Joanne Katz
Johns Hopkins University
Joanne Katz is an epidemiologist, biostatistician, and Professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Ophthalmology within the School of Medicine. Her expertise is in maternal, neonatal, and child health. She has contributed to the design, conduct and analysis of data from large community-based intervention trials on nutritional and other interventions in Indonesia, Phili
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Joanne Katz is an epidemiologist, biostatistician, and Professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Ophthalmology within the School of Medicine. Her expertise is in maternal, neonatal, and child health. She has contributed to the design, conduct and analysis of data from large community-based intervention trials on nutritional and other interventions in Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal, and other countries.
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Johns Hopkins University
Top Publications
- Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries (2013) - 8,697 citations
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults (2017) - 7,738 citations
- Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4·4 million participants (2016) - 4,429 citations
- Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants (2021) - 3,976 citations
- Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants (2016) - 2,668 citations
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- Full name
- Joanne Katz
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-5997-7823
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5051576162
Research interests
- Global Maternal and Child Health, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare, Glaucoma and retinal disorders, Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies
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