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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1.8. The Discipline Olympics: Epidemiology vs. Public Health with Dr. Laura Rosella

Posted November 1, 2020 • 00:51:15

Given the COVID-19 pandemic there is an urgent need for us to better understand how scientific evidence generated in epidemiologic research gets translated...

1.7. The Bread and Butter of Bayes with Ghassan Hamra

Posted October 15, 2020 • 00:46:10

In this episode we interview Dr. Ghassan Hamra and talk about all things Bayesian. If you’re like us, you have likely been trained in traditional,...

1.6. Questioning the Questions with Maria Glymour

Posted October 1, 2020 • 00:44:13

Why is it so important to ask good study questions? Why is it so hard to develop good study questions? Do all study questions need to be directly relevant...

1.5. Putting the Social Back in Social Epidemiology with Dr. Whitney Robinson

Posted September 15, 2020 • 00:40:55

Is all epidemiology social epidemiology? If I am someone who studies cancer, or obesity, or infectious disease, or any other branch of epidemiology,...

4. Statisticalize your intervention soup: A journal club episode discussing Hernan and Taubman’s “Does obesity shorten life?”

Posted September 1, 2020 • 00:52:38

In this journal club episode, we discuss one of our top 10 favourite epidemiology papers: “Does obesity shorten life? The importance of well-defined...