Overview
Background
A/Prof Damian Santomauro is based at the School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, and leads the Epidemiology and Burden of Disease Research Stream based at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (QCMHR). He is also an Affiliate Associate Professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington, where he serves as the Mental Disorders Team Lead and the DisMod-AT Team Lead for the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study. Driven by a commitment to improving global mental health, A/Prof Santomauro is responsible for all mental disorder epidemiological and burden estimates reported by the GBD Study and has played a key role in uncovering burden not currently represented by the GBD Study such as burden of binge eating disorder, other specified feeding and eating disorders, and somatoform disorders. He also modelled the worldwide impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on depressive and anxiety disorders, quantified the excess self-harm mortality among autistic persons globally, and developed a novel cohort method to estimate the burden of depressive and anxiety disorders due to bullying victimization. A/Prof Santomauro also quantified the minimally adequate treatment coverage for depressive disorders globally, and the burden of anxiety disorders that could be averted under ideal treatment coverage conditions. His research continues to inform international mental health policy, helping to ensure that the true extent of mental disorder burden is recognised and averted.
Availability
- Associate Professor Damian Santomauro is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor (Honours) of Science, The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy of Psychology, The University of Queensland
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
GBD 2021 Risk Factors Collaborators, Mamun, Abdullah A., Anderlini, Deanna, Chung, Eric, Ferrari, Alize J., Santomauro, Damian Francesco, Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Maravilla, Joemer C., Khan, Asaduzzaman, Moni, Mohammad Ali, McGrath, John J. and Sartorius, Benn (2024). Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet, 403 (10440), 2162-2203. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00933-4
2024
Journal Article
Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
Ferrari, Alize J., Santomauro, Damian Francesco, Aali, Amirali, Abate, Yohannes Habtegiorgis, Abbafati, Cristiana, Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abd ElHafeez, Samar, Abdelmasseh, Michael, Abd-Elsalam, Sherief, Abdollahi, Arash, Abdullahi, Auwal, Abegaz, Kedir Hussein, Abeldaño Zuñiga, Roberto Ariel, Aboagye, Richard Gyan, Abolhassani, Hassan, Abreu, Lucas Guimarães, Abualruz, Hasan, Abu-Gharbieh, Eman, Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen ME, Ackerman, Ilana N, Addo, Isaac Yeboah, Addolorato, Giovanni, Adebiyi, Akindele Olupelumi, Adepoju, Abiola Victor, Adewuyi, Habeeb Omoponle, Afyouni, Shadi, Afzal, Saira, Afzal, Sina, Agodi, Antonella ... Murray, Christopher J L (2024). Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet, 403 (10440), 2133-2161. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(24)00757-8
2024
Journal Article
Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
GBD 2021 Causes of Death Collaborators, Kanmiki, Edmund, Maravilla, Joemer, Lalloo, Ratilal, Mamun, Abdullah, Kelly, Jaimon, Khan, Asaduzzaman and Santomauro, Damian (2024). Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet, 403 (10440), 2100-2132. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00367-2
2024
Journal Article
Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
Steinmetz, Jaimie D, Seeher, Katrin Maria, Schiess, Nicoline, Nichols, Emma, Cao, Bochen, Servili, Chiara, Cavallera, Vanessa, Cousin, Ewerton, Hagins, Hailey, Moberg, Madeline E, Mehlman, Max L, Abate, Yohannes Habtegiorgis, Abbas, Jaffar, Abbasi, Madineh Akram, Abbasian, Mohammadreza, Abbastabar, Hedayat, Abdelmasseh, Michael, Abdollahi, Mohammad, Abdollahi, Mozhan, Abdollahifar, Mohammad-Amin, Abd-Rabu, Rami, Abdulah, Deldar Morad, Abdullahi, Auwal, Abedi, Aidin, Abedi, Vida, Abeldaño Zuñiga, Roberto Ariel, Abidi, Hassan, Abiodun, Olumide, Aboagye, Richard Gyan ... Dua, Tarun (2024). Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet Neurology, 23 (4), 344-381. doi: 10.1016/s1474-4422(24)00038-3
2024
Journal Article
Mental disorders in Mexico 1990-2021. Results from the Global Burden of Disease 2021 study
Medina-Mora, Ma. Elena, Orozco, Ricardo, Rafful, Claudia, Cordero, Martha, Bishai, Jessica, Ferrari, Alize, Santomauro, Damian, Benjet, Corina, Borges, Guilherme and Mantilla-Herrera, Ana M. (2024). Mental disorders in Mexico 1990-2021. Results from the Global Burden of Disease 2021 study. Gaceta Médica de México, 159 (6), 527-538. doi: 10.24875/gmm.m24000828
2024
Journal Article
A relaxation approach to feature selection for linear mixed effects models
Sholokhov, Aleksei, Burke, James V., Santomauro, Damian F., Zheng, Peng and Aravkin, Aleksandr (2024). A relaxation approach to feature selection for linear mixed effects models. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 33 (1), 261-275. doi: 10.1080/10618600.2023.2231496
2023
Journal Article
Mental disorders in Mexico 1990-2021. Results from the Global Burden of Disease 2021 study
Medina-Mora, Ma. Elena, Orozco, Ricardo, Rafful, Claudia, Cordero, Martha, Bishai, Jessica, Ferrari, Alize, Santomauro, Damian, Benjet, Corina, Borges, Guilherme and Mantilla-Herrera, Ana M. (2023). Mental disorders in Mexico 1990-2021. Results from the Global Burden of Disease 2021 study. Gaceta Médica de México, 159 (6), 527-538. doi: 10.24875/gmm.23000376
2023
Other Outputs
The Staying Deadly Survey: The Queensland Urban Indigenous Mental Health Survey Report
Ferrari, Alize, Basit, Tabinda, Santomauro, Damian, Chambers, T'Keya, Shadid, Jamileh, Lindstrom, Akiaja, Anderson, Mathew, Arthur, Sally and Corcoran, Laura (2023). The Staying Deadly Survey: The Queensland Urban Indigenous Mental Health Survey Report. Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research; The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/1c4e5ce
2023
Journal Article
Grading disorder severity and averted burden by access to treatment within the GBD framework: a case study with anxiety disorders
Santomauro, Damian F., Purcell, Caroline, Whiteford, Harvey A., Ferrari, Alize J. and Vos, Theo (2023). Grading disorder severity and averted burden by access to treatment within the GBD framework: a case study with anxiety disorders. The Lancet Psychiatry, 10 (4), 272-281. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00037-8
2023
Conference Publication
Estimating the Number of First Nations Adults Who Need Mental Health Services in Australia
Page, Imogen S., Ferrari, A., Slade, T., Anderson, M., Santomauro, D. and Diminic, S. (2023). Estimating the Number of First Nations Adults Who Need Mental Health Services in Australia. 16th Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry ‘Mental Health Outcomes, Services, Economics, Policy Research’, Venice, Italy, 24-26 March 2023. Milano, Italy: International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics.
2023
Journal Article
Diagnostic accuracy of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI 3.0) in an urban Indigenous Australian sample
Basit, Tabinda, Anderson, Mathew, Lindstrom, Akiaja, Santomauro, Damian F., Whiteford, Harvey A. and Ferrari, Alize J. (2023). Diagnostic accuracy of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI 3.0) in an urban Indigenous Australian sample. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 57 (2), 283-290. doi: 10.1177/00048674221150361
2023
Journal Article
Schizophrenia as a risk factor for cardiovascular and metabolic health outcomes: a comparative risk assessment
Ali, S., Santomauro, D., Ferrari, A. J and Charlson, F. (2023). Schizophrenia as a risk factor for cardiovascular and metabolic health outcomes: a comparative risk assessment. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 32 e8, 1-8. doi: 10.1017/s2045796023000045
2022
Journal Article
The Burden of Proof studies: assessing the evidence of risk
Zheng, Peng, Afshin, Ashkan, Biryukov, Stan, Bisignano, Catherine, Brauer, Michael, Bryazka, Dana, Burkart, Katrin, Cercy, Kelly M., Cornaby, Leslie, Dai, Xiaochen, Dirac, M. Ashworth, Estep, Kara, Fay, Kairsten A., Feldman, Rachel, Ferrari, Alize J., Gakidou, Emmanuela, Gil, Gabriela Fernanda, Griswold, Max, Hay, Simon I., He, Jiawei, Irvine, Caleb M. S., Kassebaum, Nicholas J., LeGrand, Kate E., Lescinsky, Haley, Lim, Stephen S., Lo, Justin, Mullany, Erin C., Ong, Kanyin Liane, Rao, Puja C. ... Murray, Christopher J. L. (2022). The Burden of Proof studies: assessing the evidence of risk. Nature Medicine, 28 (10), 2038-2044. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-01973-2
2022
Journal Article
Estimated global proportions of individuals with persistent fatigue, cognitive, and respiratory symptom clusters following symptomatic COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021
Wulf Hanson, Sarah, Abbafati, Cristiana, Aerts, Joachim G., Al-Aly, Ziyad, Ashbaugh, Charlie, Ballouz, Tala, Blyuss, Oleg, Bobkova, Polina, Bonsel, Gouke, Borzakova, Svetlana, Buonsenso, Danilo, Butnaru, Denis, Carter, Austin, Chu, Helen, De Rose, Cristina, Diab, Mohamed Mustafa, Ekbom, Emil, El Tantawi, Maha, Fomin, Victor, Frithiof, Robert, Gamirova, Aysylu, Glybochko, Petr V., Haagsma, Juanita A., Haghjooy Javanmard, Shaghayegh, Hamilton, Erin B., Harris, Gabrielle, Heijenbrok-Kal, Majanka H., Helbok, Raimund, Hellemons, Merel E. ... Vos, Theo (2022). Estimated global proportions of individuals with persistent fatigue, cognitive, and respiratory symptom clusters following symptomatic COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021. JAMA, 328 (16), 1604-1615. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.18931
2022
Journal Article
The contribution of general medical conditions to the non-fatal burden of mental disorders: register-based cohort study in Denmark
Weye, Nanna, Momen, Natalie C., Whiteford, Harvey A., Christensen, Maria Klitgaard, Iburg, Kim Moesgaard, Santomauro, Damian F., Agerbo, Esben, Mortensen, Preben Bo, Pedersen, Carsten Bøcker, McGrath, John J. and Plana-Ripoll, Oleguer (2022). The contribution of general medical conditions to the non-fatal burden of mental disorders: register-based cohort study in Denmark. BJPsych Open, 8 (6) e180, 1-7. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2022.583
2022
Journal Article
Estimating global, regional, and national daily and cumulative infections with SARS-CoV-2 through Nov 14, 2021: a statistical analysis
Barber, Ryan M., Sorensen, Reed J. D., Pigott, David M., Bisignano, Catherine, Carter, Austin, Amlag, Joanne O., Collins, James K., Abbafati, Cristiana, Adolph, Christopher, Allorant, Adrien, Aravkin, Aleksandr Y., Bang-Jensen, Bree L., Castro, Emma, Chakrabarti, Suman, Cogen, Rebecca M., Combs, Emily, Comfort, Haley, Cooperrider, Kimberly, Dai, Xiaochen, Daoud, Farah, Deen, Amanda, Earl, Lucas, Erickson, Megan, Ewald, Samuel B., Ferrari, Alize J., Flaxman, Abraham D., Frostad, Joseph Jon, Fullman, Nancy, Giles, John R. ... Murray, Christopher J. L. (2022). Estimating global, regional, and national daily and cumulative infections with SARS-CoV-2 through Nov 14, 2021: a statistical analysis. Lancet, 399 (10344), 2351-2380. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00484-6
2022
Journal Article
Estimating the difference in prevalence of common mental disorder diagnoses for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples compared to the general Australian population
Page, I. S., Ferrari, A. J., Slade, T., Anderson, M., Santomauro, D. and Diminic, S. (2022). Estimating the difference in prevalence of common mental disorder diagnoses for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples compared to the general Australian population. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 31 e44, e44. doi: 10.1017/s2045796022000233
2022
Journal Article
Excess mortality in severe mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-regression
Ali, Suhailah, Santomauro, Damian, Ferrari, Alize J. and Charlson, Fiona (2022). Excess mortality in severe mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-regression. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 149, 97-105. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.02.036
2022
Journal Article
Pandemic preparedness and COVID-19: an exploratory analysis of infection and fatality rates, and contextual factors associated with preparedness in 177 countries, from Jan 1, 2020, to Sept 30, 2021
Bollyky, Thomas J, Hulland, Erin N, Barber, Ryan M, Collins, James K, Kiernan, Samantha, Moses, Mark, Pigott, David M, Reiner Jr, Robert C, Sorensen, Reed J D, Abbafati, Cristiana, Adolph, Christopher, Allorant, Adrien, Amlag, Joanne O, Aravkin, Aleksandr Y, Bang-Jensen, Bree, Carter, Austin, Castellano, Rachel, Castro, Emma, Chakrabarti, Suman, Combs, Emily, Dai, Xiaochen, Dangel, William James, Dapper, Carolyn, Deen, Amanda, Duncan, Bruce B, Earl, Lucas, Erickson, Megan, Ewald, Samuel B, Fedosseeva, Tatiana ... Dieleman, Joseph L (2022). Pandemic preparedness and COVID-19: an exploratory analysis of infection and fatality rates, and contextual factors associated with preparedness in 177 countries, from Jan 1, 2020, to Sept 30, 2021. The Lancet, 399 (10334), 1489-1512. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00172-6
2022
Journal Article
Variation in the COVID-19 infection-fatality ratio by age, time, and geography during the pre-vaccine era: a systematic analysis
Sorensen, Reed J. D., Barber, Ryan M., Pigott, David M., Carter, Austin, Spencer, Cory N., Ostroff, Samuel M., Reiner, Robert C., Abbafati, Cristiana, Adolph, Christopher, Allorant, Adrien, Amlag, Joanne O., Aravkin, Aleksandr Y., Bachmeier, Steven D., Bang-Jensen, Bree L., Bisignano, Catherine, Bloom, Sabina S., Castellano, Rachel, Castro, Emma, Collins, James K., Comfort, Haley, Dai, Xiaochen, Dangel, William James, Dapper, Carolyn, Deen, Amanda, Earl, Lucas, Erickson, Megan, Ewald, Samuel B., Ferrari, Alize J., Flaxman, Abraham D. ... COVID-19 Forecasting Team (2022). Variation in the COVID-19 infection-fatality ratio by age, time, and geography during the pre-vaccine era: a systematic analysis. Lancet, 399 (10334), 1469-1488. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02867-1
Supervision
Availability
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Available projects
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Systematic review of the impact of war, conflict, and natural disasters on mental disorders
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) team at the University of Queensland are responsible for producing burden of disease estimates for mental disorders the GBD Study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. This work would involve a systematic literature review and meta-analyses / meta-regressions to quantify the elevated risk for mental disorders following exposure to war, conflict, and natural disorders. The outputs of this work would help inform work to explain how much mental disorder burden is due to these factors and forecasting scenarios.
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Quantifying the bias in anxiety disorder symptom scales to determine the prevalence of anxiety disorders
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) team at the University of Queensland are responsible for producing burden of disease estimates for mental disorders the GBD Study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. The prevalence and burden of anxiety disorders is modelled as part of this work, but global coverage of epidemiological estimates remains limited due to the resource requirements to conduct population-representative surveys using diagnostic interviews. Many studies instead use symptom scales, however these tend to overestimate prevalence. This project aims to quantify this bias to determine likely anxiety disorder prevalence from symptom scales. This will lead to substantially improved geographical coverage for anxiety disorder epidemiological modelling within the GBD Study.
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Quantifying the treatment coverage of ADHD globally and its impact on symptom severity
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) team at the University of Queensland are responsible for producing burden of disease estimates for mental disorders the GBD Study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. The prevalence and burden of ADHD is modelled as part of this work. Symptom severity likely varies by healthcare access but this is not currently factored within the GBD Study. This project aims to quantify this to determine how ADHD symptom severity varies by treatment access and in turn by geography.
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Quantifying self-harm mortality burden attributable to Schizophrenia
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) team at the University of Queensland are responsible for producing burden of disease estimates for mental disorders the GBD Study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. The prevalence and burden of Schizophrenia is modelled as part of this work, but currently the elevated fatal burden among persons living with Schizophrenia is not captured in the GBD Study. This work aims to quantify the elevated risk of self-harm mortality among persons living with Schizophrenia.
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Systematic review of the epidemiology of anxiety disorders
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) team at the University of Queensland are responsible for producing burden of disease estimates for mental disorders in the yearly iterations of the GBD Study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. The team maintains one of the world’s largest databases of epidemiological data for mental disorders and are actively seeking epidemiolocal data for locations with poor data coverage. This research topic would contribute to this work and would involve conducting a systematic literature search for new survey data on the epidemiology of anxiety disorders and quantifyfing global coverage and variations in the data.
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Systematic review of the epidemiology of Mood disorders
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) team at the University of Queensland are responsible for producing burden of disease estimates for mental disorders in the yearly iterations of the GBD Study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. The team maintains one of the world’s largest databases of epidemiological data for mental disorders and are actively seeking epidemiolocal data for locations with poor data coverage. This research topic would contribute to this work and would involve conducting a systematic literature search for new survey data on the epidemiology of major depressive disorder, dysthymia, and bipolar disorder and quantifyfing global coverage and variations in the data.
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Systematic review of the global epidemiology of peripartum anxiety disorders
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) team at the University of Queensland are responsible for producing burden of disease estimates for mental disorders the GBD Study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. This project aims to quantify the prevalence of peripartum anxiety disorder. THe project would involve a systematic literature review and meta-analyses / meta-regressions to quantify its prevalence.
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Estimating the global epidemiology and burden of personality disorders
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Hon Assoc Professor Alize Ferrari
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Understanding the contribution of psychosis and bipolar disorder to premature mortality
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Hon Assoc Professor Alize Ferrari, Dr Fiona Charlson
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Cognitive remediation and social cognition interaction training:implementation and dessimination in a clinical setting
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Neal Ashkanasy, Associate Professor Meredith Harris
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