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• 2026Balvi I, Lexchin J, Galea S, King NB, Davidovitch N. "Artificial Intelligence and the Commercial Determinants of Health: New Mechanisms of Commercial Influence." BMJ 394. Read online →
• 2025DeBono N, Amar V*, Hardy H*, Schubauer-Berigan M, Ruths D, King NB. "A large language model-based tool for identifying relationships to industry in research on the carcinogenicity of benzene, cobalt, and aspartame." Environmental Health 24.
• 2025DeBono N, Amar V*, Hardy H*, Schubauer-Berigan M, Ruths D, King NB. "The use of a large language model to identify industry-funded research in carcinogenic hazard evaluations." Occupational & Environmental Medicine 82. Read online →
• 2023Trudeau C*, King NB, Guastavino C. "Investigating sonic injustice: a review of published research." Social Science & Medicine 326. Read online →
• 2023Oei H*, Ruths D, King NB. "Who Controlled the Evidence? Question Answering for Disclosure Information Retrieval." Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 209.
• 2022Okhmatovskaia A*, Buckeridge DL, Shen Y*, Ganser I*, King NB, Collier N, Meng Z. "A conceptual framework for representing events under public health surveillance." Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 294.
• 2022Meng Z, Okhmatovskaia A*, Polleri M*, Powell G, Shen Y, Fu Z, Ganser I*, King NB, Buckeridge D, Collier N. "BioCaster in 2021: Detecting Disease Outbreaks from Global News Media." Bioinformatics 38(18).
• 2021Dimitris M*, Gittings M*, King NB. "How Global is Global Health Research? A Large-Scale Analysis of Trends in Authorship." BMJ Global Health 6(1). Read online →
• 2021Harper SB, Riddell C*, King NB. "Declining Life Expectancy in the United States: Missing the Trees for the Forest." Annual Review of Public Health 42(1). Read online →
• 2020King NB. "Harm Reduction: A Misnomer." Health Care Analysis 28. Read online →
• 2020Cooper JE*, Benmarhnia T*, Koski A, King NB. "Cash transfer programs have differential effects on health: A review of the literature from low and middle-income countries." Social Science & Medicine 247. Read online →
• 2020King NB, Koski A. "Defining global health as public health somewhere else." BMJ Global Health 5:e002172. Read online →
• 2018Drouin O*, Young M, King NB. "Message framing and counseling of parents on children’s physical activity – An experimental study." Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine 6(1).
• 2018Carabali M*, Austin N*, King NB, Kaufman J. "The zika epidemic and abortion in Latin America: a scoping review." Global Health Research and Policy 3(15). Read online →
• 2018King NB, Harper SB, Young M, Berry SC, Voigt K*. "The Impact of Social and Psychological Consequences of Disease on Judgments of Disease Severity: An Experimental Study." PLOS ONE 13(4). Read online →
• 2017Huang J*, King NB. "Epigenetics Changes Nothing: What a New Scientific Field Does and Does Not Mean for Social Justice." Public Health Ethics 11(1). Read online →
• 2017Voigt K*, King NB. "Out of alignment? Limitations of the Global Burden of Disease in assessing the allocation of global health aid." Public Health Ethics 10(3). Read online →
• 2017Benmarhnia T*, Alexander S, Price K, Smargiassi S, King NB, Kaufman J. "The heterogeneity of vulnerability in public health: a heat wave action plan as a case study." Critical Public Health 28. Read online →
• 2016King NB, Harper SB, Strumpf E. "Has the Increase in Disability Insurance Participation Contributed to Increased Opioid-Related Mortality?" Annals of Internal Medicine 165(10): 729–730. Read online →
• 2016Benmarhnia T*, Auger N, Kaiser D, Bailey Z*, King NB, Kaufman J. "A difference-in-differences approach to assess the effect of a heat action plan on heat-related mortality and equity in Montreal, Quebec." Environmental Health Perspectives 24(11). Honorable Mention, Best Environmental Epidemiology Papers of 2016, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. Read online →
• 2016Campbell J*, King NB. "‘Unsettling Circularity’: Clinical Trial Enrichment and the Evidentiary Politics of Chronic Pain." Biosocieties 12(2). Read online →
• 2015Richardson R*, Charters T*, King NB, Harper SB. "Trends in educational inequalities in drug poisoning mortality in the United States, 1994-2010." American Journal of Public Health 105(9).
• 2014King NB, Fraser V*, Boikos C*, Richardson R*, Harper SB. "Determinants of Increased Opioid-Related Mortality in the United States and Canada, 1990-2013: A Systematic Review." American Journal of Public Health 104(8).
• 2014Harper SB, King NB, et al. "Juicios de valor implícitos en la medición de las desigualdades en salud." Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública 35(4).
• 2014Voigt K*, King NB. "Disability Weights in the Global Burden of Disease 2010: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back?" Bulletin of the World Health Organization 92.
• 2014King NB. "Contagion: A Misnomer for Financial Crisis." Journal of Public Health 36(1).
• 2013Harper SB, King NB, Young M. "Impact of Selective Evidence Presentation of Health Inequality Trends: An Experimental Study." PLOS ONE 8(5).
• 2013King NB, Fraser V*. "Untreated Pain, Narcotics Regulation, and Global Health Ideologies." PLOS Medicine 10(4). PLOS Medicine Weekly Editor’s Pick.
• 2013Young ME, King NB, Harper SB, Humphreys KR. "The influence of popular media on perceptions of personal and population risk in possible disease outbreaks." Health, Risk, and Society 15(1).
• 2013King NB, Harper SB, Young ME. "Who Cares About Health Inequalities? Cross-country Evidence from the World Health Survey." Health Policy and Planning 28(5): 558–571.
• 2012King NB, Harper SB, Young M. "Use of relative and absolute effect measures in reporting health inequalities: structured review." BMJ 345.
• 2012Huttenhower C, Gevers D, et al. (+multiple authors including King NB). "Structure, Function and Diversity of the Human Microbiome in an Adult Reference Population." Nature 486 (14 June).
• 2012Methé BA, Nelson KE, et al. (+multiple authors including King NB). "A Framework for Human Microbiome Research." Nature 486 (14 June).
• 2012King NB. "Invited Commentary: Biodefense and the Production of Knowledge: Rethinking the Problem." Journal of Medical Ethics 39.
• 2012King NB. "Case Discussion: Health Inequities in First Nations Communities and Canada’s Response to the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic." In Population and Public Health Ethics: Cases from Research, Policy, and Practice. Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Population and Public Health / University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics.
• 2010Harper SB, King NB, et al. "Implicit Value Judgments in the Measurement of Health Inequalities." Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly 88(1). Harper and King share equal status as primary co-authors.
• 2008Ornt DB, Aron DC, King NB, et al. "Population Medicine in a Curricular Revision at Case Western Reserve." Academic Medicine 83(4).
• 2006Aiello S, King NB, Foxman B. "Antimicrobials and the Ethics of Drug Development." American Journal of Public Health 96(11).
• 2006Berg JW, King NB. "Strange Bedfellows? Reflections on Bioethics’ Role in Disaster Response Planning." American Journal of Bioethics 6.
• 2005King NB. "The Ethics of Biodefense." Bioethics 19(4).
• 2004King NB. "The Scale Politics of Emerging Diseases." Osiris 19.
• 2003King NB. "The Influence of Anxiety: September 11th, Bioterrorism, and American Public Health." Journal of the History of Medicine and the Allied Sciences 58(4).
• 2002King NB. "Security, Disease, Commerce: Ideologies of Post-Colonial Global Health." Social Studies of Science 32(5/6).
• 2002King NB. "Dangerous Fragments." Grey Room 7 (Spring).
• 2023Benyekhlef K, Amicelle A, King NB, Tanner S. "Technologies de l’information." In Frédéric Mérand and Jennifer Welsh, Le Monde D’Après: Les conséquences de la COVID-19 sur les relations internationales. Université de Montréal Press.
• 2021King NB. "Science and Public Policy in a Post-Pandemic World." In Jean-Louis Denis, Catherine Régis & Daniel Weinstock, Eds., Pandemic Societies. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Read online →
• 2020Piper A, Kraicer E, King NB, et al. "Evidence." In Andrew Piper, Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• 2020King NB. "Technological Fixes and Antimicrobial Resistance." In Zeb Jamrozik & Michael Selgelid, Eds., Ethics and Antimicrobial Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health. Read online →
• 2017King NB. "Equality and Inequality in American Health Care (Revised)." In Eileen E. Morrison, Ed., Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett.
• 2016King NB. "Justice, Evidence, and Interdisciplinary Health Inequalities Research." In Mara Buchbinder, Ed., Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice: Bridging Perspectives for New Conversations. University of North Carolina Press. Read online →
• 2015King NB. "Mediating Panic: The Iconography of New Infectious Threats, 1936-2009." In Robert Peckham, Ed., Empires of Panic: Epidemics and Colonial Anxieties. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
• 2012King NB. "Equality and Inequality in American Health Care (Revised)." In Eileen E. Morrison, Ed., Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett.
• 2011King NB. Introduction to reprint of "The Influence of Anxiety: September 11, Bioterrorism, and American Public Health." In John Charles Goshert, Ed., Entering the Academic Conversation. Glenview, IL: Pearson.
• 2009King NB. "Equality and Inequality in American Health Care." In Eileen E. Morrison, Ed., Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett.
• 2008King NB. "Networks, Disease, and the Utopian Impulse." In S. Harris Ali & Roger Keil, Eds., Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
• 2006King NB. "The Ethics of Biodefense." In Michael J. Selgelid, et al., Eds., Ethics and Infectious Disease. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
• 2003King NB. "Immigration, Race, and Geographies of Difference in the Tuberculosis Pandemic." In Matthew Gandy & Alimuddin Zumla, Eds., Return of the White Plague: Global Poverty and the New Tuberculosis. London: Verso Press.
• 1988Mako F, Golden J, Dialetis D, Floyd L, King NB, Kapetanakos CA. "Beam ‘Self-Trapping’ in the NRL Modified Betatron Accelerator." In Anthony Hyder, et al., Eds., High-Brightness Accelerators. New York: Plenum Press.
• 2020King NB. "Catastrophe Theory in Slow Motion." Biosocieties 15(3). Read online →
• 2020King NB. "The politics of evidence and uncertainty in the COVID-19 pandemic." The Bell: Policy for Pandemics. Read online →
• 2015King NB. "Ebola 1995/2014." Limn 5. Read online →
• 2013Harper SB, King NB. "Invited Commentary: Best Practice for What?" The Milbank Quarterly 91(1).
• 2012King NB, Kaufman J. "More Author Disclosure: Solution or Absolution?" Epidemiology 23(6).
• 2012Harper SB, Kaufman JS, King NB. "Increased risk of coronary heart disease in female smokers." The Lancet 379(9818).
• 2011Kaufman JS, King NB, Harper SB. "A More Complete Picture of Higher Cardiovascular Disease Prevalence Among Blacks Compared to Whites." The American Journal of Medicine 124(5).
• 2011King NB, Harper SB, et al. "We’ll Take the Red Pill: A Reply to Asada." Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly 88(4).
• 2010King NB, Kaufman JS, Harper SB. "Relative Measures Alone Tell Only Part of the Story." American Journal of Public Health 100.
• 2009King NB. "Book Review – Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America." Isis 100.
• 2009King NB, Harper SB. "Scan of Scenario Building in Population Health With a Focus on Social Determinants of Health." Report prepared for the Public Health Agency of Canada.
• 2008King NB. "Book Review – Bioviolence: Preventing Biological Terror and Crime." American Journal of Bioethics 8(2).
• 2005King NB. "Emerging Diseases" and "Biological Terrorism." In Sal Restivo, Ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society. New York: Oxford University Press.