Liz Stuart writes:

We are pleased to announce the next Mid-Atlantic Causal Inference Workshop, to be held at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on Monday and Tuesday May 19-20, ending at noon on May 20.

The workshop is being jointly sponsored by Johns Hopkins’ Center for Prevention and Early Intervention and Department of Biostatistics, and by Brown University’s Center for Statistical Sciences and the Biostatistics Section of the Department of Community Health.

This two-day workshop is the fifth in a series of conferences held alternately at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins University. It has evolved into a conference series focused on researchers from the (broad) mid-Atlantic region although anyone who is interested is encouraged to attend. The workshop is intended to provide a forum for researchers across disciplines interested in causal inference to present their work and to exchange ideas.

There will be three topical sessions on Monday, focusing on mediation analysis, sensitivity analysis for causal models, and causal inference in multilevel data structures. Monday will also feature a keynote address by Paul Rosenbaum of the University of Pennsylvania. Tuesday’s morning session will consist of a case-study entitled “The randomized experiment paradigm for observational studies: the case of postmenopausal hormone therapy and heart disease.”

There will also be a poster session/reception on Monday evening; all researchers (especially students) are encouraged to submit posters for that session. There will be a registration fee of approximately $30 to attend the conference, which will be waived for students.

Details, including a conference and registration website, will be forthcoming. In the meantime, please feel free to contact either of the conference organizers, Elizabeth Stuart (Johns Hopkins University) or Joe Hogan (Brown University) with any questions. We hope to see you in May!

Sam Cook and I organized the very first one of these workshops here at Columbia a few years ago