Lab Information
W. Alton Russell (PhD)
Associate InvestigatorCentre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health (McGill)
http://mchi.mcgill.ca/decision-modeling-lab/
Keywords
Decision analysis • cost-effectiveness • simulation modeling • blood donation and transfusion • transfusion-transmitted infectionsResearch Interests
My research program aims to enable the efficient and effective use of finite healthcare resources by developing data-driven analyses that inform health policy and clinical decisions. I use methods from decision analysis, simulation, health economics, operations research, epidemiology, and data science. I have developed decision analytic models and data-driven analyses for multiple areas of health policy and clinical practice, including blood donation and transfusion, managing pediatric kidney disease, opioid use disorder and overdose, and gastroenterology.Team Members
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Latest Publications
- Lim, J., Russell, W. A., El-Sheikh, M., Buckeridge, D. L. & Panagiotoglou, D. (2024). Correction: Economic evaluation of the effect of needle and syringe programs on skin, soft tissue, and vascular infections in people who inject drugs: a microsimulation modelling approach. Harm reduction journal, vol. 21, p. 164.
- Kuchukhidze, S., Walters, M. K., Panagiotoglou, D., Boily, M.-C., Diabaté, S., Russell, W. A., Stöckl, H., Sardinha, L., Mbofana, F., Wanyenze, R. K., Imai-Eaton, J. W. & Maheu-Giroux, M. (2024). The contribution of intimate partner violence to vertical HIV transmission: a modelling analysis of 46 African countries. The lancet. HIV, vol. 11, p. e542-e551.
- Stanley, J., Busch, M. P., Erikstrup, C., Galel, S. A., Holmberg, J. A., Lewin, A., O'Brien, S. F., Osiowy, C., Patidar, G., Russell, W. A., Spencer, B. R., Higgs, C. & Surveillance, Risk Assessment, Policy Sub‐group of the ISBT Transfusion Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party (2024). The International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) Public Health Research Toolkit: A report from the Surveillance, Risk Assessment and Policy Sub-group of the ISBT Transfusion Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party. Vox sanguinis, vol. 119, p. 1122-1125.
- Lim, J., Russell, W. A., El-Sheikh, M., Buckeridge, D. L. & Panagiotoglou, D. (2024). Economic evaluation of the effect of needle and syringe programs on skin, soft tissue, and vascular infections in people who inject drugs: a microsimulation modelling approach. Harm reduction journal, vol. 21, p. 126.
- Jagirdar, H., Nwobi, N. H., Swanevelder, R., Cockeran, R., Bruhn, R., Kaidarova, Z., Bravo, M. D., van den Berg, K., Custer, B. S., Vassallo, R., Ding, Y., Panagiotoglou, D. & Russell, W. A. (2024). Blood donor return behavior in South Africa and the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Transfusion, vol. 64, p. 1492-1502.
- Yu, Y., Knight, M. J., Gibson, D., O'Brien, S. F., Buckeridge, D. L. & Russell, W. A. (2024). Temporal trends in disparities in COVID-19 seropositivity among Canadian blood donors. International journal of epidemiology, vol. 53.
- Li, N., Pham, T., Cheng, C., McElfresh, D. C., Metcalf, R. A., Russell, W. A., Birch, R., Yurkovich, J. T., Montemayor-Garcia, C., Lane, W. J., Tobian, A. A. R., Roubinian, N., Seheult, J. & Goel, R. (2023). Blood Demand Forecasting and Supply Management: An Analytical Assessment of Key Studies Utilizing Novel Computational Techniques. Transfusion medicine reviews, p. 150768.
- Vivas-Valencia, C., Dong, H., Stringfellow, E. J., Russell, W. A., Morgan, J. R., Tadrous, M. & Jalali, M. S. (2023). Factors Associated With Abrupt Discontinuation of Long-Term High-Dose Opioid Treatment. JAMA network open, vol. 6, p. e2341416.
- Claypool, A. L., DiGennaro, C., Russell, W. A., Yildirim, M. F., Zhang, A. F., Reid, Z., Stringfellow, E. J., Bearnot, B., Schackman, B. R., Humphreys, K. & Jalali, M. S. (2023). Cost-effectiveness of Increasing Buprenorphine Treatment Initiation, Duration, and Capacity Among Individuals Who Use Opioids. JAMA health forum, vol. 4, p. e231080.
- Dong, H., Stringfellow, E. J., Russell, W. A. & Jalali, M. S. (2023). Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Buprenorphine Treatment Duration in the US. JAMA psychiatry, vol. 80, p. 93-95.