What to know
July 18, 2023 — CDC’s Environmental Health (EH) Nexus hosted its second annual environmental epidemiology methods workshop “Applied Epidemiology and Environmental Health: Selected Study Designs and Applications for Causal Inference." Subject matter experts from CDC, state and local health departments, and academia discussed innovative epidemiologic methods and how they can be applied to environmental health research and practice.
Audience
The workshop is designed for epidemiologists, statisticians, biostatisticians, and other environmental health professionals at state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) public health agencies and environmental health organizations.
Disclaimer
Agenda
9:45 a.m.
Welcome & Opening Remarks — Erik Svendsen, PhD (Director, CDC Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice)
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Practical Considerations in Causal Inference — Sonja Swanson, ScD (Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh)
11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Difference-in-Differences Studies — Neil Pearce, BSc, PhD, DSc (Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
1:15 p.m.–2:15 p.m.
Regression Discontinuity and Interrupted Time Series Studies — Antonio Gasparrini, BSc Mbiol, MSc, PhD (Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
An Introduction to Negative Control Methods in Epidemiology — Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD (Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania)
3:45 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
Panel Discussion/Q&A — All speakers
5:15 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks — Erik Svendsen, PhD (Director, CDC Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice)
Welcome & Session one
Welcome & Opening Remarks
- Erik Svendsen, PhD
Practical Considerations in Causal Inference
- Sonja Swanson, ScD
Session three
Regression Discontinuity and Interrupted Time Series Studies
- Antonio Gasparrini, BSc Mbiol, MSc, PhD