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A short timeline of recent research, presentation, and site updates.
Attending the FDS Workshop at Yale
Presenting a poster, AI as Measurement Infrastructure: Adaptive Survey Design in Verbal Autopsy, at the FDS Workshop on AI for Social Science Research Methods, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
See presentationsPresented work on information sufficiency in verbal autopsy at PAA 2026
Presented a poster, Sufficiency of Information in Population Surveys: Evidence from Verbal Autopsy, at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, St. Louis, MO.
See presentationsNew preprint on AI for verbal autopsy analysis
Shared a new arXiv preprint on using language models and machine learning for verbal autopsy analysis and cause-of-death classification.
Read the preprintPresented verbal autopsy AI work at PAA 2025
Presented current work on pretrained language models and multimodal learning for verbal autopsy at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting.
See talksWorkshop talk at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Spoke at the Demystifying Machine Learning workshop on machine learning techniques for verbal autopsy analysis.
View presentationsLancet Global Health paper published
Published a multi-country surveillance study on temporal changes in cause of death among adolescents and adults across eastern and southern Africa.
View publicationJournal of Global Health paper on adolescent mortality in China
Published national and sub-national estimates of mortality among 5-19-year-olds in China using Disease Surveillance Points System evidence.
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