Publications

Jennifer A Hutcheon, Erin C Strumpf, Jessica Liauw, M Amanda Skoll, Peter Socha, Myriam Srour, Joseph Y Ting, Sam Harper. Antenatal corticosteroid administration and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in childhood: a regression discontinuity study. CMAJ, 2022.

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Mabel Carabali, Sam Harper, Antonio S Lima Neto, Geziel Dos Santos de Sousa, Andrea Caprara, Berta Nelly Restrepo, Jay S Kaufman. Decomposition of socioeconomic inequalities in arboviral diseases in Brazil and Colombia (2007-2017). Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, 2022.

Jennifer A Hutcheon, Sam Harper. No, it is not too good to be true: Response by Hutcheon and Harper. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol, 2021.

Jennifer A Hutcheon, Sam Harper. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is: Conducting within-woman comparison studies with only one exposure observation per woman. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol, 2021.

Eva Graham, Tristan Watson, Sonya S Deschênes, Kristian B Filion, Mélanie Henderson, Sam Harper, Laura C Rosella, Norbert Schmitz. Depression-related weight change and incident diabetes in a community sample. Sci Rep, 2021.

Sam Harper, Corinne A Riddell, Nicholas B King. Declining Life Expectancy in the United States: Missing the Trees for the Forest. Annu Rev Public Health 2021;42:381-403, 2021.

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Deepa Jahagirdar, Michelle Dimitris, Erin Strumpf, Jay S Kaufman, Sam Harper, Jody Heymann, Efe Atabay, Ilona Vincent, Arijit Nandi. Balancing work and care: the effect of paid adult medical leave policies on employment in Europe. Journal of Social Policy 2021;50(3):552–568., 2021.

Jennifer A Hutcheon, Sam Harper, Jessica Liauw, M Amada Skoll, Myriam Srour, Erin C. Strumpf. Antenatal corticosteroid administration and early school age child development: A regression discontinuity study in British Columbia, Canada. PLoS Medicine, 2020.

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Catherine Arsenault, Sam Harper, Arijit Nandi. Effect of vaccination on children's learning achievements: findings from the India Human Development Survey. J Epidemiol Community Health 2020;74:778-784, 2020.

Mira Johri, Dinesh Chandra, Karna Georges Kone, Marie-Pierre Sylvestre, Alok K Mathur, Sam Harper, Arijit Nandi. Social and Behavior Change Communication Interventions Delivered Face-to-Face and by a Mobile Phone to Strengthen Vaccination Uptake and Improve Child Health in Rural India: Randomized Pilot Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 2020.

Robin A Richardson, Sam Harper, Scott Weichenthal, Arijit Nandi, Vimal Mishra, Prabhat Jha. Extremes in water availability and suicide: Evidence from a nationally representative sample of rural Indian adults. Environ Res, 2020.

Ashley Nunes, Sam Harper, Kristen D Hernandez. The Price Isn't Right: Autonomous Vehicles, Public Health, and Social Justice. Am J Public Health, 2020.

Neal D Goldstein, Ghassan B Hamra, Sam Harper. Are Descriptions of Methods Alone Sufficient for Study Reproducibility? An Example From the Cardiovascular Literature. Epidemiology, 2020.

Summer Sherburne Hawkins, Marco Ghiani, Sam Harper, Christopher F Baum, Jay S Kaufman. Impact of State-Level Changes on Maternal Mortality: A Population-Based, Quasi-Experimental Study. Am J Prev Med, 2020.

Corinne A Riddell, Jay S Kaufman, Jacqueline M Torres, Sam Harper. Using change in a seat belt law to study racially-biased policing in South Carolina. Prev Med, 2020.

Robin Richardson, Arijit Nandi, Surinder Jaswal, Sam Harper. The effect of intimate partner violence on women's mental distress: a prospective cohort study of 3010 rural Indian women. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 2020.

Nichole Austin, Sam Harper. Quantifying the impact of targeted regulation of abortion provider laws on US abortion rates: a multi-state assessment. Contraception, 2019.

Jay S Kaufman, Corinne A Riddell, Sam Harper. Black and White Differences in Life Expectancy in 4 US States, 1969-2013. Public Health Rep, 2019.

Sam Harper, Adam Palayew. The annual cannabis holiday and fatal traffic crashes. Inj Prev, 2019.

Nichole Austin, Sam Harper. Constructing a longitudinal database of targeted regulation of abortion providers laws. Health Serv Res, 2019.

Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Sam Harper. Trends in educational and wealth inequalities in adult tobacco use in Nepal 2001-2016: secondary data analyses of four Demographic and Health Surveys. BMJ Open, 2019.

Ghassan B Hamra, Neal D Goldstein, Sam Harper. Resource Sharing to Improve Research Quality. J Am Heart Assoc, 2019.

Fadi Hamadani, Tarek Razek, Ezio Massinga, Shailvi Gupta, Monica Muataco, Paloma Muripiha, Catarina Maguni, Vania Muripa, Ivandra Percina, Aassis Costa, Prem Yohannan, David Bracco, Evan Wong, Sam Harper, Dan L Deckelbaum, Otilia Neves. Trauma Surveillance and Registry Development in Mozambique: Results of a 1-Year Study and the First Phase of National Implementation. World J Surg, 2019.

Robin A Richardson, Sam Harper, Lisa M Bates, Arijit Nandi. The effect of agency on women's mental distress: A prospective cohort study from rural Rajasthan, India. Soc Sci Med, 2019.

Sam Harper. Would Stronger Seat Belt Laws Reduce Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths?: A Semi-Bayesian Analysis. Epidemiology, 2019.

Sam Harper. A Future for Observational Epidemiology: Clarity, Credibility, Transparency. Am J Epidemiol, 2019.

Sam Harper. Comment on the equity impact of women's community groups on inequalities in neonatal mortality. Int J Epidemiol, 2019.

Katherine A Ahrens, Jennifer A Hutcheon, Cande V Ananth, Olga Basso, Peter A Briss, Cynthia D Ferré, Brittni N Frederiksen, Sam Harper, Sonia Hernández-Dı́az, Ashley H Hirai, Russell S Kirby, Mark A Klebanoff, Laura Lindberg, Sunni L Mumford, Heidi D Nelson, Robert W Platt, Lauren M Rossen, Alison M Stuebe, Marie E Thoma, Catherine J Vladutiu, Susan Moskosky. Report of the Office of Population Affairs' expert work group meeting on short birth spacing and adverse pregnancy outcomes: Methodological quality of existing studies and future directions for research. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol, 2019.

Jennifer A Hutcheon, Sam Harper. Invited Commentary: Promise and Pitfalls of the Sibling Comparison Design in Studies of Optimal Birth Spacing. Am J Epidemiol, 2019.

Jaeil Ahn, Sam Harper, Mandi Yu, Eric J Feuer, Benmei Liu. Improved Monte Carlo methods for estimating confidence intervals for eleven commonly used health disparity measures. PLoS One, 2019.

Jennifer A Hutcheon, Susan Moskosky, Cande V Ananth, Olga Basso, Peter A Briss, Cynthia D Ferré, Brittni N Frederiksen, Sam Harper, Sonia Hernández-Dı́az, Ashley H Hirai, Russell S Kirby, Mark A Klebanoff, Laura Lindberg, Sunni L Mumford, Heidi D Nelson, Robert W Platt, Lauren M Rossen, Alison M Stuebe, Marie E Thoma, Catherine J Vladutiu, Katherine A Ahrens. Good practices for the design, analysis, and interpretation of observational studies on birth spacing and perinatal health outcomes. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol, 2019.

Jaeil Ahn, Sam Harper, Mandi Yu, Eric J Feuer, Benmei Liu, George Luta. Variance Estimation and Confidence Intervals for 11 Commonly Used Health Disparity Measures. JCO Clin Cancer Inform, 2018.

Robin A Richardson, Sam Harper, Norbert Schmitz, Arijit Nandi. The effect of affordable daycare on women's mental health: Evidence from a cluster randomized trial in rural India. Soc Sci Med, 2018.

Gloria C Mejia, Hawazin W Elani, Sam Harper, W Murray Thomson, Xiangqun Ju, Ichiro Kawachi, Jay S Kaufman, Lisa M Jamieson. Socioeconomic status, oral health and dental disease in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. BMC Oral Health, 2018.

Taylor McLinden, Erica E M Moodie, Sam Harper, Anne-Marie Hamelin, Aranka Anema, Wusiman Aibibula, Marina B Klein, Joseph Cox. Injection drug use, food insecurity, and HIV-HCV co-infection: a longitudinal cohort analysis. AIDS Care, 2018.

Arijit Nandi, Deepa Jahagirdar, Michelle C Dimitris, Jeremy A Labrecque, Erin C Strumpf, Jay S Kaufman, Ilona Vincent, Efe Atabay, Sam Harper, Alison Earle, S Jody Heymann. The Impact of Parental and Medical Leave Policies on Socioeconomic and Health Outcomes in OECD Countries: A Systematic Review of the Empirical Literature. Milbank Q, 2018.

Corinne A Riddell, Kathryn T Morrison, Jay S Kaufman, Sam Harper. Trends in the contribution of major causes of death to the black-white life expectancy gap by US state. Health Place, 2018.

Sarah Meghan Mah, Claudia Sanmartin, Sam Harper, Nancy A Ross. Childbirth-Related Hospital Burden by Socioeconomic Status in a Universal Health Care Setting. Int J Popul Data Sci, 2018.

Hailey R Banack, Sam Harper, Jay S Kaufman. Accounting for Selection Bias in Studies of Acute Cardiac Events. Can J Cardiol, 2018.

Corinne A Riddell, Sam Harper, Magdalena Cerdá, Jay S Kaufman. Comparison of Rates of Firearm and Nonfirearm Homicide and Suicide in Black and White Non-Hispanic Men, by U.S. State. Ann Intern Med, 2018.

Taylor McLinden, Erica E M Moodie, Anne-Marie Hamelin, Sam Harper, Carmine Rossi, Sharon L Walmsley, Sean B Rourke, Curtis Cooper, Marina B Klein, Joseph Cox. Methadone treatment, severe food insecurity, and HIV-HCV co-infection: A propensity score matching analysis. Drug Alcohol Depend, 2018.

Nichole Austin, Sam Harper. Assessing the impact of TRAP laws on abortion and women's health in the USA: a systematic review. BMJ Sex Reprod Health, 2018.

Nicholas B King, Sam Harper, Meredith Young, Sarah C Berry, Kristin Voigt. The impact of social and psychological consequences of disease on judgments of disease severity: An experimental study. PLoS One, 2018.

Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Sam Harper, Linda Ernstsen. Educational and wealth inequalities in tobacco use among men and women in 54 low-income and middle-income countries. Tob Control, 2018.

Taylor McLinden, Erica E M Moodie, Anne-Marie Hamelin, Sam Harper, Sharon L Walmsley, Gilles Paradis, Wusiman Aibibula, Marina B Klein, Joseph Cox. Injection Drug Use, Unemployment, and Severe Food Insecurity Among HIV-HCV Co-Infected Individuals: A Mediation Analysis. AIDS Behav, 2017.

Robin A Richardson, Arijit Nandi, Surinder Jaswal, Sam Harper. Are work demands associated with mental distress? Evidence from women in rural India. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 2017.

Sam Harper, Jay S Kaufman, Richard S Cooper. Declining US Life Expectancy: A First Look. Epidemiology, 2017.

Corinne A Riddell, Sam Harper, Jay S Kaufman. Trends in Differences in US Mortality Rates Between Black and White Infants. JAMA Pediatr, 2017.

Erin C Strumpf, Thomas J Charters, Sam Harper, Arijit Nandi. Did the Great Recession affect mortality rates in the metropolitan United States? Effects on mortality by age, gender and cause of death. Soc Sci Med, 2017.

Sam Harper, Erin C Strumpf. Primary Enforcement of Mandatory Seat Belt Laws and Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths. Am J Prev Med, 2017.

Sam Harper, Tim A Bruckner. Did the Great Recession increase suicides in the USA? Evidence from an interrupted time-series analysis. Ann Epidemiol, 2017.

Phongsack Manivong, Sam Harper, Erin Strumpf. The contribution of excise cigarette taxes on the decline in youth smoking in Canada during the time of the Federal Tobacco Control Strategy (2002-2012). Can J Public Health, 2017.

Hawazin W Elani, Sam Harper, William Murray Thomson, Iris L Espinoza, Gloria C Mejia, Xiangqun Ju, Lisa M Jamieson, Ichiro Kawachi, Jay S Kaufman. Social inequalities in tooth loss: A multinational comparison. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol, 2017.

Jennifer A Hutcheon, Sam Harper, Erin C Strumpf. Oregon's Hard-Stop Policy Limiting Elective Early-Term Deliveries: Limitations of Before-and-After Studies in Evaluating Obstetric Policies. Obstet Gynecol, 2017.

Renee Carter, Jean-Frédéric Lévesque, Sam Harper, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée. Measuring the effect of Family Medicine Group enrolment on avoidable visits to emergency departments by patients with diabetes in Quebec, Canada. J Eval Clin Pract, 2017.

Catherine Arsenault, Mira Johri, Arijit Nandi, José M Mendoza Rodrı́guez, Peter M Hansen, Sam Harper. Country-level predictors of vaccination coverage and inequalities in Gavi-supported countries. Vaccine, 2017.

Jennifer A Hutcheon, Corinne A Riddell, Erin C Strumpf, Lily Lee, Sam Harper. Safety of labour and delivery following closures of obstetric services in small community hospitals. CMAJ, 2017.

Catherine Arsenault, Sam Harper, Arijit Nandi, José M Mendoza Rodrı́guez, Peter M Hansen, Mira Johri. Monitoring equity in vaccination coverage: A systematic analysis of demographic and health surveys from 45 Gavi-supported countries. Vaccine, 2017.

Nancy Breen, Denise Riedel Lewis, James Todd Gibson, Mandi Yu, Sam Harper. Assessing disparities in colorectal cancer mortality by socioeconomic status using new tools: health disparities calculator and socioeconomic quintiles. Cancer Causes Control, 2017.

Catherine Arsenault, Sam Harper, Arijit Nandi, José M Mendoza Rodrı́guez, Peter M Hansen, Mira Johri. An equity dashboard to monitor vaccination coverage. Bull World Health Organ, 2017.

Deepa Jahagirdar, Sam Harper, Jody Heymann, Hema Swaminathan, Arnab Mukherji, Arijit Nandi. The effect of paid maternity leave on early childhood growth in low-income and middle-income countries. BMJ Glob Health, 2017.

Nicholas B King, Erin Strumpf, Sam Harper. Has the Increase in Disability Insurance Participation Contributed to Increased Opioid-Related Mortality?. Ann Intern Med, 2016.

Andrew Paul Gray, Faisca Richer, Sam Harper. Individual- and community-level determinants of Inuit youth mental wellness. Can J Public Health, 2016.

Nichole Austin, Sam Harper, Erin Strumpf. Does Segregation Lead to Lower Birth Weight?: An Instrumental Variable Approach. Epidemiology, 2016.

Nichole Austin, Sam Harper, Jay S Kaufman, Ghassan B Hamra. Challenges in reproducing results from publicly available data: an example of sexual orientation and cardiovascular disease risk. J Epidemiol Community Health, 2016.

Thomas J Charters, Sam Harper, Erin C Strumpf, S V Subramanian, Mariana Arcaya, Arijit Nandi. The effect of metropolitan-area mortgage delinquency on health behaviors, access to health services, and self-rated health in the United States, 2003-2010. Soc Sci Med, 2016.

Arijit Nandi, Shannon Maloney, Parul Agarwal, Anoushaka Chandrashekar, Sam Harper. The effect of an affordable daycare program on health and economic well-being in Rajasthan, India: protocol for a cluster-randomized impact evaluation study. BMC Public Health, 2016.

Muhammad Farhan Majid, José M Mendoza Rodrı́guez, Sam Harper, John Frank, Arijit Nandi. Do minimum wages improve early life health? Evidence from developing countries. Soc Sci Med, 2016.

Jennifer Hutcheon, Erin Strumpf, Sam Harper, Ellen Giesbrecht. Authors' reply re: Maternal and neonatal outcomes after implementation of a hospital policy to limit low-risk planned caesarean deliveries before 39 weeks of gestation: an interrupted time-series analysis. BJOG, 2016.

Arijit Nandi, Mohammad Hajizadeh, Sam Harper, Alissa Koski, Erin C Strumpf, Jody Heymann. Increased Duration of Paid Maternity Leave Lowers Infant Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Quasi-Experimental Study. PLoS Med, 2016.

Britt McKinnon, Sam Harper, Jay S Kaufman. Do Socioeconomic Inequalities in Neonatal Mortality Reflect Inequalities in Coverage of Maternal Health Services? Evidence from 48 Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Matern Child Health J, 2016.

Samantha Hajna, Nancy A Ross, Lawrence Joseph, Sam Harper, Kaberi Dasgupta. Neighbourhood Walkability and Daily Steps in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes. PLoS One, 2016.

Samantha Hajna, Nancy A Ross, Lawrence Joseph, Sam Harper, Kaberi Dasgupta. Neighbourhood walkability, daily steps and utilitarian walking in Canadian adults. BMJ Open, 2015.

Sam Harper, Thomas J Charters, Erin C Strumpf. Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Motor Vehicle Accident Deaths in the United States, 1995-2010. Am J Epidemiol, 2015.

Robin Richardson, Thomas Charters, Nicholas King, Sam Harper. Trends in Educational Inequalities in Drug Poisoning Mortality: United States, 1994-2010. Am J Public Health, 2015.

Mohammad Hajizadeh, Jody Heymann, Erin Strumpf, Sam Harper, Arijit Nandi. Paid maternity leave and childhood vaccination uptake: Longitudinal evidence from 20 low-and-middle-income countries. Soc Sci Med, 2015.

Sam Harper. Invited Commentary: A-P-C... It's Easy as 1-2-3!. Am J Epidemiol, 2015.

Britt McKinnon, Sam Harper, Jay S Kaufman. Who benefits from removing user fees for facility-based delivery services? Evidence on socioeconomic differences from Ghana, Senegal and Sierra Leone. Soc Sci Med, 2015.

Sam Harper, Thomas J Charters, Erin C Strumpf, Sandro Galea, Arijit Nandi. Economic downturns and suicide mortality in the USA, 1980-2010: observational study. Int J Epidemiol, 2015.

Britt McKinnon, Sam Harper, Jay S Kaufman, Yves Bergevin. Removing user fees for facility-based delivery services: a difference-in-differences evaluation from ten sub-Saharan African countries. Health Policy Plan, 2015.

Patricia Frenz, Iris Delgado, Jay S Kaufman, Sam Harper. Achieving effective universal health coverage with equity: evidence from Chile. Health Policy Plan, 2014.

Sam Harper, Richard F MacLehose, Jay S Kaufman. Trends in the black-white life expectancy gap among US states, 1990-2009. Health Aff (Millwood), 2014.

Nathalie Auger, Pascaline Feuillet, Sylvie Martel, Ernest Lo, Amadou D Barry, Sam Harper. Mortality inequality in populations with equal life expectancy: Arriaga's decomposition method in SAS, Stata, and Excel. Ann Epidemiol, 2014.

Nicholas B King, Veronique Fraser, Constantina Boikos, Robin Richardson, Sam Harper. Determinants of increased opioid-related mortality in the United States and Canada, 1990-2013: a systematic review. Am J Public Health, 2014.

Britt McKinnon, Sam Harper, Jay S Kaufman, Muna Abdullah. Distance to emergency obstetric services and early neonatal mortality in Ethiopia. Trop Med Int Health, 2014.

Brendan T Smith, Peter M Smith, Sam Harper, Douglas G Manuel, Cameron A Mustard. Reducing social inequalities in health: the role of simulation modelling in chronic disease epidemiology to evaluate the impact of population health interventions. J Epidemiol Community Health, 2014.

Sam Harper, Nicholas B King, Stephen C Meersman, Marsha E Reichman, Nancy Breen, John Lynch. [Implicit value judgments in the measurement of health inequalities]. Rev Panam Salud Publica, 2014.

Britt McKinnon, Sam Harper, Jay S Kaufman, Yves Bergevin. Socioeconomic inequality in neonatal mortality in countries of low and middle income: a multicountry analysis. Lancet Glob Health, 2014.

Jay S Kaufman, Sam Harper. Health equity: utopian and scientific. Prev Med, 2013.

Arijit Nandi, Thomas J Charters, Erin C Strumpf, Jody Heymann, Sam Harper. Economic conditions and health behaviours during the 'Great Recession'. J Epidemiol Community Health, 2013.

Niko Speybroeck, Carine Van Malderen, Sam Harper, Birgit Müller, Brecht Devleesschauwer. Simulation models for socioeconomic inequalities in health: a systematic review. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2013.

Nicholas B King, Sam Harper, Meredith E Young. Who cares about health inequalities? Cross-country evidence from the World Health Survey. Health Policy Plan, 2013.

Sam Harper, Eric Ruder, Henry A Roman, Amelia Geggel, Onyemaechi Nweke, Devon Payne-Sturges, Jonathan I Levy. Using inequality measures to incorporate environmental justice into regulatory analyses. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2013.

Brittany McKinnon, Sam Harper, Spencer Moore. The relationship of living arrangements and depressive symptoms among older adults in sub-Saharan Africa. BMC Public Health, 2013.

Sam Harper, Nicholas B King. Commentary: best practice for what?. Milbank Q, 2013.

Robert W Platt, Sam B Harper. Survey data with sampling weights: is there a \"best\" approach?. Environ Res, 2013.

Sam Harper, Nicholas B King, Meredith E Young. Impact of selective evidence presentation on judgments of health inequality trends: an experimental study. PLoS One, 2013.

Amelia Maika, Murthy N Mittinty, Sally Brinkman, Sam Harper, Elan Satriawan, John W Lynch. Changes in socioeconomic inequality in Indonesian children's cognitive function from 2000 to 2007: a decomposition analysis. PLoS One, 2013.

Nathalie Auger, Alison L Park, Sam Harper. Francophone and Anglophone perinatal health: temporal and regional inequalities in a Canadian setting, 1981-2008. Int J Public Health, 2012.

Sam Harper, Erin C Strumpf. Social epidemiology: questionable answers and answerable questions. Epidemiology, 2012.

Seungmi Yang, Young-Ho Khang, Heeran Chun, Sam Harper, John Lynch. The changing gender differences in life expectancy in Korea 1970-2005. Soc Sci Med, 2012.

Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Nicole Bergen, Anton Kunst, Sam Harper, Regina Guthold, Dag Rekve, Edouard Tursan d'Espaignet, Nirmala Naidoo, Somnath Chatterji. Socioeconomic inequalities in risk factors for non communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income countries: results from the World Health Survey. BMC Public Health, 2012.

Jay S Kaufman, Sam Harper. Deficiency of the odds ratio for common outcomes. Am J Psychiatry, 2012.

Nicholas B King, Sam Harper, Meredith E Young. Use of relative and absolute effect measures in reporting health inequalities: structured review. BMJ, 2012.

Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Sam Harper, Jennifer H Lee, John Lynch, Colin Mathers, Carla Abou-Zahr. International shortfall inequality in life expectancy in women and in men, 1950-2010. Bull World Health Organ, 2012.

Sam Harper, Dinela Rushani, Jay S Kaufman. Trends in the black-white life expectancy gap, 2003-2008. JAMA, 2012.

Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Nicole Bergen, Shanthi Mendis, Sam Harper, Emese Verdes, Anton Kunst, Somnath Chatterji. Socioeconomic inequality in the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: results from the World Health Survey. BMC Public Health, 2012.

Amy Toporowski, Sam Harper, Rebecca Fuhrer, Patricia A Buffler, Roger Detels, Nancy Krieger, Eduardo L Franco. Burden of disease, health indicators and challenges for epidemiology in North America. Int J Epidemiol, 2012.

Nathalie Auger, Pauline Delézire, Sam Harper, Robert W Platt. Maternal education and stillbirth: estimating gestational-age-specific and cause-specific associations. Epidemiology, 2012.

Sam Harper, Jay S Kaufman, Nicholas B King. Increased risk of coronary heart disease in female smokers. Lancet, 2012.

Sam Harper, Brittany McKinnon. Global socioeconomic inequalities in tobacco use: internationally comparable estimates from the World Health Surveys. Cancer Causes Control, 2012.

Nathalie Auger, Alison L Park, Sam Harper, Mark Daniel, Federico Roncarolo, Robert W Platt. Educational inequalities in preterm and term small-for-gestational-age birth over time. Ann Epidemiol, 2012.

Sam Harper, Erin C Strumpf, Jay S Kaufman. Do medical marijuana laws increase marijuana use? Replication study and extension. Ann Epidemiol, 2012.

Hailey R Banack, Sam Harper, Jay S Kaufman. Coronary heart disease risk factors and mortality. JAMA, 2012.

Nathalie Auger, Sam Harper, Amadou D Barry, Normand Trempe, Mark Daniel. Life expectancy gap between the Francophone majority and Anglophone minority of a Canadian population. Eur J Epidemiol, 2012.

Golareh Agha, Joanne M Murabito, John W Lynch, Michal Abrahamowicz, Sam B Harper, Eric B Loucks. Relation of socioeconomic position with ankle-brachial index. Am J Cardiol, 2011.

Nathalie Auger, Federico Roncarolo, Sam Harper. Increasing educational inequality in preterm birth in Quebec, Canada, 1981-2006. J Epidemiol Community Health, 2011.

Auburn Larose, Spencer Moore, Sam Harper, John Lynch. Global income-related inequalities in HIV testing. J Public Health (Oxf), 2011.

Ritu Sadana, Sam Harper. Data systems linking social determinants of health with health outcomes: advancing public goods to support research and evidence-based policy and programs. Public Health Rep, 2011.

Jessica Adam-Smith, Sam Harper, Nathalie Auger. Causes of widening life expectancy inequalities in Québec, Canada, 1989-2004. Can J Public Health, 2011.

Nathalie Auger, Philippe Gamache, Jessica Adam-Smith, Sam Harper. Relative and absolute disparities in preterm birth related to neighborhood education. Ann Epidemiol, 2011.

Jay S Kaufman, Sam Harper, Nicholas B King. A more complete picture of higher cardiovascular disease prevalence among blacks compared to whites. Am J Med, 2011.

Brittany McKinnon, Sam Harper, Spencer Moore. Decomposing income-related inequality in cervical screening in 67 countries. Int J Public Health, 2011.

Brendan T Smith, John W Lynch, Caroline S Fox, Sam Harper, Michal Abrahamowicz, Nisha D Almeida, Eric B Loucks. Life-course socioeconomic position and type 2 diabetes mellitus: The Framingham Offspring Study. Am J Epidemiol, 2011.

Sam Harper, John Lynch, George Davey Smith. Social determinants and the decline of cardiovascular diseases: understanding the links. Annu Rev Public Health, 2011.

Sarah McTavish, Spencer Moore, Sam Harper, John Lynch. National female literacy, individual socio-economic status, and maternal health care use in sub-Saharan Africa. Soc Sci Med, 2010.

Nicholas B King, Jay S Kaufman, Sam Harper. Relative measures alone tell only part of the story. Am J Public Health, 2010.

Niko Speybroeck, Peter Konings, John Lynch, Sam Harper, Dirk Berkvens, Vincent Lorant, Andrea Geckova, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor. Decomposing socioeconomic health inequalities. Int J Public Health, 2010.

Seungmi Yang, Young-Ho Khang, Sam Harper, George Davey Smith, David A Leon, John Lynch. Understanding the rapid increase in life expectancy in South Korea. Am J Public Health, 2010.

Sam Harper, Nicholas B King, Stephen C Meersman, Marsha E Reichman, Nancy Breen, John Lynch. Implicit value judgments in the measurement of health inequalities. Milbank Q, 2010.

Peter Konings, Sam Harper, John Lynch, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Dirk Berkvens, Vincent Lorant, Andrea Geckova, Niko Speybroeck. Analysis of socioeconomic health inequalities using the concentration index. Int J Public Health, 2010.

Spencer Moore, Justin N Hall, Sam Harper, John W Lynch. Global and national socioeconomic disparities in obesity, overweight, and underweight status. J Obes, 2010.

Sam Harper. Commentary: Trends in indigenous inequalities in mortality in New Zealand. Int J Epidemiol, 2009.

Beatriz E Alvarado, Sam Harper, Robert W Platt, George Davey Smith, John Lynch. Would achieving healthy people 2010's targets reduce both population levels and social disparities in heart disease?. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, 2009.

Justin N Hall, Spencer Moore, Sam B Harper, John W Lynch. Global variability in fruit and vegetable consumption. Am J Prev Med, 2009.

Young-Ho Khang, John W Lynch, Seungmi Yang, Sam Harper, Sung-Cheol Yun, Kyunghee Jung-Choi, Hye Ryun Kim. The contribution of material, psychosocial, and behavioral factors in explaining educational and occupational mortality inequalities in a nationally representative sample of South Koreans: relative and absolute perspectives. Soc Sci Med, 2009.

Sam Harper, John Lynch, Stephen C Meersman, Nancy Breen, William W Davis, Marsha C Reichman. Trends in area-socioeconomic and race-ethnic disparities in breast cancer incidence, stage at diagnosis, screening, mortality, and survival among women ages 50 years and over (1987-2005). Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 2009.

Sam Harper, John Lynch, Stephen C Meersman, Nancy Breen, William W Davis, Marsha E Reichman. An overview of methods for monitoring social disparities in cancer with an example using trends in lung cancer incidence by area-socioeconomic position and race-ethnicity, 1992-2004. Am J Epidemiol, 2008.

Sam Harper, John Lynch. Commentary: Using innovative inequality measures in epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol, 2007.

Sam Harper, John Lynch. Highly active antiretroviral therapy and socioeconomic inequalities in AIDS mortality in Spain. Eur J Public Health, 2007.

Sam Harper, John Lynch, Scott Burris, George Davey Smith. Trends in the black-white life expectancy gap in the United States, 1983-2003. JAMA, 2007.

Sam Harper, John Lynch. Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in adult health behaviors among U.S. states, 1990-2004. Public Health Rep, 2007.

Hong-Jun Cho, Young-Ho Khang, Seungmi Yang, Sam Harper, John W Lynch. Socioeconomic differentials in cause-specific mortality among South Korean adolescents. Int J Epidemiol, 2007.

Sam Harper. Did clean water reduce black-white mortality inequalities in the United States? Water, race, and disease. Int J Epidemiol, 2007.

Sam Harper. Commentary: what explains widening geographic differences in life expectancy in New Zealand?. Int J Epidemiol, 2006.

John Lynch, George Davey Smith, Sam Harper, Kathleen Bainbridge. Explaining the social gradient in coronary heart disease: comparing relative and absolute risk approaches. J Epidemiol Community Health, 2006.

Rod Jackson, John Lynch, Sam Harper. Preventing coronary heart disease. BMJ, 2006.

Mary Huynh, Jennifer D Parker, Sam Harper, Elsie Pamuk, Kenneth C Schoendorf. Contextual effect of income inequality on birth outcomes. Int J Epidemiol, 2005.

John Lynch, Sam Harper, George A Kaplan, George Davey Smith. Associations between income inequality and mortality among US states: the importance of time period and source of income data. Am J Public Health, 2005.

C Cecily Kelleher, John Lynch, Sam Harper, Joseph B Tay, Geraldine Nolan. Hurling alone? How social capital failed to save the Irish from cardiovascular disease in the United States. Am J Public Health, 2004.

John Lynch, George Davey Smith, Sam Harper, Marianne Hillemeier. Is income inequality a determinant of population health? Part 2. U.S. National and regional trends in income inequality and age- and cause-specific mortality. Milbank Q, 2004.

John Lynch, George Davey Smith, Sam Harper, Marianne Hillemeier, Nancy Ross, George A Kaplan, Michael Wolfson. Is income inequality a determinant of population health? Part 1. A systematic review. Milbank Q, 2004.

Marianne M Hillemeier, John Lynch, Sam Harper, Michele Casper. Measuring contextual characteristics for community health. Health Serv Res, 2003.

John Lynch, Sam Harper, George Davey Smith. Commentary: Plugging leaks and repelling boarders--where to next for the SS income inequality?. Int J Epidemiol, 2003.

Marianne M Hillemeier, John Lynch, Sam Harper, Trivellore Raghunathan, George A Kaplan. Relative or absolute standards for child poverty: a state-level analysis of infant and child mortality. Am J Public Health, 2003.

Sam Harper, John Lynch, Wan-Ling Hsu, Susan A Everson, Marianne M Hillemeier, Trivellore E Raghunathan, Jukka T Salonen, George A Kaplan. Life course socioeconomic conditions and adult psychosocial functioning. Int J Epidemiol, 2002.