Registration Open, CDC Workshop on Applied Epidemiology and Environmental Health 

Registration Open, CDC Workshop on Applied Epidemiology and Environmental Health 

Category : News/Events

August 1, 2024, 9:45 a.m.–5:30 p.m. ET 

Workshop Overview 

CDC’s Environmental Health (EH) Nexus is hosting its third annual environmental epidemiology methods workshop, “Innovative Methods for Analysis of Environmental Mixtures in Epidemiology,” on August 1, 2024. Subject matter experts will discuss innovative epidemiologic methods and how they can be applied to environmental health research and practice.   

Audience 

The workshop is designed for epidemiologists, statisticians, biostatisticians, and other environmental health professionals at state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) public health agencies and environmental health organizations.    

Presentations 

Overview of Issues in the Analysis of Mixtures 

Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, ScD 

Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health 

Weighted Quantile Sum Regression 

Chris Gennings, PhD 

Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 

Kernel Machine Regression 

Jennifer Bobb, PhD 

Associate Biostatistics Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute 

Other Machine Learning Applications 

Vishal Midya, MStat, PhD 

Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 

Moderator 

  1. Dana Flanders, MD, DSc, MPH 

Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health 

Format 

The workshop will be a hybrid event with lectures and an interactive roundtable discussion. In-person sessions will be held at the CDC Global Communications Center, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA. Remote participation will be available via Zoom.  

 Call for Abstracts 

As part of this year’s workshop, we are allowing time during the roundtable discussion for three or four short (10-minute) presentations about ongoing or planned epidemiologic projects that involve analyses of environmental mixtures. After briefly summarizing the project and potential issues, the presenter can ask the speaker panel for suggestions about methods of analyses, possible challenges, and other issues.    

For more information about how to submit an abstract, please visit Workshop on Applied Epidemiology and Environmental Health | EH Nexus | CDC.

Registration 

Remote participation: If you plan to attend the workshop remotely, please register online at https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_dItf3iIuR3G3SX34xK4Xow.

Registration is free. 

More information 

For more information, please visit Workshop on Applied Epidemiology and Environmental Health | EH Nexus | CDC or contact envepiworkshop [at] cdc [dot] gov


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