We are pleased to announce that Tyler McCormick, Associate Professor of Statistics and Sociology, has received grant funding support from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (National Institutes of Health-NIH), for his research on “Improving Age- and Cause-Specific Under-Five Mortality Rates (ACSU5MR) by Systematically Accounting Measurement Errors to Inform Child Survival Decision Making in Low Income Countries”.
McCormick is one of two Principal Investigators on this project, the other being Li Liu from Johns Hopkins University. The project aims to improve understanding of measurement errors in Age-and Cause-Specific Under-Five Mortality Rates (ACSU5M). It will develop original data collection strategies and advance ACSU5M estimation to inform decision making, with the ultimate goal of improving child survival in low-resource settings. The project will also evaluate data collection strategies through validation studies, focus group discussions and cluster randomized trials, and develop state-of-the-art statistical methodology to improve both the inputs into and the methodology behind ACSU5M estimation.
Congratulations to Tyler McCormick on his success!