We’ve got two names that will interest you as speakers at the WEON in Utrecht: Neil Pearce (LSTHM) and Sander Greenland (UCLA). Both will talk about the (methodological) issues in Global Health Epidemiology in the introduction symposium.
Besides its work, we know Sander Greenland from the video on this blog in the series of the Judea Pearl tribute, and we discussed a paper from his hand on the topic of causal questions in social epidemiology.
Arno Hoes, Rick Grobbee and Jan Vandenbroucke will also join in on the symposium.
The program:
| 10:00–12:15 |
- Opening symposium “Epidemiology in global health: challenges and methods”
Chairs: Arno Hoes and Jan Vandenbroucke
- Official Welcome
Jet Smit
- The urgency of a global approach to epidemiology
Rick Grobbee
- Global epidemiology requires ‘new’ methods: the importance of identifying population-level risk factors
Neil Pearce
- Global epidemiology requires caution: use of summary measures of population health for policy formulation
Sander Greenland
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The full program can be found at the website of the WEON. Remember: although organised by the Dutch Society of Epidemiology, everybody is welcome!
Causality 