Mediation Analysis and Its Application in Maternal and Child Health
EnRICH (Research Innovations & Challenges) Webinar
Maternal Child Health Research Program
Please join us on:
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm ET
The learning objectives of this webinar are:
- Conditioning on intermediates between an exposure and outcome of interest can give rise to
paradoxical associations if control is not made for intermediate-outcome confounding.
- If control for both exposure-outcome and mediator-outcome confounding is made it is possible
to decompose the overall effect of an exposure into a direct effect and a mediated effect.
- Sensitivity analysis can be used to assess the impact of violations in confounding assumptions.
The presenter for this webinar is:
Tyler VanderWeele, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health, where he teaches graduate-level courses on study design in epidemiologic research. The majority of his research focuses on causal inference, epidemiologic methods, mediation analysis, spillover effects, interaction, confounding, sensitivity analysis, measurement error, and causal diagrams with more than 134 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Tyler VanderWeele, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health, where he teaches graduate-level courses on study design in epidemiologic research. The majority of his research focuses on causal inference, epidemiologic methods, mediation analysis, spillover effects, interaction, confounding, sensitivity analysis, measurement error, and causal diagrams with more than 134 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
