Publications

Temporal changes in cause of death among adolescents and adults in six countries in Eastern and Southern Africa: a multi-country cohort study using verbal autopsy data.

Published in Lancet Global Health, 2024

Background
The absence of high-quality comprehensive civil registration and vital statistics systems across many settings in Africa has led to limited empirical data on causes of death in the region.

Recommended citation: Chu Y, Marston M, Dube A, Festo C, Geubbels E, Gregson S, Herbst K, Kabudula C, Kahn K, Lutalo T, Moorhouse L. Temporal changes in cause of death among adolescents and adults in six countries in Eastern and Southern Africa: a multi-country cohort study using verbal autopsy data. The Lancet Global Health. 2024 Mar 4.
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Adapting and validating the log quadratic model to derive under-five age-and cause-specific mortality (U5ACSM): a preliminary analysis

Published in Population health metrics, 2022

Background

Recommended citation: Perin, Jamie, Yue Chu, Francisco Villaviciencio, Austin Schumacher, Tyler McCormick, Michel Guillot, and Li Liu. "Adapting and validating the log quadratic model to derive under-five age-and cause-specific mortality (U5ACSM): a preliminary analysis." Population health metrics 20 (2022): 1-12.
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Estimating seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Ohio.

Published in PNAS, 2021

Significance

Recommended citation: Kline D, Li Z, Chu Y, Wakefield J, Miller WC, Norris Turner A, Clark SJ. Estimating seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Ohio: A Bayesian multilevel poststratification approach with multiple diagnostic tests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2021 Jun 29;118(26):e2023947118.
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National, regional and state all-cause and cause-specific under-five mortality in India in 2000-2015

Published in Lancet Global Health, 2019

Neonatal and child health, cause of death estimates, global health, population health, Sustainable Development Goals

Recommended citation: Liu, L., Chu, Y., Oza, S., Hogan, D., Perin, J., Bassani, D.G., Ram, U., Fadel, S.A., Pandey, A., Dhingra, N., Sahu, D., Kumar, P., Cibulskis, R., Wahl, B., Shet, A., Mathers, C., Lawn, J., Jha, P., Kumar, R., Black, R.E., & Cousens, S. (2019). National, regional and state all-cause and cause-specific under-five mortality in India in 2000-2015: a systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals. The Lancet Global Health, 7(6);721-734. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30080-4.
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Understanding Misclassification between Neonatal Deaths and Stillbirths: Empirical Evidence from Malawi

Published in PlosOne, 2016

Child survival, mortality estimation, population health, Africa

Recommended citation: Liu, Li, Henry D. Kalter, Yue Chu, Narjis Kazmi, Alain K. Koffi, Agbessi Amouzou, Olga Joos, Melinda Munos, and Robert E. Black. "Understanding misclassification between neonatal deaths and stillbirths: empirical evidence from Malawi." PLoS One 11, no. 12 (2016): e0168743.
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National and subnational all-cause and cause-specific child mortality in China, 1996–2015

Published in Lancet Global Health, 2016

Neonatal and child mortality, cause of death, subnational, population health, global health, disease burden

Recommended citation: He, C., Liu, L., Chu, Y., Perin, J., Dai, L., Li, X., ... & Guo, S. (2017). National and subnational all-cause and cause-specific child mortality in China, 1996–2015: a systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals. The Lancet Global Health, 5(2), e186-e197.
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