Deborah Blacker

Professor in the Department of Epidemiology

Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Departments

Department of Epidemiology

Other Positions

Associate Chair of the Department of Epidemiology

Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Professor of Psychiatry

Psychiatry-Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Biography

All-cause nursing home mortality rates have remained above pre-pandemic levels after accounting for decline in occupancy.

Weiss M, Normand ST, Grabowski DC, Blacker D, Newhouse JP, Hsu J. Health Aff Sch 2024
Impaired kidney function, cerebral small vessel disease and cognitive disorders: the Framingham Heart Study.

Kelly DM, Pinheiro AA, Koini M, Anderson CD, Aparicio H, Hofer E, Kern D, Blacker D, DeCarli C, Hwang SJ, Viswanathan A, Gonzales MM, Beiser AS, Seshadri S, Schmidt R, Demissie S, Romero JR. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2024 Oct 30
Benzodiazepine Utilization in Ischemic Stroke Survivors: Analyzing Initial Excess Supply and Longitudinal Trends.

Lomachinsky Torres V, Brooks JD, Donahue MA, Sun S, Hsu J, Price M, Blacker D, Schwamm LH, Newhouse JP, Haneuse S, Moura LMVR. Stroke 2024
Evaluating the concordance between International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision Code and stroke severity as measured by the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.

Taha M, Habib M, Lomachinsky V, Hadar P, Newhouse JP, Schwamm LH, Blacker D, Moura LMVR. BMJ Neurol Open 2025
Benzodiazepine Initiation Effect on Mortality Among Medicare Beneficiaries Post Acute Ischemic Stroke.

Sankaranarayanan M, Donahue MA, Sun S, Brooks JD, Schwamm LH, Newhouse JP, Hsu J, Blacker D, Haneuse S, Moura LMVR. medRxiv 2024 Aug 20

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