Workshop on Causal adjustment in the presence of spatial dependence

June 11-13, 2018

Program

 

Monday, June 11, 2018

09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


09:30 - 10:15
James V. Zidek
(University of British Columbia)
Roadblocks on the road to causality in environmental epidemiology
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:30 - 11:15
Brian Reich
(North Carolina State University)
A spatial causal analysis of wildfire-contributed PM2.5 using numerical model output
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:15 - 12:00
Patrick Brown
(University of Toronto)
Geostatistics and the Indian Million Deaths Study
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:15
Robert Deardon
(University of Calgary)
Spatial models of infectious disease transmission: data and computation
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
14:15 - 15:00
Ephraim M. Hanks
(Penn State University)
Identifiability in models for spatial data: past, present, and future
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:15
Marta Blangiardo
(Imperial College London)
A Bayesian hierarchical framework to evaluate policy effects through quasi-experimental designs
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

 

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants


09:30 - 10:15
Jonathan Wakefield
(University of Washington)
Spatio-temporal covariate modeling of health data
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:30 - 11:15
Sylvia Richardson
(Cambridge Institute of Public Health)
Using propensity score to adjust for residual confounding in small area studies
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:15 - 12:00
Corwin Zigler
(Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health )
Bipartite causal inference with interference: estimating health impacts of power plant regulations
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:15
Scott Weichenthal
(McGill University)
Spatial variations in the estimated production of reactive oxygen species in the epithelial lung lining fluid by PM2.5 iron and copper
Abstract
14:15 - 15:00
Kate Zinszer
(Université de Montréal)
Spatial determinants of Ebola virus disease risk for the West African epidemic
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:15
Alexandra M. Schmidt
(McGill University)
Spatial confounding in hierarchical models
Abstract

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Wednesday, June 13, 2018

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants


09:30 - 10:15
Gavin Shaddick
(University of Exeter)
The effects of exposure mis-specification in spatio-temporal epidemiological studies
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:30 - 11:15
Joe Watson
(University of British Columbia)
Controlling for the effects of preferential sampling in spatio-temporal networks
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:15 - 12:00
Daniel Simpson
(University of Toronto)
Sometimes the snow comes down in June, sometimes the sun goes ‘round the moon
Diapos / Slides