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Jennifer Beam Dowd

Professor of Demography & Population Health, University of Oxford
Verified email at demography.ox.ac.uk
Cited by 10528

Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19

JB Dowd, L Andriano, DM Brazel… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Governments around the world must rapidly mobilize and make difficult policy decisions to
mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Because deaths have been …

[HTML][HTML] Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world

P Block, M Hoffman, IJ Raabe, JB Dowd… - Nature human …, 2020 - nature.com
Social distancing and isolation have been widely introduced to counter the COVID-19
pandemic. Adverse social, psychological and economic consequences of a complete or …

[HTML][HTML] Seropositivity to cytomegalovirus, inflammation, all-cause and cardiovascular disease-related mortality in the United States

AM Simanek, JB Dowd, G Pawelec, D Melzer, A Dutta… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Studies have suggested that CMV infection may influence cardiovascular
disease (CVD) risk and mortality. However, there have been no large-scale examinations of …

Does the predictive power of self-rated health for subsequent mortality risk vary by socioeconomic status in the US?

JB Dowd, A Zajacova - International journal of epidemiology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Background The purpose of this study is to test whether the predictive power of an
individual's self-rated health (SRH) on subsequent mortality risk differs by socioeconomic …

The impact of bisphenol A and triclosan on immune parameters in the US population, NHANES 2003–2006

EM Rees Clayton, M Todd, JB Dowd… - Environmental health …, 2011 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background Exposure to environmental toxicants is associated with numerous disease
outcomes, many of which involve underlying immune and inflammatory dysfunction …

Reliability of self-rated health in US adults

A Zajacova, JB Dowd - American journal of epidemiology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
General self-rated health (SRH) is widely used to study trends and inequalities in population
health. Recently, there has been an increased interest in understanding the measurement …

Cytomegalovirus antibody levels, inflammation, and mortality among elderly Latinos over 9 years of follow-up

ET Roberts, MN Haan, JB Dowd… - American journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
This study examined the relation between immune response to cytomegalovirus (CMV) and
all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality, and possible mediating mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] “Under the Skin” and into the Gut: Social Epidemiology of the Microbiome

JB Dowd, A Renson - Current epidemiology reports, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of the Review As the science of the microbiome advances, social
epidemiologists can contribute to understanding how the broader social environment …

[HTML][HTML] Seroprevalence of Epstein-Barr virus infection in US children ages 6-19, 2003-2010

JB Dowd, T Palermo, J Brite, TW McDade, A Aiello - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a common herpesvirus linked to infectious
mononucleosis and multiple cancers. There are no national estimates of EBV …

Estimating the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: a population-level analysis

JM Aburto, R Kashyap, J Schöley, C Angus… - J Epidemiol …, 2021 - jech.bmj.com
Background Deaths directly linked to COVID-19 infection may be misclassified, and the
pandemic may have indirectly affected other causes of death. To overcome these …