SERious EPI

SERious EPI is a podcast hosted by Hailey Banack and Matt Fox where leading epidemiology researchers are interviewed on cutting edge and novel methods. Interviews focus on why these methods are so important, what problems they solve, and how they are curr

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1.18 Lifecourse epidemiology: a melting pot of bias?

Posted April 1, 2021 • 00:36:19

The topic of this episode is lifecourse epidemiology, defined by Dr. Paola Gilsanz as the biological, behavioural and social processes that influence...

1.17 Do external validity and transportability confuse the daylights out of you?

Posted March 15, 2021 • 00:45:45

Ask yourself these true or false questions: Generalizability and transportability and external validity are all the same thing Generalizability...

1.16 Finding the Perfect Match Requires Common Support: Matching with Dr. Anusha Vable

Posted March 1, 2021 • 00:44:45

Matching is something we learn about in our intro to epidemiology classes and yet we probably spend little time thinking about it after that, we just...

1.15 The pool is big enough for all of us: Representativeness with Dr. Jonathan Jackson

Posted February 15, 2021 • 00:44:44

Perhaps the biggest challenge we all face in epidemiologic research is recruitment of study participants. And recruiting a diverse population for our...

1.14. It’s always a competition: Competing Risks with Dr. Bryan Lau

Posted February 1, 2021 • 00:43:09

Do you, like us, understand that competing risks are important to account for and yet are not 100% sure exactly what they are and when they matter?...