Dissertation Title: "Computational Epidemiology: Methods and Applications for Global Health"
In this dissertation I discuss the development and application of simulation-based approaches to major challenges in global health. I refer to this general...
Dissertation Title: "Is Doing More, Doing Better? Basic versus Advanced Life Support Ambulances for Medical Emergencies"
Deficiencies in the quality of pre-hospital care constitute a serious public health problem that has largely been neglected by the...
Dissertation Title: "Evaluating Strategies for Achieving Global Collective Action on Transnational Health Threats and Social Inequalities"
This dissertation presents three studies that evaluate different strategies for addressing transnational health...
Dissertation Title: "Demographic Forecasting"
A number of important public policy decisions rest heavily on the ability to forecast certain cross-sectional time series. In this thesis we consider the task of forecasting time series of all causes and cause...
Dissertation Title: "Health Inequality: Definition, Measurement and Determinants"
Health inequality is defined as differences in health status across individuals in a population. I present a conceptual framework for the measurement of health inequality...