The best health and economic policies for safe, successful, live theater in 2021-2023 will be dynamic – adapting protocols quickly to new scientific evidence, flexing capacity limits according to vaccination and testing. On Thursday April 1, 2021, the COVID Theatre Think Tank hosted a national town hall for the theatre industry to address the current…
Category: Economics
Lessons from Cost-Effectiveness of HIV vaccines for COVID Vaccines
Will HIV vaccines compete with existing HIV prevention strategies? Who is doing COVID vaccine cost-effectiveness analysis? Fred Hutch Science Spotlight translated the math in our peer-reviewed paper published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society to explain the economic tradeoffs of delivering an HIV vaccine in Seattle in the future. Our prior review of…
Economic Roots of COVID-19 Racial Inequities
COVID-19 disparities persist in our most vulnerable communities, including low-income families and racial and ethnic minorities, partly because of the financial necessity to continue working, as well as the lack of employment opportunities that enable their residents to work remotely. They are more likely to be essential workers, and that increases their exposure to the…
Advanced Methods for Math Modeling the Epidemiology and Economics of Coronavirus
Pulled from the Infectious Economics archives, these articles provide recommendations for the design and development of robust mathematical models of COVID-19 epidemiology and economics to reduce uncertainty in decision-making and inform evidence-based public policy. Associations are easy; valid causal inference is hard If we want to be honest in evaluating the winners and losers in…
Do FDA Alerts Impact Practice Patterns?
Think about the last time you were forced to make a decision in the face of uncertainty. You may have been choosing which job offer to accept or whether to move from renting to buying a home. You probably weighed the tradeoffs and asked yourself whether it made sense to gather additional information or to…
How to lead a research team from #hackathon to plenary in 6 months
The Flatiron study is proof of principle that real world evidence can be used to examine and inform health policy interventions, said Zafar, who led a discussion of Adamson’s study at the ASCO plenary session.
How to find acute HIV cases in a hot epidemic
One of the most highly infectious time periods in the life of a person with HIV is also when that person is most likely unaware of their HIV status. This is the acute stage. Shortly after infection, the virus explodes with a measurable peak in the number of copies floating around. This feature of the…
Q&A
Adamson spoke with Matthew Ong, a reporter with The Cancer Letter Before 2019, Blythe Adamson, a senior quantitative scientist at Flatiron Health, had never attended an annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. In the shower, sometime in November 2018, Adamson came up with an idea for future research: “I think we should…
ACA Medicaid expansion eliminated racial disparities in timely cancer treatment
A summary about press coverage of results from a research study from Flatiron Health and Yale, presented at the ASCO 2019 Plenary Session. We learned that Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion was associated with reduction in racial disparity in timely treatment of advanced cancer. Results were reported in the The Washington Post, Wall Street…
Age-based priority groups for efficient vaccination in South Africa
New paper in Vaccine shows staggered age targeting and the durability of protection will be key to strategic and efficient vaccination in South Africa. When an HIV vaccine is ready to launch in South Africa, an efficient implementation strategy needs to be ready. I worked with 3 women scientists in South Africa, 3 academic men…