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: "Decision-Analytic Approaches to Evaluating Prevention Policy Alternatives"
To achieve population health given uncertainty and budgetary constraints, policymakers must choose between interventions. We apply decision science to inform...
Dissertation Title: "Evaluating Preferences for Health Risks"
This thesis considers different methods used to elicit individual preferences for health and safety issues in a series of three papers developed from an empirical analysis of a large national...
Dissertation Title: "Identifying High-Value Lifestyle Interventions for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention"
This dissertation evaluates lifestyle strategies for the management of cardiovascular risk factors and prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD)...
Dissertation Title: "Health Impacts and Economic Evaluations of Maternal and Child Health Programs in Developing Countries"
This dissertation is motivated by two of the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): MDG 4, focused on reducing child...
Dissertation Title: "Cervical Cancer Prevention: Using Primary Data to Inform Decision-Making in Developed and Developing Country Contexts"
Globally, cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in women, with more than 85% of cases occurring in...
Dissertation Title: "Infectious Disease Policy in the Era of Antibiotic Drug Resistance: Decision Analytic and Historical Perspectives"
In the United States and abroad, infectious diseases constitute a significant public health problem. Costly new disease...