Publications

Title Author Year Publication type
Treatment Heterogeneity of Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Nutrition Interventions on Child Growth by Environmental Enteric Dysfunction and Pathogen Status for Young Children in Bangladesh Zach Butzin-Dozier, Ph.D.; Yunwen Ji; Jeremy Coyle Ph.D.; Ivana Malenica; Jack Colford; Alan Hubbard, Ph.D.; Andrew Mertens, Ph.D. 2025 Journal Article
Score-Preserving Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation Noel Pimentel; Alejandro Schuler, Ph.D.; Mark van der Laan, Ph.D. 2025 Journal Article
An Estimator-Robust Design for Augmenting Randomized Controlled Trial with External Real-World Data Sky Qiu; Jens Tarp; Andrew Mertens, Ph.D.; Mark van der Laan, Ph.D. 2025 Journal Article
Protocol: the International Milk Composition (IMiC) Consortium - a Harmonized Secondary Analysis of Human Milk from 4 Studies Kelsey Fehr; Andrew Mertens, Ph.D.; Alan Hubbard, Ph.D. 2025 Journal Article
Technical Note: Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimator for an ATE Standardized for New Target Population Mark van der Laan, Ph.D.; Susan Gruber 2025 Journal Article
Water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions can reduce child antibiotic use: evidence from Bangladesh and Kenya Ayse Ercumen; Andrew Mertens, Ph.D.; Zach Butzin-Dozier, Ph.D.; Alan Hubbard, Ph.D. 2025 Journal Article
RieszBoost: Gradient Boosting for Riesz Regression Kaitlyn Lee; Alejandro Schuler, Ph.D. 2025 Journal Article
Associations between weather extremes and faecal contamination along pathogen transmission pathways in rural Bangladeshi households: a prospective observational study Caitlin G Niven; Andrew Mertens, Ph.D. 2025 Journal Article
A Multi-Component Integrated HIV and Hypertension Care Model Improves Hypertension Screening and Control in Rural Uganda: A Cluster Randomized Trial Jane Kabami; Laura Balzer, Ph.D.; Mucunguzi Atukunda; Elizabeth Arinaitwe; Gerald Mutungi 2024 Journal Article
Artificial Intelligence–Based Copilots to Generate Causal Evidence Maya Petersen, M.D. Ph.D.; Ahmed Alaa, Ph.D; Mark van der Laan, Ph.D. 2024 Journal Article
Review 1: "Leveraging Pre-Vaccination Antibody Titers across Multiple Influenza H3N2 Variants to Forecast the Post-Vaccination Response" Zach Butzin-Dozier, Ph.D. 2024 Journal Article
Highly Adaptive LASSO: Machine Learning that Provides Valid Nonparametric Inference in Realistic Models Zach Butzin-Dozier, Ph.D.; Sky Qiu; Alan Hubbard, Ph.D.; Seraphina Shi; Mark van der Laan, Ph.D. 2024 Journal Article
Pathways through which water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition interventions reduce antibiotic use in young children: a mediation analysis of a cluster-randomized trial Anna Nguyen; Gabby Barratt Heitmann; Andrew Mertens, Ph.D.; Sania Ashraf; Md Ziaur Rahman; Shahjahan Ali; Mahbub Rahman; Benjamin F. Arnold; Jessica A. Grembi; Audrie Lin; Ayse Ercumen; Jade Benjamin-Chung 2024 Journal Article
Dynamic choice HIV prevention with cabotegravir long-acting injectable in rural Uganda and Kenya: a randomised trial extension Moses R Kamya; Laura Balzer, Ph.D.; James Ayieko; Elijah Kakande; Maya Petersen; et al. 2024 Journal Article
SSRI use during acute COVID-19 and risk of Long COVID among patients with depression Zachary Butzin-Dozier; Yunwen Ji; Sarang Deshpande; Eric Hurwitz; A. Jerrod Anzalone; Andrew Mertens, Ph.D.; Mark van der Laan, Ph.D. 2024 Journal Article
Unlocking the potential of wearable device wear time to enhance postpartum depression screening and detection Eric Hurwitz; Samantha Meltzer-Brody; Zachary Butzin-Dozier; Rena C. Patel; Noémie Elhadad; Melissa A. Haendel 2024 Journal Article
Highly Adaptive Ridge Mark van der Laan; Alexander Hagemeister; Alejandro Schuler, Ph.D. 2024 Journal Article
Performance of Cross-Validated Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation Matthew J. Smith; Rachael Phillips, Ph.D.; Camille Maringe; Miguel Angel Luque-Fernandez 2024 Journal Article
Effects Among the Affected Lina M. Montoya; Elvin H. Geng; Michael Valancius; Michael R. Kosorok; Maya Petersen 2024 Journal Article
Rainfall and Temperature Modify Effects of On-Site Sanitation Intervention on E. coli Contamination in Bangladeshi Households Caitlin G. Niven; Mahfuza Islam; Anna Nguyen; Andrew Mertens, Ph.D.; Amy J. Pickering; Laura H. Kwong; Mahfuja Alam; Debashis Sen; Sharmin Islam; Mahbubur Rahman; Leanne Unicomb; Alan E. Hubbard; Stephen P. Luby; Jessica A. Grembi; John M. Colford Jr.; Benjamin F. Arnold; Jade Benjamin-Chung; Ayse Ercumen 2024 Journal Article
Evaluating and Utilizing Surrogate Outcomes in Covariate-Adjusted Response-Adaptive Designs Wenxin Zhang; Aaron Hudson; Maya Petersen, M.D. Ph.D.; Mark van der Laan, Ph.D. 2024 Journal Article
Prevalence and Factors Associated With Alcohol-Related Road Traffic Injuries in Cameroon Serge Ngekeng; Rasheedat Oke; Mark Yost; Fanny Dissak-Delon; Alan Hubbard, Ph.D.; Sandra I. McCoy; Ariane Christie; Steven Shoptaw; Alain Chichom-Mefire; Catherine Juillard 2024 Journal Article
Large Language Models as Co-Pilots for Causal Inference in Medical Studies Ahmed Alaa, Ph.D; Rachael Phillips, Ph.D.; Emre Kiciman; Laura Balzer, Ph.D.; Mark van der Laan, Ph.D.; Maya Petersen, M.D. Ph.D. 2024 Journal Article
Invited Discussion on "Randomization Tests to Address Disruptions in Clinical Trials: A Report from the NISS Ingram Olkin Forum Series on Unplanned Clinical Trial Disruptions" Rachael Phillips, Ph.D.; Mark van der Laan, Ph.D. 2024 Journal Article
Data-Adaptive Identification of Subpopulations Vulnerable to Chemical Exposures using Stochastic Interventions David McCoy, Ph.D.; Wenxin Zhang; Alan Hubbard, Ph.D.; Mark van der Laan, Ph.D.; Alejandro Schuler, Ph.D. 2024 Journal Article
Implicit bias in Critical Care Data: Factors affecting sampling frequencies and missingness patterns of clinical and biological variables in ICU Patients Seraphina Shi; Alan Hubbard; Nicholas Fong; Romain Pirracchio 2024 Journal Article
HAL-based Plugin Estimation of the Causal Dose-Response Curve Seraphina Shi; Wenxin Zhang; Alan Hubbard; Mark van der Laan 2024 Journal Article
Incident Tuberculosis Infection Is Associated With Alcohol Use in Adults in Rural Uganda Kirsten Landsiedel; Maya Petersen; Laura Balzer; Rachel Abbott; Mucunguzi Atukunda; Sarah B Puryear; Gabriel Chamie; Judith A Hahn; Florence Mwangwa; Elijah Kakande; Diane V Havlir; Edwin Charlebois; Moses R Kamya; Carina Marquez 2024 Journal Article
Estimating the effect of realistic improvements of metformin adherence on COVID-19 mortality using targeted machine learning Sky Qiu; Alan Hubbard; Juan Pablo Gutiérrez; Ganesh Pimpale; Arturo Juárez-Flores; Rakesh Ghosh; Iván de Jesús Ascencio-Montiel; Stefano M Bertozzi 2024 Journal Article
Identification and responses to positivity violations in longitudinal studies: an illustration based on invasively mechanically ventilated ICU patients Aksel K.G. Jensen; Theis Lange; Olav L. Schjørring; Maya Petersen 2024 Journal Article
Integrated HIV, diabetes, and hypertension care in sub-Saharan Africa Maya Petersen; Diane Halvir; Moses R Kamya 2024 Journal Article
Predicting Long COVID in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative Using Super Learner: Cohort Study Zach Butzin-Dozier, Ph.D.; Yunwen Ji; Haodong Li; Jeremy Coyle; Seraphina Shi; Rachael Phillips, Ph.D.; Andrew Mertens; Romain Pirracchio, M.D., MPH, Ph.D, FCCM; Mark van der Laan, Ph.D.; Rena C Patel; John M Colford; Alan Hubbard, Ph.D. 2024 Journal Article
Adaptive-TMLE for the Average Treatment Effect based on Randomized Controlled Trial Augmented with Real-World Data Mark van der Laan; Sky Qiu; Lars van der Laan 2024 Journal Article
Bridging Binarization: Causal Inference with Dichotomized Continuous Treatments Kaitlyn Lee; Alan Hubbard; Alejandro Schuler 2024 Journal Article
Can drinking water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions reduce antibiotic use in young children? Ayse Ercumen; Andrew Mertens; Zachary Butzin-Dozier; Da Kyung Jung; Shahjahan Ali; Beryl S. Achando; Gouthami Rao; Caitlin Hemlock; Amy J. Pickering; Christine P. Stewart; Sophia T. Tan; Jessica A. Grembi; Jade Benjamin-Chung; Marlene Wolfe; Gene G. Ho; Md. Ziaur Rahman; Charles D. Arnold; Holly N. Dentz; Sammy M Njenga; Dorie Meerkerk; Belinda Chen; Maya Nadimpalli; Mohammad Aminul Islam; Alan Hubbard; Clair Null; Leanne Unicomb; Mahbubur Rahman; John M. Colford Jr; Stephen P. Luby; Benjamin F. Arnold; Audrie Lin 2024 Journal Article
A cluster-randomized trial of water, sanitation, handwashing and nutritional interventions on stress and epigenetic programming Andrew Mertens; Alan Hubbard; Audrie Lin; Md. Ziaur Rahman; Sophia T. Tan; Dora Il’yasova; Ivan Spasojevic; Shahjahan Ali; Christine P. Stewart; Lia C. H. Fernald; Lisa Kim; Liying Yan; Ann Meyer; Md. Rabiul Karim; Sunny Shahriar; Gabrielle Shuman; Benjamin F. Arnold; Syeda L. Famida; Salma Akther; Md. Saheen Hossen; Palash Mutsuddi; Abul K. Shoab; Idan Shalev; Mahbubur Rahman; Leanne Unicomb; Christopher D. Heaney; Patricia Kariger; John M. Colford Jr.; Stephen P. Luby; Douglas A. Granger 2024 Journal Article
Estimating conditional hazard functions and densities with the highly-adaptive lasso Anders Munch; Thomas A. Gerds; Mark van der Laan, Ph.D.; Helene C. W. Rytgaard 2024 Journal Article
Statistical learning for constrained functional parameters in infinite-dimensional models with applications in fair machine learning Razieh Nabi; Nima Hejazi; Mark van der Laan; David Benkeser 2024 Journal Article
Randomized Trial of Dynamic Choice HIV Prevention at Antenatal and postnatal care clinics in rural Uganda and Kenya Shalika Gupta; Maya Petersen; Laura Balzer; Jane Kabami; Catherine A Koss; Helen Sunday; Edith Biira; Marilyn Nyabuti; Gabriel Chamie; James Ayieko; Elijah Kakande; Melanie C Bacon; Diane Havlir; Moses R Kamya 2024 Journal Article
Stress biomarkers and child development in young children in Bangladesh Zach Butzin-Dozier, Ph.D.; Andrew Mertens; Sophia T. Tan; Douglas A. Granger; Helen O. Pitchik; Dora Il'yasova; Fahmida Tofail; Md. Ziaur Rahman; Ivan Spasojevic; Idan Shalev; Shahjahan Ali; Mohammed Rabiul Karim; Sunny Shahriar; Syeda Luthfa Famida; Gabrielle Shuman; Abul K. Shoab; Salma Akther; Md. Saheen Hossen; Palash Mutsuddi; Mahbubur Rahman; Leanne Unicomb; Kishor K. Das; Liying Yan; Ann Meyer; Christine P. Stewart; Alan Hubbard, Ph.D.; Ruchira Tabassum Naved; Kausar Parvin; Md. Mahfuz Al Mamun; Stephen P. Luby; John M. Colford Jr.; Lia C.H. Fernald; Audrie Lin 2024 Journal Article
Adaptive selection of the optimal strategy to improve precision and power in randomized trials Laura Balzer; Erica Cai; Lucas Godoy Garraza; Pracheta Amaranath 2024 Journal Article
Is detection of enteropathogens and human or animal faecal markers in the environment associated with subsequent child enteric infections and growth: an individual participant data meta-analysis Andrew Mertens; Benjamin F Arnold; Jade Benjamin-Chung; Alexandria B Boehm; Joe Brown; Drew Capone; Thomas Clasen; Erica R Fuhrmeister; Jessica A Grembi; David Holcomb; Jackie Knee; Laura H Kwong; Audrie Lin; Stephen P Luby; Rassul Nala; Kara Nelson; Sammy M Njenga; Clair Null; Amy J Pickering; Mahbubur Rahman; Heather E Resse; Lauren Steinbaum; Jill R Stewart; Ruwan Thilakaratne; Oliver Cumming; John M Colford; Ayse Ercumen 2024 Journal Article
Adaptive sequential surveillance with network and temporal dependence Ivana Malenica; Jeremy R Coyle; Mark van der Laan; Maya Petersen 2024 Journal Article
When exposure affects subgroup membership: Framing relevant causal questions in perinatal epidemiology and beyond Shalika Gupta; Laura Balzer; Moses R Kamya; Diane V Havlir; Maya Petersen 2024 Journal Article
SuperNOVA: Semi-Parametric Identification and Estimation of Interaction and Effect Modification in Mixed Exposures using Stochastic Interventions in R David McCoy, Ph.D.; Alejandro Schuler, Ph.D.; Alan Hubbard, Ph.D.; Mark van der Laan, Ph.D. 2023 Journal Article
A Causal Roadmap for Generating High-Quality Real-World Evidence Lauren E Dang , Susan Gruber , Hana Lee , Issa J Dahabreh , Elizabeth A Stuart , Brian D Williamson , Richard Wyss , Iván Dí 2023 Journal Article
Who is most at risk of dying if infected with SARS-CoV-2? A mortality risk factor analysis using machine learning of patients with COVID-19 over time: a large population-based cohort study in Mexico Lauren D Liao, Alan E Hubbard, Juan Pablo Gutierrez, Arturo Juárez-Flores, Kendall Kikkawa, Ronit Gupta, Yana Yarmolich, Iván de Jesús Ascencio-Montiel, Stefano M Bertozzi 2023 Journal Article
An Application of the Causal Roadmap in Two Safety Monitoring Case Studies: Causal Inference and Outcome Prediction using Electronic Health Record Data Brian D Williamson,Richard Wyss, Elizabeth A Stuart, Lauren E Dang, Andrew N Mertens, Romain S Neugebauer, Andrew Wilson, Susan Gruber 2023 Journal Article
Causes and Consequences of Child Growth Faltering in Low-resource settings Andrew Mertens, Jade Benjamin-Chung, John M. Colford Jr, Jeremy Coyle, Mark J. van der Laan, Alan E. Hubbard, Sonali Rosete, Ivana Malenica, Nima Hejazi, Oleg Sofrygin, Wilson Cai, Haodong Li, etc. 2023 Journal Article
Conformal Meta-learners for Predictive Inference of Individual Treatment Effects Mark van der Laan; Ahmed M. Alaa; Zaid Ahmad 2023 Journal Article