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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Symposium on Causal Inference
January 9 & 10, 2006
Location: Sheldon Hall (W1214), Wolfe Street Building
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
615 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21205
Symposium Objectives:
The overall objective of this symposium is to disseminate
recent advances on designs and methods for drawing causal
inferences in Public Health. There are three specific objectives:
1. Facilitate an exchange of ideas between researchers in
Public Health and Economics;
2. Explore the role of novel study designs in causal
inference;
3. Translate the experience of researchers to
practitioners through a case-based interactive forum.
Sponsored by:
The Center for Prevention and Early Intervention*
The Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence**
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health’s Departments of Biostatistics & Mental Health
National Eye Institute
* Funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health and Drug
Abuse.
** Funded by the Centers for Disease Control
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Symposium on Causal Inference
January 9 & 10, 2006
Monday, January 9th
I. Dynamic Treatment Regimes in Public Health
9:00 am -12:00 pm 15-Minute Break at 10 am
Susan Murphy, University of Michigan
Butch Tsiatis, North Carolina State University
Marie Davidian, North Carolina State University
12:00-2:00 pm Lunch
II. Non-Compliance and Intervention Trials
2:00-5:00 pm 15-Minute Break at 3 pm
James Robins, Harvard University
Keisuke Hirano, University of Arizona
Steve Cole, Johns Hopkins University
Daniel Scharfstein, Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Symposium on
Causal Inference
January 9 & 10, 2006
Tuesday, January 10th
III. Econometric Perspectives on Causal Inference
9:00-12:00 pm 15-Minute Break at 10 am
Charles Manski, Northwestern University
Guido Imbens, University of California at Berkeley
Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University
12:00-2:00 Lunch
IV. Role of Designs for Improving Causal Inference
2:00-5:00 pm 15-Minute Break at 3 pm
Donald Rubin, Harvard University
Miguel Hernan, Harvard University
Constantine Frangakis, Johns Hopkins University
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