Joint Initiative for Causal Inference
Sponsor/Partner: Novo Nordisk and Copenhagen University
Project Description/Goals: International powerhouse for causal inference aimed at answering pressing statistical questions using both randomized control and observational studies.
CTML Faculty Involved: Maya Petersen M.D. Ph.D. and Mark van der Laan Ph.D.
iMIC
Sponsor/Partner: University of Manitoba (Prime: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Project Description/Goals: The International Milk Composition Consortium's (iMic) study goal is to disentangle the complex relationship of breastmilk composition and other relevant factors on childhood development, including factors that increase the risk of stunting and wasting.
CTML Faculty Involved: Alan Hubbard
UNITE
Sponsor/Partner: California Department of Public Health
Project Description/Goals: Using Targeted Learning methods to estimate causal models, the study goal is to produce the only existing database that comprehensively assesses both fatal and non-fatal firearm injuries and links them to social determinants of health across various California regions.
CTML Faculty Involved: Alan Hubbard
Socio-spatial Networks and TB Infection in Youth in Rural Uganda
Sponsor/Partner: NIH National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
Project Description/Goals: To characterize, on a population-level, where and from which social network youth acquire TB infections and to assess variations throughout stages in the early life-course (early childhood: 1-5 years; school-age: 6-11 years; adolescence: 12-18 years).
CTML Faculty Involved: Maya Petersen M.D. Ph.D. , Mark van der Laan Ph.D.
Harnessing Data Science to Promote Equity in Injury and Surgery for Africa
Sponsor/Partner: NIH National Institutes of Health - Miscellaneous
Project Description/Goals: The project consists of four major projects: resrarching a cluster-based algorithm to estimate socieconomic status for health equtiy surveillance in sub-Saharan Africa, using data-adaptive methods to optimize follow up of injured patients in Cameroon, developing the Data Management and Analysis Core, and creating a Capacity Building Core.
CTML Faculty Involved: Alan Hubbard
Enteric Pathogen Force of Infection among Children using Serology
Sponsor/Partner: NIH National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
Project Description/Goals: High resolution measurements of pathogen infection in stool were paired with antibody response to i) verify that seroincidence estimated from IgG response qualitatively reflects incidence based on infection in stool; ii) develop new methods to estimate force of infection for enteric pathogens in low-resource settings that combine information from PCR testing in stool and antibody response in blood (IgG); and, iii) develop methods to estimate enteric pathogen force of infection from cross sectional surveys.
CTML Faculty Involved: Alan Hubbard
Causal Effects of Endogenous and Exogenous Risk Factors for Wasting
Sponsor/Partner: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Project Description/Goals: Scalable online super-learner for predicting health outcome phenotypes and an online scalable super learner of an optimal individualized treatment rule for improving these health outcomes.
CTML Faculty Involved: Mark van der Laan Ph.D., Alan Hubbard Ph.D., Jeremy Coyle Ph.D. Andrew Mertens Ph.D., Ivana Malenica
Adaptive Strategies for Preventing & Treating Lapses of Retention in Adult HIV Care II (AdaPT-R)
Sponsor/Partner: WUSTL (Prime: NIMH)
Project Description/Goals:
CTML Faculty Involved: Maya Petersen M.D. Ph.D.
Multi-sectorial Approach to Address Persistent Drivers of the HIV Epidemic in East Africa
Sponsor/Partner: SMNIH
Project Description/Goals: The Sustainable East Africa Research in Community Health (SEARCH) consortium designs and tests evidence based treatment and prevention interventions that will guide a global effort to end AIDS using a multi-disease, multi-sector approach.
CTML Faculty Involved:
Targeted Learning using Adaptive Designs for HIV Epidemic Control in East Africa
Sponsor/Partner: NIH/NIAID
Project Description/Goals: This project leverages the rich data increasingly generated in the course of the HIV epidemic response, and applies targeted machine learning to advance adaptive design and analytic approaches.
CTML Faculty Involved:
Local Epidemic Modeling for the San Francisco Department of Public Health
Sponsor/Partner: Heluna Health(Prime: SFDPH)
Project Description/Goals: New initiative to offer universal testing to students, staff, and faculty as they return to the UC Berkeley campus and to develop rapid response protocols and effective infection control.
CTML Faculty Involved: Maya Petersen M.D. Ph.D.
An Adaptive Strategy for Preventing and Treating Lapses of Retention in HIV Care for Adolescents (A4A)
Sponsor/Partner: WUSTL (Prime: NINR)
Project Description/Goals: The study goal is to improve HIV engagement in care and treatment outcomes among adolescents and young adults through adaptive strategies in Africa.
CTML Faculty Involved: Maya Petersen M.D. Ph.D.