BIRCH Methods Core Seminar: Measuring Disparity and an Analytic Approach for Informing Interventions to Reduce Disparity (2/22/24)
Posted: 2/14/2024 ()
UW BIRCH (Behavioral Research Center for HIV) will be hosting their Methods Core Seminar on Thursday, Feb. 22nd from 9:00-10:00 on Zoom. During this session, their outside speaker John W. Jackson, ScD, will be focusing on the following topics:
- Outlining how to incorporate equity value judgements in analytic approaches to measure and identify leverage points for reducing disparities (Dr. John W. Jackson calls this “causal decomposition analysis”).
- How covariate adjustments in defining disparities and in equalizing potential determinants of disparities (decompositions) ultimately convey value judgements about what is fair and equitable in the distribution of health and its determinants.
- Various principles to guide the choice of covariates for meaningfully defining disparities and decompositions while adjusting for other covariates to account for confounding.
They encourage anyone interested to also sign up to be a BIRCH member here. Space in the workshop is limited and BIRCH Members will be prioritized for admittance.
John W. Jackson, ScD is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and core faculty in the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Center for Health Disparities Solutions, and Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness. His research primarily focuses on developing methodological tools for translational health equity research. This includes methods to identify high leverage targets and strategies for interventions that address health disparities, as well as methods to evaluate effects of interventions and policies, and to translate interventions to new populations and contexts, with current applications in healthcare and clinical prognosis. Dr. Jackson’s work has been funded by a K01 award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute as well as pilot funding from Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the editorial board of Epidemiology as well as Sociological Methods & Research.