dos. Dr. Michael Lowery Wilson
Group Leader
My interest lies in population-level injury prevention. My current focus entails investigating the mechanisms by which environmental factors, as well as resource and material deprivation, influence injury events and their outcomes. Dr. Michael Lowery Wilson leads the Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (IEP) Working Group at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health.
Education
Contributions
Projects & Grants
2019-2021 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
2019 Fulbright Finland Grantee
2013 -2016 Various research grants: For studies in pediatric TBI (Finnish Cultural Foundation, Vera Koivumäen Fund, Turun Yliopistosäätiö)
Publications
Selected recent publications:
Hoffmann, I., Lewis, E. R., Marini, C., McNelis, J., Viswanathan, S., Posti,
J. P., Lieb, D.A., Wilson, M. L. (2023). Venous thromboembolism risk among
pediatric patients with traumatic brain injury: a nationwide study of 44,128
patients. Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, -1(aop), 1–9. doi:
10.3171/2023.4.PEDS23102
Omer, M., Posti, J. P., Gissler, M., Merikukka, M., Hoffmann, I.,
Bärnighausen, T., & Wilson, M. L. (2022). The effect of birth order on length
of hospitalization for pediatric traumatic brain injury: an analysis of the
1987 Finnish Birth Cohort. Archives of Public Health, 80(1), 1–8. doi:
10.1186/s13690-022-00919-x
Abio, A., Owusu, P. N., Posti, J. P., Bärnighausen, T., Shaikh, M. A.,
Shankar, V., & Lowery Wilson, M. (2022). Cross-national examination of
adolescent suicidal behavior: a pooled and multi-level analysis of 193,484
students from 53 LMIC countries. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric
Epidemiology, 57(8), 1603–1613. doi: 10.1007/s00127-022-02287-x
Jansen, L., Outwater, A. H., Wilson, M. L., Iseselo, M. K., & Bärnighausen, T.
(2022). A controlled pilot intervention on community violence prevention,
financial and social capital generation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. BMC Public
Health, 22(1), 1–10. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-12723-x
Celedonia, K. L., Corrales Compagnucci, M., Minssen, T., & Lowery Wilson, M.
(2021). Legal, ethical, and wider implications of suicide risk detection
systems in social media platforms. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 8(1),
lsab021. doi: 10.1093/jlb/lsab021
Abio, A., Bovet, P., Didon, J., Bärnighausen, T., Shaikh, M. A., Posti, J. P.,
& Lowery Wilson, M. (2020). Trends in mortality from external causes in the
Republic of Seychelles between 1989 and 2018. Scientific Reports, 10(22186),
1–11. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-79228-8
Sadeghi-Bazargani, H., Sadeghpour, A., Wilson, M. L., Ala, A., & Rahmani, F.
(2020). Developing a National Integrated Road Traffic Injury Registry System:
A Conceptual Model for a Multidisciplinary Setting. Journal of
Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 13, 983–996. doi: 10.2147/JMDH.S262555
Wilson, M. L., Tenovuo, O., Gissler, M., & Saarijärvi, S. (2019). Association
between parent mental health and paediatric TBI: epidemiological observations
from the 1987 Finnish Birth Cohort. Injury Prevention, 25(4), 283–289. doi:
10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042624