141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Epidemiologic Methods

Monday, November 4, 2013: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Oral
The purpose of this session is to provide attendees with an update of the methodological capabilities currently being conducted in the field of epidemiology.
Session Objectives: Discuss the role of complex systems methods for causal inference in epidemiology Evaluate alternative methods for collecting ethnicity data when self-reported ethnicity is unavailable.
Moderator:
Raquel Y. Qualls-Hampton, PhD, MS

10:30am
Introductory Remarks
10:35am
Formalizing the role of complex systems approaches in causal inference and epidemiology   
Brandon Marshall, PhD and Sandro Galea, MD,DrPH
     
10:52am
Using a metapopulation epidemiologic model to estimate the exceedance probabilities of morbidity and mortality resulting from hypothetical influenza pandemic scenarios   
Nita Madhav, MSPH, CCM
11:09am
Best practices for analyzing real-world data: Comparing methodologies for imputing ethnicity in a high volume urban clinic   
Philip Storey, MD, MPH, Yang Dai, MS, Ann P. Murchison, MD, MPH, Laura Pizzi, PharmD, MPH, Lisa A. Hark, PhD, RD, Benjamin Leiby, PhD and Julia A. Haller, MD
11:26am
Concluding Remarks

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Organized by: Epidemiology
Endorsed by: Applied Public Health Statistics

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