This article in ScienceMag caught my attention and then got forwarded to everyone: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/funding/2015/12/nih-drops-special-10-set-aside-aids-research
It looks like GBD stuff, but they never said IHME or GBD. But digging deeper… it is! http://report.nih.gov/info_disease_burden.aspx
Now we can say it is definitely our data even though the Science article doesn’t mention us.
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Article alert
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The following new article has just been published in Population Health Metrics
Research
Small area synthetic estimates of smoking prevalence during pregnancy in England
Szatkowski L, Fahy S, Coleman T, Taylor J, Twigg L, Moon G, Leonardi-Bee J
Population Health Metrics 2015, 13 :34 (9 December 2015)
http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/13/1/34
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Both linked here for future reference:
Ode to Charles Darwin
http://www.vaccineconfidence.org/ode-to-charles-darwin
IamA Human Guinea Pig Getting the Newest Ebola Vaccine AMA! https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2gnn1r/iama_human_guinea_pig_getting_the_newest_ebola/
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Trends in Prescription Drug Use Among Adults in the United States From 1999-2012
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=2467552
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My new paper, which I believe is the first published application of DisMod-PDE: Projected growth of the adult congenital heart disease population in the United States to 2050: an integrative systems modeling approach
http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/13/1/29
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I have a new verbal autopsy paper out, which goes deep into the weeds of how to measure the accuracy of a method for identifying the underlying cause of death at the population level from survey data. http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/13/1/28
A fun online appendix includes probabilistic combinatorial calculations of the sort that I was actually trained in: http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/supplementary/s12963-015-0061-1-s2.zip
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I have a real printed copy of the DisMod book now, and if I have understood correctly, it is really available for purchase starting today!
I meant to have a picture of it in my hands to go here, but I didn’t get it in time. Here is a multiscale rainbow smudge instead:
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When I mentioned that our Injury in Baghdad paper is out https://healthyalgorithms.com/2015/08/26/injury-epidemiology-of-baghdad/, I didn’t mention that the data was released with the paper. Cool: http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.0nk1p
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Lots of new features: http://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/ Very smooth UX. Do old links still work?
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