This Odum Institue course focuses on best practices for writing questions and visual design for surveys, with a focus on holistic designs in which question wording and visual design work together to produce good measurement. It draws on the empirical literature to provide practical guidelines for questionnaire design. The course will also cover the application... Read more »
Dr. Alex Rowe, medical epidemiologist and chief of the Strategic & Applied Science Unit in the Malaria Branch of the CDC will present a talk entitled "Effectiveness of strategies to improve health care provider performance in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC): a systematic review". The talk will focus on the Health Care Provider Performance Review... Read more »
Gang Li, PhD, professor of biostatistics and biomathematics at UCLA, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled "A Scalable L0-Based Sparse Regression Method for Large-Scale Competing Risks Data." Abstract: This paper develops a scalable L0-based simultaneous variable selection and parameter estimation method for the popular Fine-Gray (1999) proportional subdistribution hazards (PSH) model for large competing risks time-to-event data via the... Read more »
Cara V. James, PhD, director of the Office of Minority Health at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will present a talk titled "Achieving Health Equity through Increased Understanding, Sustainable Solutions and Collective Action." James, who earned a doctorate in health policy from Harvard University, is a nationally recognized expert in health disparities, health... Read more »
