Peter Byass

Contact Information

Position:

Professor

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Works at:

Public Health and Clinical Medicine

Department:

Epidemiologi och global hälsa

Address:

Epidemiologi och global hälsa, Umeå universitet
SE-901 85 Umeå
Sverige

Visiting Address:

9B, ingång X5, Norrlands universitetssjukhus

Tel:

+46 90 785 33 45

Mobile Phone:

+46 76 787 30 07

Email:

peter.byassat-teckenepiph.umu.se

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peter.byassat-teckenumu.se

Email 2

Web Page:

http://www.phmed.umu.se/english/divisions/epidemiology/staff/peter-byass/ Web Page

Activities

Professor of Global Health and Director of the Umeå Centre for Global Health Research. Works extensively on health in Southern countries, particularly on issues of measuring health and disease. This involves close collaboration with the Indepth Network, where he chairs the Scientific Advisory Committee, and many of its population surveillance site members. Much of his research is concerned with verbal autopsy and cause of death methods. He is Deputy Editor of Global Health Action and also holds honorary Professorships at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and Witwatersrand University, South Africa.

Research projects

Head of research

Title

Date sorteringsordning

Byass, Peter

INDEPTH Training and Research Centres of Excellence (INTREC)

01/28/2013

Wilder-Smith, Annelies

Innovative tools and strategies for surveillance and control of dengue

01/15/2013

Publications

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Year sorteringsordning

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Byass, Peter

Is global health really global?
Global health action, 6: 1-3

2013

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Krishnan, Anand
Dwivedi, Purva
Gupta, Vivek; et al.

Socioeconomic development and girl child survival in rural North India: solution or problem?
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 67(5): 419-426

2013

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Stordalen, Gunhild A.
Rocklöv, Joacim
Nilsson, Maria; et al.

Only an integrated approach across academia, enterprise, governments, and global agencies can tackle the public health impact of climate change
Global health action, 6: 1-6

2013

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Hounton, Sennen
De Bernis, Luc
Hussein, Julia; et al.

Towards elimination of maternal deaths: maternal deaths surveillance and response.
Reproductive health, 10: 1-

2013

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Byass, Peter
Friberg, Peter
Blomstedt, Yulia; et al.

Beyond 2015: time to reposition Scandinavia in global health?
Global health action, 6: 1-3

2013

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Nilsson, Maria
Evengård, Birgitta
Sauerborn, Rainer; et al.

Connecting the global climate change and public health agendas
PLoS Medicine, 9(6): e1001227-

2012

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Ramroth, Heribert
Lorenz, Eva
Rankin, Johanna C.; et al.

Cause of death distribution with InterVA and physician coding in a rural area of Burkina Faso
Tropical medicine & international health, 17(7): 904-913

2012

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Hounton, Sennen
Byass, Peter
Kouyate, Bocar

Assessing effectiveness of a community based health insurance in rural Burkina Faso
BMC Health Services Research, 12: 363-

2012

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Kowal, Paul
Chatterji, Somnath
Naidoo, Nirmala; et al.

Data resource profile: the World Health Organization Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE).
International Journal of Epidemiology, 41(6): 1639-49

2012

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Sankoh, Osman
Byass, Peter

The INDEPTH Network: filling vital gaps in global epidemiology
International Journal of Epidemiology, 41(3): 579-588

2012

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2012-05-07

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