I'm often skeptical re teaching about teaching (my mom was a teacher required to attend too many mind-numbing professional development meetings) but many raved about this #SER2024 session and @epidbydesign.bsky.social's suggestions (thus asked him to come talk at BU epi) #EpiSky #AcademicSky
happy to have been at an amazing #SER2024 this year! it’s always refreshing and energizing to see the thoughtful and challenging work being done across the field, and of course to see old friends. see you all in Boston next year! @epiresearch.bsky.social #episky
Thank you to @Bryan James, @mattpfox.bsky.social, and @Sunni Mumford
for hosting this talk/discussion:
“Can #epitwitter rise again? How to rebuild an epi community in an evolving social media landscape” at @epiresearch.bsky.social
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Dr. Heather Bradley
Presenting the meta-analysis of overdose rates among people who inject drugs (PWID) at #SER2024. With the main goal of how to collect data for that question.
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An example of a descriptive and applied epidemiology work from the #CDC by Dr. Casillas at #SER2024
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Very fun #SER2024 session on Unique Data Sources for Epidemiologic Analyses session organized by Eric Lofgren (Wash State) and Emily Ricotta (Uniformed Services).
The goal is to describe the world as it is. Descriptive epidemiology is not causal. It can be about hypotheses generation. Beautiful visualization doesn’t mean they are trustworthy. But people are more likely to believe it.
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Why descriptive epidemiology is important.. it is not something that is easy or to be **ashamed of doing** as an easy approach. It answers a different and key questions.
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The focus on causal method alone, is not sufficient especially for those in public health roles: #SER2024
“More than just an epi curve: Descriptive epidemiology as a crucial public health discipline”
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Great questions and ideas from attendees and researches at #SER2024
Privileged to be able to present my work at and Public Health Agency of Canada. Proud to represent Canada :)
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Congratulations Dr. Gradus on this award #SER2024 and your achievements.
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Thank you Dr. Lauren McCullough for reminding us to remember the forest and beyond focusing on the trees.. To be rigorous but also allow ourselves and our work some tender care. As a field we have made great progress and continue to.
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Classic first slide from @mattpfox.bsky.social , “John Oliver actually got it right” 🤣.. something for all researchers to think about… @epiresearch.bsky.social
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Thank you @Dr. Louisa Smith, for some knowledge bits on survey selection biases. This applies to my current work.
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Epidemiologists love Front doors, back doors and side doors. No this is not a song, It is a true story.
Thank you for the talk Dr. Onyebuchi Arah.
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Descriptive, Predictive or causal?
a must be-aware talks at #SER2024
Are we adjusting when we shouldn’t?
Are we obsessed with confounding?
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The science behind the science. Come see me and hear about my research at tonight's poster session! #SER2024 #EpiSky
Nearing the finish @ speed talk session @ #SER2024: Causal Approaches to Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology in a Hurry! ⛹️♀️🚼
Now, Alan Fossa presents his work on endocrine disrupting exposures in kids (like paint in the home)
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Next up in speed talk session @ #SER2024: Causal Approaches to Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology in a Hurry! ⛹️♀️🚼
Yixin Chen presents results using Danish natl. registry data to investigate effects of paternal exposure to various hydrocarbon compounds in the workplace
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Up next in 🌩️ round session @ #SER2024: Causal Approaches to Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology in a Hurry! ⛹️♀️🚼👣
Time for some triangulation 🔼 with Nicole Brunton.
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Up next in lightening round session @ #SER2024: Causal Approaches to Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology in a Hurry! ⛹️♀️🚼👣
Julia DiTosto presents results from a target trial emulation
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Last session of the day at #SER2024: Causal Approaches to Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology in a Hurry! ⛹️♀️🚼👣
Kicking off with a lightening talk from Basma Dib. @pitt.bsky.social
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#SER2024 session titled "COVID-19", because that's a fairly discrete category 😉
Talk from HAALSI/HAALSA in the #SER2024 great session on cognition and memory on"Impact of the South African Child Support Grant on memory decline and dementia probability in rural and low-income mothers, 2014-2021", with Erika Beidelman from Indiana University.
#SER2024 session on data innovations in social epi
#SER2024 teaching session, a thread of cool ideas
They were able to connect the HAALSA cohort back to the underlying census data in Agincourt, South Africa to identify people who would have been eligible to enroll had they survived to baseline. They were able to identify 9000+ premature deaths in the source population #SER2024
US customs agent asked what I study. I said Epidemiology.
He handed back my passport and started talking about his eye problems. 🤔🫤 I let him finish b4 responding, "I'm just a researcher, not a doctor/optometrist." His face dropped ☹️. Guess I won’t be curing any eye issues today!😂
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We can use different methods to addresss censoring from death during a study, from prebaseline mortality, but what can we do about pre-selection mortality? #SER2024
