Publications

Peer-reviewed research from HEAL-SL

Computer Assisted Verbal Autopsy

Wen et al.·Sep 24, 2025

Computer Assisted Verbal Autopsy: Comparing Large Language Models to Physicians for Assigning Causes to 6939 Deaths in Sierra Leone from 2019-2022

Estimating annual deaths from stroke in Freetown Sierra Leone

Youkee et al.·Aug 5, 2025

Estimating annual deaths from stroke in Freetown Sierra Leone: a comparative analysis of a hospital-based stroke register and a population-based verbal autopsy study

Educational Attainment and Child and Adult Mortality in Sierra Leone

Wu et al.·Jul 8, 2025

Educational Attainment and Child and Adult Mortality in Sierra Leone: A Nationally Representative Mortality Study, 2019-2024

High SARS-CoV-2 seroincidence but low excess COVID mortality in Sierra Leone in 2020–2022

Osman et al.·Sep 10, 2024

High SARS-CoV-2 seroincidence but low excess COVID mortality in Sierra Leone in 2020–2022

A Door-to-Door Effort to Find Out Who Died Helps Low-Income Countries Aid the Living

Stephanie Nolen·Apr 19, 2022

A New York Times article done in 2022.

Child, Maternal, and Adult Mortality in Sierra Leone: Nationally Representative Mortality Survey 2018-2020

Carshon-Marsh et al.·Jun 22, 2021

Sierra Leone's Sample Registration System for Mortality: Challenges for a Low-Income Country and the Surprisingly Informative First Wave of Results on Adult Mortality

Ansumana et al.·Oct 6, 2020