CSDE Affiliate Jon Wakefield and Biostatistics PhD Student Serge Aleshin-Guendel are participating on the the WHO Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Mortality Assessment. As part of that effort, Wakefield, Aleshin-Guendel and the TAG have developed a new model for estimating excess mortality. To read more about their work visit their report at the WHO link. Those results were also recently reported on by the New York Times.