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Casual Inference Live from SER | Episode 14 Jun 24, 2020

Show notes

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.

**Community Engagement, Health Disparities, and Measure Development with Melody Goodman | Episode 13** Jun 04, 2020
Show notes

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss community engagement, health disparities, and measure development with Dr. Melody Goodman from New York University Global School of Public Health.

🐦 Jonathan Jackson's tweet on the importance of measures of dispersion

📄 Goodman's paper Reaching Consensus on Principles of Stakeholder Engagement in Research

📄 Goodman's paper Content validation of a quantitative stakeholder engagement measure

📄 Goodman's paper on Community Research Training Fellows Program Training Community Members in Public Health Research: Development and Implementation of a Community Participatory Research Pilot Project

📄 The Relationship between In-Person Voting, Consolidated Polling Locations, and Absentee Voting on Covid-19: Evidence from the Wisconsin Primary discussed in the peDAGogy segment

**Harm reduction tips for protests**

**Harm reduction tips for faith-based communities**

**General harm reduction tips**

**Follow along on Twitter:**

The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi

Ellie: @EpiEllie

Lucy: @LucyStats

Melody: @goodmanthebrain

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

👩‍🎨 *Our artwork is by* *Allison Horst*.

COVID-19, Masks, and Designing Observational Studies | Episode 12 May 22, 2020

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Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat about coronavirus, the evidence we have about masks, and designing observational studies.

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.

Getting Bayesian with Frank Harrell | Episode 11 Apr 22, 2020

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Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss Bayesian statistics, model validation, and more, with special guest Dr. Frank Harrell from the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University.

🤷‍♀️What does it mean to be Bayesian?

🤷‍♀️How can we decide if our models are good?

📈Frank's COVID trial resource hub

📈Betsy Ogburn's COVID trial protocol hub

👨‍🏫Frank's Free Biostatistics in Biomedical Research Course

🐍Lucy's tweetorial on Type 1 error and including nonlinear terms in models

Follow along on Twitter:

The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats
Frank: @f2harrell

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

👩‍🎨 Our artwork is by Allison Horst.

Coronavirus Conversations 2 | Episode 10 Apr 09, 2020

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Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan discuss coronavirus a bit more, focusing on mask wearing, data quality, disease modeling, and more!
📈 IHME COVID-19 projections
😷 A quick DIY cloth mask how-to
😷 Ellie's TikTok on safe mask removal
🧪 Lucy's tweetorial on estimating prevalences from testing data
🤷‍♀️ Lucy's model uncertainty tweetorial

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.

Causal inference for data science with Sean Taylor | Episode 08 Feb 20, 2020

Show notes

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.

MediationDAG — **Asking harder causal questions with Whitney Robinson | Episode 07** Feb 06, 2020
Show notes

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*.

**Internal and External Validity with Elizabeth Stuart | Episode 06** Jan 23, 2020
Show notes

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.*

**Science Communication with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz | Episode 05** Jan 09, 2020
Show notes

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.*

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