Pedro Nascimento de Lima, PhD

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

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Research on Simulation Modeling

18 publications tagged with "Simulation Modeling"

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

RAND Research Report • 2025

Pandemic Preparedness Environmental Surveillance Outbreak Detection Public Health Surveillance Infectious Disease +2 more

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

arXiv • 2025

Policy Evaluation Causal Inference Synthetic Control Difference-in-differences Statistical Methods +1 more

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

Frontiers in Epidemiology • 2025

Agent-based Modeling Health Disparities Health Equity Infectious Disease Modeling Robust Decision Making +1 more

Emulator-Based Bayesian Calibration of the CISNET Colorectal Cancer Models

Medical Decision Making • 2024 | Code

Bayesian Calibration Colorectal Cancer Medical Decision Making Microsimulation Cisnet +1 more

The Value of Environmental Surveillance for Pandemic Response

Scientific Reports • 2024 | Code

Environmental Surveillance Pandemic Response Wastewater Surveillance Infectious Disease Decision Analysis +4 more

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

R Package • 2024 | Code

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Comprehensive Military Eye Examination Policies

RAND Report • 2024

Health Economics Cost Effectiveness

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

Epidemiology • 2023

Policy Evaluation Causal Inference Difference-in-differences Synthetic Control Statistical Methods

optic: Simulation Tool for Causal Inference Using Longitudinal Data

R Package • 2023 | Code

Causal Inference R Package Policy Analysis Statistical Methods Econometrics +1 more

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

Industrial Engineering and Operations Management • 2023

Additive Manufacturing Industrial Engineering Operations Management

Exploring Intergenerational Wealth Transfer Dynamics with Agent-Based Models

RAND Working Paper • 2023

Agent-based Modeling Economic Inequality Racial Wealth Gap Social Equity Economic Policy +1 more

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

PLOS ONE • 2021 | Code

Covid-19 Pandemic Response Robust Decision Making Reopening Strategies Uncertainty Analysis +3 more

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

RAND Perspective • 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic Response Robust Decision Making Reopening Strategies Uncertainty Analysis +3 more

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

Journal on Policy and Complex Systems • 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic Response Non-pharmaceutical Interventions Decision Support Policy Analysis

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 Pandemic Response Decision Support

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 Non-pharmaceutical Interventions Decision Support Health Economics Pandemic Response +1 more

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

RAND Tool • 2020

Health Economics Decision Support Data Visualization

Simulação de Carregamento de Caminhões em uma Indústria Metalúrgica

Anais do I SIGEPRO - Simpósio Gaúcho de Engenharia de Produção • 2016

Operations Research Industrial Engineering