 2010 supersede all previously published Global Burden of Disease results and highlight the importance of understanding local burden of disease and setting goals and targets for the post-2015 agenda taking such patterns into account.
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Soil-transmitted helminth infections: ascariasis, trichuriasis, and hookworm
Jeffrey M. Bethony,Jeffrey M. Bethony,Simon Brooker,Marco Albonico,Stefan M. Geiger,Stefan M. Geiger,Alex Loukas,David Diemert,Peter J. Hotez +8 more
TL;DR: Concerns about the sustainability of periodic deworming with benzimidazole anthelmintics and the emergence of resistance have prompted efforts to develop and test new control tools.
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A systematic analysis of global anemia burden from 1990 to 2010
Nicholas J Kassebaum,Nicholas J Kassebaum,Rashmi Jasrasaria,Mohsen Naghavi,Sarah Wulf,Nicole E. Johns,Rafael Lozano,Mathilda Regan,David J. Weatherall,David Chou,Thomas P. Eisele,Seth Flaxman,Rachel L. Pullan,Simon Brooker,Christopher J L Murray +14 more
TL;DR: Iron-deficiency anemia was the top cause globally, although 10 different conditions were among the top 3 in regional rankings, and Malaria, schistosomiasis, and chronic kidney disease-related anemia were the only conditions to increase in prevalence.
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A world malaria map: Plasmodium falciparum endemicity in 2007
Simon I. Hay,Carlos A Guerra,Carlos A Guerra,Peter W. Gething,Peter W. Gething,Anand P. Patil,Andrew J. Tatem,Abdisalan M. Noor,Abdisalan M. Noor,Caroline W Kabaria,Bui H. Manh,Iqbal R. F. Elyazar,Simon Brooker,Simon Brooker,David L. Smith,Rana Moyeed,Robert W. Snow,Robert W. Snow +17 more
TL;DR: This 2007 global P. falciparum malaria endemicity map is the first of a series with which it will be possible to monitor and evaluate the progress of this intervention process, and shows significant opportunities for malaria control in Africa and for malaria elimination elsewhere.