News

A short timeline of recent research, presentation, and site updates.

Presentation

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.

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Presentation

Presented 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.

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Research

New 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.

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Talk

Presented 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.

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Talk

Workshop talk at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

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

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Publication

Lancet 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.

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Publication

Journal 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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