Casual Inference

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Sean Taylor from Lyft.

Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode:

📝 Sean’s Science paper

📦 Prophet R package

📝 Book on time-varying exposures

📝 Lyft engineering blog

📝 Hormone replacement therapy overview

📝 Analyzing observational HRT data by emulating a trial

📰 Local news

• AJE Methods Corner

Follow along on Twitter:

• The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
• Ellie: @EpiEllie
• Lucy: @LucyStats
• Sean: @SeanJTaylor

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.

👩‍🎨 Our artwork is by Allison Horst.

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Whitney Robinson from the Departments of Epidemiology at University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health

Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode:

📝 Jeffrey Rose article (reprint)

📝 Chandra Ford’s public health praxis paper

📝 Whitney’s paper with Tyler VanderWeele on race as a cause

📝 Miguel Hernan’s paper on well-defined interventions: Does water kill?

📝 NIH funding paper

📻 Acadames podcast

📝 Miguel Hernan’s AJE paper on selection bias without colliders

📰 Local news

• We talk about novel Coronavirus and how you can get answers to your questions
• 📝We also chat about the infectious disease listserv ProMed Mail
• 📝 And the BlueDot “artificial epidemiologist”.

PeDAGogy:

Follow along on Twitter:

• The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
• Ellie: @EpiEllie
• Lucy: @LucyStats
• Whitney: @WhitneyEpi

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.

👩‍🎨 Our artwork is by Allison Horst.

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Elizabeth Stuart from the Departments of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode:

📝 Kern et al paper on Assessing Methods for Generalizing Experimental Impact Estimates to Target Populations

📝 Article by Sherri Rose on Liz Stuart (baby pics!)

🌐 Liz Stuart's website

📰 Local news

• Naomi Distelkamp won our #EpiCookieChallenge!
• Naomi plotted flu rates in the US
• We discussed Alberto Cairo's book How Chart's Lie

Follow along on Twitter:

• The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
• Ellie: @EpiEllie
• Lucy: @LucyStats
• Liz: @LizStuartDC

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.👩‍🎨 Our artwork is by Allison Horst.

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist studying at the University of Wollongong and a science communication writer for the Guardian, Observer, and more!

Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode:

📝 Gideon's post on relative versus absolute risk

🐦 Gideon's twitter account @justsaysrisks

🎙 Everything Hertz Podcast

🎙Gideon's Sensationalist Science Podcast

✍️ Gideon on Medium

📧 Email Gideon for advice on getting started in Sci Comm: gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com

👩‍🏫 PeDAGogy

• We discussed a paper recently published in BMJ on the association between arts engagement and mortality
• Andrew Heiss tweeted a DAG with a proposed relationship between opera and longevity
• Robert Platt also tweeted about this, suggesting that there may be an explanation other than confounding

📰 Global news

• The New York Times wrote an article on the BMJ paper that we discussed in peDAGogy
• Here is some info on the BMJ Christmas Issue
• Lucy and Jeff Leek’s clickbait-y Ted-ed lesson on clickbait

Follow along on Twitter:

• The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
• Ellie: @EpiEllie
• Lucy: @LucyStats
• Gid: @GidMK

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.👩‍🎨 Our artwork is by Allison Horst.

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan are live for Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) week!

Follow along on Twitter:

• The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
• Ellie: @EpiEllie
• Lucy: @LucyStats

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.

👩‍🎨 Our artwork is by Allison Horst.