Laura B. Balzer

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Laura B. Balzer is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura B. Balzer has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Infectious Diseases, 27 papers in Epidemiology and 26 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Laura B. Balzer's work include HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (40 papers), Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (26 papers) and HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (21 papers). Laura B. Balzer is often cited by papers focused on HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (40 papers), Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (26 papers) and HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (21 papers). Laura B. Balzer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Uganda and Kenya. Laura B. Balzer's co-authors include Ashley I. Naimi, Maya L. Petersen, Diane V. Havlir, Moses R. Kamya, Gabriel Chamie, Dalsone Kwarisiima, Edwin D. Charlebois, Tamara D. Clark, Jane Kabami and James Ayieko and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Clinical Infectious Diseases and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Laura B. Balzer

85 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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Catherine R. Lesko United States

Maya Petersen United States

Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen United States

Ying Qing Chen United States

Samuel Manda South Africa

Patrick Musonda Zambia

Andrew Anglemyer United States

Michael Schomaker South Africa

Temesgen Zewotir South Africa

Juan A. Arnaiz Spain

Catherine R. Lesko United States

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Hickey, Matthew D., Asiphas Owaraganise, Norton Sang, et al.. (2025). Community health worker–facilitated telehealth for moderate–severe hypertension care in Kenya and Uganda: A randomized controlled trial. PLoS Medicine. 22(6). e1004632–e1004632.

Nance, Nerissa, Maya Petersen, Mark van der Laan, & Laura B. Balzer. (2024). The Causal Roadmap and Simulations to Improve the Rigor and Reproducibility of Real-data Applications. Epidemiology. 35(6). 791–800. 1 indexed citations

Balzer, Laura B., et al.. (2024). Adaptive selection of the optimal strategy to improve precision and power in randomized trials. Biometrics. 80(1). 8 indexed citations

Balzer, Laura B., et al.. (2023). A Demonstration of Modified Treatment Policies to Evaluate Shifts in Mobility and COVID-19 Case Rates in US Counties. American Journal of Epidemiology. 192(5). 762–771. 4 indexed citations

Marquez, Carina, et al.. (2023). Blurring cluster randomized trials and observational studies: Two-Stage TMLE for subsampling, missingness, and few independent units. Biostatistics. 25(3). 599–616. 9 indexed citations

Mwangwa, Florence, Gabriel Chamie, Laura B. Balzer, et al.. (2023). Effect of a brief alcohol counselling intervention on HIV viral suppression and alcohol use among persons with HIV and unhealthy alcohol use in Uganda and Kenya: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 26(12). e26187–e26187. 4 indexed citations

Larmarange, Joseph, Pamela Bachanas, Timothy Skalland, et al.. (2023). Population-level viremia predicts HIV incidence at the community level across the Universal Testing and Treatment Trials in eastern and southern Africa. PLOS Global Public Health. 3(7). e0002157–e0002157. 3 indexed citations

Hickey, Matthew D., Asiphas Owaraganise, Norton Sang, et al.. (2022). Effect of a one-time financial incentive on linkage to chronic hypertension care in Kenya and Uganda: A randomized controlled trial. PLoS ONE. 17(11). e0277312–e0277312. 8 indexed citations

Mwangwa, Florence, Edwin D. Charlebois, James Ayieko, et al.. (2022). Two or more significant life-events in 6-months are associated with lower rates of HIV treatment and virologic suppression among youth with HIV in Uganda and Kenya. AIDS Care. 35(1). 95–105. 3 indexed citations

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Jewell, Britta L., Laura B. Balzer, Tamara D. Clark, et al.. (2021). Predicting HIV Incidence in the SEARCH Trial: A Mathematical Modeling Study. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 87(4). 1024–1031. 5 indexed citations

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Ayieko, James, Maya L. Petersen, Jane Kabami, et al.. (2021). Uptake and outcomes of a novel community‐based HIV post‐exposure prophylaxis (PEP) programme in rural Kenya and Uganda. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 24(6). e25670–e25670. 21 indexed citations

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Cramer, Estee Y., et al.. (2021). Serological surveys to estimate cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in adults (Sero-MAss study), Massachusetts, July–August 2020: a mail-based cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 11(8). e051157–e051157. 5 indexed citations

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Balzer, Laura B., Mark van der Laan, James Ayieko, et al.. (2021). Two-Stage TMLE to reduce bias and improve efficiency in cluster randomized trials. Biostatistics. 24(2). 502–517. 27 indexed citations

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Petersen, Maya L., Elizabeth A. Bukusi, Moses R. Kamya, et al.. (2021). Characteristics of HIV seroconverters in the setting of universal test and treat: Results from the SEARCH trial in rural Uganda and Kenya. PLoS ONE. 16(2). e0243167–e0243167. 7 indexed citations

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Balzer, Laura B., James Ayieko, Dalsone Kwarisiima, et al.. (2020). Far from MCAR. Epidemiology. 31(5). 620–627. 7 indexed citations

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Heller, David J., Laura B. Balzer, Dhruv S. Kazi, et al.. (2020). Hypertension testing and treatment in Uganda and Kenya through the SEARCH study: An implementation fidelity and outcome evaluation. PLoS ONE. 15(1). e0222801–e0222801. 17 indexed citations

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Balzer, Laura B., Richard Hayes, Shahin Lockman, et al.. (2018). Comparative assessment of five trials of universal HIV testing and treatment in sub‐Saharan Africa. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 21(1). 65 indexed citations

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Balzer, Laura B., Mark J. van der Laan, & Maya L. Petersen. (2016). Adaptive pre‐specification in randomized trials with and without pair‐matching. Statistics in Medicine. 35(25). 4528–4545. 35 indexed citations

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Balzer, Laura B., Maya L. Petersen, & Mark J. van der Laan. (2016). Targeted estimation and inference for the sample average treatment effect in trials with and without pair‐matching. Statistics in Medicine. 35(21). 3717–3732. 22 indexed citations

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Balzer, Laura B., Maya L. Petersen, & Mark J. van der Laan. (2014). Adaptive pair‐matching in randomized trials with unbiased and efficient effect estimation. Statistics in Medicine. 34(6). 999–1011. 26 indexed citations

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