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Jorge R Ledesma

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation ORCID

34

Works

38,128

Citations

16

h-index

20

i10-index

Research Topics

Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology COVID-19 epidemiological studies Global Health Care Issues

Affiliations

Rhode Island Department of Health2023–2023

Kaiser Permanente2025–2025

University of Washington2018–2024

Brown University2021–2024

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation2018–2026

Top Works

Global, regional, and national burden of tuberculosis, 1990–2016: results from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2016 Study

Hmwe Hmwe Kyu,Emilie R Maddison,et al.

2018448 citations

COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis

Age–sex differences in the global burden of lower respiratory infections and risk factors, 1990–2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Hmwe Hmwe Kyu,Avina Vongpradith,et al.

2022295 citations

Global burden associated with 85 pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Mohsen Naghavi,Tomislav Meštrović,et al.

2024230 citations

Global, regional, and national sex differences in the global burden of tuberculosis by HIV status, 1990–2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Jorge R Ledesma,Jianing Ma,et al.

2021165 citations

Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific burden of diarrhoeal diseases, their risk factors, and aetiologies, 1990–2021, for 204 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Hmwe Hmwe Kyu,Avina Vongpradith,et al.

2024118 citations

Global, regional, and national age-specific progress towards the 2020 milestones of the WHO End TB Strategy: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Jorge R Ledesma,Jianing Ma,et al.

2024111 citations

Global variation in bacterial strains that cause tuberculosis disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Kirsten E. Wiens,Lauren Woyczynski,et al.

2018111 citations

Interferon-gamma release assay levels and risk of progression to active tuberculosis: a systematic review and dose-response meta-regression analysis

Jorge R Ledesma,Jianing Ma,et al.

202149 citations

Evaluation of the Global Health Security Index as a predictor of COVID-19 excess mortality standardised for under-reporting and age structure

Jorge R Ledesma,Christopher R. Isaac,et al.

202338 citations