Research Overview
Drs. Lili Zhao (Biostatistics) and Gary Freed (Pediatrics) develop reliable, principled methods to detect true adverse events that arise due to vaccinations for children, so as to reduce the chance of sensational, headline-grabbing false positives. They use well-established consensus knowledge of adverse events and vaccine ontologies to uncover vaccine safety issues and identify the root cause of different types of adverse events.
Research Impact
Research Team
Lili Zhao, Principal Investigator, Research Associate Professor at Biostatistics Department
Gary Freed, Co-Principal Investigator, Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine
Research Highlights
This project was awarded funding through the NIH Research Project Grant Program (R01) in March 2021.
The R package AEenrich, developed by the team, is in the Comprehensive R Archive Network, CRAN, and source code are available at https://github.com/umich-biostatistics/AEenrich.
