MCH ENRICH WEBINAR: MEDIATION ANALYSIS AND ITS APPLICATION IN MCH

MCH EnRICH Webinar: Mediation Analysis and its Application in MCH

Tuesday, April 2, 2013
2:30pmET - 3:30pm#%
Location: webinar



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 will be:

Tyler VanderWeele, PhD, 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.