Pedro Nascimento de Lima, PhD

Engineer at RAND Corporation and Professor at Pardee RAND Gradutate School

Research

2025

OPTIC R Repository and Tutorial for Creating Policy Wheel Data Visualizations
Cost-Effectiveness of Noninvasive Colorectal Cancer Screening in Community Clinics
Incorporating social determinants of health into agent-based models of HIV transmission: methodological challenges and future directions

2024

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

2023

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

2022

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

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

2020

The Health and Economic Impacts of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions to Address COVID-19: A Decision Support Tool for State and Local Policymakers

2019

The impacts of Additive Manufacturing on production systems
Inducing Brazilian manufacturing SMEs productivity with Lean tools
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

2014

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