Please join the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences for their final speaker. On Wednesday, May 31st at 12:30 pm, Abhi Datta, Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will give a seminar titled, “Correcting for misclassification bias in cause-specific mortality estimates”
This seminar will be offered as a hybrid session. Below please find the abstract and information about joining in-person or on Zoom.
Abstract:
Verbal autopsies (VA) are extensively used to determine cause-of-death (COD) in many low and middle income countries. However, COD determination from VA can be inaccurate. Computer-coded-verbal-autopsy (CCVA) algorithms used for this task are imperfect and misclassify COD for a large proportion of deaths. If not accounted for, this misclassification leads to biased estimates of cause-specific mortality fractions (CSMF), a critical piece in health-policy making. We discuss how to estimate and use CCVA misclassification rates to calibrate raw VA-based CSMF estimates to account for the misclassification bias in Bayesian hierarchical model. We review the current practices and issues with raw COD predictions from CCVA algorithms and provide a complete primer on how to use the VA calibration approach with the calibratedVA software to correct for verbal autopsy misclassification bias in cause-specific mortality estimates. We use calibratedVA to obtain CSMF for child (1-59 months) and neonatal deaths using VA data from the Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action Mozambique (COMSA) project in Mozambique.
This seminar will be located at 409 Savery Hall
To join by Zoom, please use the information below.
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Check out the latest release from International Migration Review, Volume 57, Issue 2! You can find the new articles contained in the volume here!
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Please join the CSSS graduate student poster showcase session. Graduate students from three advanced CSSS statistics courses will present their final course projects to the UW community on Monday, June 5, from 3-5 p.m. in HUB 334.
The three classes presenting at the session include:
- STAT/BIOST/CSSS 529: Sample Survey Techniques, taught Dr. Elena Erosheva
- STAT/CSSS 567: Statistical Analysis of Networks, taught by Dr. Tyler McCormick
- STAT/CSSS: Causal Modeling, taught by Dr. Thomas Richardson
More than 30 projects on display will draw on statistical methodology taught in these courses to address a wide range of research questions in the social and health sciences. For example, in the Networks course, one student’s project is using statistical network analysis to identify patterns of social frailty among older Kenyan women living with HIV. Another student is examining the willingness of the University of Washington faculty to engage in interdisciplinary research.
Please join the CSSS graduate student poster showcase session. Graduate students from three advanced CSSS statistics courses will present their final course projects to the UW community on Monday, June 5, from 3-5 p.m. in HUB 334.
The three classes presenting at the session include:
- STAT/BIOST/CSSS 529: Sample Survey Techniques, taught Dr. Elena Erosheva
- STAT/CSSS 567: Statistical Analysis of Networks, taught by Dr. Tyler McCormick
- STAT/CSSS: Causal Modeling, taught by Dr. Thomas Richardson
More than 30 projects on display will draw on statistical methodology taught in these courses to address a wide range of research questions in the social and health sciences. For example, in the Networks course, one student’s project is using statistical network analysis to identify patterns of social frailty among older Kenyan women living with HIV. Another student is examining the willingness of the University of Washington faculty to engage in interdisciplinary research.
The Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases (EMD) in the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) is seeking to hire two full-time faculty members at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor who conduct research in the following broad areas of emphasis:
• Field-based epidemiology and/or ecology of infectious diseases;
• Laboratory or translational research focused on pathogenesis, microbial, host or vector biology and/or genomics;
• Evaluation and implementation research on drugs, vaccines, diagnostics and/or other interventions for infectious diseases;
• Research developing and employing mathematical models, quantitative epidemiological and other statistical methods utilizing large population datasets.
• Research on the social determinants of the risks and outcomes associated with infectious diseases.
Successful candidates will be expected to develop an independent research program, mentor MPH and PhD students, and teach at least one course at the masters/doctoral level. Applicants should have a doctoral degree by the start of appointment in epidemiology, microbiology, medicine, veterinary medicine, or a related field, and evidence of a promising scholarly career.
This NOFO invites applications from multi-disciplinary teams to establish a Dissemination and Coordination Center (DCC) for the Behavioral and Social Science Ontology Development U01 Research Network Projects (PAR-23-182). Teams must include subject matter experts in 1) one or more fields of behavioral or social science, 2) ontology-related informatics and computational approaches, and 3) Team Science or the Science of Science
The primary responsibilities of the DCC are to: 1) Coordinate and provide logistical support to facilitate collaboration and cross-project learning; 2) Provide ontology-related technical, computational, and informatics expertise and support; 3) Facilitate dissemination of resources and training to support ontology expansion, development, and use; and 4) Provide active outreach and coordination with relevant stakeholders to increase understanding of and demand for BSSR ontology-related tools and resources.
View PAR-23-181
CSDE Affiliate Jane Lee has released a new article in AIDS and Behavior entitled “Reactions to Testing HIV Negative: An Assessment of Measurement Invariance and Associations with Condomless Anal Sex among English and Spanish-speaking Latinx Sexual Minority Men in the United States“. This paper examined measurement invariance of a Spanish-translated Inventory of Reactions to Testing HIV Negative (IRTHN). Congrats on this recent publication Dr. Lee!
In collaboration with several authors, CSDE Affiliate Anjum Hajat recently published “Differential employment quality and educational inequities in mental health: A causal mediation analysis” in Epidemiology. Using information on working-age adults from the 2001-2019 Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the authors construct a composite measure of employment quality via principal component analysis. The authors find that roughly 1/3 of US educational inequities in mental health distress may be mediated by differences in employment quality.
CSDE Affiliate Amy Bailey was recently quoted in a news article by ABC News entitled “Vigilante violence disproportionately harms marginalized communities“. This article highlights Dr. Bailey’s findings that social marginality increases the likelihood of being targeted in violence, through her studies of lynching victims.