Amir Attaran
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Amir Attaran is a Canadian professor in both the Faculty of Law and the School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Early life and education Attaran was born in California to immigrants from Iran. He attended public schools in the Sacramento area.
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Published Works
- Adherence to antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa and North America: a meta-analysis. (2006) (959)
- Community-based approaches to HIV treatment in resource-poor settings (2001) (538)
- BM28, a human member of the MCM2-3-5 family, is displaced from chromatin during DNA replication (1995) (250)
- An Immeasurable Crisis? A Criticism of the Millennium Development Goals and Why They Cannot Be Measured (2005) (196)
- WHO, the Global Fund, and medical malpractice in malaria treatment (2004) (187)
- How do patents and economic policies affect access to essential medicines in developing countries? (2004) (185)
- Antimalarial Drug Quality in the Most Severely Malarious Parts of Africa – A Six Country Study (2008) (178)
- Do patents for antiretroviral drugs constrain access to AIDS treatment in Africa? (2001) (176)
- How to achieve international action on falsified and substandard medicines (2012) (142)
- Defining and refining international donor support for combating the AIDS pandemic (2001) (129)
- A community-based comprehensive intervention to reduce cardiovascular risk in hypertension (HOPE 4): a cluster-randomised controlled trial (2019) (111)
- Barriers to the effective treatment and prevention of malaria in Africa: A systematic review of qualitative studies (2009) (98)
- Roll Back Malaria? The scarcity of international aid for malaria control (2003) (84)
- Balancing risks on the backs of the poor (2000) (81)
- Pilot Study of Essential Drug Quality in Two Major Cities in India (2009) (81)
- Combination pharmacotherapy to prevent cardiovascular disease: present status and challenges. (2013) (72)
- Where did it all go wrong? (2004) (55)
- Strategies to increase the ownership and use of insecticide-treated bednets to prevent malaria. (2015) (54)
- Responding to the Pandemic of Falsified Medicines (2015) (53)
- DDT AND UROGENITAL MALFORMATIONS IN NEWBORN BOYS IN A MALARIAL AREA (2010) (47)
- Doctoring malaria, badly: the global campaign to ban DDTDDT for malaria control should not be bannedCommentary: Reduction and elimination of DDT should proceed slowly (2000) (47)
- Human rights and biomedical research funding for the developing world: covering state obligations under the right to health. (1999) (43)
- Ethical debate: doctoring malaria, badly: the global campaign to ban DDT. (2000) (43)
- Why and How to Make an International Crime of Medicine Counterfeiting (2011) (41)
- Unanimity on death with dignity--legalizing physician-assisted dying in Canada. (2015) (38)
- Trading ideology for dialogue: an opportunity to fix international aid for health? (2003) (35)
- Monitoring the ability to deliver care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of health facility assessment tools (2014) (34)
- The World Bank: false financial and statistical accounts and medical malpractice in malaria treatment (2006) (33)
- Medical errors, apologies and apology laws (2009) (33)
- Patent Rights and Local Working Under the WTO TRIPS Agreement: An Analysis of the U.S.-Brazil Patent Dispute (2002) (32)
- Combatting Substandard and Falsified Medicines: A View from Rwanda (2013) (30)
- Out-licensing: a practical approach for improvement of access to medicines in poor countries (2003) (30)
- Adherence to HAART: Africans Take Medicines More Faithfully than North Americans (2007) (30)
- Stopping Murder by Medicine: Introducing the Model Law on Medicine Crime (2015) (29)
- Poor-Quality Drugs and Global Trade: A Pilot Study (2014) (28)
- Property Rights Theory and the Reform of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Developing Countries (2011) (27)
- Is Patent “Evergreening” Restricting Access to Medicine/Device Combination Products? (2016) (27)
- Listeriosis is the least of it (2008) (26)
- In which developing countries are patents on essential medicines being filed? (2017) (25)
- Association of rule of law and health outcomes: an ecological study (2015) (24)
- The Inadequate Treatment of Pain: Collateral Damage from the War on Drugs (2012) (23)
- Physical and chemical stability of expired fixed dose combination artemether-lumefantrine in uncontrolled tropical conditions (2009) (23)
- Health Domains for Sale: The Need for Global Health Internet Governance (2014) (22)
- Access to controlled medicines for anesthesia and surgical care in low-income countries: a narrative review of international drug control systems and policies (2017) (21)
- A counterfeit drug treaty: great idea, wrong implementation (2010) (21)
- DDT AND UROGENITAL MALFORMATIONS IN NEWBORN BOYS IN A MALARIAL AREA (2010) (21)
- Jordan's Principle, governments' paralysis (2007) (21)
- Assessments of health services availability in humanitarian emergencies: a review of assessments in Haiti and Sudan using a health systems approach (2015) (20)
- Healthy by law: the missed opportunity to use laws for public health (2012) (18)
- Zika virus and the 2016 Olympic Games (2016) (17)
- Compulsory licensing often did not produce lower prices for antiretrovirals compared to international procurement. (2015) (17)
- Chagas' disease in Mexico (2006) (17)
- Universal health coverage and health laws (2014) (17)
- Variant antigenic peptide promotes cytotoxic T lymphocyte adhesion to target cells without cytotoxicity. (1998) (16)
- Fatal Bacterial Meningitis Possibly Associated with Substandard Ceftriaxone--Uganda, 2013. (2016) (16)
- Competition-Based Reform of the National Health Service in England: A One-Way Street? (2012) (15)
- Shoppers Drug Mart or Poachers Drug Mart? (2007) (15)
- Asbestos mortality: a Canadian export (2008) (13)
- An Analysis of Substandard Propofol Detected in Use in Zambian Anesthesia (2017) (13)
- The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project--Assessing the World Bank's Failed Experiment to Direct Oil Revenues towards the Poor (2011) (13)
- Anti-Infective Medicine Quality: Analysis of Basic Product Quality by Approval Status and Country of Manufacture (2012) (13)
- Pan-Canadian overpricing of medicines: a 6-country study of cost control for generic medicines (2014) (12)
- The Commission on Narcotic Drugs' attempt to restrict ketamine (2015) (12)
- Subsidizing Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapies: A Preliminary Investigation of the Affordable Medicines Facility – Malaria (2012) (12)
- Declawing the Vulture Funds: Rehabilitation of a Comity Defense in Sovereign Debt Litigation (2003) (12)
- Developing consensus measures for global programs: lessons from the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Hypertension research program (2017) (11)
- Assessing and Answering Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the Trips Agreement and Public Health: The Case for Greater Flexibility and a Non-Justiciability Solution (2003) (11)
- Off the Podium: Why Public Health Concerns for Global Spread of Zika Virus Means That Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympic Games Must Not Proceed (2016) (11)
- Solving the "Khadr Problem": Retention of Jurisdiction – A Comparative Analysis (2015) (11)
- A tragically naive Canadian law for tragically neglected global health (2007) (10)
- Rescuing malaria treatment, or not? (2004) (10)
- The DOHA Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, Access to Pharmaceuticals, and Options Under WTO Law (2002) (10)
- Ensuring the future of health information online (2013) (9)
- Mapping of Health Communication and Education Strategies Addressing the Public Health Dangers of Illicit Online Pharmacies (2016) (9)
- Erratum to: Access to controlled medicines for anesthesia and surgical care in low-income countries: a narrative review of international drug control systems and policies (2017) (9)
- Dead wrong on AIDS. (2001) (8)
- A call for a moratorium on the .health generic top-level domain: preventing the commercialization and exclusive control of online health information (2014) (8)
- Vaccines alone will not prevent COVID-19 outbreaks among migrant workers—the example of meat processing plants (2022) (8)
- A Legal and Epidemiological Justification for Federal Authority in Health Emergencies (2007) (8)
- Could patents interfere with the development of a cardiovascular polypill? (2016) (7)
- Upstream solutions for price-gouging on critical generic medicines (2016) (7)
- How can the international community respond to evidence of genocide in Ukraine? (2022) (6)
- Ending life with grace and agreement (2008) (6)
- The Ebola Vaccine, Iatrogenic Injuries, and Legal Liability (2015) (6)
- Opioids and chronic pain (2012) (6)
- A Wobbly Balance? A Comparison of Proportionality Testing in Canada, the United States, the European Union and the World Trade Organization (2007) (5)
- Promises once, promises twice: a view on the Abuja Declaration and a new opportunity for African malaria control (2000) (5)
- Pandemic Data Sharing: How the Canadian Constitution Turned Into a Suicide Pact (2020) (5)
- Will Negligence Law Poison the Well of Foreign Aid? A Case Comment on: Binod Sutradhar v. Natural Environment Research Council (2006) (5)
- Human Member of the MCM 2-3-5 Family , Is Displaced from Chromatin during DNA Replication (2002) (5)
- Access to controlled medicines for pain relief and anaesthesia in low-income countries (2014) (5)
- A modest but meaningful decision for Indian drug patents (2014) (5)
- A study of pharmaceutical data exclusivity laws in Latin America: is access to affordable medicine threatened? (2009) (5)
- Does Size Matter? The ICRW and the Inclusion of Small Cetaceans (2014) (5)
- Which patent and where? Why international patent transparency by companies is needed for medicines (2016) (4)
- Model Law on Medicine Crime (2015) (4)
- WHO's Response to Global Public Health Threats: XDR-TB (2007) (4)
- Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health: Options for TRIPS Council (2002) (4)
- A legislative failure of epidemic proportions (2008) (4)
- Is Canada patent deal obstructing Ebola vaccine development? (2014) (4)
- Webcast the World Health Assembly (2014) (4)
- Toward Point-of-Care Drug Quality Assurance in Developing Countries: Comparison of Liquid Chromatography and Infrared Spectroscopy Quantitation of a Small-Scale Random Sample of Amoxicillin (2018) (4)
- Why Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime Can Never Succeed (2010) (4)
- Delivering essential medicines (2003) (3)
- The olympically mismeasured risk of Zika virus in Rio de Janeiro (2016) (3)
- Global health agencies' response to malaria (2001) (3)
- A Rejoinder to ‘Size Matters, Although It Shouldn’t: The ICRW and Small Cetaceans’ (2014) (3)
- Have Charter, Will Travel? Extraterritoriality in Constitutional Law and Canadian Exceptionalism (2008) (3)
- Exploring New Models for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction: The Heart Outcomes Prevention and Evaluation 4 (HOPE 4) Canada Pilot Study (2020) (3)
- For peace and pain: the medical legitimisation of Afghanistan's poppy crop (2011) (3)
- Chagas' disease in Mexico. Author's reply (2006) (3)
- A method for understanding generic procurement of HIV medicines by developing countries with patent protection. (2017) (3)
- Civil Liability in Canada's Courts for Torture Committed Abroad: The Unsatisfactory Interpretation of the State Immunity Act 1985 (Can) (2008) (3)
- Internet Pharmacies: Canada's Transnational Organized Crime (2014) (3)
- Compulsory Licenses: The Authors Reply. (2015) (2)
- Correction: An Immeasurable Crisis? A Criticism of the Millennium Development Goals and Why They Cannot Be Measured (2006) (2)
- Trading health for oil? Uganda should not export its health workers (2015) (2)
- Optimization of Parameters in Concentration Technology for Treatment and Reduction of Organic Load in Distillery’s Vinasse (2013) (2)
- Take Your Medicine?: The Risk of Patient-Led Litigation in Canada's Medicine Access System (2009) (2)
- Finding true north for the Canadian Medical Association Journal (2006) (2)
- Deaths from malaria in Africa (2003) (2)
- Addressing mental health in the UK (2010) (2)
- Lowering the High Cost of Cancer Drugs--III. (2016) (2)
- America, embrace health care reform (2009) (2)
- Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (2001) (2)
- Congratulations to our colleagues at Open Medicine (2007) (2)
- Modification of Digesting System in Chemical Oxygen Demand Test with Silver Nano Particles for Determination of Organic Load in Effluent of Pharmaceutical Industries (2013) (2)
- A distorting take on DDT (2010) (1)
- International funding for AIDS care in poor countries should be increased (2001) (1)
- Patents Do Not Strangle Innovation, But Their Quality Must Be Improved (2004) (1)
- Misplaced health expectations at the G8 summit (2010) (1)
- Cytotoxic T lymphocytes can induce a condemned state and synchronous post‐mitotic apoptosis of daughter target cells (1999) (1)
- Competing interests of authors: We have revised our policy (2009) (1)
- It's time to take back the health care debate (2007) (1)
- Faith and the end of life (2008) (1)
- Europe and the United Nations: Clinical Trials, Not Criminal Trials (2014) (1)
- A plea for transparency in Canada's “new government” (2007) (1)
- The UN is premature in trying to ban DDT for malaria control (2012) (1)
- Physicians and patent law (2003) (1)
- Letter from Ottawa: Canada's Detainee Scandal in Afghanistan Before the Courts (2008) (1)
- Frontier injustice: the American threat to Canada’s drug supply (2019) (1)
- International Donor Support for Phasing out POPs: Recommendations for Poor Countries at INC-5 (2001) (1)
- Disease surveillance (2008) (0)
- Pharmaprix ou Pharmabraconnage? (2007) (0)
- Could patents interfere with the development of a cardiovascular polypill? (2016) (0)
- Upstream solutions for price-gouging on critical generic medicines (2016) (0)
- Biotechnology and International Law . Edited by Francesco Francioni and Tullio Scovazzi. Oxford and Portland: Hart Publishing, 2006. 448 pages. (2007) (0)
- Global poverty is ours to reject (2007) (0)
- Taiwan, China and the WHO: of pandas and pandemics (2009) (0)
- Hazardous Waste? The Criminal Law Power, Federal Environmental Jurisdication, and Ottawa's Policy Since R. V. Hydro-Quebec (2000) (0)
- Response to: Bouwman, H. et al. Hallogenated pollutants in terrestrial and aquatic bird eggs: converging patterns of pollutant profiles, and impacts and risks from higher levels Environ. Res. (2013) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2013.06.003. (2014) (0)
- Compared To International Procurement Compulsory Licensing Often Did Not Produce Lower Prices For Antiretrovirals (2015) (0)
- Drug Patents Abroad: The Author Responds (2004) (0)
- Canada's fevered failure on malaria (2007) (0)
- Further study of the Sabatier effect (1988) (0)
- Proceedings from a symposium of the Canadian Association of Population Therapeutics--2010 annual conference. (2011) (0)
- Mandamus in the Enforcement of the Criminal Law: Ending the Anti-Protest Injunction Habit (1999) (0)
- In praise of DDT (2001) (0)
- High Tech Hopes for Global Health (2012) (0)
- Why Canada is Dangerously Unprepared for Epidemic Diseases: A Legal and Constitutional Diagnosis (2011) (0)
- Combination drug policy for malaria. (2005) (0)
- Health domains for sale: The need for better global eHealth governance of health information online (2014) (0)
- Canadian Medical Association champions private medicine. Commentary (2006) (0)
- Social Science Colloquium Fall 2001 (Poster) (2001) (0)
- Lack of coordination and medical disinformation in Canadian self-assessment tools for COVID-19 (2020) (0)
- Author's Reply (2005) (0)
- Correction: Author's Reply (2006) (0)
- Spying at the UN: why America should be punished (2010) (0)
- Commentary: The Limits of Conscientious and Religious Objection to Physician-Assisted Dying after the Supreme Court's Decision in Carter v. Canada. (2016) (0)
- A Response to the Comments by Boister and McGrady (2011) (0)
- The budget's message to medical science: Quick! Get a shovel! (2009) (0)
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