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Associations between PFAS perceptions and consumer behaviors across Michigan
(2024-03-26)
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been associated with various adverse health effects. Few studies, however, have explored public perceptions, which may influence behaviors related to PFAS exposure. We ...
Development and Validation of Transportable, Clinically Applicable and Scalable Machine Learning Models for Acute Kidney Injury
(2024)
Acute kidney injury (AKI), a frequent complication in hospitalized patients, poses significant challenges due to its high incidence, short-term mortality, and substantial economic burden. Current AKI models utilizing ...
Critical Race Approaches to Understanding Health Inequities Impacting Trans People of Color in the United States
(2024)
This dissertation critically examines structural drivers of health inequities impacting trans people of color in the United States. To do so, I use theories that concern how the structural power dynamics that drive these ...
The Public Health Consequences of Compounding Disasters and Colonialism in Puerto Rico: A Mixed-Methods Investigation
(2024)
In recent decades, the ongoing climate crisis has disproportionately impacted historically marginalized populations globally through environmental hazards and disasters. Understanding the health impacts of multiple disaster ...
Bayesian Methods for snSMART Designs with External Controls and Dynamic Prediction of Landmark Survival Time in Cancer Clinical Trials
(2024)
In Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and other rare diseases, recruiting patients into clinical trials is challenging. Additionally, assigning patients to long-term, multi-year placebo arms raises ethical and trial retention ...
Characterizing Socio-Demographic Tuberculosis Disparities and their Underlying Drivers across Subpopulations in both Low and High Burden Settings
(2024)
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be one of the leading infectious killers, despite its long history as a human disease. In many high burden countries (HBCs), the TB epidemic is exacerbated by the overlapping HIV epidemic as ...
Machine Learning for Healthcare: Model Development and Implementation in Longitudinal Settings
(2024)
Despite great promise, developing and implementing machine learning (ML) models for healthcare remains a challenging engineering task. The progression of disease generates complex longitudinal data that can be difficult ...
Two Essays on the Impact of Healthcare Policies
(2024)
Since the late 1990s, opioids have been increasingly prescribed for pain treatment in the U.S. as a result of aggressive marketing by pharmaceutical companies, resulting in more than 450,000 opioid overdose deaths. In the ...