Prof. Dr. Wasim Maziak

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsEpidemiology and Medical Biometrics/Statistics
KeywordsAsthma, Health, Smoking, Waterpipe, Risk, Smoking

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityMiami
InstitutionFlorida International University

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ulrich KeilInstitut für Epidemiologie und Sozialmedizin, Universität Münster, Münster
Prof. Dr. Stephan WeilandInstitut für Epidemiologie und Sozialmedizin, Universität Münster, Münster
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2000

Programme(s)

2000Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2005Wasim Maziak: Science in the Arab World: Vision of Glories Beyond. In: Science, 2005, 1416-1418
2003Wasim Maziak, T. Behrens, T. M. Brasky, H. Duhme, P. Rzehak, S. K. Weiland, U. Keil: Are asthma and allergies in children and adolescents increasing? Results from ISAAC phase I and phase III surveys in Münster, Germany. In: Allergy, 2003, 572-579
2003Wasim Maziak, Asfar: Physical Abuse In Low-Income Women In Aleppo, Syria. In: Health Care for Women International, 2003, 313-326
2003Wasim Maziak, Peter Rzehak, Ulrich Keil, Stephan K. Weiland: Smoking among adolescents in Muenster, Germany: increase in prevalence (1995-2000) and relation to tobacco advertising. In: Preventive Medicine, 2003, 172-176
2002Wasim Maziak: Asthma and farming. In: The Lancet, 2002, 623
2002Wasim Maziak: Asthma and the exposure-disease tenet . In: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2002, 1-4
2002Wasim Maziak: Smoking in Syria: profile of a developing Arab country. In: Int J Tuberic Lungs Dis, 2002, 183-191
2002Wasim Maziak, Taghrid Asfar, Fawaz Mzayek, Fouad M. Fouad, Nael Kilzieh: Socio-demographic correlates of psychiatric morbidity among low-income women in Aleppo, Syria. In: Social Science & Medicine , 2002, 1419-1427
2002Wasim Maziak, H. W. Hense, A. Döring, U. Keil: Ten-year trends in smoking behaviour among adults in southern Germany. In: Int. J. Tuberc. Lung. Dis., 2002, 1-7
2002Wasim Maziak: The Hygiene Hypothesis and the Evolutionary Perspective of Health. In: Preventive Medicine, 2002, 1-4
2002Wasim Maziak: Violence against women. . In: Lancet, 2002, 343-344
2001Wasim Maziak: Science aid programme could be set up to help researchers in developing countries. In: BMJ, 2001, 173
2001Wasim Maziak, T. Asfar, F. Mzayek: Socio-demographic determinates of smoking among low-income women in Aleppo, Syria. In: Int J Tuberic Lung Dis, 2001, 307-312
2001Wasim Maziak, C. Beimfohr, E. von Mutius, H.W. Hense, W. Leupold, T. Hirsch, U. Keil, S.K. Weiland: The use of anti-asthmatic drugs in children: results of a community-based survey in Germany. In: Pharmacoepidemiology And Drug Safety, 2001, 315-321
2000Wasim Maziak, Fawaz Mzayek: Characterization of the smoking habit among high school students in Syria. In: European Journal of Epidemiology, 2000, 1169-1176