Research Interests
Machine learning for global health, computational algorithms, verbal autopsy, model-based meta-regression, optimal resource allocation, Bayesian data analysis, systems dynamics modeling
Education
PhD Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006
BS Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000
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What UW is doing to fight Zika
Department of Global Health News, 05/20/2016
The Nate Silver of Public Health
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New Study Looks into Deaths Caused by Iraq War
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New Estimates of Iraq War Deaths
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