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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 4/5/2024Differences in Anthropometric Measures Based on Sex, Age, and Health Status: Findings From the German National Cohort (NAKO).Deutsches Arzteblatt internationalread at PubMed
  • Published On 4/1/2024Alcohol Consumption and Illicit Drug Use: Associations With Fall, Fracture, and Acute Health Care Utilization Among People With HIV Infection.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)read at PubMed
  • Published On 3/13/2024Risk of a post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer in patients with diverticular disease: a population-based cohort study.Endoscopyread at PubMed
  • Published On 3/8/2024A framework for inferring and analyzing pharmacotherapy treatment patterns.BMC medical informatics and decision makingread at PubMed
  • Published On 3/8/2024Lifetime and 10-year cardiovascular risk prediction in individuals with type 1 diabetes: The LIFE-T1D model.Diabetes, obesity & metabolismread at PubMed
  • Published On 3/8/2024The development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior: Protocol for Wave 1 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network.PloS oneread at PubMed
  • Published On 3/7/2024Cost-Effectiveness of Community-Based Diet and Exercise for Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis and Obesity or Overweight.Arthritis care & researchread at PubMed
  • Published On 3/7/2024A Short Adverse Experiences Measure Among Mothers of Young Children.Pediatricsread at PubMed
  • Published On 3/7/2024A preconception cohort study of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and semen quality.Andrologyread at PubMed
  • Published On 3/7/2024The relationship between 11 different polygenic longevity scores, parental lifespan, and disease diagnosis in the UK Biobank.GeroScienceread at PubMed