Tim Bruckner

About

Tim Bruckner is a Professor and Chancellor's Fellow of Public Health at the University of California. The page indicates his role within the university's public health department, but does not provide specific details about his research focus, background, or key contributions.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Demography
• Sociology
• Political Science
• Obstetrics
• Computer Science
• Environmental health
• Pediatrics
• Ecology
• Biology

Selected publications

• Estimated seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among adults in Orange County, California

  Scientific Reports · 2021 · 54 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Clinic-based estimates of SARS-CoV-2 may considerably underestimate the total number of infections. Access to testing in the US has been heterogeneous and symptoms vary widely in infected persons. Public health surveillance efforts and metrics are therefore hampered by underreporting. We set out to provide a minimally biased estimate of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among adults for a large and diverse county (Orange County, CA, population 3.2 million). We implemented a surveillance study that minim…

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• Changes in preterm birth and caesarean deliveries in the United States during the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic

  Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology · 2021 · 51 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  BACKGROUND: Preliminary studies suggest that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and associated social, economic and clinical disruptions have affected pregnancy decision-making and outcomes. Whilst a few US-based studies have examined regional changes in birth outcomes during the pandemic's first months, much remains unknown of how the pandemic impacted perinatal health indicators at the national-level throughout 2020, including during the 'second wave' of infections that occurred later in the year. OBJECT…

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• The 2016 presidential election and periviable births among Latina women

  Early Human Development · 2020 · 19 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Cost-effectiveness of physical activity-oriented interventions for improving mental health: a systematic review

  BMC Public Health · 2025-05-13 · 4 citations

  reviewOpen access

  QUESTION: Are physical activity-oriented interventions for improving mental health conditions cost-effective? This study systematically identified and summarized published evidence on the cost-effectiveness of physical activity-oriented interventions for improving mental health conditions. STUDY SELECTION AND ANALYSIS: We searched four databases (PubMed/Medline, Science Direct, PsychArticles, PsychINFO) for published studies (from any time and region) that (1) assessed physical activity-oriented…

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• Vanishing twins, selection <i>in utero</i>, and infant mortality in the United States

  Evolution Medicine and Public Health · 2025-01-01 · 3 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Research to identify fetal predictors of infant mortality among singletons born in the United States (US) concludes that poorly understood and unmeasured “confounders” produce a spurious association between fetal size and infant death. We argue that these confounders include Vanishing Twin Syndrome (VTS)—the clinical manifestation of selection against frail male twins in utero. We test our argument in 276 monthly conception cohorts conceived in the US from Janu…

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Recent grants

• Racial disparities in pediatric psychiatric emergencies: A Health systems approach

  NIH · $454k · 2017–2020

Frequent coauthors

• Ralph Catalano

  University of California, Berkeley

  105 shared

• Parvati Singh

  The Ohio State University

  61 shared

• Bharath Chakravarthy

  Thai Red Cross Society

  41 shared

• Alison Gemmill

  Johns Hopkins University

  39 shared

• Joan A. Casey

  Columbia University

  33 shared

• Nhung T. H. Trinh

  University of Oslo

  27 shared

• Abhery Das

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  25 shared

• Shahram Lotfipour

  University of California, Irvine

  23 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Environmental Health Sciences

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1992

• M.S., Environmental Health Sciences

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1988

• B.S., Environmental Health Sciences

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1986

Awards & honors

• 2005-2006, National Institute on Child Health and Developmen…
• 2004-2005, National Institute on Aging Pre-Doctoral Fellowsh…

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