Yue Chu
Yue Chu
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Ohio State University
I develop statistical and computational methods for population health, with a particular focus on mortality measurement, verbal autopsy, disease surveillance, and data quality in low-resource settings.
I work at the intersection of demography, epidemiology, and data science, connecting Bayesian methods, language models, and practical health data systems. My recent work includes multimodal verbal autopsy analysis, mortality estimation, and infrastructure projects that make reference data more accessible for research and policy.
Bio
My research focuses on how to measure health and mortality when data are incomplete, noisy, or difficult to collect. A central thread across my work is making population health evidence more reliable and more useful for real-world decision-making, especially in global health settings where data systems are uneven or resource-constrained.
I am particularly interested in verbal autopsy, cause-of-death classification, mortality estimation, survey data quality, and data infrastructure for public health research. Alongside methodological work, I collaborate on practical systems such as the Reference Data Archive and on AI-enabled approaches to cause-of-death determination.
Selected Papers
Leveraging language models and machine learning in verbal autopsy analysis
A methodological paper on using language models and machine learning for verbal autopsy analysis and cause-of-death classification.
Temporal changes in cause of death among adolescents and adults in six countries in eastern and southern Africa in 1995-2019
A multi-country surveillance study using verbal autopsy data to examine long-run changes in cause-specific mortality across eastern and southern Africa.
Estimating seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Ohio: A Bayesian multilevel poststratification approach with multiple diagnostic tests
A Bayesian framework for statewide COVID-19 seroprevalence estimation under low positivity, imperfect testing, and survey nonresponse.
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Contact
Department of Sociology
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Email: chu.282@osu.edu