Pedro Nascimento de Lima, PhD

Researcher at RAND Corporation and Professor at RAND School of Public Policy

Research

2025

Cost-Effectiveness of Noninvasive Colorectal Cancer Screening in Community Clinics
The triple-effect of colorectal cancer screening: reducing deaths, government spending and mortality disparities
Benefits of colorectal cancer screening using FIT with varying positivity thresholds by age and sex
Assessing Bias and Precision in State Policy Evaluations: A Comparative Analysis of Time-Varying Estimators Using Policy Simulations
Stress-testing US colorectal cancer screening guidelines: Decennial colonoscopy from age 45 is robust to natural history uncertainty and colonoscopy sensitivity assumptions
The Case For Sustaining Wastewater Surveillance Capabilities In The US
OPTIC R Repository and Tutorial for Creating Policy Wheel Data Visualizations
Incorporating social determinants of health into agent-based models of HIV transmission: methodological challenges and future directions

2024

Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening With a Blood Test That Meets the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Coverage Decision
Characteristics of a cost-effective blood test for colorectal cancer screening
Commentary: Liquid Biopsy for Average-Risk Colorectal Cancer Screening
Emulator-Based Bayesian Calibration of the CISNET Colorectal Cancer Models
Effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 transmission: rapid review of evidence from Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, and China
The Value of Environmental Surveillance for Pandemic Response
The cost of myopic pandemic response
R6Sim: Encapsulated OOP base classes for simulation modeling studies in R
Reply to Aziz et al and to Das et al
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Comprehensive Military Eye Examination Policies
Modeling the Disruptive Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Nurses' Supply and Wages

2023

Optimal non-pharmaceutical pandemic response strategies depend critically on time horizons and costs
Projected long-term effects of colorectal cancer screening disruptions following the COVID-19 pandemic
Black-White disparities in colorectal cancer outcomes: a simulation study of screening benefit
NordICC Trial Results in Line With Expected Colorectal Cancer Mortality Reduction After Colonoscopy: A Modeling Study
Identifying Optimal Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias When Estimating the Effects of State-level Policies
Co-Designing Capabilities for a Robust Pandemic Response: Stakeholder Engagement for Visioning, Backcasting, and Evaluating New Decision-Support Capabilities
optic: Simulation Tool for Causal Inference Using Longitudinal Data
gerbil: Generalized Efficient Regression-Based Imputation with Latent Processes
Modeling America's Racial Wealth Disparities: Mathematical Models Help Chart Pathways for Closing Racial Wealth Gaps
Selective Openness in the Additive Manufacturing Industry: An Exploratory Modeling Analysis
Exploring Intergenerational Wealth Transfer Dynamics with Agent-Based Models

2022

Too Good to Be True? Evaluation of Colonoscopy Sensitivity Assumptions Used in Policy Models
Overcoming Compound Racial Inequity: Policies and Costs for Closing the Black-White Wealth Gap
Robust Decision Making in Health Policy: Applications to COVID-19 and Colorectal Cancer

2021

Reopening California: Seeking robust, non-dominated COVID-19 exit strategies
Reopening Under Uncertainty: Stress-Testing California's COVID-19 Exit Strategy
Could periodic nonpharmaceutical intervention strategies produce better COVID-19 health and economic outcomes?
Modeling Infectious Behaviors: The Need to Account for Behavioral Adaptation in COVID-19 Models
Vulnerability, Inequity, and COVID-19: A Portrait of the Pandemic in Allegheny County

2020

The Health and Economic Impacts of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions to Address COVID-19: A Decision Support Tool for State and Local Policymakers
How Would a Better Diet Affect Health and Economic Outcomes in the United States?

2019

Inducing Brazilian manufacturing SMEs productivity with Lean tools
The impacts of Additive Manufacturing on production systems
Do Socioeconomic Contextual Factors Influence SMEs Service Quality? A cross-sector and cross-city SERVPERF analysis

2016

Lean office e BPM: proposição e aplicação de método para a redução de desperdícios em áreas administrativas
Simulação de Carregamento de Caminhões em uma Indústria Metalúrgica
Anais do I SIGEPRO - Simpósio Gaúcho de Engenharia de Produção

2015

Ergonomia e Segurança no Setor Aeronáutico: A contribuição do Diagnóstico Participativo de Riscos em um ambiente de Manutenção de Aeronaves
XXXV - Encontro Nacional de Engenharia de Produção - ENEGEP
Proposição de uma Abordagem Sistêmica para identificar ações alavancadoras para o aumento da Cooperação Interdepartamental
XXXV - Encontro Nacional de Engenharia de Produção - ENEGEP
Lean Office na prática: Proposição e Aplicação de Método à luz do Gerenciamento de Processos
XXXV - Encontro Nacional de Engenharia de Produção - ENEGEP
Minimizando Custos de Manutenção: Uma alternativa para o Nivelamento de Recursos de um Cronograma de Manutenção Preventiva utilizando Programação Linear e a Engenharia de Confiabilidade
XXXV - Encontro Nacional de Engenharia de Produção - ENEGEP
O que Melhora a Operação do Serviço de uma Pequena Empresa? Ferramentas para a Melhoria de Operações de Serviço e aplicação em seis empresas de São Leopoldo - RS no contexto do Projeto Negócio a Negócio Etapa 3
XXXV - Encontro Nacional de Engenharia de Produção - ENEGEP

2014

Pesquisa operacional - programação linear passo a passo - do entendimento do problema à interpretação da solução