Internal and External Validity with Elizabeth Stuart | Episode 06

01/23/20 • 98 min

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.

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.

Previous Episode

Science Communication with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz | Episode 05

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: [email protected]

👩‍🏫 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.

Next Episode

Asking harder causal questions with Whitney Robinson | Episode 07

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