• Not the great equalizers: Covid-19, 1918–20 influenza, and the need for a paradigm shift in pandemic preparedness 

      Mamelund, Svenn-Erik; Dimka, Jessica (Population Studies;Volume 75, 2021 - Issue sup1: 75 years of Population Studies: A diamond anniversary special issue, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-13)
      Despite common perceptions to the contrary, pandemic diseases do not affect populations indiscriminately. In this paper, we review literature produced by demographers, historians, epidemiologists, and other researchers on ...
    • On the willingness to and consequences of reporting research misconduct: The role of power relations 

      Horbach, Serge; Breit, Eric; Halffman, Willem; Mamelund, Svenn-Erik (Science and Engineering Ethics;Published 26 February 2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-15)
      While attention to research integrity has been growing over the past decades, the processes of signalling and denouncing cases of research misconduct remain largely unstudied. In this article, we develop a ...
    • Organisational responses to alleged scientific misconduct: Sensemaking, sensegiving and sensehiding 

      Horbach, Serge; Breit, Eric; Mamelund, Svenn-Erik (Science and Public Policy; Volume 46, Issue 3, June 2019, Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-04)
      While a substantive literature has emerged on the prevalence, causes, and consequences of scientific misconduct, little is known about the organisational perspective in cases of (alleged) misconduct. We address this knowledge ...
    • Profiling a Pandemic. Who were the victims of the Spanish flu? 

      Mamelund, Svenn-Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      At the end of May 1918, the Spanish government was one of the first to admit that a new disease had emerged in their country. The newswire from Reuters reported that King Alfonso XIII, the prime minister, and ...
    • Protocol for a systematic review to understand the long-term mental-health effects of influenza pandemics in the pre-COVID-19 era 

      Dimka, Jessica; Schneider, Benjamin; Mamelund, Svenn-Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Aims: This protocol describes a forthcoming systematic review of the question: ‘What are the long-term effects of historical influenza pandemics on mental health, resulting either from illness itself or the social or ...
    • Race and 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States: A review of the literature 

      Økland, Helene; Mamelund, Svenn-Erik (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health;Volume 16, Issue 14, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-12)
      During epidemics, the poorest part of the population usually suffers the most. Alfred Crosby noted that the norm changed during the 1918 influenza pandemic in the US: The black population (which were expected to have higher ...
    • Short-term Birth Sequelae of the 1918-20 Influenza Pandemic in the United States: State-Level Analysis 

      Chandra, Siddharth; Christensen, Julia; Mamelund, Svenn-Erik; Nigel, Paneth (American Journal of Epidemiology;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-28)
      This paper illuminates short-term birth sequelae of the influenza pandemic of 1918–20 in the USA using monthly data on births and all-cause deaths for 19 US states in conjunction with data on maternal deaths, stillbirths, ...
    • Social and demographic patterns of influenza vaccination coverage in Norway, influenza seasons 2014/15 to 2020/21 

      Klüwer, Birgitte; Rydland, Kjersti Margrethe; Gleditsch, Rebecca; Mamelund, Svenn-Erik; Laake, Ida (Vaccine;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Aims: To examine influenza vaccination coverage among risk groups (RG) and health care workers (HCW), and study social and demographic patterns of vaccination coverage over time. Methods: Vaccination coverage was estimated ...
    • Social disparities in adopting non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19 

      Mamelund, Svenn-Erik; Dimka, Jessica; Bakkeli, Nan Zou (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In the absence of vaccines to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 governments had to respond by rely on non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). Socioeconomic inequalities likely influenced the uptake of NPIs. Using ...
    • The strength and vulnerability of school-age children 

      Mamelund, Svenn-Erik; Haneberg, Bjørn; Mjaaland, Siri (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      BACKGROUND Children between the ages of 5 and 14 appear to have a lower risk of dying than both younger and older individuals. OBJECTIVE We looked for possible factors influencing the mortality rates ...
    • Tuberculosis as a risk factor for 1918 influenza pandemic outcomes 

      Mamelund, Svenn-Erik; Dimka, Jessica (Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease;2019, 4 (2), 74, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-29)
      Tuberculosis (TB) mortality declined after the 1918 pandemic, suggesting that influenza killed those who would have died from TB. Few studies have analyzed TB as a direct risk factor for 1918 influenza morbidity and mortality ...