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Peer-Reviewed Publications in 2023

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  • Medicaid Policy Lab

    The Medicaid Policy Lab evaluates the impact of policy changes and innovative care delivery models on health insurance coverage, access to care, quality of care, health outcomes, and equity of care in low-income, Medicaid-enrolled populations.

  • Impact of CMS Public Reports of Hospital Charge Data

    Since 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been publicizing charges for services provided in approximately 3,400 U.S. hospitals. This research is exploring impacts of CMS public reports on the market for hospital inpatient services by examining shifts in charges and in hospital market shares over time.

  • Assessing Children’s Environmental Exposures (ACHIEVE)

    By collecting children’s baby teeth and information via questionnaire, the ACHIEVE study characterizes children’s exposure to environmental contaminants during the prenatal period and early childhood.

  • AMBIT: Alternative Models of ART Delivery—Optimizing the Benefits

    AMBIT is a 3.5-year research and evaluation project in sub-Saharan Africa supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project includes data synthesis, data collection, data analysis, and modeling activities aimed at generating information for near- and long-term decision making and creating an approach and platform for ongoing evaluation.

  • EVIDENCE: Evaluations to Inform Decisions using Economics and Epidemiology

    EVIDENCE is a 5-year HIV/AIDS project funded by PEPFAR through USAID, which conducts health economics and epidemiology research in support of the goals of the South African National Strategic Plan for HIV, TB and STI’s 2017-2022 (NSP) and the PEPFAR Country Operational Plans 2018-2022. BU faculty and staff work closely with HE2RO on project evaluations, cost modeling, outcomes research, and financial management to improve guidelines, policies, programs, and resource allocation.

  • Optimization of the South African National Specimen Transport Network

    The South African National Health Laboratory (NHLS) is the largest diagnostic pathology service provider in South Africa and through a national network of laboratories, it is responsible for supporting the national and provincial health departments in the delivery of healthcare.

  • EQUIP: Analytics to Achieve Global HIV Targets

    EQUIP is a global cooperative agreement between USAID and a consortium of African organizations to provide support and technical assistance to USAID countries to foster achievement of 90-­90-90. BUSPH is a supporting partner in the EQUIP consortium, with a focus on economic evaluation and other data analysis.

Our Strategic Directions

Our Strategic Directions are interdisciplinary topics of critical importance to the public’s health and areas of strength and growth for Boston University School of Public Health. These Strategic Directions emerged from broad consultation both internal and external to the School. Our engagement with these research directions helps support a vision of the future that is unstinting in its emphasis on what matters most for health.

  • Cities and health
  • Climate, the planet, and health
  • Health inequities
  • Infectious diseases
  • Mental and behavioral health

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Recent Faculty Publications

  • Published On 6/1/2025Estimating air exchange rates in K-12 schools from a CO2 sensor network using machine learningIndoor Environmentsread at Custom
  • Published On 5/7/2025Collider stratification bias II: magnitude of bias.American journal of epidemiologyread at PubMed
  • Published On 5/6/2025Launching the Trustworthy and Responsible AI Network (TRAIN): A Consortium to Facilitate Safe and Effective AI Adoption.JAMAread at PubMed
  • Published On 5/2/2025Residential Segregation and Colorectal Cancer Screening in the United States, 2010 to 2018.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncologyread at PubMed
  • Published On 5/2/2025Postpartum Care Differences in LGBTQ+ and Non-LGBTQ+ Individuals.JAMA health forumread at PubMed
  • Published On 5/1/2025Aschengrau and Seage's Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health
  • Published On 5/1/2025Timing of depression in relation to risk of ovarian cancer.Journal of the National Cancer Instituteread at PubMed
  • Published On 4/25/2025A Prospective Ultrasound Study of Whole Blood Metals and Incidence of Uterine Leiomyomata.Environmental health perspectivesread at PubMed
  • Published On 4/22/2025A Narrative Review of Spatial-Temporal Data Sources for Estimating Population-Level Exposures to Oil and Gas Development in the United States.Current environmental health reportsread at PubMed
  • Published On 4/22/2025Effects of E-cigarettes on Combustible Cigarette Smoking Among Adults With Opioid Use Disorder on Buprenorphine: Single Arm ERASER Pilot Trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobaccoread at PubMed
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