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CDPRG Staff have published over 140 articles in international peer reviewed journals in addition to 3 books and many book chapters.

Selected publications are shown below:
 
BRIEFING NOTES
 
  • Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in the African Continent: Analysis of National Strategic Plans, June 2008 [pdf - 216Kb]
  • Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in Latin America: Analysis of National Plans, June 2008 [coming soon]
  • Business Continuity Planning and Pandemic Influenza in Europe: An analysis of independent sector and national governments? guidance, June 2008 [pdf - 132Kb]
  • Late Diagnosis for HIV/AIDS in Europe, June 2008 [pdf - 40Kb]
  • Testing Times: Unmet need in testing, treatment and care for HIV/AIDS in Europe, June 2008 [pdf - 48Kb]
  • Toolkit for rapid assessment of health systems and pandemic influenza preparedness and response  [pdf - 904Kb]
  • Resource needs in pandemic influenza control – Simple epidemic models to guide policy planning [pdf - 1.1Mb] 
  • Health system analysis to support capacity development in response to the threat of pandemic influenza in Asia [pdf - 1.2Mb]  

     REPORTS

     
  • Pandemic influenza preparedness in the Asia-Pacific region: An analysis of selected national plans, April 2006 [pdf - 651Kb]
  • How prepared is Europe for Pandemic Influenza? An Analysis of National Plans, April 2006 [pdf - 2.7Mb]
  • Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in the African Continent: Analysis of National Strategic Plans, October 2007 [pdf - 1.2Mb]
  • Pandemic influenza preparedness in Latin America: An analysis of national plans, January 2008 [pdf - 377Kb]
  • Business Continuity Planning and Pandemic Influenza in Europe: An analysis of independent sector and national governments? guidance, March 2008 [pdf - 2.7Mb]
  • Testing Times: Unmet need in testing, treatment and care for HIV/AIDS in Europe, July 2008 [pdf - 635Kb]
  • Indonesia: Health System and Pandemic Preparedness [pdf - 2Mb]
  • Lao: Health System and Pandemic Preparedness [pdf - 3.5Mb]
  • Taiwan: Health System and Pandemic Preparedness [pdf - 1.7Mb]
  • Thailand: Health System and Pandemic Preparedness [pdf - 2.2Mb]
  • Vietnam: Health System and Pandemic Preparedness [pdf - 1.7Kb]
  • Cambodia: Health System and Pandemic Preparedness [pdf - 1.6Mb]
  • Pandemic Flu RSA Toolkit_Draft [pdf - 184Kb]

    CDPRG Staff also contributed to the UNSIC & The World Bank´s Responses to Avian Influenza and State of Pandemic Readiness: Fourth Global Progress Report, October 2008      

  • BOOKS

  • Coker RJ, Atun RA, McKee M (Eds). Health systems and the challenge of communicable diseases: experiences from Europe and Latin America. McGraw Hill, Open University Press, 2008. ISBN 13 978 0 335 23366 3
  • Coker R. Migration, public health and compulsory screening for TB and HIV. ippr 2003. ISBN 1 86030 241 6
  • Coker RJ. From Chaos to Coercion: detention and the control of tuberculosis. St. Martin?s Press, New York, 2000. ISBN 0-312-22250-5
     

    CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • Coker RJ, Atun RA, McKee M. Contemporary emerging and re-emerging communicable diseases. pp 1-21. In: Coker RJ, Atun RA, McKee M (Eds). Health systems and the challenge of communicable diseases: experiences from Europe and Latin America. McGraw Hill, Open University Press, 2008. ISBN 13 978 0 335 23366 3
  • Atun RA, Coker RJ. Health systems and communicable disease control: emerging evidence and lessons from central and eastern Europe. pp 193-209. In: Coker RJ, Atun RA, McKee M (Eds). Health systems and the challenge of communicable diseases: experiences from Europe and Latin America. McGraw Hill Open University Press, 2008. ISBN 13 978 0 335 23366 3
  • Coker RJ, Mensua M, Atun R, McKee M. Health systems and communicable diseases: predicting and responding to future challenges. In: Coker RJ, Atun RA, McKee M (Eds). Health systems and the challenge of communicable diseases: experiences from Europe and Latin America. McGraw Hill, Open University Press, 2008. ISBN 13 978 0 335 23366 3
  • Hanvoravongchai P, Hsiao WC (2007) Thailand: Achieving Universal Coverage with Social Health Insurance, pp 133-154. In: Hsiao WC, Shaw P (Eds) Social Health Insurance for Developing Nations, World Bank Publications, ISBN 0821369490
  • Coker RJ, Ingram A. Passports and pestilence: migration, security and border control. In: Medicine at the border: Disease, globalization and security, 1850 to the present. Ed.: Bashford A. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2006.
  • Mounier S, McKee M, Atun R, Coker R. HIV and AIDS in Central Asia. Pp 67-100. In: HIV/AIDS in Russia and Eurasia. Ed.: Twigg J. Palgrave, New York 2006. ISBN -13: 978-1-4039-7628-4
  • Coker R. Foreword to: The tuberculosis survival handbook (2nd edition), Mayho P. London: Merit Publishing International, 2006. ISBN 978 1 873413 14 2
  • Coker R J, Pomerlau J, McKee M. The changing nature of infectious disease. In: Issues in Public Health. Ed.: Pomerlau J, McKee M. Open University Press, McGraw Hill Education, Maidenhead, 2005.
  • Coker R J. The emerging threat of multidrug resistant tuberculosis. pp 39-47. In: Horizons in Medicine. Ed.: Weber J. Royal College of Physicians of London, 2003.
     
    PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
     
  • Putthasri W, Lertiendumrong J, Chompook P, Tangchaorensathien V, Coker R. Capacity of Thailand to Contain an Emerging Influenza Pandemic. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2009; 15, 3. Available from http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/15/3/423.htm 
  • Conseil A, Mounier-Jack S, Coker R. Business Continuity Planning and Pandemic Influenza in Europe: An analysis of independent sector and national governments? guidance. J Business Continuity & Emergency Planning 2008; 3: 6-30.
  • Mounier-Jack S, Nielsen S, Coker RJ. HIV testing strategies across European countries. HIV Med (in press)
  • de Sa J, Mounier-Jack S, Lock K, Coker RJ. Unmet need and access to HIV services in Europe. Future HIV Therapy (in press)
  • Ortu G, Mounier-Jack S, Coker R. Pandemic influenza preparedness in Africa is a profound challenge for an already distressed region: analysis of national preparedness plans. Health Policy Plann 2008; 23: 161-9
  • Adler A, Mounier-Jack S, Coker RJ. Late diagnosis of HIV in Europe: definitional and public health challenges. AIDS Care (in press)
  • Atun R, Gurol I, McKee M, Coker R. Health systems? responses to 25 years of HIV in Europe: inequities persist and challenges remain. Health Policy (in press)
  • Coker R, Thomas M, Lock K, Martin R. Detention and the evolving threat of tuberculosis: evidence, ethics and law. J Law Med Ethics 2007 35: 609?615.
  • Mounier-Jack S, Jas R, Coker R. Progress and shortcomings in European national strategic plans for pandemic influenza. Bull World Health Organ 2007 http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/85/06-039834.pdf 
  • Coker RJ, Mounier-Jack S, Martin R. Public health law and tuberculosis control in Europe. Public Health 2007; 121: 266-73.
  • Coker RJ, Mounier-Jack S. Pandemic influenza preparedness in the Asia-Pacific region. Lancet 2006; 368: 886-9.
  • Mounier-Jack S, Coker RJ. How prepared is Europe for pandemic influenza? An analysis of national plans. Lancet 2006; 367: 1405-11.
  • Dimitrova B, Balabanova D, Atun R, Drobniewski F, Levicheva V, Coker R. Barriers to tuberculosis care in Russia: health service providers? perceptions. Health Policy Plann 2006; 21: 265-74.
  • Coker R, McKee M, Atun R, Dimitrova B, Dodonova E, Kuznetsov S, Drobniewski F. Risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis in Russia: case-control study. BMJ 2006; 332: 85-7.
  • Atun R, McKee M, Drobniewski F, Coker R. Analysis of how the health system context shapes responses to the control of human immunodeficiency virus: case-studies from the Russian Federation. Bull World Health Organ 2005; 83: 730-8.
  • Coker RJ, Dimitrova B, Drobniewski F, Samyshkin Y, Pomerlau J, Hohlova G Y, Skuratova N, Kuznetsov S, Fedorin I, Atun R. Health system frailties in tuberculosis service provision in Russia: an analysis through the lens of formal nutritional support. Public Health 2005; 119: 837-43.
  • Atun R, Baeza J, Drobniewski F, Levicheva V, Coker RJ. Implementing WHO DOTS strategy in the Russian Federation: stakeholder attitudes. Health Policy 2005; 74: 122-32.
  • Coker RJ, Atun R, Mckee M. Untangling Gordian knots: improving tuberculosis control through the development of ?programme theories?. Int J Health Plann Mgmt 2004; 19: 217-26.
  • Atun R, Lebcir R, Drobniewski F, Coker RJ. Impact of an effective multidrug resistant tuberculosis control programme in the setting of an immature HIV epidemic: system dynamics simulation model. Int J STD AIDS 2005; 16: 560-70.
  • Hogan H, Coker R, Gordon A, Meltzer M, Pickles H. Screening of new entrants for tuberculosis: responses to port notifications. J Public Health (Oxf) 2005; 27: 192-5.
  • Atun RA, Samyshkin YA, Drobniewski F, Skuratova NM, Gusarova G, Kuznetsov SI, Marchenko GR, Fedorin IM, Coker RJ. Barriers to sustainable tuberculosis control in the Russian Federation health system. Bull WHO 2005; 83: 217-23.
  • Weiler-Ravell D, Chemtob D, Coker RJ, Leventhal A. Compulsory detention of recalcitrant tuberculosis patients in the context of a new tuberculosis control programme in Israel . Public Health 2004; 118: 323-8.
  • Coker RJ, Bell A, Pitman R, Hayward A, Watson J. Screening programmes for tuberculosis in new entrants across Europe Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2004; 8: 1022-6.
  • Coker RJ, Atun R, Mckee M. Health care system frailties and public health control of communicable diseases on the European Union?s new eastern border. Lancet 2004; 363: 1389-92.
  • Coker RJ. Multidrug resistant tuberculosis: public health challenges. J Trop Med and Int Hlth 2004; 9: 25-40.
  • Coker RJ, Dimitrova B, Drobniewski F, Samyshkin Y, Balabanova Y, Kuznetsov S, Fedorin I, Melentsiev A, Marchenko G, Zakharova S, Atun R. Tuberculosis control in Samara Oblast, Russia: institutional and regulatory environment. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2003; 10: 920-32.
  • Hayward AC, Darton T, Watson JM, Coker RJ, Nguyen-Van-Tam J, Schwoebel V. Epidemiology and Control of Tuberculosis in Western European Cities. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2003; 7: 751-57.
  • Atun RA, Lennox-Chhugania, Drobniewski F, Samyshkin YA, Coker RJ. A framework and toolkit for capturing the communicable disease programmes within health systems tuberculosis control as an illustrative example. Eur J Public Health 2004; 14: 267-73.
  • Coker RJ. Public health impact of detention of individuals with tuberculosis: systematic literature review. Public Health 2003; 117: 281-87.
  • Coker RJ. Should tuberculosis programmes invest in second-line treatments for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB)? Int J TB Lung Dis 2002; 6:1-2.
  • Coker RJ, McKee M. Ethical approval for health research in central and eastern Europe: an international survey. Clin Med JRCPL 2001; 3: 197-9.
  • Coker RJ. Civil liberties and public good: detention of tuberculous patients and the Public Health Act 1984. Med Hist 2001; 45: 339-356.
  • Coker R, Lambregts van Weezenbeek, K . Mandatory screening and treatment of immigrants for latent tuberculosis in the USA: just restraint? Lancet ID 2001; 1: 270-6.
  • Coker RJ. The law, human rights and the detention of individuals with tuberculosis in England and Wales. J Public Health Med 2000; 22: 263-7.
  • Hayward AC, Coker RJ. Could a tuberculosis epidemic occur in London as it did in New York? Emerging Infectious Diseases 2000; 6:12-16.
  • Churchill DR, Hannan M, Miller R, Williams I, Nelson M, Kupek E, Coker RJ.

     

     
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