Research | Pedro Nascimento de Lima, PhD

2025

Cost-Effectiveness of Noninvasive Colorectal Cancer Screening in Community Clinics

JAMA Network Open

Benefits of colorectal cancer screening using FIT with varying positivity thresholds by age and sex

JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Modeled Cost-Effectiveness of a Rideshare Program to Facilitate Colonoscopy Completion

JAMA Network Open

COMPASS: A Framework for Navigating Systemic Risks

RAND Working Paper

The Future of Artificial Intelligence Policy Is the Future of Competing Demands

RAND Visualization

Rethinking Social and Economic Policy in the Age of General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Cascading Impacts of AI Adoption

RAND Research Report

Strategies to Improve Detection of Novel Pandemic Pathogens: Cost Versus Detection Performance for Promising Pathogen-Agnostic Detection Workflows

RAND Research Report

The triple-effect of colorectal cancer screening: reducing deaths, government spending and mortality disparities

JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Assessing Bias and Precision in State Policy Evaluations: A Comparative Analysis of Time-Varying Estimators Using Policy Simulations

arXiv

Stress-testing US colorectal cancer screening guidelines: Decennial colonoscopy from age 45 is robust to natural history uncertainty and colonoscopy sensitivity assumptions

Medical Decision Making

The Case For Sustaining Wastewater Surveillance Capabilities In The US

Health Affairs Forefront

OPTIC R Repository and Tutorial for Creating Policy Wheel Data Visualizations

RAND Tool | Code

Incorporating social determinants of health into agent-based models of HIV transmission: methodological challenges and future directions

Frontiers in Epidemiology

2024

Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening With a Blood Test That Meets the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Coverage Decision

Gastroenterology

Characteristics of a cost-effective blood test for colorectal cancer screening

JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Commentary: Liquid Biopsy for Average-Risk Colorectal Cancer Screening

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 transmission: rapid review of evidence from Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, and China

Frontiers in Public Health

Emulator-Based Bayesian Calibration of the CISNET Colorectal Cancer Models

Medical Decision Making | Code

The Value of Environmental Surveillance for Pandemic Response

Scientific Reports | Code

The cost of myopic pandemic response

medRxiv

Potential spillover effects on diagnostic delay for cancer during the NHS-Galleri trial: a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences study

medRxiv

R6Sim: Encapsulated OOP base classes for simulation modeling studies in R

R Package | Code

Reply to Aziz et al and to Das et al

Gastroenterology

Response to Hu, Yang, and Sun

JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Comprehensive Military Eye Examination Policies

RAND Report

Modeling the Disruptive Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Nurses' Supply and Wages

RAND Working Paper

2023

Optimal non-pharmaceutical pandemic response strategies depend critically on time horizons and costs

Scientific Reports

Projected long-term effects of colorectal cancer screening disruptions following the COVID-19 pandemic

eLife | Code

NordICC Trial Results in Line With Expected Colorectal Cancer Mortality Reduction After Colonoscopy: A Modeling Study

Gastroenterology

Black-White disparities in colorectal cancer outcomes: a simulation study of screening benefit

JNCI Monographs

Identifying Optimal Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias When Estimating the Effects of State-level Policies

Epidemiology

Co-Designing Capabilities for a Robust Pandemic Response: Stakeholder Engagement for Visioning, Backcasting, and Evaluating New Decision-Support Capabilities

RAND Working Paper

optic: Simulation Tool for Causal Inference Using Longitudinal Data

R Package | Code

gerbil: Generalized Efficient Regression-Based Imputation with Latent Processes

R Package | Code

Modeling America's Racial Wealth Disparities: Mathematical Models Help Chart Pathways for Closing Racial Wealth Gaps

Notices of the American Mathematical Society | Code

Selective Openness in the Additive Manufacturing Industry: An Exploratory Modeling Analysis

Industrial Engineering and Operations Management

Exploring Intergenerational Wealth Transfer Dynamics with Agent-Based Models

RAND Working Paper

2022

Too Good to Be True? Evaluation of Colonoscopy Sensitivity Assumptions Used in Policy Models

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

Overcoming Compound Racial Inequity: Policies and Costs for Closing the Black-White Wealth Gap

RAND Report | Code

Robust Decision Making in Health Policy: Applications to COVID-19 and Colorectal Cancer

Pardee RAND Dissertation

2021

Reopening California: Seeking robust, non-dominated COVID-19 exit strategies

PLOS ONE | Code

Reopening Under Uncertainty: Stress-Testing California's COVID-19 Exit Strategy

RAND Perspective

Could periodic nonpharmaceutical intervention strategies produce better COVID-19 health and economic outcomes?

Journal on Policy and Complex Systems

Modeling Infectious Behaviors: The Need to Account for Behavioral Adaptation in COVID-19 Models

Journal on Policy and Complex Systems

Vulnerability, Inequity, and COVID-19: A Portrait of the Pandemic in Allegheny County

RAND Tool

2020

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

RAND Tool

How Would a Better Diet Affect Health and Economic Outcomes in the United States?

RAND Tool

2019

Inducing Brazilian manufacturing SMEs productivity with Lean tools

International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management

The impacts of Additive Manufacturing on production systems

International Joint Conference ICIEOM

Do Socioeconomic Contextual Factors Influence SMEs Service Quality? A cross-sector and cross-city SERVPERF analysis

International Journal of Business Performance Management

2016

Lean office e BPM: proposição e aplicação de método para a redução de desperdícios em áreas administrativas

Revista Produção Online

Simulação de Carregamento de Caminhões em uma Indústria Metalúrgica

Anais do I SIGEPRO - Simpósio Gaúcho de Engenharia de Produção