| Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990–2013: quantifying … CJL Murray, RM Barber, KJ Foreman, AA Ozgoren, F Abd-Allah, SF Abera, ... The Lancet 386 (10009), 2145-2191, 2015 | 2353* | 2015 |
| Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 H Wang, CA Liddell, MM Coates, MD Mooney, CE Levitz, AE Schumacher, ... The Lancet 384 (9947), 957-979, 2014 | 1006 | 2014 |
| Estimates of global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980–2015: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 H Wang, TM Wolock, A Carter, G Nguyen, HH Kyu, E Gakidou, SI Hay, ... The lancet HIV 3 (8), e361-e387, 2016 | 774 | 2016 |
| The WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic W Msemburi, A Karlinsky, V Knutson, S Aleshin-Guendel, S Chatterji, ... Nature 613 (7942), 130-137, 2023 | 447 | 2023 |
| Mortality trends and differentials in South Africa from 1997 to 2012: second National Burden of Disease Study V Pillay-van Wyk, W Msemburi, R Laubscher, RE Dorrington, ... The Lancet Global Health 4 (9), e642-e653, 2016 | 436 | 2016 |
| Injury-related mortality in South Africa: a retrospective descriptive study of postmortem investigations R Matzopoulos, M Prinsloo, VP Wyk, N Gwebushe, S Mathews, LJ Martin, ... Bulletin of the World Health Organization 93, 303-313, 2015 | 194* | 2015 |
| Persistent burden from non-communicable diseases in South Africa needs strong action B Nojilana, D Bradshaw, V Pillay-van Wyk, W Msemburi, N Somdyala, ... South African Medical Journal 106 (5), 436-437, 2016 | 120 | 2016 |
| Emerging trends in non-communicable disease mortality in South Africa, 1997-2010 B Nojilana, D Bradshaw, V Pillay-van Wyk, W Msemburi, R Laubscher, ... South African medical journal 106 (5), 477-484, 2016 | 111 | 2016 |
| NCD Countdown 2030: efficient pathways and strategic investments to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4 in low-income and middle-income … NCD Countdown Lancet (London, England) 399 (10331), 1266, 2022 | 96 | 2022 |
| Dementia prevalence in a rural region of South Africa: a cross-sectional community study CA de Jager, W Msemburi, K Pepper, MI Combrinck Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 60 (3), 1087-1096, 2017 | 76 | 2017 |
| Second national burden of disease study for South Africa: Cause-of-death profile for South Africa, 1997–2010 W Msemburi, V Pillay-van Wyk, RE Dorrington, I Neethling, N Nannan, ... Cape Town: South African Medical Research Council, 1-23, 2014 | 71 | 2014 |
| Orphanhood and caregiver loss among children based on new global excess COVID-19 death estimates S Hillis, JPN N’konzi, W Msemburi, L Cluver, A Villaveces, S Flaxman, ... JAMA pediatrics 176 (11), 1145-1148, 2022 | 68 | 2022 |
| Western Cape mortality profile 2011 South African Medical Research Council, P Groenewald, W Msemburi, ... Medical Research Council, 2014 | 57 | 2014 |
| South African child deaths 1990–2011: have HIV services reversed the trend enough to meet Millennium Development Goal 4? KJ Kerber, JE Lawn, LF Johnson, M Mahy, RE Dorrington, H Phillips, ... Aids 27 (16), 2637-2648, 2013 | 54 | 2013 |
| HIV/AIDS in South Africa: how many people died from the disease between 1997 and 2010? D Bradshaw, W Msemburi, R Dorrington, V Pillay-van Wyk, R Laubscher, ... Aids 30 (5), 771-778, 2016 | 53 | 2016 |
| Second national burden of disease study South Africa: national and subnational mortality trends, 1997–2009 V Pillay-van Wyk, W Msemburi, R Laubscher, RE Dorrington, ... The Lancet 381, S113, 2013 | 51 | 2013 |
| Modeling the impact of vaccination for the immunization Agenda 2030: Deaths averted due to vaccination against 14 pathogens in 194 countries from 2021 to 2030 A Carter, W Msemburi, SY Sim, KAM Gaythorpe, P Lambach, A Lindstrand, ... Vaccine, 2023 | 45 | 2023 |
| Estimating global and country-specific excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic V Knutson, S Aleshin-Guendel, A Karlinsky, W Msemburi, J Wakefield The Annals of Applied Statistics 17 (2), 1353-1374, 2023 | 37 | 2023 |
| Poor anticoagulation control in patients taking warfarin at a tertiary and district-level prothrombin clinic in Cape Town, South Africa I Ebrahim, A Bryer, K Cohen, JP Mouton, W Msemburi, M Blockman South African Medical Journal 108 (6), 490-494, 2018 | 36 | 2018 |
| Modeling global 80-80-80 blood pressure targets and cardiovascular outcomes SJ Pickersgill, WT Msemburi, L Cobb, N Ide, AE Moran, Y Su, X Xu, ... Nature medicine 28 (8), 1693-1699, 2022 | 35 | 2022 |
