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Ronald Carshon-Marsh
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Research
Latest papers
Comparison of verbal autopsy using a large language model to biologically confirmed causes of death for malaria and other communicable diseases among children in six sub-Saharan African countries.
Malaria journal · 2026 · first author
Correction: Computer assisted verbal autopsy: comparing large language models to physicians for assigning causes to 6939 deaths in Sierra Leone from 2019-2022.
BMC medicine · 2026
Improving the utilization of insecticide-treated nets for malaria prevention among pregnant women, lactating mothers and children in Sierra Leone: a commentary.
Malaria journal · 2025 · first author
Latest funding
Acute Respiratory Mortality Surveillance (ARMS) for Coronavirus Infection (COVID-19): A globally relevant technology to strengthen mortality surveillance for acute respiratory deaths in many countries lacking complete medical certification of death
CIHR · 2020 · Principal investigator
7 publications.
Comparison of verbal autopsy using a large language model to biologically confirmed causes of death for malaria and other communicable diseases among children in six sub-Saharan African countries.
Carshon-Marsh R, Wen R, Ng TKS, Kamadod R, Bogoch I, Bondy SJ, Witek TJ, Jha P
Correction: Computer assisted verbal autopsy: comparing large language models to physicians for assigning causes to 6939 deaths in Sierra Leone from 2019-2022.
Wen R, Assalif AT, Lee AS, Kamadod R, Behdinan A, Carshon-Marsh R, Meh C, Ng TKS, Brown P, Jha P, Ansumana R
Improving the utilization of insecticide-treated nets for malaria prevention among pregnant women, lactating mothers and children in Sierra Leone: a commentary.
Carshon-Marsh R, Di Ruggiero E
Computer assisted verbal autopsy: comparing large language models to physicians for assigning causes to 6939 deaths in Sierra Leone from 2019-2022.
Wen R, Assalif AT, Lee AS, Kamadod R, Behdinan A, Carshon-Marsh R, Meh C, Ng TKS, Brown P, Jha P, Ansumana R
Validation of malaria-attributed deaths using verbal autopsy studies: a systematic review.
Carshon-Marsh R, Bondy S, Witek T, Jha P
Assessing Changes in Surgical Site Infections and Antibiotic Use among Caesarean Section and Herniorrhaphy Patients at a Regional Hospital in Sierra Leone Following Operational Research in 2021.
Kpagoi SSTK, Kamara KN, Carshon-Marsh R, Delamou A, Manzi M, Kamara RZ, Moiwo MM, Kamara M, Koroma Z, Lakoh S, Fofanah BD, Kamara IF, Kanu ABJ, Kenneh S, Kanu JS, Margao S, Kamau EM
Could vaccinating adults against malaria materially reduce adult mortality in high-transmission areas?
Gelband H, Carshon-Marsh R, Ansumana R, Swaray IB, Pandey A, Aimone A, Bogoch I, Eikelboom J, Jha P
Acute Respiratory Mortality Surveillance (ARMS) for Coronavirus Infection (COVID-19): A globally relevant technology to strengthen mortality surveillance for acute respiratory deaths in many countries lacking complete medical certification of death
Principal investigators: Jha, Prabhat; Ansumana, Rashid; Carshon-Marsh, Ronald R; Dikshit, Rajesh; Leung, Gabriel M; Mekonnen, Wubegzier; Qiu, Haibo; Satav, Ashish R
Keywords: Cause Of Death; Mortality Surveillance; Pneumonia Etiology; Post Mortem Review; Syndromic Surveillance; Verbal Autopsy
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Centre for Global Health Research
- Department of Medicine
- Medicine
- Epidemiology Division
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