news on the UK-CIM meeting

today in our mailbox:

 

 

Second UK Causal Inference Meeting (UK-CIM): Causal Inference in Health, Economic and Social Sciences

Monday 28th April – Tuesday 29th April 2014 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

 UK-CIM website: https://sites.google.com/site/ukcausalinferencemeeting/

**Keynote speaker**

We are pleased to announce that Professor Niels Keiding (University of Copenhagen) will be the Keynote Speaker at the meeting.

 

**Abstract submission**

The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday 31st January 2014 and notification of abstract decisions will be sent by Friday 28th February 2014.

Abstract submission is now available using the online submission form: https://apps.mhs.manchester.ac.uk/surveys//TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=86LH6573

The programme will feature approximately 25 presentations over the two day meeting.  Each oral presentation will be allocated a 24 minute slot to include a 20 minute presentation and 4 minutes of discussion and questions.  There will be a poster session on the first day of the meeting.

All abstracts submitted for the meeting will be considered for oral presentations but following review by the steering group, unsuccessful abstracts for the oral presentations will be offered the opportunity to present a poster at this session.

As a special topic of interest, we welcome submissions in the area of model/variable selection/high dimensional covariates in causal inference.

 

**Registration**

Online registration and payment is available on the University of Cambridge online store through the UK-CIM website.

Registration fees for the 2014 meeting are £80.00 for delegates, and £50.00 for registered students.

The fee includes lunch on both days of the meeting and an evening meal on the Monday evening.

Please note that accommodation is not provided as part of the meeting registration fee, and participants will need to arrange their own hotel. Information about accommodation in the area can be found on the Visit Cambridge website: http://www.visitcambridge.org/

**Background**

This is the second meeting of a UK wide collaborative effort across the methodology research community in the health, economic and social sciences.  It aims to provide a forum for people interested in causal inference to meet informally, for early career researchers to highlight their work, and to offer opportunities for networking to foster future research opportunities and collaborations.

If you have any questions about the UK-CIM initiative and future meetings, please contact one of the steering group or Richard Emsley at: richard.emsley@manchester.ac.uk

We’ve visited the first meeting last year and if last year was an indicator for its quality this year, you really should go!

WEON preconference organised by the VVE focusgroup causality

So not only will Neil Pearce and Sander Greenland be talking at the WEON, they will also be speakers at a preconference workshop with the title”New developments in causal epidemiological research”. This preconference wil be held on June 5th from  13.30-16.30 at the beautifull Julius Academy, Pand Zeist, Broederweg 43 in Zeist. This is great, for this is the second official meeting organised by the focusgroup! Please jion in on the discussion and work on causal inference research in the Netherlands.

New developments in causal epidemiological research

Speakers:

• Professor Neil Pearce, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Professor Sander Greenland, UCLA School of Public Health
• Professor Jan Vandenbroucke, Leiden University Medical Center

Outline:

This preconference meeting on Causality is aimed at those epidemiologists who are eager to keep up-to-date with new methodological developments and views on causal models in epidemiology. Professor Greenland will discuss modern ways to deal with confounding, including the use of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), a graphical way to exploit whether selection bias or confounding hampers causal inference. Professor Pearce will consider the distinction between the analysis of variation and the analysis of causes and professor Vandenbroucke will discuss the role of counterfactual theory as causal theory in epidemiology.

All talks will be followed by in dept discussion,

Registrattion costs are 10 euro for  VVE members and 25 euro for non-members (WEON attendance is compulsory). After the workshop there will be room for an informal meeting with everybody attending. Registration via (www.weon.nl) .

 

Neil Pearce and Sander Greenland confirmed as speakers @ WEON

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

The full program can be found at the website of the WEON. Remember: although organised by the Dutch Society of Epidemiology, everybody is welcome!

Reminder: UK-CIM meeting in Manchester deadline for abstracts is Feb 1!

We’ve reported on the new initiative from the university of manchester, the UK-CIM meeting. Their abstract deadline is february first, so hurry up. See for more information our previous post and their website.