David Coburn, University of Toronto

Latest papers

Income inequality, welfare, class and health: A comment on Pickett and Wilkinson, 2015.
Social science & medicine (1982) · 2015 · first author
Health inequalities: a response to Scambler.
Sociology of health & illness · 2012 · first author
A view from beside the elephant.
Australian and New Zealand journal of public health · 2011 · first author

All 5 publications

Latest funding

Social cohesion, economy, civil society and health
SSHRC · 1999 · Principal investigator
$5,000
Societal context, health care institutions, and the shaping of power in health care
SSHRC · 1998 · Principal investigator
$50,000

All 2 grants and awards

5 publications.

01

Income inequality, welfare, class and health: A comment on Pickett and Wilkinson, 2015.

Coburn D

Social science & medicine (1982)2015First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.09.002 PMID: 26365582

02

Health inequalities: a response to Scambler.

Coburn D

Sociology of health & illness2012First author

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01423.x PMID: 22150159

03

A view from beside the elephant.

Coburn D

Australian and New Zealand journal of public health2011First author

DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2011.00717.x PMID: 21806718

04

Diversity and complexity in DNA recognition by transcription factors.

Badis G, Berger MF, Philippakis AA, Talukder S, Gehrke AR, Jaeger SA, Chan ET, Metzler G, Vedenko A, Chen X, Kuznetsov H, Wang CF, Coburn D, Newburger DE, Morris Q, Hughes TR, Bulyk ML

Science (New York, N.Y.)2009

DOI: 10.1126/science.1162327 PMID: 19443739

05

A library of yeast transcription factor motifs reveals a widespread function for Rsc3 in targeting nucleosome exclusion at promoters.

Badis G, Chan ET, van Bakel H, Pena-Castillo L, Tillo D, Tsui K, Carlson CD, Gossett AJ, Hasinoff MJ, Warren CL, Gebbia M, Talukder S, Yang A, Mnaimneh S, Terterov D, Coburn D, Li Yeo A, Yeo ZX, Clarke ND, Lieb JD, Ansari AZ, Nislow C, Hughes TR

Molecular cell2008

DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2008.11.020 PMID: 19111667

Social cohesion, economy, civil society and health

Principal investigatorSSHRC1999Exploring Social Cohesion in a Globalizing Era

Principal investigators: Coburn, David

Keywords: Political economy of health and health care; health occupations and professions

$5,000

Societal context, health care institutions, and the shaping of power in health care

Principal investigatorSSHRC1998Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Coburn, David

Keywords: Political economy of health; health care policy; medical dominance

$50,000

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

Quaid Morris

Donnelly Centre

1 shared papers, latest 2009

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