Dr Benn Sartorius

Cavany, Sean, Nanyonga, Stella, Hauk, Cathrin, Lim, Cherry, Tarning, Joel, Sartorius, Benn, Dolecek, Christiane, Caillet, Céline, Newton, Paul N. and Cooper, Ben S. (2023). The uncertain role of substandard and falsified medicines in the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance. Nature Communications, 14 (1) 6153, 1-9. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41542-w

Bwire, Godfrey, Sartorius, Benn, Guerin, Philippe, Tegegne, Merawi Aragaw, Okware, Sam I. and Talisuna, Ambrose O. (2023). Sudan Ebola virus (SUDV) outbreak in Uganda, 2022: lessons learnt and future priorities for sub-Saharan Africa. BMC Medicine, 21 (1) 144. doi: 10.1186/s12916-023-02847-1

Dlamini, Siyabonga B., Sartorius, Benn and Ginindza, Themba G. (2023). Pre-and post-intervention survey on lung cancer awareness among adults in selected communities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A quasi-experimental study. Journal of Public Health in Africa, 14 (1) 2131. doi: 10.4081/jphia.2023.2131

Ikuta, Kevin S, Swetschinski, Lucien R, Robles Aguilar, Gisela, Sharara, Fablina, Mestrovic, Tomislav, Gray, Authia P, Davis Weaver, Nicole, Wool, Eve E, Han, Chieh, Gershberg Hayoon, Anna, Aali, Amirali, Abate, Semagn Mekonnen, Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen, Abbasi-Kangevari, Zeinab, Abd-Elsalam, Sherief, Abebe, Getachew, Abedi, Aidin, Abhari, Amir Parsa, Abidi, Hassan, Aboagye, Richard Gyan, Absalan, Abdorrahim, Abubaker Ali, Hiwa, Acuna, Juan Manuel, Adane, Tigist Demssew, Addo, Isaac Yeboah, Adegboye, Oyelola A, Adnan, Mohammad, Adnani, Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah, Afzal, Muhammad Sohail ... Naghavi, Mohsen (2022). Global mortality associated with 33 bacterial pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet, 400 (10369), 2221-2248. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02185-7

Dlamini, S.B., Sartorius, B. and Ginindza, T.G. (2022). Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards lung cancer among adults in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a cross-sectional survey. Journal of Public Health in Africa, 13 (3) 2111. doi: 10.4081/jphia.2022.2111

Sheena, Brittney S., Hiebert, Lindsey, Han, Hannah, Ippolito, Helen, Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen, Abbasi-Kangevari, Zeinab, Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abdoli, Amir, Ali, Hiwa Abubaker, Adane, Mesafint Molla, Adegboye, Oyelola A., Adnani, Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah, Advani, Shailesh M., Afzal, Muhammad Sohail, Afzal, Saira, Meybodi, Mohamad Aghaie, Ahadinezhad, Bahman, Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku, Ahmad, Sajjad, Ahmad, Tauseef, Ahmadi, Sepideh, Ahmed, Haroon, Ahmed, Muktar Beshir, Rashid, Tarik Ahmed, Akalu, Gizachew Taddesse, Aklilu, Addis, Akram, Tayyaba, Al Hamad, Hanadi, Alahdab, Fares ... Dirac, M. Ashworth (2022). Global, regional, and national burden of hepatitis B, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 7 (9), 796-829. doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(22)00124-8

Achoki, Tom, Sartorius, Benn, Watkins, David, Glenn, Scott D, Kengne, Andre Pascal, Oni, Tolu, Wiysonge, Charles Shey, Walker, Alexandra, Adetokunboh, Olatunji O, Babalola, Tesleem Kayode, Bolarinwa, Obasanjo Afolabi, Claassens, Mareli M, Cowden, Richard G, Day, Candy T, Ezekannagha, Oluchi, Ginindza, Themba G, Iwu, Chidozie C D, Iwu, Chinwe Juliana, Karangwa, Innocent, Katoto, Patrick DMC, Kugbey, Nuworza, Kuupiel, Desmond, Mahasha, Phetole Walter, Mashamba-Thompson, Tivani Phosa, Mensah, George A, Ndwandwe, Duduzile Edith, Nnaji, Chukwudi A, Ntsekhe, Mpiko, Nyirenda, Thomas Elliot ... Naghavi, Mohsen (2022). Health trends, inequalities and opportunities in South Africa’s provinces, 1990–2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 76 (5), 471-481. doi: 10.1136/jech-2021-217480

Sartorius, Benn, VanderHeide, John D., Yang, Mingyou, Goosmann, Erik A., Hon, Julia, Haeuser, Emily, Cork, Michael A., Perkins, Samantha, Jahagirdar, Deepa, Schaeffer, Lauren E., Serfes, Audrey L., LeGrand, Kate E., Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abebo, Zeleke Hailemariam, Abosetugn, Akine Eshete, Abu-Gharbieh, Eman, Accrombessi, Manfred Mario Kokou, Adebayo, Oladimeji M., Adegbosin, Adeyinka Emmanuel, Adekanmbi, Victor, Adetokunboh, Olatunji O., Adeyinka, Daniel Adedayo, Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku, Ahmadi, Keivan, Ahmed, Muktar Beshir, Akalu, Yonas, Akinyemi, Oluwaseun Oladapo, Akinyemi, Rufus Olusola, Aklilu, Addis ... Dwyer-Lindgren, Laura (2021). Subnational mapping of HIV incidence and mortality among individuals aged 15–49 years in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000–18: a modelling study. The Lancet HIV, 8 (6), e363-e375. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3018(21)00051-5

Macharia, Peter M., Joseph, Noel K., Snow, Robert W., Sartorius, Benn and Okiro, Emelda A. (2021). The impact of child health interventions and risk factors on child survival in Kenya, 1993–2014: a Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis with counterfactual scenarios. BMC Medicine, 19 (1) 102. doi: 10.1186/s12916-021-01974-x

Macharia, Peter M, Joseph, Noel K, Sartorius, Benn, Snow, Robert W and Okiro, Emelda A (2021). Subnational estimates of factors associated with under-five mortality in Kenya: a spatio-temporal analysis, 1993–2014. BMJ Global Health, 6 (4) e004544, e004544. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004544

Tanser, Frank C, Kim, Hae-Young, Mathenjwa, Thulile, Shahmanesh, Maryam, Seeley, Janet, Matthews, Phillippa, Wyke, Sally, McGrath, Nuala, Adeagbo, Oluwafemi, Sartorius, Benn, Yapa, Handurugamage Manisha, Zuma, Thembelihle, Zeitlin, Anya, Blandford, Ann, Dobra, Adrian and Bärnighausen, Till (2021). Home-Based Intervention to Test and Start (HITS): a community-randomized controlled trial to increase HIV testing uptake among men in rural South Africa. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 24 (2) e25665. doi: 10.1002/jia2.25665

Bhattacharjee, Natalia V., Schaeffer, Lauren E., Hay, Simon I., Lu, Dan, Schipp, Megan F., Lazzar-Atwood, Alice, Donkers, Katie M., Abady, Gdiom Gebreheat, Abd-Allah, Foad, Abdelalim, Ahmed, Abebo, Zeleke Hailemariam, Abejie, Ayenew Negesse, Abosetugn, Akine Eshete, Abreu, Lucas Guimarães, Abrigo, Michael R. M., Abu-Gharbieh, Eman, Abushouk, Abdelrahman I., Adamu, Aishatu L., Adedeji, Isaac Akinkunmi, Adegbosin, Adeyinka Emmanuel, Adekanmbi, Victor, Adetokunboh, Olatunji O., Agudelo-Botero, Marcela, Aji, Budi, Akinyemi, Oluwaseun Oladapo, Alamneh, Alehegn Aderaw, Alanezi, Fahad Mashhour, Alanzi, Turki M., Albright, James ... Hay, Simon I. (2021). Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000–2018. Nature Human Behaviour, 5 (8), 1027-1045. doi: 10.1038/s41562-021-01108-6

Kigozi, Simon P., Kigozi, Ruth N., Sebuguzi, Catherine M., Cano, Jorge, Rutazaana, Damian, Opigo, Jimmy, Bousema, Teun, Yeka, Adoke, Gasasira, Anne, Sartorius, Benn and Pullan, Rachel L. (2020). Spatial-temporal patterns of malaria incidence in Uganda using HMIS data from 2015 to 2019. BMC Public Health, 20 (1) 1913, 1-14. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-10007-w

Wang, Haidong, Abbas, Kaja M., Abbasifard, Mitra, Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen, Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abd-Allah, Foad, Abdelalim, Ahmed, Abolhassani, Hassan, Abreu, Lucas Guimaraes, Abrigo, Michael R. M., Abushouk, Abdelrahman I., Adabi, Maryam, Adair, Tim, Adebayo, Oladimeji M., Adedeji, Isaac Akinkunmi, Adekanmbi, Victor, Adeoye, Abiodun Moshood, Adetokunboh, Olatunji O., Advani, Shailesh M., Afshin, Ashkan, Aghaali, Mohammad, Agrawal, Anurag, Ahmadi, Keivan, Ahmadieh, Hamid, Ahmed, Muktar Beshir, Al-Aly, Ziyad, Alam, Khurshid, Alam, Tahiya, Alanezi, Fahad Mashhour ... Murray, Christopher J. L. (2020). Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950-2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet, 396 (10258), 1160-1203.

James, Spencer L., Lucchesi, Lydia R., Bisignano, Catherine, Castle, Chris D., Dingels, Zachary, Fox, Jack T., Hamilton, Erin B., Henry, Nathaniel J., McCracken, Darrah, Roberts, Nicholas L. S., Sylte, Dillon O., Ahmadi, Alireza, Ahmed, Muktar Beshir, Alahdab, Fares, Alipour, Vahid, Andualem, Zewudu, Antonio, Carl Abelardo T., Arabloo, Jalal, Badiye, Ashish D., Bagherzadeh, Mojtaba, Banstola, Amrit, Baernighausen, Till Winfried, Barzegar, Akbar, Bayati, Mohsen, Bhaumik, Soumyadeep, Bijani, Ali, Bukhman, Gene, Carvalho, Felix, Crowe, Christopher Stephen ... Mokdad, Ali H. (2020). Epidemiology of injuries from fire, heat and hot substances: global, regional and national morbidity and mortality estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study. Injury Prevention, 26 (SUPP_1), 36-45. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043299

Deshpande, Aniruddha, Miller-Petrie, Molly K, Johnson, Kimberly B, Abdoli, A., Abrigo, Michael R.M., Adekanmbi, Victor, Adetokunboh, Olatunji O, Adinarayanan, S., Ahmadpour, E., Ahmed, Muktar Beshir, Akalu, Temesgen Yihunie, Alanezi, T. M., Alinia, C., Alipour, Vahid, Amit, Arianna Maever L., Anber, N. H., Ancuceanu, R., Andualem, Z., Ansari, F., Antonio, Carl Abelardo T., Anvari, D., Appiah, S., Arabloo, Jalal, Arnold, B. F., Ausloos, Marcel, Ayanore, Martin Amogre, Badirzadeh, A., Baig, A. A., Banach, Maciej ... Reiner, Robert C (2020). The global distribution of lymphatic filariasis, 2000–18: a geospatial analysis. The Lancet Global Health, 8 (9), e1186-e1194. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30286-2

Cork, Michael A., Wilson, Kate F., Perkins, Samantha, Collison, Michael L., Deshpande, Aniruddha, Eaton, Jeffrey W., Earl, Lucas, Haeuser, Emily, Justman, Jessica E., Kinyoki, Damaris K., Mayala, Benjamin K., Mosser, Jonathan F., Murray, Christopher J. L., Nkengasong, John N., Piot, Peter, Sartorius, Benn, Schaeffer, Lauren E., Serfes, Audrey L., Sligar, Amber, Steuben, Krista M., Tanser, Frank C., Vanderheide, John D., Yang, Mingyou, Wabiri, Njeri, Hay, Simon I. and Dwyer-Lindgren, Laura (2020). Mapping male circumcision for HIV prevention efforts in sub-Saharan Africa. BMC Medicine, 18 (1) 189, 1-15. doi: 10.1186/s12916-020-01635-5

Kinyoki, Damaris K., Ross, Jennifer M., Lazzar-Atwood, Alice, Munro, Sandra B., Schaeffer, Lauren E., Abbasalizad-Farhangi, Mahdieh, Abbasi, Masoumeh, Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abdelalim, Ahmed, Abdoli, Amir, Abdollahi, Mohammad, Abdollahpour, Ibrahim, Abdulkader, Rizwan Suliankatchi, Abebe, Nebiyu Dereje, Abebo, Teshome Abuka, Abegaz, Kedir Hussein, Abolhassani, Hassan, Abreu, Lucas Guimarães, Abrigo, Michael R. M., Abushouk, Abdelrahman I., Accrombessi, Manfred Mario Kokou, Acharya, Dilaram, Adabi, Maryam, Adebiyi, Akindele Olupelumi, Adedeji, Isaac Akinkunmi, Adekanmbi, Victor, Adeoye, Abiodun Moshood, Adetokunboh, Olatunji O., Adham, Davoud ... Hay, Simon I. (2020). Mapping local patterns of childhood overweight and wasting in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2017. Nature Medicine, 26 (5), 750-759. doi: 10.1038/s41591-020-0807-6

Reiner, Robert C., Wiens, Kirsten E., Deshpande, Aniruddha, Baumann, Mathew M., Lindstedt, Paulina A., Blacker, Brigette F., Troeger, Christopher E., Earl, Lucas, Munro, Sandra B., Abate, Degu, Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abd-Allah, Foad, Abdelalim, Ahmed, Abdollahpour, Ibrahim, Abdulkader, Rizwan Suliankatchi, Abebe, Getaneh, Abegaz, Kedir Hussein, Abreu, Lucas Guimarães, Abrigo, Michael R.M., Accrombessi, Manfred Mario Kokou, Acharya, Dilaram, Adabi, Maryam, Adebayo, Oladimeji M., Adedoyin, Rufus Adesoji, Adekanmbi, Victor, Adetokunboh, Olatunji O., Adham, Davoud, Adhena, Beyene Meressa, Afarideh, Mohsen ... Hay, Simon I. (2020). Department of Error: Mapping geographical inequalities in childhood diarrhoeal morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (The Lancet (2020) 395(10239) (1779–1801), (S0140673620301148), (10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30114-8)). The Lancet, 395 (10239), 1762-1762. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31248-4

Dirac, M Ashworth, Safiri, Saeid, Tsoi, Derrick, Adedoyin, Rufus Adesoji, Afshin, Ashkan, Akhlaghi, Narjes, Alahdab, Fares, Almulhim, Abdulaziz M, Amini, Saeed, Ausloos, Floriane, Bacha, Umar, Banach, Maciej, Bhagavathula, Akshaya Srikanth, Bijani, Ali, Biondi, Antonio, Borzì, Antonio Maria, Colombara, Danny, Corey, Kathleen Elizabeth, Dagnew, Baye, Daryani, Ahmad, Davitoiu, Dragos Virgil, Demeke, Feleke Mekonnen, Demoz, Gebre Teklemariam, Do, Huyen Phuc, Etemadi, Arash, Farzadfar, Farshad, Fischer, Florian, Gebre, Abadi Kahsu, Gebremariam, Hadush ... Naghavi, Mohsen (2020). The global, regional, and national burden of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 5 (6), 561-581. doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(19)30408-X

Kamangar, Farin, Nasrollahzadeh, Dariush, Safiri, Saeid, Sepanlou, Sadaf G, Fitzmaurice, Christina, Ikuta, Kevin S, Bisignano, Catherine, Islami, Farhad, Roshandel, Gholamreza, Lim, Stephen S, Abolhassani, Hassan, Abu-Gharbieh, Eman, Adedoyin, Rufus Adesoji, Advani, Shailesh M, Ahmed, Muktar Beshir, Aichour, Miloud Taki Eddine, Akinyemiju, Tomi, Akunna, Chisom Joyqueenet, Alahdab, Fares, Alipour, Vahid, Almasi-Hashiani, Amir, Almulhim, Abdulaziz M, Anber, Nahla Hamed, Ansari-Moghaddam, Alireza, Arabloo, Jalal, Arab-Zozani, Morteza, Awedew, Atalel Fentahun, Badawi, Alaa, Berfield, Kathleen S Sachiko ... Naghavi, Mohsen (2020). The global, regional, and national burden of oesophageal cancer and its attributable risk factors in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 5 (6), 582-597. doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(20)30007-8

Sepanlou, Sadaf G, Safiri, Saeid, Bisignano, Catherine, Ikuta, Kevin S, Merat, Shahin, Saberifiroozi, Mehdi, Poustchi, Hossein, Tsoi, Derrick, Colombara, Danny V, Abdoli, Amir, Adedoyin, Rufus Adesoji, Afarideh, Mohsen, Agrawal, Sutapa, Ahmad, Sohail, Ahmadian, Elham, Ahmadpour, Ehsan, Akinyemiju, Tomi, Akunna, Chisom Joyqueenet, Alipour, Vahid, Almasi-Hashiani, Amir, Almulhim, Abdulaziz M, Al-Raddadi, Rajaa M, Alvis-Guzman, Nelson, Anber, Nahla Hamed, Angus, Colin, Anoushiravani, Amir, Arabloo, Jalal, Araya, Ephrem Mebrahtu, Asmelash, Daniel ... Malekzadeh, Reza (2020). The global, regional, and national burden of cirrhosis by cause in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 5 (3), 245-266. doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(19)30349-8

Kinyoki, Damaris K., Ross, Jennifer M., Lazzar-Atwood, Alice, Munro, Sandra B., Schaeffer, Lauren E., Abbasalizad-Farhangi, Mahdieh, Abbasi, Masoumeh, Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abdelalim, Ahmed, Abdoli, Amir, Abdollahi, Mohammad, Abdollahpour, Ibrahim, Abdulkader, Rizwan Suliankatchi, Abebe, Nebiyu Dereje, Abebo, Teshome Abuka, Abegaz, Kedir Hussein, Abolhassani, Hassan, Abreu, Lucas Guimarães, Abrigo, Michael R. M., Abushouk, Abdelrahman I., Accrombessi, Manfred Mario Kokou, Acharya, Dilaram, Adabi, Maryam, Adebiyi, Akindele Olupelumi, Adedeji, Isaac Akinkunmi, Adekanmbi, Victor, Adeoye, Abiodun Moshood, Adetokunboh, Olatunji O., Adham, Davoud ... Hay, Simon I. (2020). Author Correction: Mapping local patterns of childhood overweight and wasting in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2017 (Nature Medicine, (2020), 26, 5, (750-759), 10.1038/s41591-020-0807-6). Nature Medicine, 26 (8), 1308-1308. doi: 10.1038/s41591-020-0972-7

Troeger, Christopher E., Khalil, Ibrahim A., Blacker, Brigette F., Biehl, Molly H., Albertson, Samuel B., Zimsen, Stephanie R. M., Rao, Puja C., Abate, Degu, Ahmadi, Alireza, Ahmed, Mohamed Lemine Cheikh Brahim, Akal, Chalachew Genet, Alahdab, Fares, Alam, Noore, Alene, Kefyalew Addis, Alipour, Vahid, Aljunid, Syed Mohamed, Al-Raddadi, Rajaa M., Alvis-Guzman, Nelson, Amini, Saeed, Anber, Nahla Hamed, Anjomshoa, Mina, Antonio, Carl Abelardo T., Arabloo, Jalal, Aremu, Olatunde, Atalay, Hagos Tasew, Atique, Suleman, Avokpaho, Euripide F. G. A., Awad, Samah, Awasthi, Ashish ... Reiner, Robert C. (2020). Quantifying risks and interventions that have affected the burden of diarrhoea among children younger than 5 years: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 20 (1), 37-59. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30401-3

Todowede, Olamide O., Sartorius, Benn, Magula, Nombulelo and Schutte, Aletta E. (2019). Association of predicted 10 years cardiovascular mortality risk with duration of HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected individuals in Durban, South Africa. Diabetology and Metabolic Syndrome, 11 (1) 105. doi: 10.1186/s13098-019-0502-2

Frank, Tahvi D., Carter, Austin, Jahagirdar, Deepa, Biehl, Molly H., Douwes-Schultz, Dirk, Larson, Samantha Leigh, Arora, Megha, Dwyer-Lindgren, Laura, Steuben, Krista M., Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abu-Raddad, Laith Jamal, Abyu, Direslgne Misker, Adabi, Maryam, Adebayo, Oladimeji M., Adekanmbi, Victor, Adetokunboh, Olatunji O., Ahmadi, Alireza, Ahmadi, Keivan, Ahmadian, Elham, Ahmadpour, Ehsan, Ahmed, Muktar Beshir, Akal, Chalachew Genet, Alahdab, Fares, Alam, Noore, Albertson, Samuel B., Alemnew, Birhan Tamene T., Alene, Kefyalew Addis, Alipour, Vahid, Alvis-Guzman, Nelson ... Murray, Christopher J.L. (2019). Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980-2017, and forecasts to 2030, for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017. The Lancet HIV, 6 (12), e831-e859. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3018(19)30196-1

Stanaway, Jeffrey D., Afshin, Ashkan, Gakidou, Emmanuela, Lim, Stephen S., Abate, Degu, Abate, Kalkidan Hassen, Abbafati, Cristiana, Abbasi, Nooshin, Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abd-Allah, Foad, Abdela, Jemal, Abdelalim, Ahmed, Abdollahpour, Ibrahim, Abdulkader, Rizwan Suliankatchi, Abebe, Molla, Abebe, Zegeye, Abera, Semaw F., Abil, Olifan Zewdie, Abraha, Haftom Niguse, Abrham, Aklilu Roba, Abu-Raddad, Laith Jamal, Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M.E., Accrombessi, Manfred Mario Kokou, Acharya, Dilaram, Acharya, Pawan, Adamu, Abdu A., Adane, Akilew Awoke, Adebayo, Oladimeji M., Adedoyin, Rufus Adesoji ... Murray, Christopher J.L. (2019). Erratum: Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (The Lancet (2018) 392(10159) (1923–1994), (S0140673618322256), (10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32225-6)). The Lancet, 393 (10190). doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31429-1

Khatab, Khaled, Raheem, Maruf A., Sartorius, Benn and Ismail, Mubarak (2019). Prevalence and risk factors for child labour and violence against children in Egypt using Bayesian geospatial modelling with multiple imputation. PLoS One, 14 (5) e0212715, 1-20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212715

Reiner, Robert C., Olsen, Helen Elizabeth, Ikeda, Chad Thomas, Echko, Michelle M., Ballestreros, Katherine E., Manguerra, Helen, Martopullo, Ira, Millear, Anoushka, Shields, Chloe, Smith, Alison, Strub, Bryan, Abebe, Molla, Abebe, Zegeye, Adhena, Beyene Meressa, Adhikari, Tara Ballav, Akibu, Mohammed, Al-Raddadi, Rajaa M., Alvis-Guzman, Nelson, Antonio, Carl Abelardo T., Aremu, Olatunde, Asgedom, Solomon Weldegebreal, Asseffa, Netsanet Abera, Avila-Burgos, Leticia, Barac, Aleksandra, Bärnighausen, Till W., Bassat, Quique, Bensenor, Isabela M., Bhutta, Zulfiqar A., Bijani, Ali ... Kassebaum, Nicholas J. (2019). Diseases, injuries, and risk factors in child and adolescent health, 1990 to 2017: Findings from the global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors 2017 study. JAMA Pediatrics, 173 (6) ARTN e190337, e190337. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.0337

Wallin, Mitchell T, Culpepper, William J, Nichols, Emma, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, Gebrehiwot, Tsegaye Tewelde, Hay, Simon I, Khalil, Ibrahim A, Krohn, Kristopher J, Liang, Xiaofeng, Naghavi, Mohsen, Mokdad, Ali H, Nixon, Molly R, Reiner, Robert C, Sartorius, Benn, Smith, Mari, Topor-Madry, Roman, Werdecker, Andrea, Vos, Theo, Feigin, Valery L. and Murray, Christopher J L (2019). Global, regional, and national burden of multiple sclerosis 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet Neurology, 18 (3), 269-285. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30443-5

Orpana, Heather M., Marczak, Laurie B., Arora, Megha, Abbasi, Nooshin, Abdulkader, Rizwan Suliankatchi, Abebe, Zegeye, Abraha, Haftom Niguse, Afarideh, Mohsen, Afshari, Mahdi, Ahmadi, Alireza, Aichour, Amani Nidhal, Aichour, Ibtihel, Aichour, Miloud Taki Eddine, Akseer, Nadia, Al‐raddadi, Rajaa M., Alahdab, Fares, Alkerwi, Ala'a, Allebeck, Peter, Alvis‐guzman, Nelson, Anber, Nahla Hamed, Anjomshoa, Mina, Antonio, Carl Abelardo T., Arora, Amit, Aryal, Krishna K., Asgedom, Solomon Weldegebreal, Awasthi, Ashish, Quintanilla, Beatriz Paulina Ayala, Badali, Hamid, Barker‐collo, Suzanne Lyn ... Naghavi, Mohsen (2019). Global, regional, and national burden of suicide mortality 1990 to 2016: systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. BMJ (Online), 364 94, l94. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l94

Kong, V. Y., Bruce, J. L., Sartorius, B., Laing, G. L., Odendaal, J., Brysiewicz, P. and Clarke, D. L. (2019). Civilian cerebral gunshot wounds in rural South African patients are associated with significantly higher mortality rates than in urban patients. European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 45 (1), 145-150. doi: 10.1007/s00068-017-0800-z

Cuadros, Diego F., Li, Jingjing, Mukandavire, Zindoga, Musuka, Godfrey N., Branscum, Adam J., Sartorius, Benn, Mugurungi, Owen and Tanser, Frank (2019). Towards UNAIDS Fast-Track goals: Targeting priority geographic areas for HIV prevention and care in Zimbabwe. AIDS, 33 (2), 305-314. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000002052

James, Spencer L., Theadom, Alice, Ellenbogen, Richard G., Bannick, Marlena S., Mountjoy-Venning, W. Cliff, Lucchesi, Lydia R., Abbasi, Nooshin, Abdulkader, Rizwan, Abraha, Haftom Niguse, Adsuar, Jose C., Afarideh, Mohsen, Agrawal, Sutapa, Ahmadi, Alireza, Ahmed, Muktar Beshir, Aichour, Amani Nidhal, Aichour, Ibtihel, Aichour, Miloud Taki Eddine, Akinyemi, Rufus Olusola, Akseer, Nadia, Alahdab, Fares, Alebel, Animut, Alghnam, Suliman A., Ali, Beriwan Abdulqadir, Alsharif, Ubai, Altirkawi, Khalid, Andrei, Catalina Liliana, Anjomshoa, Mina, Ansari, Hossein, Ansha, Mustafa Geleto ... Murray, Christopher J. L. (2019). Global, regional, and national burden of traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet Neurology, 18 (1), 56-87. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30415-0

Nichols, Emma, Szoeke, Cassandra E. I., Vollset, Stein Emil, Abbasi, Nooshin, Abd-Allah, Foad, Abdela, Jemal, Aichour, Miloud Taki Eddine, Akinyemi, Rufus O., Alahdab, Fares, Asgedom, Solomon W., Awasthi, Ashish, Barker-Collo, Suzanne L., Baune, Bernhard T., Bejot, Yannick, Belachew, Abate B., Bennett, Derrick A., Bijani, Belete Biadgo Ali, Bin Sayeed, Muhammad Shahdaat, Brayne, Carol, Carpenter, David O., Carvalho, Felix, Catala-Lopez, Ferran, Cerin, Ester, Choi, Jee-Young J., Dang, Ahn K., Degefa, Meaza G., Djalalinia, Shirin, Dubey, Manisha, Duken, Eyasu Ejeta ... Murray, Christopher J. L. (2019). Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet Neurology, 18 (1), 88-106. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30403-4

Ramsamy, Yogandree, Essack, Sabiha Y., Sartorius, Benn, Patel, Miriam and Mlisana, Koleka P. (2018). Antibiotic resistance trends of ESKAPE pathogens in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa: A five-year retrospective analysis. African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 7 (2) 887. doi: 10.4102/ajlm.v7i2.887

Kyu, Hmwe Hmwe, Maddison, Emilie R., Henry, Nathaniel J., Ledesma, Jorge R., Wiens, Kirsten E., Reiner, Robert, Biehl, Molly H., Shields, Chloe, Osgood-Zimmerman, Aaron, Ross, Jennifer M., Carter, Austin, Frank, Tahvi D., Wang, Haidong, Srinivasan, Vinay, Abebe, Zegeye, Agarwal, Sanjay Kumar, Alahdab, Fares, Alene, Kefyalew Addis, Ali, Beriwan Abdulqadir, Alvis-Guzman, Nelson, Andrews, Jason R., Antonio, Carl Abelardo T., Atique, Suleman, Atre, Sachin R., Awasthi, Ashish, Ayele, Henok Tadesse, Badali, Hamid, Badawi, Alaa, Barac, Aleksandra ... Murray, Christopher J.L. (2018). Global, regional, and national burden of tuberculosis, 1990-2016: Results from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2016 Study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 18 (12), 1329-1349. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30625-X

Kong, Victor Y, Weale, Ross D, Sartorius, Benn, Bruce, John L, Laing, Grant L and Clarke, Damian L (2018). Routine cervical spine immobilisation is unnecessary in patients with isolated cerebral gunshot wounds: A South African experience. EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia, 30 (6), 773-776. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.12985

Zunt, Joseph Raymond, Kassebaum, Nicholas J, Blake, Natacha, Glennie, Linda, Wright, Claire, Nichols, Emma, Abd-Allah, Foad, Abdela, Jemal, Abdelalim, Ahmed, Adamu, Abdu A, Adib, Mina G., Ahmadi, Alireza, Ahmed, Muktar Beshir, Aichour, Amani Nidhal, Aichour, Ibtihel, Aichour, Miloud Taki Eddine, Akseer, Nadia, Al-Raddadi, Rajaa M, Alahdab, Fares, Alene, Kefyalew Addis, Aljunid, Syed Mohamed, AlMazroa, Mohammad A, Altirkawi, Khalid, Alvis-Guzman, Nelson, Animut, Megbaru Debalkie, Anjomshoa, Mina, Ansha, Mustafa Geleto, Asghar, Rana Jawad, Avokpaho, Euripide F G A ... Murray, Christopher J L (2018). Global, regional, and national burden of meningitis, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet Neurology, 17 (12), 1061-1082. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30387-9

Zunt, Joseph Raymond, Kassebaum, Nicholas J., Blake, Natacha, Glennie, Linda, Wright, Claire, Nichols, Emma, Abd-Allah, Foad, Abdela, Jemal, Abdelalim, Ahmed, Adamu, Abdu A., Adib, Mina G., Ahmadi, Alireza, Ahmed, Muktar Beshir, Aichour, Amani Nidhal, Aichour, Ibtihel, Aichour, Miloud Taki Eddine, Akseer, Nadia, Al-Raddadi, Rajaa M., Alahdab, Fares, Alene, Kefyalew Addis, Aljunid, Syed Mohamed, AlMazora, Mohammad A., Khalid, , Alvis-Guzman, Nelson, Animut, Megbaru Debalkie, Anjomshoa, Mina, Ansha, Mustafa Geleto, Asghar, Rana Jawad, Avokpaho, Euripide F. G. A. ... Murray, Christopher J. L. (2018). Global, regional, and national burden of meningitis, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet Neurology, 17 (12), 1061-1082. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30387-9

Murray, Christopher J. L., Callender, Charlton S. K. H., Kulikoff, Xie Rachel, Srinivasan, Vinay, Abate, Degu, Abate, Kalkidan Hassen, Abay, Solomon M., Abbasi, Nooshin, Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abdela, Jemal, Abdelalim, Ahmed, Abdel-Rahman, Omar, Abdi, Alireza, Abdoli, Nasrin, Abdollahpour, Ibrahim, Abdulkader, Rizwan Suliankatchi, Abebe, Haftom Temesgen, Abebe, Molla, Abebe, Zegeye, Abebo, Teshome Abuka, Abejie, Ayenew Negesse, Aboyans, Victor, Abraha, Haftom Niguse, Abreu, Daisy Maria Xavier, Abrham, Aklilu Roba, Abu-Raddad, Laith Jamal, Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M. E., Accrombessi, Manfred Mario Kokou, Acharya, Pawan ... Lim, Stephen S. (2018). Population and fertility by age and sex for 195 countries and territories, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet, 392 (10159), 1995-2051. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32278-5

Lozano, Rafael, Fullman, Nancy, Abate, Degu, Abay, Solomon M., Abbafati, Cristiana, Abbasi, Nooshin, Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abd-Allah, Foad, Abdela, Jemal, Abdelalim, Ahmed, Abdel-Rahman, Omar, Abdi, Alireza, Abdollahpour, Ibrahim, Abdulkader, Rizwan Suliankatchi, Abebe, Nebiyu Dereje, Abebe, Zegeye, Abejie, Ayenew Negesse, Abera, Semaw F., Abil, Olifan Zewdie, Aboyans, Victor, Abraha, Haftom Niguse, Abrham, Aklilu Roba, Abu-Raddad, Laith Jamal, Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen Me, Abyu, Gebre Y., Accrombessi, Manfred Mario Kokou, Acharya, Dilaram, Acharya, Pawan, Adamu, Abdu A. ... Murray, Christopher J. L. (2018). Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet, 392 (10159), 2091-2138. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32281-5

Stanaway, Jeffrey D., Afshin, Ashkan, Gakidou, Emmanuela, Lim, Stephen S., Abate, Degu, Abate, Kalkidan Hassen, Abbafati, Cristiana, Abbasi, Nooshin, Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abd-Allah, Foad, Abdela, Jemal, Abdelalim, Ahmed, Abdollahpour, Ibrahim, Abdulkader, Rizwan Suliankatchi, Abebe, Molla, Abebe, Zegeye, Abera, Semaw F, Abil, Olifan Zewdie, Abraha, Haftom Niguse, Abrham, Aklilu Roba, Abu-Raddad, Laith Jamal, Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M. E., Accrombessi, Manfred Mario Kokou, Acharya, Dilaram, Acharya, Pawan, Adamu, Abdu A., Adane, Akilew Awoke, Adebayo, Oladimeji M., Adedoyin, Rufus Adesoji ... Murray, Christopher J. L. (2018). Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet, 392 (10159), 1923-1994. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32225-6

Dicker, Daniel, Nguyen, Grant, Abate, Degu, Abate, Kalkidan Hassen, Abay, Solomon M, Abbafati, Cristiana, Abbasi, Nooshin, Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abd-Allah, Foad, Abdela, Jemal, Abdelalim, Ahmed, Abdel-Rahman, Omar, Abdi, Alireza, Abdollahpour, Ibrahim, Abdulkader, Rizwan Suliankatchi, Abdurahman, Ahmed Abdulahi, Abebe, Haftom Temesgen, Abebe, Molla, Abebe, Zegeye, Abebo, Teshome Abuka, Aboyans, Victor, Abraha, Haftom Niguse, Abrham, Aklilu Roba, Abu-Raddad, Laith Jamal, Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen ME, Accrombessi, Manfred Mario Kokou, Acharya, Pawan, Adebayo, Oladimeji M, Adedeji, Isaac Akinkunmi ... Murray, Christopher J L (2018). Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet, 392 (10159), 1684-1735. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(18)31891-9

Tlou, Boikhutso, Sartorius, Benn and Tanser, Frank (2018). Effect of timing of mother's death on child survival in a rural HIV hyper-endemic South African population. BMC Public Health, 18 (1) 1237. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-6152-8

Tlou, B., Sartorius, B. and Tanser, F. (2018). Investigating risk factors for under-five mortality in an HIV hyper-endemic area of rural South Africa, from 2000-2014. PLoS One, 13 (11) e0207294, 1-15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207294

Fitzmaurice, Christina, Akinyemiju, Tomi F., Al Lami, Faris Hasan, Alam, Tahiya, Alizadeh-Navaei, Reza, Allen, Christine, Alsharif, Ubai, Alvis-Guzman, Nelson, Amini, Erfan, Anderson, Benjamin O., Aremu, Olatunde, Artaman, Al, Asgedom, Solomon Weldegebreal, Assadi, Reza, Atey, Tesfay Me Hari, Avila-Burgos, Leticia, Awasthi, Ashish, Saleem, Huda Omerba, Barac, Aleksandra, Bennett, James R., Bensenor, Isabela M., Bhakta, Nickhill, Brenner, Hermann, Cahuana-Hurtado, Lucero, Castañeda-Orjuela, Carlos A., Catalá-López, Ferrán, Choi, Jee-Young Jasmine, Christopher, Devasahayam Jesudas, Chung, Sheng-Chia ... Naghavi, Mohsen (2018). Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2016 a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study global burden of disease cancer collaboration. JAMA Oncology, 4 (11), 1553-1568. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.2706

Troeger, Christopher, Blacker, Brigette F, Khalil, Ibrahim A, Rao, Puja C, Cao, Shujin, Zimsen, Stephanie RM, Albertson, Samuel B, Stanaway, Jeffery D, Deshpande, Aniruddha, Abebe, Zegeye, Alvis-Guzman, Nelson, Amare, Azmeraw T, Asgedom, Solomon W, Anteneh, Zelalem Alamrew, Antonio, Carl Abelardo T, Aremu, Olatunde, Asfaw, Ephrem Tsegay, Atey, Tesfay Mehari, Atique, Suleman, Avokpaho, Euripide Frinel G Arthur, Awasthi, Ashish, Ayele, Henok Tadesse, Barac, Aleksandra, Barreto, Mauricio L, Bassat, Quique, Belay, Saba Abraham, Bensenor, Isabela M, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, Bijani, Ali ... Reiner, Robert C (2018). Estimates of the global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of diarrhoea in 195 countries: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 18 (11), 1211-1228. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30362-1

Griswold, Max G., Fullman, Nancy, Hawley, Caitlin, Arian, Nicholas, Zimsen, Stephanie R. M., Tymeson, Hayley D., Venkateswaran, Vidhya, Tapp, Austin Douglas, Forouzanfar, Mohammad H., Salama, Joseph S., Abate, Kalkidan Hassen, Abate, Degu, Abay, Solomon M., Abbafati, Cristiana, Abdulkader, Rizwan Suliankatchi, Abebe, Zegeye, Aboyans, Victor, Abrar, Mohammed Mehdi, Acharya, Pawan, Adetokunboh, Olatunji O., Adhikari, Tara Ballav, Adsuar, Jose C., Afarideh, Mohsen, Agardh, Emilie Elisabet, Agarwal, Gina, Aghayan, Sargis Aghasi, Agrawal, Sutapa, Ahmed, Muktar Beshir, Akibu, Mohammed ... Gakidou, Emmanuela (2018). Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet, 392 (10152), 1015-1035. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31310-2

Essack, Sabiha Y and Sartorius, Benn (2018). Global antibiotic resistance: of contagion, confounders, and the COM-B model. The Lancet Planetary Health, 2 (9), e376-e377. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30187-6

Nand, Devina, Naghavi, Mohsen, Marczak, Laurie B., Kutz, Michael, Shackelford, Katya Anne, Arora, Megha, Miller-Petrie, Molly, Aichour, Miloud Taki Eddine, Akseer, Nadia, Al-Raddadi, Rajaa M., Alam, Khurshid, Alghnam, Suliman A., Antonio, Carl Abelardo T., Aremu, Olatunde, Arora, Amit, Asadi-Lari, Mohsen, Assadi, Reza, Atey, Tesfay Mehari, Avila-Burgos, Leticia, Awasthi, Ashish, Quintanilla, Beatriz Paulina Ayala, Barker-Collo, Suzanne Lyn, Bärnighausen, Till Winfried, Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad, Behzadifar, Masoud, Behzadifar, Meysam, Bennett, James R., Bhalla, Ashish, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A. ... Murray, Christopher J. L. (2018). Global mortality from firearms, 1990-2016. JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 320 (8), 792-814. doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.10060

Maistry, Tanya, Gordon, Michelle, Sartorius, Benn and Naidoo, Datshana P. (2018). Candidate gene polymorphisms related to lipid metabolism in Asian Indians living in Durban, South Africa. Indian Journal of Medical Research, 148 (2), 169-179. doi: 10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1150_16

Barnes, Robert, Clarke, Damian, Farina, Zane, Sartorius, Benn, Brysiewicz, Petra, Laing, Grant, Bruce, John and Kong, Victor (2018). Vital sign based shock scores are poor at triaging South African trauma patients. American Journal of Surgery, 216 (2), 235-239. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2017.07.025

Cuadros, Diego F., Sartorius, Benn, Hall, Chris, Akullian, Adam, Bärnighausen, Till and Tanser, Frank (2018). Capturing the spatial variability of HIV epidemics in South Africa and Tanzania using routine healthcare facility data. International Journal of Health Geographics, 17 (1) 27. doi: 10.1186/s12942-018-0146-8

Ginindza, Themba G. and Sartorius, Benn (2018). Projected cervical Cancer incidence in Swaziland using three methods and local survey estimates. BMC Cancer, 18 (1) 639. doi: 10.1186/s12885-018-4540-1

Paruk, Saeeda, Jhazbhay, Khatija, Singh, Keshika, Sartorius, Benn and Burns, Jonathan K (2018). A comparative study of socio-demographic and substance use correlates in early-onset psychosis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 12 (3), 339-347. doi: 10.1111/eip.12330

Mashamba-Thompson, T. P., Sartorius, B. and Drain, P. K. (2018). Operational assessment of point-of-care diagnostics in rural primary healthcare clinics of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A cross-sectional survey. BMC Health Services Research, 18 (1) 380. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3207-6

Mwakalinga, Victoria M., Sartorius, Benn K. D., Limwagu, Alex J., Mlacha, Yeromin P., Msellemu, Daniel F., Chaki, Prosper P., Govella, Nicodem J., Coetzee, Maureen, Dongus, Stefan and Killeen, Gerry F. (2018). Topographic mapping of the interfaces between human and aquatic mosquito habitats to enable barrier targeting of interventions against malaria vectors. Royal Society Open Science, 5 (5) 161055, 161055. doi: 10.1098/rsos.161055

Dieleman, Joseph L., Haakenstad, Annie, Micah, Angela, Moses, Mark, Abbafati, Cristiana, Acharya, Pawan, Adhikari, Tara Ballav, Adou, Arsène Kouablan, Kiadaliri, Aliasghar Ahmad, Alam, Khurshid, Alizadeh-Navaei, Reza, Alkerwi, Ala’a, Ammar, Walid, Antonio, Carl Abelardo T., Aremu, Olatunde, Asgedom, Solomon Weldegebreal, Atey, Tesfay Mehari, Avila-Burgos, Leticia, Awasthi, Ashish, Ayer, Rakesh, Badali, Hamid, Banach, Maciej, Banstola, Amrit, Barac, Aleksandra, Belachew, Abate Bekele, Birungi, Charles, Bragazzi, Nicola L., Breitborde, Nicholas J.K., Cahuana-Hurtado, Lucero ... Murray, Christopher J.L. (2018). Spending on health and HIV/AIDS: domestic health spending and development assistance in 188 countries, 1995–2015. The Lancet, 391 (10132), 1799-1829. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30698-6

Dieleman, Joseph L, Sadat, Nafis, Chang, Angela Y, Fullman, Nancy, Abbafati, Cristiana, Acharya, Pawan, Adou, Arsène Kouablan, Ahmad Kiadaliri, Aliasghar, Alam, Khurshid, Alizadeh-Navaei, Reza, Alkerwi, Ala'a, Ammar, Walid, Antonio, Carl Abelardo T, Aremu, Olatunde, Asgedom, Solomon Weldegebreal, Atey, Tesfay Mehari, Avila-Burgos, Leticia, Ayer, Rakesh, Badali, Hamid, Banach, Maciej, Banstola, Amrit, Barac, Aleksandra, Belachew, Abate Bekele, Birungi, Charles, Bragazzi, Nicola L, Breitborde, Nicholas J K, Cahuana-Hurtado, Lucero, Car, Josip, Catalá-López, Ferrán ... Murray, Christopher J L (2018). Trends in future health financing and coverage: future health spending and universal health coverage in 188 countries, 2016–40. The Lancet, 391 (10132), 1783-1798. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30697-4

Kong, V. Y., Weale, R. D., Laing, G. L., Bruce, J. L., Oosthuizen, G. V., Sartorius, B., Brysiewicz, P. and Clarke, D. L. (2018). A raised serum lactate level is an independent predictor of in-hospital mortality in patients with isolated cerebral gunshot wounds. South African Medical Journal, 108 (5), 413-417. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2018.v108i5.12837

Safi, Sare, Ahmadieh, Hamid, Katibeh, Marzieh, Yaseri, Mehdi, Ramezani, Alireza, Shahraz, Saeid, Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar, Khalil, Ibrahim, Elbcheraoui, Charbel, Collison, Michael, Chew, Adrienne, Daoud, Farah, Krohn, Kristopher J., Rankin, Zane, Afshin, Ashkan, Kassebaum, Nicholas J., Olsen, Helen E., Stanaway, Jeffrey D., Wang, Haidong, Wilson, Katie, Abyu, Gebre Yitayih, Al-Eyadhy, Ayman, Alam, Khurshid, Alasfoor, Deena, Alizadeh-Navaei, Reza, Al-Raddadi, Rajaa, Alsharif, Ubai, Altirkawi, Khalid A., Anber, Nahla ... Mokdad, Ali H. (2018). Burden of vision loss in the Eastern Mediterranean region, 1990–2015: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study. International Journal of Public Health, 63, 199-210. doi: 10.1007/s00038-017-1000-7

Mokdad, Ali H, El Bcheraoui, Charbel, Afshin, Ashkan, Charara, Raghid, Khalil, Ibrahim, Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar, Kassebaum, Nicholas J, Collison, Michael, Daoud, Farah, Krohn, Kristopher J, Chew, Adrienne, Biryukov, Stan H, Cornaby, Leslie, Foreman, Kyle J, Kutz, Michael, Liu, Patrick, Reitsma, Marissa, Sur, Patrick, Wang, Haidong, Zipkin, Ben, Ärnlöv, Johan, Abbafati, Cristiana, Abdulle, Abdishakur M, Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M.E., Ahmed, Muktar Beshir, Al-Aly, Ziyad, Alam, Khurshid, Alizadeh-Navaei, Reza, Alkerwi, Ala'a ... Murray, Christopher J.L. (2018). Burden of obesity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study. International Journal of Public Health, 63, 165-176. doi: 10.1007/s00038-017-1002-5

Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar, El Bcheraoui, Charbel, Khalil, Ibrahim, Charara, Raghid, Afshin, Ashkan, Wang, Haidong, Collison, Michael, Krohn, Kristopher J., Chew, Adrienne, Daoud, Farah, Blosser, Christopher D., Cornaby, Leslie, Foreman, Kyle J., Kassebaum, Nicholas J., Kemmer, Laura, Kutz, Michael, Liu, Patrick, Zipkin, Ben, Ärnlöv, Johan, Abate, Kalkidan Hassen, Ahmadi, Alireza, Ahmadieh, Hamid, Ahmed, Muktar Beshir, Al-Aly, Ziyad, Alam, Khurshid, Alasfoor, Deena, Ali, Raghib, Alizadeh-Navaei, Reza, Alkaabi, Juma M. ... Mokdad, Ali H. (2018). Diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study. International Journal of Public Health, 63, 177-186. doi: 10.1007/s00038-017-1014-1

Murray, Christopher J. L., Mokdad, Ali H., Ballestros, Katherine, Echko, Michelle, Glenn, Scott, Olsen, Helen E., Mullany, Erin, Lee, Alex, Khan, Abdur Rahman, Ahmadi, Alireza, Ferrari, Alize J., Kasaeian, Amir, Werdecker, Andrea, Carter, Austin, Zipkin, Ben, Sartorius, Benn, Serdar, Berrin, Sykes, Bryan L., Troeger, Chris, Fitzmaurice, Christina, Rehm, Colin D., Santomauro, Damian, Kim, Daniel, Colombara, Danny, Schwebel, David C., Tsoi, Derrick, Kolte, Dhaval, Nsoesie, Elaine, Nichols, Emma ... Murray, Christopher J. L. (2018). The state of US health, 1990-2016: Burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors among US states. JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 319 (14), 1444-1472. doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.0158

Tanser, Frank, Bärnighausen, Till, Dobra, Adrian and Sartorius, Benn (2018). Identifying 'corridors of HIV transmission' in a severely affected rural South African population: A case for a shift toward targeted prevention strategies. International Journal of Epidemiology, 47 (2), 537-549. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyx257

Shezi, B., Jafta, N., Sartorius, B. and Naidoo, R. N. (2018). Developing a predictive model for fine particulate matter concentrations in low socio-economic households in Durban, South Africa. Indoor Air, 28 (2), 228-237. doi: 10.1111/ina.12432

Sartorius, Kurt, Sartorius, Benn, Winkler, Cheryl, Chuturgoon, Anil and Makarova, Julia (2018). The biological and diagnostic role of mirna’s in hepatocellular carcinoma. Frontiers in Bioscience - Landmark, 23 (9), 1701-1720. doi: 10.2741/4668

Murray, Christopher J. L., Kyu, Hmwe H., Maddison, Emilie R., Henry, Nathaniel J., Mumford, John Everett, Barber, Ryan, Shields, Chloe, Brown, Jonathan C., Nguyen, Grant, Carter, Austin, Wolock, Timothy M., Wang, Haidong, Liu, Patrick Y., Reitsma, Marissa, Ross, Jennifer M., Abajobir, Amanuel Alemu, Abate, Kalkidan Hassen, Abbas, Kaja, Abera, Mubarek, Abera, Semaw Ferede, Hareri, Habtamu Abera, Ahmed, Muktar, Alene, Kefyalew Addis, Alvis-Guzman, Nelson, Amo-Adjei, Joshua, Andrews, Jason, Ansari, Hossein, Antonio, Carl Abelardo, Anwari, Palwasha ... Vos, Theo (2018). The global burden of tuberculosis: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 18 (3), 261-284. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30703-X

Loots, E., Ramdial, P. K., Sartorius, B., Mulder, C. M. and Clarke, D. L. (2018). Malignant and pre-malignant oesophageal pathology in a South African teaching hospital. South African Journal of Surgery, 56 (1), 21-24. doi: 10.17159/2078-5151/2018/v56n1a2076

Kambondo, George and Sartorius, Benn (2018). Risk factors for obesity and overfat among primary school children in Mashonaland west province, Zimbabwe. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15 (2) 249, 249. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15020249

Kong, Victor Y., Odendaal, J., Sartorius, B., Clarke, D. L., Bruce, J. L., Laing, G. L. and Esterhuizen, T. (2018). Developing a simplified clinical prediction score for mortality in patients with cerebral gunshot wounds: The Maritzburg Score. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 100 (2), 97-100. doi: 10.1308/rcsann.2017.0141

Loots, Emil, Sartorius, Benn, Paruk, Imran M. and Clarke, Damian L. (2018). The Successful Implementation of a Modified Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Program for Bariatric Surgery in a South African Teaching Hospital. Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques, 28 (1), 26-29. doi: 10.1097/SLE.0000000000000488

Kong, V. Y., Odendaal, J. J., Weale, R., Liu, M., Keene, C. M., Sartorius, B. and Clarke, D. L. (2018). The correlation between ATLS and junior doctors’ anatomical knowledge of central venous catheter insertion at a major trauma centre in South Africa. Injury, 49 (2), 203-207. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2017.11.004

Sartorius, Kurt, Sartorius, Benn, Madiba, Thandinkosi E and Stefan, Cristina (2018). Does high-carbohydrate intake lead to increased risk of obesity? A systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open, 8 (2) e018449. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018449

Hlongwana, Khumbulani Welcome, Sartorius, Benn and Tsoka-Gwegweni, Joyce (2018). Malaria programme personnel's experiences, perceived barriers and facilitators to implementing malaria elimination strategy in South Africa. Malaria Journal, 17 (1) 21. doi: 10.1186/s12936-017-2154-8

Sartorius, Kurt, Sartorius, Benn and Zuccollo, Dino (2018). Does the Baltic dry index predict economic activity in South Africa? A review from 1985 to 2016. South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 21 (1) a1457. doi: 10.4102/sajems.v21i1.1457

Houidi, Ahlem, Paruk, Saeeda and Sartorius, Benn (2018). Forensic psychiatric assessment process and outcome in state patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. South African Journal of Psychiatry, 24 (1) a1142. doi: 10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v24i0.1142

Mashamba-Thompson, Tivani P., Moodley, Pravi, Sartorius, Benn and Drain, Paul K. (2018). Evaluation of antenatal rapid human immunodeficiency virus testing in rural South Africa. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 19 (1) a77. doi: 10.4102/sajhivmed.v19i1.771

Maise, Hopolang C., Moodley, Dhayendre, Sebitloane, Motshedisi, Maman, Suzanne and Sartorius, Benn (2018). Prevalence, risk factors, and pregnancy outcomes of cervical cell abnormalities in the puerperium in a hyperendemic HIV setting. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 140 (1), 105-110. doi: 10.1002/ijgo.12330

Sartorius, K., Sartorius, B., Kramvis, A., Singh, E., Turchinovich, A., Burwinkel, B., Madiba, T. and Winkler, C. A. (2017). Circulating microRNA's as a diagnostic tool for hepatocellular carcinoma in a hyper endemic HIV setting, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A case control study protocol focusing on viral etiology. BMC Cancer, 17 (1) 894. doi: 10.1186/s12885-017-3915-z

Dukhi, Natisha, Sartorius, Benn and Taylor, Myra (2017). Stunting in children (0–59 months): what is the current trend in South Africa?*. Early Child Development and Care, 187 (12), 1874-1886. doi: 10.1080/03004430.2016.1193501

Moodley, Dhayendre, Sartorius, Benn, Madurai, Savithree, Chetty, Vani and Maman, Suzanne (2017). Pregnancy Outcomes in Association with STDs including genital HSV-2 shedding in a South African Cohort Study. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 93 (7), 460-466. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2017-053113

Kong, V. Y., Odendaal, J. J., Bruce, J. L., Laing, G. L., Jerome, E., Sartorius, B., Brysiewicz, P. and Clarke, D. L. (2017). Quantifying the funding gap for management of traumatic brain injury at a major trauma centre in South Africa. South African Journal of Surgery, 55 (4), 26-30.

Snow, Robert W., Sartorius, Benn, Kyalo, David, Maina, Joseph, Amratia, Punam, Mundia, Clara W., Bejon, Philip and Noor, Abdisalan M. (2017). The prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum in sub-Saharan Africa since 1900. Nature, 550 (7677), 515-518. doi: 10.1038/nature24059

Ntombela, Xolani H, Zulu, Babongile M. W., Masenya, Molikane, Sartorius, Ben and Madiba, Thandinkosi E (2017). Is the clinicopathological pattern of colorectal carcinoma similar in the state and private healthcare systems of South Africa? Analysis of a Durban colorectal cancer database. Tropical Doctor, 47 (4), 360-364. doi: 10.1177/0049475517710887

Naidoo, Saloshni, Sartorius, Benn, de Vries, Hein and Taylor, Myra (2017). Prevalence and Risk Factors Associated with Forced-Sex Among South African High School Students. Journal of Community Health, 42 (5), 1035-1043. doi: 10.1007/s10900-017-0354-3

Gunda, Resign, Chimbari, Moses John, Shamu, Shepherd, Sartorius, Benn and Mukaratirwa, Samson (2017). Malaria incidence trends and their association with climatic variables in rural Gwanda, Zimbabwe, 2005-2015. Malaria Journal, 16 (1) 393. doi: 10.1186/s12936-017-2036-0

Hay, Simon I., Abajobir, Amanuel Alemu, Abate, Kalkidan Hassen, Abbafati, Cristiana, Abbas, Kaja M., Abd-Allah, Foad, Abdulle, Abdishakur M., Abebo, Teshome Abuka, Abera, Semaw Ferede, Aboyans, Victor, Abu-Raddad, Laith J., Ackerman, Ilana N., Adedeji, Isaac A., Adetokunboh, Olatunji, Afshin, Ashkan, Aggarwal, Rakesh, Agrawal, Sutapa, Agrawal, Anurag, Kiadaliri, Aliasghar Ahmad, Ahmed, Muktar Beshir, Aichour, Amani Nidhal, Aichour, Ibtihel, Aichour, Miloud Taki Eddine, Aiyar, Sneha, Akinyemiju, Tomi F., Akseer, Nadia, Al Lami, Faris Hasan, Alahdab, Fares, Al-Aly, Ziyad ... Murray, Christopher J. L. (2017). Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet, 390 (10100), 1260-1344. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32130-X

Vos, Theo, Abajobir, Amanuel Alemu, Abbafati, Cristiana, Abbas, Kaja M., Abate, Kalkidan Hassen, Abd-Allah, Foad, Abdulle, Abdishakur M., Abebo, Teshome Abuka, Abera, Semaw Ferede, Aboyans, Victor, Abu-Raddad, Laith J., Ackerman, Ilana N., Adamu, Abdu Abdullahi, Adetokunboh, Olatunji, Afarideh, Mohsen, Afshin, Ashkan, Agarwal, Sanjay Kumar, Aggarwal, Rakesh, Agrawal, Anurag, Agrawal, Sutapa, Kiadaliri, Aliasghar Ahmad, Ahmadieh, Hamid, Ahmed, Muktar Beshir, Aichour, Amani Nidhal, Aichour, Ibtihel, Aichour, Miloud Taki Eddine, Aiyar, Sneha, Akinyemi, Rufus Olusola, Akseer, Nadia ... Murray, Christopher J. L. (2017). Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet, 390 (10100), 1211-1259. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32154-2

Paruk, Saeeda, Jhazbhay, Khatija, Singh, Keshika, Sartorius, Benn and Burns, Jonathan K. (2017). The clinical impact of a positive family history of psychosis or mental illness in psychotic and non-psychotic mentally ill adolescents. Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 29 (3), 219-229. doi: 10.2989/17280583.2017.1389741

Dunham, Mark Peter, Sartorius, Benn, Laing, Grant Llewellyn, Bruce, John Lambert and Clarke, Damian Luiz (2017). A comparison of base deficit and vital signs in the early assessment of patients with penetrating trauma in a high burden setting. Injury, 48 (9), 1972-1977. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2017.06.011

Loots, E., Sartorius, B., Madiba, T. E., Mulder, C. J.J. and Clarke, D. L. (2017). Oesophageal squamous cell cancer in a South African tertiary hospital: A risk factor and presentation analysis. South African Journal of Surgery, 55 (3), 42-46.

Brysiewicz, P., Clarke, D. L., Sartorius, B., Bruce, J. L. and Laing, G. L. (2017). Defining predictors of mortality in pediatric trauma patients. South African Journal of Surgery, 55 (3), 36-40.

Steenkamp, C., Kong, Victor Yeewai, Clarke, D. L., Sartorius, B., Bruce, J. L., Laing, G. L., Bekker, W., Manchev, V. and Brysiewicz, P. (2017). The effect of systematic factors on the outcome of trauma laparotomy at a major trauma centre in South Africa. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 99 (7), 540-544. doi: 10.1308/rcsann.2017.0079

Clarke, D. L., Brysiewicz, P., Sartorius, B., Bruce, J. L. and Laing, G. L. (2017). Hypotension of ⩽110 mmHg is Associated with Increased Mortality in South African Patients After Trauma. Scandinavian Journal of Surgery, 106 (3), 261-268. doi: 10.1177/1457496916680129

Troeger, Christopher, Forouzanfar, Mohammad, Rao, Puja C, Khalil, Ibrahim, Brown, Alexandria, Reiner, Robert C, Fullman, Nancy, Thompson, Robert L, Abajobir, Amanuel, Ahmed, Muktar, Alemayohu, Mulubirhan Assefa, Alvis-Guzman, Nelson, Amare, Azmeraw T, Antonio, Carl Abelardo, Asayesh, Hamid, Avokpaho, Euripide, Awasthi, Ashish, Bacha, Umar, Barac, Aleksandra, Betsue, Balem Demtsu, Beyene, Addisu Shunu, Boneya, Dube Jara, Malta, Deborah Carvalho, Dandona, Lalit, Dandona, Rakhi, Dubey, Manisha, Eshrati, Babak, Fitchett, Joseph R A, Gebrehiwot, Tsegaye Tewelde ... Mokdad, Ali H (2017). Estimates of global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of diarrhoeal diseases: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 17 (9), 909-948. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30276-1

Azzopardi, Peter, Cini, Karly, Kennedy, Elissa, Sawyer, Susan, El Bcheraoui, Charbel, Charara, Raghid, Khalil, Ibrahim, Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar, Collison, Michael, Afifi, Rima A., Al-raiby, Jamela, Krohn, Kristopher J., Daoud, Farah, Chew, Adrienne, Afshin, Ashkan, Foreman, Kyle J., Kassebaum, Nicholas J., Kutz, Michael, Kyu, Hmwe H., Liu, Patrick, Olsen, Helen E., Smith, Alison, Stanaway, Jeffrey D., Wang, Haidong, Ärnlöv, Johan, Ahmad Kiadaliri, Aliasghar, Alam, Khurshid, Alasfoor, Deena, Ali, Raghib ... GBD 2015 Eastern Mediterranean Region Adolescent Health Collaborators (2017). Adolescent health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: findings from the global burden of disease 2015 study. International Journal of Public Health, 63 (S1), 1-18. doi: 10.1007/s00038-017-1003-4

Green, S., Kong, V. Y., Odendaal, J., Sartorius, B., Clarke, D. L., Brysiewicz, P., Bruce, J. L., Laing, G. L. and Bekker, W. (2017). The effect of HIV status on clinical outcomes of surgical sepsis in Kwazulu-Natal Province, South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 107 (8), 702-705. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2017.v107i8.12045

Tlou, Boikhutso, Sartorius, Benn and Tanser, Frank (2017). Space-time variations in child mortality in a rural South African population with high HIV prevalence (2000–2014). PLoS One, 12 (8) e0182478, 1-13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182478

Afshin, Ashkan, Forouzanfar, Mohammad H., Reitsma, Marissa B., Sur, Patrick, Estep, Kara, Lee, Alex, Marczak, Laurie, Mokdad, Ali H., Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar, Naghavi, Mohsen, Salama, Joseph S., Vos, Theo, Abate, Kalkidan H., Abbafati, Cristiana, Ahmed, Muktar B., Al-Aly, Ziyad, Alkerwi, Ala'a, Al-Raddadi, Rajaa, Amare, Azmeraw T., Amberbir, Alemayehu, Amegah, Adeladza K., Amini, Erfan, Amrock, Stephen M., Anjana, Ranjit M., Ärnlöv, Johan, Asayesh, Hamid, Banerjee, Amitava, Barac, Aleksandra, Baye, Estifanos ... Murray, Christopher J.L. (2017). Health effects of overweight and obesity in 195 countries over 25 years. New England Journal of Medicine, 377 (1), 13-27. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1614362

Roth, Gregory A., Johnson, Catherine, Abajobir, Amanuel, Abd-Allah, Foad, Abera, Semaw Ferede, Abyu, Gebre, Ahmed, Muktar, Aksut, Baran, Alam, Tahiya, Alam, Khurshid, Alla, Francois, Alvis-Guzman, Nelson, Amrock, Stephen, Ansari, Hossein, Arnlov, Johan, Asayesh, Hamid, Atey, Tesfay Mehari, Avila-Burgos, Leticia, Awasthi, Ashish, Banerjee, Amitava, Barac, Aleksandra, Barnighausen, Till, Barregard, Lars, Bedi, Neeraj, Ketema, Ezra Belay, Bennett, Derrick, Berhe, Gebremedhin, Bhutta, Zulfiqar, Bitew, Shimelash ... Murray, Christopher (2017). Global, regional, and national burden of cardiovascular diseases for 10 causes, 1990 to 2015. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 70 (1), 1-25. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.04.052

Green, S., Kong, V. Y., Laing, G. L., Bruce, J. L., Odendaal, J., Sartorius, B. and Clarke, Damian L. (2017). The effect of stage of HIV disease as determined by CD4 count on clinical outcomes of surgical sepsis in South Africa. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 99 (6), 459-463. doi: 10.1308/rcsann.2017.0057

Jerome, E., Laing, G. L., Bruce, J. L., Sartorius, B., Brysiewicz, P. and Clarke, D. L. (2017). An audit of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a busy developing-world trauma service exposes a significant deficit in resources available to manage severe TBI. South African Medical Journal, 107 (7), 621-625. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2017.v107i7.10562

Todowede, Olamide O. and Sartorius, Benn (2017). Prevalence of metabolic syndrome, discrete or comorbid diabetes and hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa among people living with HIV versus HIV-negative populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. BMJ Open, 7 (7) e016602, 1-12. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016602

Ngidi, S., Magula, N., Sartorius, B., Govender, P. and Madiba, T. E. (2017). Incidence of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia in HIV-infected and uninfected patients with breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy. South African Medical Journal, 107 (7), 595-601. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2017.v107i7.12309

Tlou, B., Sartorius, B. and Tanser, F. (2017). Space-time patterns in maternal and mother mortality in a rural South African population with high HIV prevalence (2000-2014): Results from a population-based cohort. BMC Public Health, 17 (1) 543, 1-10. doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4463-9

Ginindza, Themba G., Stefan, Cristina D., Tsoka-Gwegweni, Joyce M., Dlamini, Xolisile, Jolly, Pauline E., Weiderpass, Elisabete, Broutet, Nathalie and Sartorius, Benn (2017). Prevalence and risk factors associated with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among women of reproductive age in Swaziland. Infectious Agents and Cancer, 12 (1) 29. doi: 10.1186/s13027-017-0140-y

Reitsma, Marissa B., Fullman, Nancy, Ng, Marie, Salama, Joseph S., Abajobir, Amanuel, Abate, Kalkidan Hassen, Abbafati, Cristiana, Abera, Semaw Ferede, Abraham, Biju, Abyu, Gebre Yitayih, Adebiyi, Akindele Olupelumi, Al-Aly, Ziyad, Aleman, Alicia V., Ali, Raghib, Al Alkerwi, Ala'a, Allebeck, Peter, Al-Raddadi, Rajaa Mohammad, Amare, Azmeraw T., Amberbir, Alemayehu, Ammar, Walid, Amrock, Stephen Marc, Antonio, Carl Abelardo T., Asayesh, Hamid, Atnafu, Niguse Tadela, Azzopardi, Peter, Banerjee, Amitava, Barac, Aleksandra, Barrientos-Gutierrez, Tonatiuh, Basto-Abreu, Ana Cristina ... Gakidou, Emmanuela (2017). Smoking prevalence and attributable disease burden in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet, 389 (10082), 1885-1906. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30819-X

Ginindza, Themba G., Sartorius, Benn, Dlamini, Xolisile and Stensson, Ellinor (2017). Cost analysis of Human Papillomavirusrelated cervical diseases and genital warts in Swaziland. PLoS ONE, 12 (5) e0177762, e0177762. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177762

Odendaal, J., Kong, Victor Y., Sartorius, B., Liu, T. Y., Liu, Y. Y. and Clarke, D. L. (2017). Mechanical complications of central venous catheterisation in trauma patients. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 99 (5), 390-393. doi: 10.1308/rcsann.2017.0022

Wandai, M., Aagaard-Hansen, J., Day, C., Sartorius, B. and Hofman, K. J. (2017). Available data sources for monitoring non-communicable diseases and their risk factors in South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 107 (4), 331-337. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2017.v107i4.11438

Fitzmaurice, Christina, Allen, Christine, Barber, Ryan M., Barregard, Lars, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A., Brenner, Hermann, Dicker, Daniel J., Chimed-Orchir, Odgerel, Dandona, Rakhi, Dandona, Lalit, Fleming, Tom, Forouzanfar, Mohammad H., Hancock, Jamie, Hay, Roderick J., Hunter-Merrill, Rachel, Huynh, Chantal, Hosgood, H. Dean, Johnson, Catherine O., Jonas, Jost B., Khubchandani, Jagdish, Kumar, G. Anil, Kutz, Michael, Lan, Qing, Larson, Heidi J., Liang, Xiaofeng, Lim, Stephen S., Lopez, Alan D., MacIntyre, Michael F., Marczak, Laurie ... Naghavi, Mohsen (2017). Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 32 cancer groups, 1990 to 2015: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration. JAMA Oncology, 3 (4), 524-548. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.5688

Loots, E., Sartorius, B., Madiba, T. E., Mulder, C. J.J. and Clarke, D. L. (2017). Is Clinical Research in Oesophageal Cancer in South Africa in Crisis? A Systematic Review. World Journal of Surgery, 41 (3), 810-816. doi: 10.1007/s00268-016-3778-5

Muzigaba, M., Puoane, T., Sartorius, B. and Sanders, D. (2017). Independent and interactive effects of hiv infection, clinical stage and other comorbidities on survival of children treated for severe malnutrition in rural South Africa: A retrospective multicohort study. SAJCH South African Journal of Child Health, 11 (1), 46-53. doi: 10.7196/SAJCH.2017.v11i1.1202

Kong, Victor, Odendaal, Jocinta, Sartorius, Benn, Clarke, Damian, Brysiewicz, Petra, Jerome, Ellen, Bruce, John and Laing, Grant (2017). Civilian cerebral gunshot wounds: a South African experience. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 87 (3), 186-189. doi: 10.1111/ans.13846

Naidoo, M., Moodley, J., Gathiram, P. and Sartorius, B. (2017). The impact of a modified world health organization surgical safety checklist on maternal outcomes in a South African setting: A stratified cluster-randomised controlled trial. South African Medical Journal, 107 (3), 248-257. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2017.v107i3.11320

Benamro, F., Sartorius, B., Clarke, D. L., Anderson, F., Loots, E. and Olinger, L. (2017). The spectrum of gastric cancer as seen in a large quaternary hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 107 (2), 130-133. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2017.v107i2.11383

Green, S., Kong, V. Y., Clarke, D. L., Sartorius, B., Odendaal, J., Bruce, J. L., Laing, G. L., Brysiewicz, P., Bekker, W. and Harknett, E. (2017). The spectrum and outcome of surgical sepsis in pietermaritzburg, South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 107 (2), 134-136. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2017.v107i2.11339

Sebitloane, Hannah M., Moodley, Jagidesa and Sartorius, Benn (2017). Associations between HIV, highly active anti-retroviral therapy, and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy among maternal deaths in South Africa 2011–2013. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 136 (2), 195-199. doi: 10.1002/ijgo.12038

Ranjith, Naresh, Myeni, Nomcebo N., Sartorius, Ben and Mayise, Chamsanqua (2017). Association between Hyperuricemia and Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction. Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders, 15 (1), 18-25. doi: 10.1089/met.2016.0032

Wang, Haidong, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, Coates, Matthew M, Coggeshall, Megan, Dandona, Lalit, Diallo, Khassoum, Franca, Elisabeth Barboza, Fraser, Maya, Fullman, Nancy, Gething, Peter W, Hay, Simon I, Kinfu, Yohannes, Kita, Maaya, Kulikoff, Xie Rachel, Larson, Heidi J, Liang, Juan, Liang, Xiaofeng, Lim, Stephen S, Lind, Margaret, Lopez, Alan D, Lozano, Rafael, Mensah, George A, Mikesell, Joseph B, Mokdad, Ali H, Mooney, Meghan D, Naghavi, Mohsen, Nguyen, Grant, Rakovac, Ivo, Salomon, Joshua A ... Murray, Christopher J L (2017). Erratum: Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 (The Lancet (2016) 388(10053) (1725–1774)(S0140673616315756)(10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31575-6)). The Lancet, 389 (10064). doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32608-3

Ginindza, Themba G., Dlamini, Xolisile, Almonte, Maribel, Herrero, Rolando, Jolly, Pauline E., Tsoka-Gwegweni, Joyce M., Weiderpass, Elisabete, Broutet, Nathalie and Sartorius, Benn (2017). Prevalence of and associated risk factors for high risk human papillomavirus among sexually active women, Swaziland. PLoS ONE, 12 (1) e0170189, e0170189. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170189

Wood, D., Sartorius, B. and Hift, R. (2017). Classifying snakebite in South Africa: Validating a scoring system. South African Medical Journal, 107 (1), 46-51. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2017.v107i1.11361

Shazi, B., Bruce, J. L., Laing, G. L., Sartorius, B. and Clarke, Damian L. (2017). The management of colonic trauma in the damage control era. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 99 (1), 76-81. doi: 10.1308/rcsann.2016.0303

Muzigaba, M., Sartorius, B., Puoane, T., Van Wyk, B. and Sanders, D. (2017). The impact of HIV infection and disease stage on the rate of weight gain and duration of refeeding and treatment in severely malnourished children in rural South African hospitals. SAJCH South African Journal of Child Health, 11 (2), 86-92. doi: 10.7196/SAJCH.2017.v11i2.1194

Thandar, Yasmeen, Botha, Julia, Sartorius, Benn and Mosam, Anisa (2017). Knowledge, attitude and practices of south african healthcare professionals towards complementary and alternative medicine use for atopic eczema – a descriptive survey. South African Family Practice, 59 (1), 1):22-28. doi: 10.1080/20786190.2016.1248146

Dukhi, Natisha, Sartorius, Benn and Taylor, Myra (2017). Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) performance versus weight for height in South African children (0-59 months) with acute malnutrition. South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 30 (2), 49-54. doi: 10.1080/16070658.2016.1255483

Mashamba-Thompson, Tivani P., Morgan, Rebecca L., Sartorius, Benn, Dennis, Brittany, Drain, Paul K. and Thabane, Lehana (2017). Effect of Point-of-Care Diagnostics on Maternal Outcomes in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Women: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Point of Care, 16 (2), 67-77. doi: 10.1097/POC.0000000000000135

Goosen, Emil, Visser, Linda and Sartorius, Ben (2016). Selective laser trabeculoplasty in primary open-angle glaucoma: Primary versus secondary treatment outcomes. African Vision and Eye Health, 75 (1) a338. doi: 10.4102/aveh.v75i1.338

Noorbhai, M. A., Cassimjee, H. M., Sartorius, B. and Muckart, D. J.J. (2016). Elevated international normalised ratios correlate with severity of injury and outcome. South African Medical Journal, 106 (11), 1141-1145. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2016.v106i11.10356

Sartorius, Kurt and Sartorius, Benn (2016). Service delivery inequality in South African municipal areas: A new way to account for inter-jurisdictional differences. Urban Studies, 53 (15), 3336-3355. doi: 10.1177/0042098015613001

Clarke, Damian L., Chipps, Jennifer A., Sartorius, Benn, Bruce, John, Laing, Grant L. and Brysiewicz, Petra (2016). Mortality rates increase dramatically below a systolic blood pressure of 105-mm Hg in septic surgical patients. American Journal of Surgery, 212 (5), 941-945. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2016.01.042

Sartorius, K., Sartorius, B., Govender, P. S., Sharma, V. and Sheriff, A. (2016). The future cost of cancer in South Africa: An interdisciplinary cost management strategy. South African Medical Journal, 106 (10), 949-950. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2016.v106i10.11375

Pillay, B., Ramdial, P. K., Naidoo, D. P., Sartorius, B. and Singh, D. (2016). Endovascular Therapy for Large Vessel Vasculopathy in HIV-infected Patients. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 52 (3), 343-351. doi: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2016.06.007

Wang, Haidong, Wolock, Tim M., Carter, Austin, Nguyen, Grant, Kyu, Hmwe Hmwe, Gakidou, Emmanuela, Hay, Simon I., Mills, Edward J., Trickey, Adam, Msemburi, William, Coates, Matthew M., Mooney, Meghan D., Fraser, Maya S., Sligar, Amber, Salomon, Joshua, Larson, Heidi J, Friedman, Joseph, Abajobir, Amanuel Alemu, Abate, Kalkidan Hassen, Abbas, Kaja M., Razek, Mohamed Magdy Abd El, Abd-Allah, Foad, Abdulle, Abdishakur M, Abera, Semaw Ferede, Abubakar, Ibrahim, Abu-Raddad, Laith J, Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M E, Abyu, Gebre Yitayih, Adebiyi, Akindele Olupelumi ... Murray, Christopher J. L. (2016). Erratum: Estimates of global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980-2015: The Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 (The Lancet HIV (2016) 3 (e361-e387) PII: S235230181630087X DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(16)30087-X). The Lancet HIV, 3 (9). doi: 10.1016/S2352-3018(16)30125-4

Mashamba-Thompson, Tivani P., Sartorius, Benn and Drain, Paul K. (2016). Point-of-care diagnostics for improving maternal health in South Africa. Diagnostics, 6 (3) 31, 1-15. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics6030031

Wang, Haidong, Wolock, Tim M., Carter, Austin, Nguyen, Grant, Kyu, Hmwe Hmwe, Gakidou, Emmanuela, Hay, Simon I., Mills, Edward J., Trickey, Adam, Msemburi, William, Coates, Matthew M., Mooney, Meghan D., Fraser, Maya S., Sligar, Amber, Salomon, Joshua, Larson, Heidi J., Friedman, Joseph, Abajobir, Amanuel Alemu, Abate, Kalkidan Hassen, Abbas, Kaja M., Abd El Razek, Mohamed Magdy, Abd-Allah, Foad, Abdulle, Abdishakur M., Abera, Semaw Ferede, Abubakar, Ibrahim, Abu-Raddad, Laith J., Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M. E., Abyu, Gebre Yitayih, Adebiyi, Akindele Olupelumi ... Murray, Christopher J. L. (2016). Estimates of global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980-2015: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet HIV, 3 (8), E361-E387. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3018(16)30087-X

Ramkisson, Samantha, Pillay, Basil Joseph and Sartorius, Benn (2016). Diabetes distress and related factors in South African adults with type 2 diabetes. Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa, 21 (2), 32-36. doi: 10.1080/16089677.2016.1205822

Ramkisson, Samantha, Pillay, Basil J. and Sartorius, Benn (2016). Anxiety, depression and psychological well-being in a cohort of South African adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. South African Journal of Psychiatry, 22 (1) a935, 1-9. doi: 10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v22i1.935

Wood, Darryl, Sartorius, Benjamin and Hift, Richard (2016). Ultrasound findings in 42 patients with cytotoxic tissue damage following bites by South African snakes. Emergency Medicine Journal, 33 (7), 477-481. doi: 10.1136/emermed-2015-205279

Scriba, M. F., Laing, G. L., Bruce, J. L., Sartorius, B. and Clarke, D. L. (2016). The Role of Planned and On-Demand Relaparotomy in the Developing World. World Journal of Surgery, 40 (7), 1558-1564. doi: 10.1007/s00268-015-3379-8

Mashamba-Thompson, T. P., Drain, P. K. and Sartorius, B. (2016). Evaluating the accessibility and utility of HIV-related point-of-care diagnostics for maternal health in rural South Africa: A study protocol. BMJ Open, 6 (6) e011155. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011155

Sartorius, Benn and Sartorius, Kurt (2016). How much incident lung cancer was missed globally in 2012? An ecological country-level study. Geospatial Health, 11 (2) 396, 110-118. doi: 10.4081/gh.2016.396

Moodley, I., Tathiah, N. and Sartorius, B. (2016). The costs of delivering human papillomavirus vaccination to grade 4 learners in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 106 (5), 497-501. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2016.v106i5.9988

Mwakalinga, Victoria M., Sartorius, Benn K. D., Mlacha, Yeromin P., Msellemu, Daniel F., Limwagu, Alex J., Mageni, Zawadi D., Paliga, John M., Govella, Nicodem J., Coetzee, Maureen, Killeen, Gerry F. and Dongus, Stefan (2016). Spatially aggregated clusters and scattered smaller loci of elevated malaria vector density and human infection prevalence in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Malaria Journal, 15 (1) 135. doi: 10.1186/s12936-016-1186-9

Darryl, Wood, Sartorius, Benjamin and Hift, Richard (2016). Estimating the burden of snakebite on public hospitals in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 27 (1), 53-61. doi: 10.1016/j.wem.2015.11.005

Chirebvu, Elijah, Chimbari, Moses John, Ngwenya, Barbara Ntombi and Sartorius, Benn (2016). Clinical malaria transmission trends and its association with climatic variables in Tubu village, Botswana: A retrospective analysis. PLoS One, 11 (3) e0139843, 1-16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139843

Moodley, Theron, Moodley, Dhayendre, Sebitloane, Motshedisi, Maharaj, Niren and Sartorius, Benn (2016). Improved pregnancy outcomes with increasing antiretroviral coverage in South Africa. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 16 (1) 35, 1-10. doi: 10.1186/s12884-016-0821-3

Kong, V., Sartorius, B. and Clarke, D. (2016). Traumatic tension pneumothorax: experience from 115 consecutive patients in a trauma service in South Africa. European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 42 (1), 55-59. doi: 10.1007/s00068-015-0502-3

Tlou, B., Sartorius, B. and Tanser, F. (2016). Spatialoral dynamics and structural determinants of child and maternal mortality in a rural, high HIV burdened South African population, 2000-2014: A study protocol. BMJ Open, 6 (7) e010013, 1-7. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010013

Mashamba-Thompson, T. P., Sartorius, B., Thabane, L., Shi, C. X. and Drain, P. K. (2016). Impact of point-of-care diagnostics on maternal outcomes in HIV-infected women: Systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. BMJ Open, 6 (1) e008002, 1-6. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008002

Mashamba-Thompson, Tivani P., Sartorius, Benn, Stevens, Fred C.J. and Drain, Paul K. (2016). Experiential Bloom's Taxonomy learning framework for point-of-care diagnostics training of primary healthcare workers. African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 5 (1) a449. doi: 10.4102/ajlm.v5i1.449

Ojwach, D. B.A., Aldous, C., Kocheleff, P. and Sartorius, B. (2016). Mutations of mtDNA polymerase-γ and hyperlactataemia in the HIV-infected Zulu population of South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 106 (12), 1254-1259. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2016.v106.i12.10818

Wood, Darryl, Sartorius, Benjamin and Hift, Richard (2016). Snakebite in north-eastern South Africa: Clinical characteristics and risks for severity. South African Family Practice, 58 (2), 62-67. doi: 10.1080/20786190.2015.1120934

Sartorius, B., Sartorius, K., Aldous, C., Madiba, T. E., Stefan, C. and Noakes, T. (2016). Carbohydrate intake, obesity, metabolic syndrome and cancer risk? A two-part systematic review and meta-analysis protocol to estimate attributability. BMJ Open, 6 (1) e009301. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009301

Lutge, Elizabeth, Moodley, Nirvasha, Tefera, Aida, Sartorius, Benn, Hardcastle, Timothy and Clarke, Damian (2016). A hospital based surveillance system to assess the burden of trauma in KwaZulu-Natal Province South Africa. Injury, 47 (1), 135-140. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2015.08.020

Kong, V. Y., Odendaal, J. J., Sartorius, B. and Clarke, D. L. (2015). International medical graduates in South Africa and the implications of addressing the current surgical workforce shortage. South African Journal of Surgery, 53 (3-4).

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