Week 1

Purpose

The purpose of this video lecture is to give you an overview of causal inference and discuss how causal inference research is distinct from other types of research and what research questions causal inference research asks.

Meet the Guest Speaker

Ludema, Christina

Dr. Ludema's research and training have focused on social and structural contributors to sexually transmitted disease outcomes and causal inference methodology. She has been involved in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), a large prospective cohort of HIV-infected and -uninfected women in the US since 2013. Her current research interests include SARS-CoV-2 protective behaviors, women's health, health insurance policy, food insecurity, transportation, and HIV control and comorbidities.

Video Lecture

The video lecture is broken into three parts: Introduction, description, prediction, and causation, and hierarchies of evidence.

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Introduction
Description, Prediction, and Causation
Hierarchies of Evidence

Introduction

Description, Prediction, and Causation

Hierarchies of Evidence

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Introduction to Causal Inference

Reading

Below is a paper you may be interested in reading regarding this topic:

Rothman, K. J., & Greenland, S. (2005). Causation and causal inference in epidemiology. American journal of public health, 95(S1), S144-S150.