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INFECTIOUS ECONOMICS | by Blythe Adamson
May 26, 2018November 4, 2018

Progress in viral suppression shifts distribution of metrics in US states

While preparing a review for the journal Current HIV/AIDS Reports, I uncovered some interesting longitudinal trends in the care cascade and heterogeneity in the progress of US states. The following visualizations describe CDC HIV surveillance data from 2010-2014. They didn’t make the cut for our review paper, and they are too beautiful and interesting to…

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May 26, 2018May 26, 2018

ISPOR Leadership and Legacy

It has been a privilege to serve and represent more than 5,000 health economics graduate students in 77 countries and support the work of presidents from 107 student chapters during my term as Chair of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Student Network in 2017-2018. Where We Are Today I continue to be…

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May 12, 2018June 24, 2018

Defended

On Thursday, May 3, 2018, I defended my doctoral dissertation research in The Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy, and Economics (CHOICE) Institute at the University of Washington and became a doctor. Mathematical Models Interrogation The priviledge to ask and answer my own scientific questions was only possible because of the dedicated professors and mentors who gifted…

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April 25, 2018May 12, 2018

Investment Round

Lab coats are being ironed, promo stickers wrapped around candy bars, and strangers pulled off the street to help with utility testing. It’s time for the Business Plan Competition.

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April 19, 2018August 2, 2018

BBC Interview

On Tuesday, April 17, the journal Nature Scientific Reports published our paper “Projected effectiveness and added value of HIV vaccination campaigns in South Africa: A modeling study.” A few hours later, a reporter from BBC World Service reached out to discuss the the results of our study. Live Interview You can listen to this clip with…

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April 17, 2018

Doctoral Dissertation Defense

An Invitation Please join us at my doctoral dissertation defense titled “Mathematical Models to Evaluate the Clinical and Economic Impact of Biomedical HIV Prevention Strategies in the United States” at 12:30 pm on Thursday, May 3, 2018 at the Washington Research Foundation (WRF) Data Science Studio on the 6th floor of the Physics/Astronomy Tower at the University of Washington…

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March 13, 2018March 27, 2018

Visual IV Primer

Kangho Suh wrote an excellent article on the use of instrumental variables in healthcare. I agree this technique strengthens causal inference for analyses of observational data. This is even more important when a randomized controlled trial is not feasible or ethical.   SaveSave

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March 2, 2018March 12, 2018

Why You Should Care About Person-Centered Treatment Effects

Failure to consider these methods could result in unintended consequences and exacerbate existing inequalities in health between patients who are “average” and “outliers.”

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February 1, 2018June 19, 2019

CHEAT SHEET: Cancer Immunotherapy

Remember the good old days, when professors let you bring to an exam one 8.5″x11″ single-sided cheat sheet crammed with your tiniest scrawled notes about what you expected could be on the test? The landscape of immuno-oncology is changing so rapidly that in January I longed for a “cheat sheet” to keep up with the…

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January 24, 2018

Book Review

Data scientists younger than Taylor Swift can do everyone a favor by reading “Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions” by NPR journalist Richard Harris. It sparks uncomfortable conversations about the broken incentives in our research system. Read my full book review “Difficult Choices Between What is Best for…

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