Year: 2012
Funding: Mentored Researcher Development Award
Status: Completed
Overview
This project expands existing economic and comparative effectiveness research including: 1) domestic TB control costs of public health investments as well as health and other individual losses; and 2) new tools for public protection and expected progress toward TB elimination by local, state and regional TB control authorities and public health systems.
Researcher
Thaddeus L. Miller, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., University of North Texas Health Science Center
Mentor
Jose A. Pagan, Ph.D., New York Academy of Medicine
Tool
Reports
- Opportunities and costs associated with a model DOTS program, Kolar district, Karnataka India (Related, for the Government of India and its National Tuberculosis Institute, June 2013)
Presentations
- Applied Economic Modeling: Tuberculosis Control (PHSSR Research in Progress Webinar, January 2014 recording)
- Opportunities and costs associated with a model DOTS program, Kolar district, Karnataka India (The Government of India and its National Tuberculosis Institute, June 2013)
- ROI and practical economic evaluation in the public health setting: TB case study (Commissioner, Texas Department of State Health Services, April 2013)
- Mortality hazard and survival after tuberculosis treatment (PHSSR Keeneland Conference, April 2013)
Publications
- Compliance with postexposure screening and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection among healthcare workers in a tertiary care hospital in Saudi Arabia (ICHE, February 2014)
- Playing to our Strengths: An Academic/Health Department Collaboration to Facilitate Public Protections Against Tuberculosis (Frontiers in PHSSR, April 2014)
- Allopatric tuberculosis host-pathogen relationships are associated with greater pulmonary impairment (Infection, Genetics and Evolution, June 2013)
- The value of effective public tuberculosis treatment: an analysis of opportunity costs associated with multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Latvia. (Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, April 2013)
Related Publications
- Abbas, KM. Editorial Comment: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Prioritization of Limited Public Health Resources - Tuberculosis Interventions in Texas (Frontiers in PHSSR, April 2014)