Jim Harris
Ohio State University · History
Active 1960–2026
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About
Jim Harris is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Ohio State University, where he received his Ph.D. in 2017. His research focuses on modern European history, with a particular emphasis on Great Britain, as well as the history of science, medicine, and the environment. Harris has authored the book 'Children’s Health and Urban Ecology in England, 1885–1919,' which explores the localized history of urban public health campaigns in major English cities such as Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester. He has also published articles on the history of the 1918 flu pandemic in Great Britain, British anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, and pedagogy related to teaching the history of public health. Harris co-designed the interdisciplinary course 'Pandemic Pedagogies: An Interdisciplinary Model for Teaching about the Human Impacts of Pandemics,' funded by the 2020 Global Arts and Humanities COVID-19 Special Grants Initiative. At Ohio State, he regularly offers courses on modern European history, global environmental history, and the history of public health, disease, and medicine. Additionally, he teaches interdisciplinary courses on vaccines and the climate crisis, collaborating with colleagues from pharmacy, earth science, and ecology departments.
Research topics
- Medicine
- Surgery
- Physical therapy
- Orthodontics
- Anatomy
Selected publications
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine · 2022-11-04 · 123 citations
articleOpen accessInterrater and Intrarater Reliability of the Beighton Score: A Systematic Review
Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine · 2021-01-01 · 81 citations
reviewOpen accessSenior authorCorrespondingBACKGROUND: The Beighton score is commonly used to assess the degree of hypermobility in patients with hypermobility spectrum disorder. Since proper diagnosis and treatment in this challenging patient population require valid, reliable, and responsive clinical assessments such as the Beighton score, studies must properly evaluate efficacy and effectiveness. PURPOSE: To succinctly present a systematic review to determine the inter- and intrarater reliability of the Beighton score and the methodol…
Evaluating Large Language Models for Public Health Classification and Extraction Tasks
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024-05-23 · 5 citations
preprintOpen access1st authorCorrespondingAdvances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to significant interest in their potential to support human experts across a range of domains, including public health. In this work we present automated evaluations of LLMs for public health tasks involving the classification and extraction of free text. We combine six externally annotated datasets with seven new internally annotated datasets to evaluate LLMs for processing text related to: health burden, epidemiological risk factors, and public…
2024-05-28 · 1 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingObservation of focal chondral pathology in the knee is common during knee arthroscopy. 1 A wide spectrum of chondral disease exists, ranging from superficial articular cartilage injuries to large full-thickness osteochondral lesions. Defects may progress to osteoarthritis based on several patient-, limb-, knee-, and defect-specific factors. 2 The ideal candidate for cartilage restoration surgery is the symptomatic, young or middle-aged motivated individual with either normal or correctable comor…
Healthy LLMs? Benchmarking LLM Knowledge of UK Government Public Health Information
ArXiv.org · 2025-05-09
preprintOpen access1st authorCorrespondingAs Large Language Models (LLMs) become widely accessible, a detailed understanding of their knowledge within specific domains becomes necessary for successful real world use. This is particularly critical in the domains of medicine and public health, where failure to retrieve relevant, accurate, and current information could significantly impact UK residents. However, while there are a number of LLM benchmarks in the medical domain, currently little is known about LLM knowledge within the field…
Frequent coauthors
- 350 shared
Patrick C. McCulloch
Methodist Sports Medicine
- 210 shared
Kyle R. Sochacki
Stanford University
- 144 shared
Shane J. Nho
Rush University Medical Center
- 141 shared
David Dong
- 119 shared
L. E. Peterson
Rice University
- 112 shared
Robert A. Jack
- 103 shared
David M. Lintner
Methodist Sports Medicine
- 91 shared
Geoffrey D. Abrams
Stanford University
Education
- 2013
Fellowship, Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine
Rush University Medical Center
- 2012
Residency, Orthopedic Surgery
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
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