Just published in JOSS: 'rjaf: Regularized Joint Assignment Forest with Treatment Arm Clustering' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07843
Wenbo Wu
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Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | AI | Machine Learning | Causal Inference | Data Science | Health Services Research | Aging | Kidney Disease | https://wenbowu.me
🚨 HHS reorganization reports raise alarms about AHRQ & health research. In today's Situation Report, we highlight a recent letter from Congress calling for the preservation of AHRQ amid a possible HHS reorganization: academyhealth.org/blog/2025-03...
AcademyHealth’s Situation Report: AcademyHealth Calls for Transparency and Strategic Planning on Any Proposed Reforms to AHRQ | AcademyHealth
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Our study, the first post-implementation evaluation of the removal of race adjustment from the eGFR equation, is discussed in this Nature feature www.nature.com/articles/d41... We found no change in nephrology referrals & visits Our paper, led by Marika Cusick proceedings.mlr.press/v248/cusick2...
Making kidney tests work for everyone
The United States has moved to deracialize kidney diagnostics. The move addresses major health-equity issues — but it also shines a light on a problematic clinical test.
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A special shout-out to @alecmcclean.bsky.social and @idiaz.bsky.social for getting this incredible work done within a couple of months!
Alec McClean@alecmcclean.bsky.social · 2y agoNew-ish paper alert! arxiv.org/abs/2410.13522 We tackle the challenge of comparing multiple treatments when some subjects have zero prob. of receiving certain treatments. Eg, provider profiling: comparing hospitals (the “treatments”) for patient outcomes. Positivity violations are everywhere.
Excited that I will join @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor of Data Science in June 2025! @idiaz.bsky.social and I are seeking a postdoc to work on statistics, causal inference, ML, LLMs, NLP, etc. Details at forms.stat.ufl.edu/statistics-j.... Feel free to apply and share!
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RFK Jr and aides are weighing changes to billions of dollars in Medicare physician payments. Their thesis: the current payment model, which rewards specialty care and surgeries, has created bad incentives that harm our health. Many experts + Democrats have also called for more $$ for primary care.
RFK Jr. weighs major changes to how Medicare pays physicians
Kennedy and advisers say the system drives doctors to perform costly surgeries rather than combating chronic disease.
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"There’s no way you can just sit down & do a `big thing', or at least I can’t. So I just went back to doing lots of little things, & hoping that some of them will turn out okay. Statistics is a wonderfully forgiving field... all you have to do is get an idea & keep at it." - Brad Efron #statsquotes