SERious EPI

SERious EPI is a podcast hosted by Hailey Banack and Matt Fox where leading epidemiology researchers are interviewed on cutting edge and novel methods. Interviews focus on why these methods are so important, what problems they solve, and how they are curr

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S4E7: Instrumental Variables

Posted February 15, 202500:49:29

In this episode, Hailey and Matt discuss whether IVs are rebellious or magical or the midlife crisis of methods. We talk about how they deal with confounding...

S4E6: Instrumental Variables with Dr. Rita Hamad

Posted January 15, 202500:55:33

In this episode, we discuss instrumental variables with Dr. Rita Hamad of Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health. This episode is focused on the...

S4E5: Mediation Continuation

Posted December 15, 202400:52:24

In this episode we follow up on our conversation about mediation. We talk about what mediation is and when it is useful. We talk about the history of...

S4E4: Mediation with Kara Rudolph and Ivan Diaz

Posted November 15, 202400:58:35

In this episode, Matt and Hailey talk with Dr. Kara Rudolph and Dr. Ivan Diaz about mediation analysis. We talk through what it is, what it means and...

S4E3: How do we define efficiency?

Posted October 15, 202400:53:00

In this episode, Hailey and Matt continue on their discussion on study efficiency and realize that we think about efficiency in very different ways....