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Presented 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.

Presented Sufficiency of Information in Population Surveys: Evidence from Verbal Autopsy at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, St. Louis, MO.

The Reference Data Archive (RDA) is now live at data.who.int/rda. Its initial public release includes verbal autopsy data from the São Paulo mortality surveillance system and reflects collaborative infrastructure work across OSU, AHRI, WHO, and the University of São Paulo.

Shared a new arXiv preprint on using language models and machine learning for cause-of-death classification using verbal autopsy data.

Presented current work on pretrained language models and multimodal learning for verbal autopsy at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

Spoke at the Demystifying Machine Learning workshop on machine learning techniques for verbal autopsy analysis.

Published a multi-country surveillance study on temporal changes in cause of death among adolescents and adults across eastern and southern Africa.

Published national and sub-national estimates of mortality among 5-19-year-olds in China using Disease Surveillance Points System evidence.