Category Archives: Other

Posts of topics other than health and health-related issues

Trends in cultural values across 105 countries: 1980 to 2020

Posted on August 9, 2020 by colinmathers

In a previous post, I examined variations in cultural values across 105 countries in year 2019 using data from all 7 waves of the World Values Survey (WVS)and all 5 waves of the European Values Survey (EVS) [1-4]. I developed … Continue reading →

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Climate change and the denial of reality

Posted on October 12, 2019 by colinmathers

Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion have been raising awareness of the urgent need to stop talking and start acting on global warming. The evidence that global warming is real and that it is human-caused is now overwhelming, but the public … Continue reading →

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Universal health coverage

Posted on December 14, 2017 by colinmathers

A WHO report monitoring progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) was released yesterday. It reports the proportion of the population that can access essential health services, and the proportion that are pushed into poverty by healthcare expenses, for 183 countries. … Continue reading →

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Sex and gender in reporting health indicators

Posted on August 19, 2017 by colinmathers

I am writing a chapter for a US publication, which has tables of statistics for males and females (which I refer to as “sex”).  The editor contacted me to ask whether I should be calling this “gender”.  This reminded me … Continue reading →

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One of the world’s most influential scientific minds…..

Posted on November 22, 2016 by colinmathers

I have been included for the second time in the Thomson Reuters list of “Highly Cited Researchers”. Around 3,000 researchers, in 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences, were selected for the recently released 2016 list based on the … Continue reading →

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An exclusive “interview”

Posted on March 4, 2015 by colinmathers

Murray, the anonymous health statistician whose distinctive style of mischievous political graffiti adorns journals around the world from London to Seattle, doesn’t “do” interviews. The world’s most anonymous global health researcher has famously remained silent but for the statements he … Continue reading →

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One of the world’s highly cited researchers!

Posted on July 7, 2014 by colinmathers

My sister happened to notice that I was listed in the world’s 3,127 most highly cited researchers, based on publications in years 2002-2012. According to the website http://highlycited.com/ Highly Cited Researchers 2014 represents some of world’s leading scientific minds. Over … Continue reading →

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Calorie restriction and longer life in nematode worms

Posted on June 27, 2014 by colinmathers

A paper just published in PLoS Genetics has found that diet restriction suspends development in nematode worms, and doubles their lifespan. The study found that C. elegans could be starved for at least two weeks and still develop normally once … Continue reading →

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Longevity and telomere length

Posted on June 21, 2014 by colinmathers

Came across a New Scientist article last week about the findings from an examination of the blood and tissues of Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper after her death in 2005. Aged 115 at her death, she was at one point the oldest … Continue reading →

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Peak productivity?

Posted on May 25, 2014 by colinmathers

Its been a crazy couple of weeks leading up to the 2014 World Health Assembly (just ended). We were involved in the launch of four global reports with a substantial statistical input from us in a period of 8 days. … Continue reading →

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