Workshop: Risk Modeling, Management and Mitigation in Health Sciences

December 11-13, 2017

Program

 

Monday, December 11, 2017

13:00 - 13:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6254

13:30 - 14:20
Bruce Lanphear
(Simon Fraser University)
Low-level toxicity of chemicals: No acceptable levels?
Abstract
14:20 - 15:10
Eduardo L. Franco
(McGill University)
Science alone is not sufficient for health policymaking: The example of cervical cancer prevention
Abstract
15:10 - 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:20
David Madigan
(Columbia University)
Honest learning for the healthcare system: large-scale evidence from real-world data
Abstract

16:20 - 18:00
Poster Session and Reception

 

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

08:45 - 09:15
Coffee & Croissants

Session - Analyses of occupational and environmental health
Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:15 - 10:00
David L. Buckeridge
(McGill University)
Analytical challenges in population health surveillance
Abstract
10:00 - 10:45
Emma J. McCoy
(Imperial College London )
Evaluating safety interventions via an approximate Bayesian doubly-robust
Abstract
10:45 - 11:05
Coffee break
11:05 - 11:45
Gavin Shaddick
(University of Exeter)
Global estimation of air quality and the burden of disease associated with ambient air pollution
Abstract
11:45 - 12:30
Alexandra M. Schmidt
(McGill University)
Spatial confounding in hierarchical models
Abstract

12:30 - 13:45
Lunch break

Session - Mitigation of risk in infectious diseases
Meeting room(s) : 6254

13:45 - 14:25
Rui Wang
(Harvard Medical School)
A stochastic second-order generalized estimating equations approach for estimating intraclass correlation coefficients in the presence of informative missing data
Abstract
14:25 - 15:05
Bryan E. Shepherd
(Vanderbilt University)
Lengthening TB therapy in persons co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis: Challenges and considerations for designing a multi-national pragmatic trial
Abstract
15:05 - 15:25
Coffee break
15:25 - 16:05
Nicholas P. Jewell
(University of California, Berkeley)
Cluster randomized test negative designs: Inference and application to vector trials to eliminate dengue fever
Abstract

 

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

08:45 - 09:15
Coffee & Croissants

Session - Randomized trials, vaccine efficacy, and post-market surveillance
Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:15 - 10:00
Daniel Almirall
(University of Michigan)
Getting SMART about adaptive interventions in treatment, prevention and implementation science
Abstract
10:00 - 10:45
Megan Othus
(Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
Efficacy and safety trade-offs in oncology clinical trials using immunotherapies
Abstract
10:45 - 11:05
Coffee break
11:05 - 11:50
Marc Lipsitch
(Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Science, statistics, transmission dynamics and ethics of vaccine trials in infectious disease emergencies
Abstract
11:50 - 12:35
Marco Carone
(University of Washington)
Nonparametric doubly-robust inference on the average treatment effect
Abstract
12:35 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:45
Jennifer Nelson
(Group Health Research Institute)
Timely quantification of policy-relevant vaccine and drug safety evidence: What can we achieve using electronic health care data networks?
Abstract
14:45 - 15:30
Daniel J. Lizotte
(The University of Western Ontario)
Risk and reward: Challenges and opportunities in electronic medical record data
Abstract