Our JAMA IM paper on excess mortality among physicians in the US was just published

February 27, 2023

  I’m on a National Academies’ committee about opioid and benzo prescribing in the VA — public comments welcome for the upcoming (open) sessions

February 1, 2023

  CrisisReady’s Annual Report is out. A reminder that the point of academia is to work with people you like on things you think are important.

August 9, 2022

  My slides from a guest lecture on data visualization

August 2, 2022

  My slides from PAA 2022 on excess fatal drug poisonings in California

April 28, 2022

  It’s official — I’m a tenure-track assistant professor

January 24, 2022

  Our new paper suggesting smartphones are a good way to collective passive data from diverse groups with low levels of missingness

July 29, 2021

  Our new systematic review of depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts among PhD students

July 23, 2021

  My slides from a panel on wildfires, power outages, and vulnerability in California

June 2, 2021

  Our preprint on why the situation in Yemen, currently the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, needs immediate attention before it becomes even worse

April 11, 2021

  Our pre-print on making vaccination schedules more racially and ethnically equitable (feedback welcome)

April 2, 2021

  New Nature Comms paper on combining CDR data with (biased) dengue sequences to measure the relative impacts of immunity, environment, and human mobility

March 22, 2021

  Our open-access paper looking at state cannabis laws and rates of assault and self-harm is up in JAMA Network Open with a great invited commentary

March 18, 2021

  Our paper on how mobility network properties affect infectious disease dynamics in megacities in Epidemics

February 26, 2021

  Our new paper in Epidemiology looking at trends and sociodemographic disparities in electricity-dependent durable medical equipment rentals

February 15, 2021

  About 1 in 6 Medicare beneficiaries left behind opioid pills after death — it should be easy and simple for their families to safely dispose of old medications

January 29, 2021

  Our paper in Scientific Reports about incorporating mobility data and using ensemble models to predict dengue in Thailand

January 13, 2021

  Power outages can have serious health consequences. Our new paper reviews the literature

November 12, 2020

  My slides from a panel talk about some exciting work we have coming up about California wildfires

October 23, 2020

  Our paper in Annals of Internal Medicine about counting COVID-19 deaths (with link to an informative accompanying editorial)

September 11, 2020

  I wrote a simulation paper about playing Candy Land with toddlers

September 7, 2020

  Our new paper on intersecting county characteristics (at different levels) that will likely impact an equitable COVID-19 response (and my first paper as the supervising author!)

September 2, 2020

  Our paper about using phone-based location data for COVID-19 research is now up at The Lancet Digital Health

September 1, 2020

  I scraped data of all San Francisco public elementary schools for parents figuring out the school lottery system

March 1, 2020

  Our overview of how stigma has affected the medical response to the overdose crisis (with a lot of amazing authors) in PLOS Medicine

November 29, 2019

  Our paper on using Bayesian joint spatial models to decompose racial/ethnic inequalities (equations got ruined during proofing — corrections coming)

November 21, 2019

  My SER 2019 slides on decomposing the Black-White life expectancy inequality due to deaths of despair

June 21, 2019

  Our open-access paper looking at geographic variation in opioid mortality, by opioid type in JAMA Network Open. (Code and Shiny app are in the link.)

February 25, 2019

  Our paper on trends in pregnancy-associated mortality involving opioids in the United States, 2007–2016

December 6, 2018

  Our (open-access) paper on trends in black and white opioid-related mortality is up now. (Code and data linked in the paper.)

August 5, 2018

  I presented some joint work at PAA last week. Slides, code, and more here

May 4, 2018

  I made an R package for working with NCHS multiple cause of death data.

November 13, 2017

  Amazing visualization of different MCMC sampling algorithms

January 27, 2017

  On graduate student burnout: “It isn’t usually a snap so much as a gradual disintegration.”

January 7, 2017

  PSA: Applications are open for the 2017 Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship. 10/10 would do again.

December 9, 2016

  Our unsurprising result: Among other things, mutual respect is important for implementing large-scale healthcare initiatives.

September 24, 2016

  And associated Reddit Science AMA on our last essay…

December 21, 2015

  Sadly relevant: Our essay on police killings and police deaths.

December 21, 2015

  Reporter posts his mobile phone metadata for the public to analyze

August 17, 2015

  Our “deaths due to ‘legal interventions'” essay. It’s not peer-reviewed (and it’s a couple months old), but increasingly relevant.

April 30, 2015

  tl;dr: How you implement things — even simple things like checklists — is important.

April 6, 2015

  Looking at abortion laws and infant deaths

March 12, 2015

  tl;dr version: Discrimination is bad for everybody (especially those discriminated against).

June 25, 2014

  Our new paper’s punchline: Health inequities need not rise as population health improves.

March 25, 2014