Dissertation Title: "Informing Financial Investments in Health: Applications of Decision-Analytic Methods"In this dissertation, I use decision-analytic methods to investigate prospective financial allocation decisions in three health policy contexts...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health Policy Methods"
This dissertation includes 4 chapters on methods for health policy research.
In the first chapter, we discuss how many statistical models rely on assumptions that, when violated, threaten their...
Dissertation Title： "Health, Poverty, and Surgery in the US and around the World"
The goal of this dissertation is to examine the effects of policies and platforms for global surgical delivery on health, impoverishment, and inequity, and to determine how...
Dissertation Title："Improving Reproductive Health: Assessing Determinants and Measuring Policy Impacts"
In this thesis, I investigate policies and programs to improve reproductive health. My thesis makes a substantive contribution to reproductive health...
Dissertation Title："Policy Modeling and Economic Evaluation of Tuberculosis Control"
Tuberculosis (TB), a curable disease, kills nearly 2 million people annually. Approximately 80% of these deaths occur in 23 “high-burden” countries. The past decade has...
Dissertation Title："With or Without: Empirical Analyses of Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality"
The existence of unfair differences or disparities in access to and quality of health care is well known. However, the nature of disparities at...
Dissertation Title: "Mathematical Modeling to Evaluate Disease Control Policy"
In this dissertation I assessed three distinct policy questions: the implications of introducing a new tuberculosis diagnostic in southern Africa, the potential value of...
Dissertation Title: "Economic Evaluation of Vaccination Policies Using Mathematical Models: Cost-Effectiveness, Externalities, and Affordability of Hepatitis B Vaccination"
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a global public health challenge that...
Dissertation Title: "Using Mathematical Modeling to Evaluate the Public Health Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Cervical Cancer Screening Strategies in Different World Regions"
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide, with the...
Dissertation Title: "Modeling Health Outcomes in Resource-limited Settings"
This dissertation presents methods for improving estimates of important health outcomes in resource-limited settings. Paper 1 develops a new approach to estimating health-state...