Publications

Title Author Year Publication type
A Peer-Mother Counseling Intervention Improves Early Infant HIV Testing in Rural Uganda Jane Kabami; Stella Kabageni; Catherine A. Koss; Jaffer Okiring; Joanita Nangendo; Emmanuel Ruhamyankaka; Peter Ssebutinde; Elizabeth Arinitwe; Michael Ayebare; Agnes Napyo; Valence Mfitumukiza; Munezeo Tamu; Elijah Kakande; Anne R. Katahoire; Phillippa Musoke; Moses R. Kamya; Laura Balzer, Ph.D. 2025 Journal Article
A Multi-Component, Peer-Led Intervention for Pregnant and Post-Partum Women with HIV Improves Viral Suppression Over Time in Rural Uganda Laura Balzer, Ph.D.; Jane Kabami; Faith Kagoya; Jaffer Okiring; Joanita Nangendo; Emmanuel Ruhamyankaka; Peter Ssebutinde; Elijah Kakande; Elizabeth Arinitwe; John Bosco Tamu Munezeo; Valence Mfitumukiza; Stella Kabageni; Michael Ayebare; Anne R Katahoire; Phillippa Musoke; Moses R Kamya 2025 Journal Article
Causal Inference for Calibrated Scaling Interventions on Time-to-Event Processes Mark van der Laan, Ph.D.; Helene C. Rytgaard 2025 Journal Article
Inequities in Excess Pandemic Mortality Among Documented and Undocumented Immigrants in California, 2020–2023 Marie Charpignon, Ph.D.; Alicia R. Riley; Ye Ji Kim; Josefina Flores Morales; Michelle A. DeVost; Yea-Hung Chen 2025 Journal Article
Efficient Statistical Estimation for Sequential Adaptive Experiments with Implications for Adaptive Designs Wenxin Zhang; Mark van der Laan, Ph.D. 2025 Journal Article
Feasibility and Acceptability of Persons on Long-Acting Cabotegravir for HIV Prevention in the SEARCH Dynamic Choice HIV Prevention Trial Extension in Rural Kenya and Uganda: A Longitudinal Cohort Study Elijah R. Kakande; Laura B. Balzer; Jane Kabami; Gabriel Chamie; Nicole Sutter; Helen Sunday; Marilyn Nyabuti; Janice Litunya; Carol Camlin; Jason Johnson-Peretz; Jenny Temple; Geoff Lavoy; Catherine Koss; Maggies Czarnogorski; Maya L. Petersen; Moses R. Kamya; Diane V. Havlir 2025 Journal Article
Uptake and Patterns of PEP Use Within the Context of a Dynamic Choice HIV Prevention Model in Rural Uganda and Kenya: SEARCH Study James Ayieko; Laura B. Balzer; Colette Aoko; Helen Sunday; Elijah Kakande; Jane Kabami; Catherine Koss; Moses R. Kamya; Maya L. Petersen; Diane V. Havlir 2025 Journal Article
Causal Inference via Implied Interventions Carlos García Meixide; Mark J. van der Laan 2025 Journal Article
Regularized Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Highly Adaptive Lasso Implied Working Models Yi Li; Sky Qiu; Zeyi Wang; Mark van der Laan 2025 Journal Article
Using Machine Learning to Identify Subgroups with the Highest Expected Benefit in a 1 Population-based Water, Sanitation, Handwashing, and Nutrition Intervention Caitlin Hemlock; Laura H Kwong; Lia C. H. Fernald; Alan Hubbard; John M Colford; Fahmida Tofail; Mahbubur Rahman; Sarker Parvez; Stephen P Luby; Andrew Mertens 2025 Journal Article
Underimmunisation During the 2025 Texas Measles Outbreak Erin Hulland; Marie Charpignon, Ph.D.; Thomas Berkane; Maimuna Majumder 2025 Journal Article
Causal Inference via Electronic Health Records in the National Clinical Cohort Collaborative: Challenges and Solutions in Long COVID Research Zachary Butzin-Dozier; Yunwen Ji; Lin-Chiun Wang; A. Jerrod Anzalone; Eric Hurwitz; Rena C. Patel; Mark J. van der Laan; John M. Colford, Jr.; Alan E. Hubbard 2025 Journal Article
When Measurement Mediates the Effect of Interest Joy Zora Nakato; Janice Litunya; Brian Beesiga; Jane Kabami; James Ayieko; Moses R Kamya; Gabriel Chamie; Laura Balzer 2025 Journal Article
Causal Inference with Missing Exposures, Missing Outcomes, and Dependence Kirsten Landsiedel; Rachel Abbott; Atukunda Mucunguzi; Florence Mwangwa; Elijah Kakande; Edwin Charlebois; Carina Marquez; Moses R Kamya; Laura Balzer 2025 Journal Article
Deconstructing the (un)affordability of clean cooking fuels through a randomized trial in rural Tanzania Annelise Gill-Wiehl; Isha Ray; Robert Katikiro; Daniel M. Kammen; Alan Hubbard 2025 Journal Article
Unlocking the Potential of Wear Time of a Wearable Device to Enhance Postpartum Depression Screening and Detection: Cross-Sectional Study Eric Hurwitz; Samantha Meltzer-Brody; Zachary Butzin-Dozier; Rena Paul; Noémie Elhadad; Melissa Haendel 2025 Journal Article
Semi-parametric efficient estimation of small genetic effects in large-scale population cohorts Oliver Labayle; Breeshey Roskams-Hieter; Joshua Slaughter; Kelsey Tetley-Campbell; Mark van der Laan; Chris P. Ponting; Sjoerd Viktor Beentjes; Ava Khamseh 2025 Journal Article
Targeted Learning Estimation of Sampling Variance for Improved Inference Yunwen Ji; Mark van der Laan; Alan Hubbard 2025 Journal Article
Peer-mother counseling improves HIV treatment adherence and status disclosure over time among pregnant and postpartum women in rural Uganda Jane Kabami; Laura Balzer; Stella Kabageni; Catherine A. Koss; Faith Kagoya; Jaffer Okiring; Joanita Nangendo; Emmanuel Ruhamyankaka; Peter Ssebutinde; Elizabeth Arinitwe; Michael Ayebare; John Bosco Tamu Munezeo; Valence Mfitumukiza; Anne R. Katahoire; Moses R. Kamya; Philippa Musoke 2025 Journal Article
Associations between floor material and E. coli contamination in rural Bangladeshi households Sumaiya Tazin; Mahfuza Islam; Amy J Pickering; Laura H Kwong; Andrew Mertens; Caitlin Niven; Benjamin F Arnold; Alan Hubbard; Mahfuja Alam; Debashis Sen; Sharmin Islam; Mahbubur Rahman; Leanne Unicomb; Stephen P Luby; John M Colford; Jade Benjamin-Chung; Ayse Ercumen 2025 Journal Article
Knowledge and attitudes of commercial motorcyclists on personal protective equipment in the crisis-affected Limbe and Tiko Health Districts of Cameroon toward injury prevention: A formative research study for a health education intervention Chrisantus Eweh Ukah; Nicholas Tendongfor; Alan Hubbard; Elvis A. Tanue; Rasheedat Oke; Nahyeni Bassah; Sandra I. McCoy; Larissa Kumenyuy Yunika; Claudia Ngeha Ngu; Rebecca Hemono; S. Ariane Christie; Dickson S. Nsagha; Alain Chichom-Mefire; Catherine Juillard 2025 Journal Article
COVID-19 Vaccination Timing, Relative to Acute COVID-19, and Subsequent Risk of Long COVID Zachary Butzin-Dozier; Lin-Chiun Wang; A. Jerrod Anzalone; Jeremy Coyle; Rachael Phillips; Rena C. Paul; Jing Sun; Eric Hurwitz; Sarang Deshpande; Junming (Seraphina) Shi; Andrew Mertens; Mark van der Laan; John M. Colford Jr.; Alan E. Hubbard 2025 Journal Article
A cautionary note for plasmode simulation studies in the setting of causal inference Pamela A. Shaw; Susan Gruber; Brian D. Williamson; Rishi Desai; Susan M. Shortreed; Chloe Krakauer; Jennifer C. Nelson; Mark van der Laan 2025 Journal Article
Commentary on “Nonparametric identification is not enough, but randomized controlled trials are”: Statistical considerations for generating reliable evidence across a spectrum of studies that increasingly involve real-world elements Rachael Phillips; Mark van der Laan 2025 Journal Article
Powering RCTs for marginal effects with GLMs using prognostic score adjustment Emilie Højbjerre-Frandsen; Mark van der Laan, Ph.D.; Alejandro Schuler, Ph.D. 2025 Journal Article
Maternal experience of intimate partner violence, maternal depression, and parental stress are not associated with child telomere length in Bangladesh Diego Figueroa; Zach Butzin-Dozier, Ph.D.; Andrew Mertens, Ph.D.; Alan Hubbard, Ph.D. 2025 Journal Article
Prognostic adjustment with efficient estimators to unbiasedly leverage historical data in randomized trials Lauren D. Liao; Emilie Højbjerre-Frandsen; Alan Hubbard; Alejandro Schuler 2025 Journal Article
Deep Causal Behavioral Policy Learning: Applications to Healthcare Jonas Knecht; Maya Petersen, M.D. Ph.D. 2025 Journal Article
Estimation and Evaluation of the Resource-Constrained Optimal Dynamic Treatment Rule: An Application to HIV Care Retention Lina M. Montoya; Maya Petersen, M.D. Ph.D. 2025 Journal Article
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
The impact of job stability on monetary poverty in Italy: causal small area estimation Katarzyna Reluga; Mark van der Laan, Ph.D. 2025 Journal Article
Note on targeted learning with an undersmoothed Lasso propensity score model for large-scale covariate adjustment in health care database studies Richard Wyss; Mark van der Laan, 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
Association of glycemic control with Long COVID in patients with type 2 diabetes: findings from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Samuel Soff; Yun Jae Yoo; Carolyn Bramante; Jane E B Reusch; Jared Davis Huling; Margaret A Hall; Daniel Brannock; Til Sturmer; Zachary Butzin-Dozier; Rachel Wong; Richard Moffitt 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