Davide Rasella

38.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
88 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Davide Rasella is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Davide Rasella has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in General Health Professions, 33 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 24 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Davide Rasella's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (33 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (24 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (19 papers). Davide Rasella is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (33 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (24 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (19 papers). Davide Rasella collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United Kingdom and Spain. Davide Rasella's co-authors include Maurício L. Barreto, Rosana Aquino, Rômulo Paes-Sousa, Thomas Hone, Christopher Millett, Marina Luna Pamponet, Michael O. Harhay, Laura C. Rodrigues, Daiane Borges Machado and Azeem Majeed and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Davide Rasella

83 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on childhood mortality: a nationwide analysis of Brazilian municipalities
    2013 374 citations Davide Rasella, Rosana Aquino et al. profile →
  2. Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
    2025 23 citations Lucas Peixoto Sales, Natanael de Jesus Silva et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Davide Rasella Brazil 24 1.2k 716 444 437 362 88 2.4k
Kerry Scott United States 28 1.3k 1.1× 1.1k 1.5× 430 1.0× 336 0.8× 199 0.5× 84 2.6k
Rosana Aquino Brazil 23 1.5k 1.3× 728 1.0× 438 1.0× 339 0.8× 195 0.5× 75 2.3k
Kumanan Rasanathan Switzerland 24 803 0.7× 714 1.0× 375 0.8× 362 0.8× 256 0.7× 77 2.0k
Edward Kwabena Ameyaw Ghana 26 994 0.9× 1.4k 2.0× 364 0.8× 416 1.0× 328 0.9× 201 2.6k
Karl Blanchet United Kingdom 33 1.5k 1.3× 948 1.3× 529 1.2× 224 0.5× 246 0.7× 159 3.8k
Karen A. Grépin United States 29 619 0.5× 777 1.1× 292 0.7× 241 0.6× 259 0.7× 111 2.4k
Sohail Agha United States 26 1.2k 1.0× 1.0k 1.4× 311 0.7× 265 0.6× 175 0.5× 72 2.1k
Mirkuzie Woldie Ethiopia 30 994 0.9× 1.1k 1.5× 409 0.9× 346 0.8× 271 0.7× 107 2.7k
Philip Setel United States 25 752 0.6× 1.1k 1.6× 336 0.8× 272 0.6× 459 1.3× 47 2.8k
Rachel Tolhurst United Kingdom 29 887 0.8× 1.2k 1.6× 661 1.5× 300 0.7× 254 0.7× 97 3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Davide Rasella

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All Works

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Lua, Iracema, Maria Yury Ichihara, Maurício L. Barreto, et al.. (2025). Effects of conditional cash transfers on tuberculosis incidence and mortality according to race, ethnicity and socioeconomic factors in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort. Nature Medicine. 31(2). 653–662. 8 indexed citations
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Hessel, Philipp, Ana L. Moncayo, Renato Tasca, et al.. (2024). Current and Projected Mortality and Hospitalization Rates Associated With Conditional Cash Transfer, Social Pension, and Primary Health Care Programs in Brazil, 2000-2030. JAMA Network Open. 7(4). e247519–e247519. 3 indexed citations
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Rasella, Davide, et al.. (2024). The need for global social epidemiology in the polycrisis era. BMJ Global Health. 9(4). e015320–e015320. 6 indexed citations
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Mueller, Natalie, Simon J Lloyd, Karina Gibert, et al.. (2023). Model Choice for Quantitative Health Impact Assessment and Modelling: An Expert Consultation and Narrative Literature Review. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 12. 7103–7103. 7 indexed citations
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Rasella, Davide, et al.. (2023). Modelling HIV/AIDS epidemiological complexity: a scoping review of Agent-Based Model and their application. Population Medicine. 5(Supplement). 1 indexed citations
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Teixeira, Camila Silveira Silva, Maria Yury Ichihara, Davide Rasella, et al.. (2023). Incidence and risk factors of tuberculosis among 420 854 household contacts of patients with tuberculosis in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort (2004–18): a cohort study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 24(1). 46–56. 17 indexed citations
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Silva, Natanael de Jesus, et al.. (2023). Social protection in global crises: a gap between evidence and action. BMJ Global Health. 8(11). e013980–e013980. 5 indexed citations
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Basu, Sanjay, Thomas Hone, Daniel Antunes Maciel Villela, et al.. (2022). Contribution of primary care expansion to Sustainable Development Goal 3 for health: a microsimulation of the 15 largest cities in Brazil. BMJ Open. 12(1). e049251–e049251. 2 indexed citations
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Pescarini, Júlia Moreira, Ana Torrens, Maria Yury Ichihara, et al.. (2022). The effect of primary health care on tuberculosis in a nationwide cohort of 7·3 million Brazilian people: a quasi-experimental study. The Lancet Global Health. 10(3). e390–e397. 20 indexed citations
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Hone, Thomas, Andrew J. Mirelman, Davide Rasella, et al.. (2019). Effect of economic recession and impact of health and social protection expenditures on adult mortality: a longitudinal analysis of 5565 Brazilian municipalities. The Lancet Global Health. 7(11). e1575–e1583. 112 indexed citations
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Boccia, Delia, William E. Rudgard, Sourya Shrestha, et al.. (2018). Modelling the impact of social protection on tuberculosis: the S-PROTECT project. BMC Public Health. 18(1). 786–786. 15 indexed citations
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Machado, Daiane Borges, Laura C. Rodrigues, Davide Rasella, Maurício L. Barreto, & Ricardo Araya. (2018). Conditional cash transfer programme: Impact on homicide rates and hospitalisations from violence in Brazil. PLoS ONE. 13(12). e0208925–e0208925. 30 indexed citations
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Melo, Pedro O. S. Vaz de, et al.. (2015). A Spark-based Workflow for Probabilistic Record Linkage of Healthcare Data.. EDBT/ICDT Workshops. 17–26. 14 indexed citations
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Auger, Nathalie, et al.. (2015). Impact of homicide and traffic crashes on life expectancy in the largest Latin American country. Journal of Public Health. 38(3). 467–473. 7 indexed citations
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Rasella, Davide, et al.. (2014). [CT scanners in the Brazilian Unified National Health System: installed capacity and utilization].. PubMed. 30(6). 1293–304. 5 indexed citations
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Barreto, Maurício L., Davide Rasella, Daiane Borges Machado, et al.. (2014). Monitoring and Evaluating Progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Brazil. PLoS Medicine. 11(9). e1001692–e1001692. 50 indexed citations
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Rasella, Davide. (2013). Impacto do Programa Água para Todos (PAT) sobre a morbi-mortalidade por diarreia em crianças do Estado da Bahia, Brasil. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12 indexed citations

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