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Francis Boscoe
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
660 Points

Contributions by role

Author 135
Preprint Author 140
Reviewer 50
Editor 335

Contributions by subject area

Epidemiology
Public Health
Statistics
Clinical Trials
Oncology
Respiratory Medicine
Dentistry
Otorhinolaryngology
Science and Medical Education
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Immunology
Internal Medicine
Neurology

Francis P Boscoe

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Francis Boscoe retired from the New York State Department of Health in 2019 to form Pumphandle, a consulting business focused on the analysis of large public health data sets. He holds an appointment as a Research Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Albany, and is a past member of the Board of Directors of the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR).

Research interests include cancer and chronic disease epidemiology, medical geography, environmental health, spatial methods, cartography, geographic information systems, demographics, and disease registration.

Epidemiology Spatial & Geographic Information Science

Work details

Owner

Pumphandle
February 2019
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Pumphandle is a consulting business focused on the analysis of large public health data sets.

Research Scientist

New York State Department of Health
August 1999 - April 2019
New York State Cancer Registry

Research Professor

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University at Albany

Websites

  • Google Scholar
  • Personal web page
  • Figshare

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Preprints 3
  • Edited 3
  • Reviewed 1
  • Questions 1
October 13, 2015
Persistent and extreme outliers in causes of death by state, 1999–2013
Francis P. Boscoe
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1336 PubMed 26623181
July 27, 2018 - Version: 1
The foreign-born population in New York City and environs
Francis P Boscoe
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27061v1
August 11, 2015 - Version: 2
Persistent and extreme outliers in causes of death by state, 1999-2013
Francis P Boscoe
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1268v2
July 9, 2015 - Version: 1
Urban/rural disparities in cancer incidence in New York State, 2008-2012
Timothy Conwell, Francis P Boscoe
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1224v1

Academic Editor on

August 15, 2018
Trends in hepatocellular carcinoma research from 2008 to 2017: a bibliometric analysis
Yan Miao, Ying Zhang, Lihong Yin
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5477 PubMed 30128213
May 18, 2018
Association of epilepsy and asthma: a population-based retrospective cohort study
Kuo-Liang Chiang, Fang-Chuan Kuo, Jen-Yu Lee, Chin-Yin Huang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4792 PubMed 29796346
February 13, 2018
Calibration adjustments to address bias in mortality analyses due to informative sampling—a census-linked survey analysis in Switzerland
André Moser, Matthias Bopp, Marcel Zwahlen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4376 PubMed 29456895

Signed reviews submitted for articles published in PeerJ Note that some articles may not have the review itself made public unless authors have made them open as well.

September 17, 2018
Effects of income and residential area on survival of patients with head and neck cancers following radiotherapy: working age individuals in Taiwan
Yu Cheng Lai, Pei Ling Tang, Chi Hsiang Chu, Tsu Jen Kuo
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5591 PubMed 30245932

1 Question

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Labeling of Figure 1b
about Measuring health disparities: a comparison of absolute and relative disparities