Upul Cooray
Tohoku University
Research areas: Dentistry · General Dentistry · Dental Health and Care Utilization · Health disparities and outcomes · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
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About
I am a Public Health Epidemiologist with a MSc and a PhD in Dental Public Health. I have over 5 years of clinical experience and now I am an Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Dentistry, Tohoku University.
I am passionate about R programming and novel methods for causal inference with observational data. My main research interests are social determinants of health, health inequalities, common risk factors of oral and general health. I enjoy using modern causal inference methods in combination with machine learning methods to investigate my research interests.
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Publications (29)
- Changes in disability status and oral healthcare affordability among working-age Australians Save
- Impact of Tooth Preservation or Replacement on Diet Quality: Modified Treatment Policies Approach Save
- Perceived Masticatory Function and Mortality: A Causal Study Save
- Effects of hypothetical low- versus moderate- to high-intensity weight management regimens on knee replacements Save
- Impact of Poverty Reduction on Oral Health Outcomes among US Adults Save
- Letter to Editor for “Potential predisposing features of external cervical resorption: An observational study (Patel et al., 2025)” Save
- Childhood Socioeconomic Status Affects Dental Pain in Later Life Save
- Insulin resistance and periodontitis: Mediation by blood pressure Save
- A Principal Component Analysis of Metabolome and Cognitive Decline Among Japanese Older Adults: Cross-sectional Analysis Using Tohoku Medical Megabank Cohort Study Data Save
- Novel approach for forensic dental identification using maxillary homologous models Save
- Radiographic alveolar bone assessment in correlation with primary implant stability: A systematic review and meta‐analysis Save
- Oral Self-Care, Pneumococcal Vaccination, and Pneumonia Among Japanese Older People, Assessed With Machine Learning Save
- Assessing the impacts of smoking cessation and resumption on back pain risk in later life Save
- Education‐related inequalities in oral health among older adults: Comparing Singapore and Japan Save
- Impact of Teeth on Social Participation: Modified Treatment Policy Approach Save
- Changes in Body Mass Index on the Risk of Back Pain: Estimating the Impacts of Weight Gain and Loss Save
- Effects of the different periods and magnitude of COVID‐19 infection spread on cancer operations: Interrupted time series analysis of medical claims data Save
- An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach to Predict Fall Risk Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: a Three-Year Longitudinal Study Save
- Longitudinal Association Between Oral Status and Cognitive Decline Using Fixed-effects Analysis Save
- Difference of income inequalities of denture use by co-payment rates: A JAGES cross-sectional study Save