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Steven A. Cohen, DrPH
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Assistant Professor
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| Contact |
Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111
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(617) 636-0452 |
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(617) 636-4017 |
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steven_a.cohen@tufts.edu |
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| Education |
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Dr.P.H. (Doctor of Public Health) in Population Health
M.P.H. (Master of Public Health) in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
B.A. in Biology and Mathematics
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| Institution(s) |
Dr.P.H. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
M.P.H. Tufts University School of Medicine
B.A. Brandeis University |
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| Research
Focus |
Current research focuses on the modeling of health care utilization in the older population of the United States with a particular emphasis on the analysis of distal, macro-level social and environmental factors that influence health on the population and individual levels in vulnerable older adults.
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Publications |
- Cohen, SA, EN Naumova, “Age-adjustment in national biosurveillance systems: A survey of issues, examples, and analytical tools for age-adjustment in longitudinal surveillance data.” Book chapter in: Infectious Disease Informatics and Biosurveillance: Research, Systems, and Case Studies. Ed: Daniel Zeng, in press.
- Cohen, SA. A review of demographic and infrastructural factors and potential solutions to the physician and nursing shortage predicted to impact the growing US elderly population. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (2009), Vol 15, pp. 352-362.
- Cohen, SA, AI Egorov, JS Jagai, BT Matyas, A DeMaria, K Chui, JK Griffiths, EN Naumova. The SEEDs of gastrointestinal disease: Socioeconomic, environmental, and demographic factors related to cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis in Massachusetts. Environmental Research (2008), Vol. 108, pp.185-191.
- Naumova, EN, SA Cohen. Population-level risk factors, population health, and health policy. Journal of Public Health Policy (2008) Vol. 28, pp. 290-298.
- Cohen, SA, EN Naumova. Vaccination of children reduces hospitalization rates due to influenza in the elderly. Proceedings of the Options for the Control of Influenza VI Conference (2007), pp. 574-579.
- Cohen, SA, EN Naumova. Population Dynamics in the Elderly: The Need for Age-Adjustment in National Biosurveillance Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2007) Vol. 4506, pp. 47-58. (Paper also presented at the National Science Foundation Biosurveillance Workshop, New Brunswick, NJ, May 22, 2007.)
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