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Wenbo Wu
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Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | AI | Machine Learning | Causal Inference | Data Science | Health Services Research | Aging | Kidney Disease | https://wenbowu.me
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Journal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · Apr 9
Just published in JOSS: 'rjaf: Regularized Joint Assignment Forest with Treatment Arm Clustering' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07843
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AcademyHealth @academyhealth.bsky.social · Mar 18
🚨 HHS reorganization reports raise alarms about AHRQ & health research. In today's Situation Report, we highlight a recent letter from Congress calling for the preservation of AHRQ amid a possible HHS reorganization: academyhealth.org/blog/2025-03...
AcademyHealth’s Situation Report: AcademyHealth Calls for Transparency and Strategic Planning on Any Proposed Reforms to AHRQ | AcademyHealth
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Wenbo Wu @wenbowu.bsky.social · Feb 5
Please consider signing up for this webinar about dynamic prediction methods, given by Dr. Alessandro Gasparini from Red Door Analytics on Feb 12 and sponsored by the ASA Lifetime Data Science Section.
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Wenbo Wu @wenbowu.bsky.social · Jan 15
📢📢The 4th Lifetime Data Science Conference will take place May 28–30, 2025, at New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, NY, USA. This event will feature keynotes by Drs. Nicholas Jewell and Mei-Ling Lee, short courses, 60+ invited sessions, and a banquet on May 29. Register and join us!
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Sherri Rose @sherrirose.bsky.social · Dec 16
Our study, the first post-implementation evaluation of the removal of race adjustment from the eGFR equation, is discussed in this Nature feature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We found no change in nephrology referrals & visits

Our paper, led by Marika Cusick proceedings.mlr.press/v248/cusick2...
Making kidney tests work for everyone
The United States has moved to deracialize kidney diagnostics. The move addresses major health-equity issues — but it also shines a light on a problematic clinical test.
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Wenbo Wu @wenbowu.bsky.social · Dec 14
A special shout-out to @alecmcclean.bsky.social and @idiaz.bsky.social for getting this incredible work done within a couple of months!
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Alec McClean @alecmcclean.bsky.social · Dec 13
New-ish paper alert! arxiv.org/abs/2410.13522
 
We tackle the challenge of comparing multiple treatments when some subjects have zero prob. of receiving certain treatments. Eg, provider profiling: comparing hospitals (the “treatments”) for patient outcomes. Positivity violations are everywhere.
Fair comparisons of causal parameters with many treatments and positivity violations
Comparing outcomes across treatments is essential in medicine and public policy. To do so, researchers typically estimate a set of parameters, possibly counterfactual, with each targeting a different ...
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Wenbo Wu @wenbowu.bsky.social · Dec 13
Excited that I will join @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor of Data Science in June 2025!
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and I are seeking a postdoc to work on statistics, causal inference, ML, LLMs, NLP, etc. Details at forms.stat.ufl.edu/statistics-j.... Feel free to apply and share!
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Nov 21
RFK Jr and aides are weighing changes to billions of dollars in Medicare physician payments.

Their thesis: the current payment model, which rewards specialty care and surgeries, has created bad incentives that harm our health.

Many experts + Democrats have also called for more $$ for primary care.
RFK Jr. weighs major changes to how Medicare pays physicians
Kennedy and advisers say the system drives doctors to perform costly surgeries rather than combating chronic disease.
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Edward H. Kennedy @edwardhkennedy.bsky.social · Nov 24
"There’s no way you can just sit down & do a `big thing', or at least I can’t. So I just went back to doing lots of little things, & hoping that some of them will turn out okay. Statistics is a wonderfully forgiving field... all you have to do is get an idea & keep at it."

- Brad Efron #statsquotes
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