Publications

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Adaptive Decision Making

• Yaesoubi R, Havumaki J, Chitwood MH, Menzies NA, Gonsalves G, Salomon JA, Paltiel AD, Cohen T. Adaptive Policies to Balance Health Benefits and Economic Costs of Physical Distancing Interventions during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Med Decis Making. 2021 May;41(4):386-392. doi: 10.1177/0272989X21990371. Epub 2021 Jan 27. PubMed PMID: 33504258; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8084913.
• Yaesoubi R, Cohen T, Hsu K, Gift TL, Chesson H, Salomon JA, Grad YH. Adaptive guidelines for the treatment of gonorrhea to increase the effective life span of antibiotics among men who have sex with men in the United States: A mathematical modeling study. PLoS Med. 2020 Apr;17(4):e1003077. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003077. eCollection 2020 Apr. PubMed PMID: 32243443; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7122693.
• Yaesoubi R, Cohen T. Identifying cost-effective dynamic policies to control epidemics. Stat Med. 2016 Dec 10;35(28):5189-5209. doi: 10.1002/sim.7047. Epub 2016 Jul 24. PubMed PMID: 27449759; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5096998.
• Yaesoubi R, Cohen T. Identifying dynamic tuberculosis case-finding policies for HIV/TB coepidemics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Jun 4;110(23):9457-62. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1218770110. Epub 2013 May 20. PubMed PMID: 23690585; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3677479.

Clinical and Public Health Informatics

• Murray-Watson RE, Guaracha X, Bilinski A, Yaesoubi R. Forecasting Local Surges in COVID-19 Hospitalizations through Adaptive Decision Tree Classifiers. Med Decis Making. 2026 Feb 2;:272989X251408845. doi: 10.1177/0272989X251408845. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 41626707.
• Murray-Watson RE, Grad YH, St Cyr SB, Yaesoubi R. Personalizing the empiric treatment of gonorrhea using machine learning models. PLOS Digit Health. 2024 Aug;3(8):e0000549. doi: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000549. eCollection 2024 Aug. PubMed PMID: 39141668; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11324139.
• Yaesoubi R, You S, Xi Q, Menzies NA, Tuite A, Grad YH, Salomon JA. Generating simple classification rules to predict local surges in COVID-19 hospitalizations. Health Care Manag Sci. 2023 Jun;26(2):301-312. doi: 10.1007/s10729-023-09629-4. Epub 2023 Jan 24. PubMed PMID: 36692583; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9872755.
• You S, Chitwood MH, Gunasekera KS, Crudu V, Codreanu A, Ciobanu N, Furin J, Cohen T, Warren JL, Yaesoubi R. Predicting resistance to fluoroquinolones among patients with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis using machine learning methods. PLOS Digit Health. 2022;1(6). doi: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000059. Epub 2022 Jun 30. PubMed PMID: 36177394; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9518704.

Simulation and Mathematical Modeling

• Yaesoubi R, Xi Q, Hsu K, Gift TL, St Cyr SB, Rönn MM, Salomon JA, Grad YH. The Impact of Rapid Drug Susceptibility Tests on Gonorrhea Burden and the Life Span of Antibiotic Treatments: A Modeling Study Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United States. Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Jan 8;193(1):17-25. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwad175. PubMed PMID: 37625444; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10773484.
• Yaesoubi R, Cohen T, Hsu K, Gift TL, St Cyr SB, Salomon JA, Grad YH. Evaluating spatially adaptive guidelines for the treatment of gonorrhea to reduce the incidence of gonococcal infection and increase the effective lifespan of antibiotics. PLoS Comput Biol. 2022 Feb;18(2):e1009842. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009842. eCollection 2022 Feb. PubMed PMID: 35139073; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8863219.

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (Methods and Applications)

• Yaesoubi R, Kunst N. Net Monetary Benefit Lines Augmented with Value-of-Information Measures to Present the Results of Economic Evaluations under Uncertainty. Med Decis Making. 2024 Oct;44(7):770-786. doi: 10.1177/0272989X241262343. Epub 2024 Jul 26. PubMed PMID: 39056310; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12181631.
• Yaesoubi R. How Many Monte Carlo Samples Are Needed for Probabilistic Cost-Effectiveness Analyses?. Value Health. 2024 Nov;27(11):1553-1563. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2024.06.016. Epub 2024 Jul 6. PubMed PMID: 38977192.
• Yin X, Li Y, Rönn MM, Li S, Yuan Y, Gift TL, Hsu K, Salomon JA, Grad YH, Yaesoubi R. Assessing thresholds of resistance prevalence at which empiric treatment of gonorrhea should change among men who have sex with men in the US: A cost-effectiveness analysis. PLoS Med. 2024 Jul;21(7):e1004424. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004424. eCollection 2024 Jul. PubMed PMID: 38976754; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11262662.
• Pryor S, Savoye M, Nowicka P, Price G, Sharifi M, Yaesoubi R. Cost-Effectiveness and Long-Term Savings of the Bright Bodies Intervention for Childhood Obesity. Value Health. 2023 Aug;26(8):1183-1191. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2023.03.006. Epub 2023 Mar 24. PubMed PMID: 36967028; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10518029.
• Marx FM, Cohen T, Menzies NA, Salomon JA, Theron G, Yaesoubi R. Cost-effectiveness of post-treatment follow-up examinations and secondary prevention of tuberculosis in a high-incidence setting: a model-based analysis. Lancet Glob Health. 2020 Sep;8(9):e1223-e1233. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30227-8. PubMed PMID: 32827484; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7549318.
• Arifin SMN, Zimmer C, Trotter C, Colombini A, Sidikou F, LaForce FM, Cohen T, Yaesoubi R. Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Uses of Polyvalent Meningococcal Vaccines in Niger: An Agent-Based Transmission Modeling Study. Med Decis Making. 2019 Jul;39(5):553-567. doi: 10.1177/0272989X19859899. Epub 2019 Jul 3. PubMed PMID: 31268405; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6786941.
• Yaesoubi R, Trotter C, Colijn C, Yaesoubi M, Colombini A, Resch S, Kristiansen PA, LaForce FM, Cohen T. The cost-effectiveness of alternative vaccination strategies for polyvalent meningococcal vaccines in Burkina Faso: A transmission dynamic modeling study. PLoS Med. 2018 Jan;15(1):e1002495. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002495. eCollection 2018 Jan. PubMed PMID: 29364884; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5783340.