Week 1

Purpose

The purpose of this video lecture is to review Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) as one of the existing study designs, and discuss the most common randomization strategies.

Meet the Guest Speaker

Dr. Bellamy is a Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health. A graduate of Hampton and Harvard Universities, her research interests include evaluating intervention efficacy of longitudinal behavioral modification trails, including cluster- and group-randomized trials. She is particularly interested in applying this methodology to trials addressing health disparities for a variety of clinical and behavioral outcomes.

Currently, her collaborative projects include behavioral and clinical studies in HIV/AIDS, incentive-based behavioral modification interventions to improve cardiovascular health and outcomes to increase health-promoting behaviors.

She is co-PI of the Data Coordinating Center for the Prematurity and Respiratory Outcomes Program (PROP) whose long-term goal is to improve respiratory outcomes during the first year of life after preterm birth in a cohort of extremely pre-term infants and is the PI of an NIGMS-funded workshop grant entitled “Fostering Diversity in Biostatistics” at ENAR.

Dr. Bellamy serves as a statistical collaborator for the Philadelphia Veteran Affairs Medical Center’s, Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the 2017 President of the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometrics Society.

Video Lecture

The video lecture is broken into five topics: Study design, simple randomization, block randomization, stratification, and other randomization schemes.

Please click each tab to watch each part of the video lecture.

Study Design
Simple Randomization
Block Randomization
Stratification
Other Randomization Schemes

Study Design

Simple Randomization

Block Randomization

Stratification

Other Randomization Schemes

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