Join this monthly virtual forum presented by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistic. April’s keynote Speaker will be Dr. Marlene Camacho-Rivera, Assistant Professor at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University.
A social epidemiologist by training, Dr. Camacho-Rivera’s research focuses on elucidating structural and social determinants of chronic disease inequities among urban racial and ethnic minority communities and exploring patterns and determinants of within-group heterogeneity in chronic disease outcomes among Latinos.
Camacho-Rivera will be joined by student speaker, Guoyi Yang, a postdoctoral researcher at University of Pennsylvania.
Yang will be presenting: Bias from immortal time: a bias due to miscounting follow-up times? Immortal time is a period of follow-up during which death or the study outcome cannot occur by design.
The forum will be held on Microsoft Teams: Meeting Link
For more information on the forum and speakers, visit the link.
