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I am an Assistant Professor in Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
My research areas/interests include adaptive clinical trial designs, robustness to model misspecification, causal inference, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
I was a postdoctoral fellow in AIDS Prevention Studies at University of California, San Francisco,
with mentor Mark van der Laan at U.C. Berkeley.

Recent Papers

Here are some recent papers along with slides from talks:

1. Rosenblum M, Deeks SG, van der Laan M, Bangsberg DR
September, 2009
The Risk of Virologic Failure Decreases with Duration of HIV Suppression,
at Greater than 50% Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy.
PLoS ONE 4(9): e7196. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007196, 2009

2. Rosenblum, M. and van der Laan, M.
September, 2009
Using Regression Models to Analyze Randomized Trials:
Asymptotically Valid Hypothesis Tests Despite Incorrectly Specified Models
Biometrics, Volume 65, Issue 3, pages 937-945
Slides from recent talk at Berkeley Statistics Colloquium on this work.

3. Rosenblum, M., Jewell, N. P., van der Laan, M. J., Shiboski, S., van der Straten, A., and Padian, N.
Analyzing Direct Effects in Randomized Trials with Secondary Interventions:
An Application to HIV Prevention Trials
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, (Statistics in Society), Volume 172, Number 2, April 2009, pp. 443-465(23)
Slides from recent talk at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center on this work.

4. Padian, N., van der Straten, A., Ramjee, G., Chipato, T., de Bruyn, G., Blanchard, K., Shiboski, S., Montgomery, E., Fancher, H., Cheng, H., Rosenblum, M., van der Laan, M., Jewell, N., McIntyre, J., and the MIRA Team.
Diaphragm and lubricant gel for prevention of HIV acquisition in southern African women: a randomised controlled trial
The Lancet - Vol. 370, Issue 9583, 21 July 2007, Pages 251-261

Also see: Diaphragms and Lubricant Gel for Prevention of HIV--Authors' reply. Nicholas Jewell, Ariane van der Straten, Elizabeth T Montgomery, Michael Rosenblum, Nancy S. Padian. The Lancet- Volume 370, Issue 9602, December 2007, Pages 1823-1824.

5. Rosenblum, M., and van der Laan, M.
Confidence Intervals for the Population Mean Tailored to Small Sample Sizes, with Applications to Survey Sampling,
The International Journal of Biostatistics: Vol 5. Iss. 1, Article 4. DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1118

Teaching:

In Fall 2007 I taught Statistics 131A at Berkeley.
In Spring 2007 I taught Statistics 20 at Berkeley.

Publications:

Research Publications

A quote I try to follow in my research:

"... on account of the pernicious and inveterate habit of dwelling on abstractions, it is safer to begin and raise the sciences from those foundations which have relation to practice, and to let the active part itself be as the seal which prints and determines the contemplative counterpart." -- --Francis Bacon , Novum Organum , bk ii, aph iv (1620) in: The Works of Francis Bacon vol. 1, p. 169 (Spedding ed. 1877)

Other Stuff: Project Ideas, Communications Technology for Developing Countries, PhD Work

Feel free to e-mail me: mrosenblum "at" csail dot (Ignore This Sentence--it's Just to Avoid Spam.) mit dot edu