Pedro Nascimento de Lima, PhD

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

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Research on Pandemic Response

13 publications tagged with "Pandemic Response"

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

RAND Research Report • 2025

Pandemic Preparedness Pathogen Detection Biosurveillance Environmental Surveillance Wearable Sensors +6 more

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 • 2024

Non-pharmaceutical Interventions Covid-19 Disease Transmission Public Health Policy Epidemiology +5 more

The Value of Environmental Surveillance for Pandemic Response

Scientific Reports • 2024 | Code

Environmental Surveillance Wastewater Surveillance Public Health Infectious Disease Surveillance Systems +6 more

The cost of myopic pandemic response

medRxiv • 2024

Non-pharmaceutical Interventions Infectious Disease Modeling Social Distancing Covid-19 Mathematical Modeling

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

Scientific Reports • 2023

Non-pharmaceutical Interventions Infectious Disease Modeling Social Distancing Covid-19 Calculus Of Variations +2 more

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

RAND Working Paper • 2023

Public Health Decision-making Stakeholder Engagement Decision Support Systems Scenario Planning Visioning +3 more

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

Pardee RAND Dissertation • 2022

Robust Decision Making Health Policy Covid-19 Colorectal Cancer Decision Analysis +3 more

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

PLOS ONE • 2021 | Code

Covid-19 Public Health Policy Robust Decision Making California Reopening Strategies +6 more

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

RAND Perspective • 2021

Covid-19 Public Health Policy Robust Decision Making California Reopening Strategies +6 more

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

Journal on Policy and Complex Systems • 2021

Covid-19 Nonpharmaceutical Interventions Public Health Policy Decision Support Health Economics +3 more

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

Journal on Policy and Complex Systems • 2021

Covid-19 Infectious Disease Modeling Behavioral Adaptation Public Health Policy Simulation Modeling +1 more

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

RAND Tool • 2021

Covid-19 Health Disparities Public Health Epidemiology Social Determinants Of Health +3 more

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

RAND Tool • 2020

Covid-19 Nonpharmaceutical Interventions Public Health Policy Decision Support Health Economics +6 more