Faculty profile
Matthew Wiens
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Research
Latest papers
Effect of Household Air Pollution on the Gut Microbiome and Virome of Adult Women Living in Uganda.
Environmental health perspectives · 2026
Benchmarking bulk and single-cell variant-calling approaches on Chromium scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq libraries.
Genome research · 2024 · first author
AI-based histopathology image analysis reveals a distinct subset of endometrial cancers.
Nature communications · 2024
Latest funding
- $860,626
Serotype-specific protection from pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: immunity in Ugandan children and lessons for Canada
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
- $1,690,651
Smart Discharges for newborns with sepsis: a personalized public health approach for improving discharge and post-discharge care in low-resource settings
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
- $6,000
External validation and updating of prognostic models to identify hospitalized children at highest risk of in-hospital mortality in low-resource settings
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
12 publications.
Effect of Household Air Pollution on the Gut Microbiome and Virome of Adult Women Living in Uganda.
Huang CY, Nuwagira E, Tisza M, Kim M, Tayebwa M, Vieira J, Lam N, Wallach E, Wiens M, Tsai AC, Valeri L, Vallarino J, Allen JG, Lai PS
Benchmarking bulk and single-cell variant-calling approaches on Chromium scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq libraries.
Wiens M, Farahani H, Scott RW, Underhill TM, Bashashati A
AI-based histopathology image analysis reveals a distinct subset of endometrial cancers.
Darbandsari A, Farahani H, Asadi M, Wiens M, Cochrane D, Khajegili Mirabadi A, Jamieson A, Farnell D, Ahmadvand P, Douglas M, Leung S, Abolmaesumi P, Jones SJM, Talhouk A, Kommoss S, Gilks CB, Huntsman DG, Singh N, McAlpine JN, Bashashati A
Use, cost-effectiveness, and end user perspectives of a home solar lighting intervention in rural Uganda: a mixed methods, randomized controlled trial.
Sundararajan R, D'Couto H, Mugerwa J, Tayebwa M, Lam N, Wallach E, Wiens M, Ponticiello M, Stanistreet D, Tsai AC, Vallarino J, Allen JG, Muyanja D, Shrime MG, Nuwagira E, Lai PS
Anticipating the future: prognostic tools as a complementary strategy to improve care for patients with febrile illnesses in resource-limited settings.
Chandna A, Osborn J, Bassat Q, Bell D, Burza S, D'Acremont V, Fernandez-Carballo BL, Kain KC, Mayxay M, Wiens M, Dittrich S
A transformation of oxygen saturation (the saturation virtual shunt) to improve clinical prediction model calibration and interpretation.
Zhou G, Karlen W, Brant R, Wiens M, Kissoon N, Ansermino JM
Community health workers trained to conduct verbal autopsies provide better mortality measures than existing surveillance: Results from a cross-sectional study in rural western Uganda.
Nabukalu D, Ntaro M, Seviiri M, Reyes R, Wiens M, Sundararajan R, Mulogo E, Boyce RM
Effect of frequency of clinic visits and medication pick‐up on antiretroviral treatment outcomes: a systematic literature review and meta‐analysis
Mutasa‐Apollo T, Ford N, Wiens M, Socias ME, Negussie E, Wu P, Popoff E, Park J, Mills EJ, Kanters S
Mobile health applications for HIV prevention and care in Africa
Forrest JI, Wiens M, Kanters S, Nsanzimana S, Lester RT, Mills EJ
Critical appraisal of clinical practice guidelines in pediatric infectious diseases.
Wilby KJ, Black EK, MacLeod C, Wiens M, Lau TT, Paiva MA, Gorman S
Serotype-specific protection from pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: immunity in Ugandan children and lessons for Canada
Principal investigators: Hawkes, Michael T; Conroy, Andrea; Namasopo, Sophie M; Sadarangani, Manish
Keywords: Global Health; Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine; Vaccine Policy
Smart Discharges for newborns with sepsis: a personalized public health approach for improving discharge and post-discharge care in low-resource settings
Principal investigators: Wiens, Matthew O; Duby, Jessica; Kenya-Mugisha, Nathan
Keywords: Care-Seeking; Development; Low- And Middle-Income Countries; Moderate To Late Preterm; Personalized Public Health; Post-Discharge Mortality; Predictive Models; Rural/Remote Communities; Sepsis; Vulnerability
External validation and updating of prognostic models to identify hospitalized children at highest risk of in-hospital mortality in low-resource settings
Principal investigators: Zandi Nia, Sahar
Keywords: Child Mortality; In-Hospital Mortality; Low Resource Setting; Prognostic Model
Smart QI: Developing a scalable platform for integrating data-driven algorithms that drive quality improvement in pediatric sepsis care at health facilities in Uganda
Principal investigators: Wiens, Matthew O
Keywords: Child Health; Digital Health; Global Health; Infant Mortality; Interoperability; Post-Discharge Care; Quality Improvement; Risk Prediction; Sepsis; Triage
Smart Discharges in children over 5: Expanding a personalized public health approach to improving discharge care in resource-limited settings
Principal investigators: Wiens, Matthew O
Keywords: Care-Seeking; Child Health; Epidemiology; Global Health; Lmics; Post-Discharge Mortality; Predictive Models; Rural/Remote Communities; Sepsis; Vulernability
Smart Discharges for Mom+Baby: Saving mother-newborn dyads by developing a predictive risk model to identify vulnerable dyads and guide delivery of evidence-based, locally-informed interventions for targeted post-discharge care.
Principal investigators: Wiens, Matthew O
Keywords: Care Seeking; Epidemiology; Global Health; Maternal Health; Newborn Health; Post-Discharge Mortality; Predictive Models; Public Health; Sepsis; Vulnerability
Smart Discharges to improve outcomes among pediatric sepsis survivors in low and middle income countries
Principal investigators: Wiens, Matthew O
Keywords: Global Health; Innovation; Pediatrics; Population Health; Sepsis; Smart Discharges; Uganda
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Aline Talhouk and Amy Jamieson: 13 shared papers
- Ali Bashashati and Aline Talhouk: 4 shared papers
- Edward Joseph Mills and Matthew Wiens: 2 shared papers
- Edward Joseph Mills and Jay Park: 2 shared papers
- Matthew Wiens and Ali Bashashati: 2 shared papers
- Ali Bashashati and Amy Jamieson: 2 shared papers
- Mahyar Etminan and Matthew Wiens: 1 shared paper
- Purang Abolmaesumi and Matthew Wiens: 1 shared paper
- Purang Abolmaesumi and Ali Bashashati: 1 shared paper
- Purang Abolmaesumi and Aline Talhouk: 1 shared paper
- Purang Abolmaesumi and Amy Jamieson: 1 shared paper
- Matthew Wiens and Aline Talhouk: 1 shared paper
- Matthew Wiens and Jay Park: 1 shared paper
- Matthew Wiens and Amy Jamieson: 1 shared paper
- Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Ophthalmology
- Cardiology
- Other
Co-authors at University of British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Ali Bashashati
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Edward Joseph Mills
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
2 shared papers, latest 2017
Aline Talhouk
Obstetrics and Gynecology
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Jay Park
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Amy Jamieson
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Mahyar Etminan
Ophthalmology
1 shared papers, latest 2007
Purang Abolmaesumi
Cardiology
1 shared papers, latest 2024
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