I aim to inform evidence-based policies through computational health policy research to improve population health and health equity. My research is at the intersection of decision science and data science. For a full list of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar.

Selected Publications

Cusick M, Tisdale R, Adams A, Chertow G, Owens D, Salomon J, Goldhaber-Fiebert J (2025). Balancing efficiency and equity in population-wide CKD screening, JAMA Network Open [link]

Cusick M, Tisdale R, Chertow G, Owens D, Goldhaber-Fiebert J, Salomon J (2024). When to start population-wide screening for chronic kidney disease: a cost-effectiveness analysis, JAMA Health Forum [Link]

Cusick M, Chertow G, Owens D, Williams M, Rose S (2024). Algorithmic changes are not enough: removal of race adjustment from the eGFR equation. Proceedings of the fifth Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning [Link] [Stanford HAI Policy Brief] [Press coverage in Nature]

Cusick M, Tisdale RL, Chertow G, Owens D, Goldhaber-Fiebert J (2023). Population-wide screening for chronic kidney disease: a cost-effectiveness analysis, Annals of Internal Medicine [Link] [Press coverage in STAT News]

Majumder M*, Cusick M*, Rose S (2023). Measuring concordance of data sources used for infectious disease research in the USA: a retrospective data analysis. BMJ Open [Link] *co-first authors

Tisdale R*, Cusick M*, Zhang K, Handley T, Joyner AK, Salomon J, Chertow G, Goldhaber-Fiebert J, Owens D (2022). Cost-effectiveness of dapagliflozin for non-diabetic chronic kidney disease.  Journal of General Internal Medicine [Link] *co-first authors