SHORT COURSES

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UCSF, September 20, 2019, San Francisco, CA

Sherri Rose presented a short course on computational health economics and outcomes research at UCSF’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Download the slides via Dropbox (large file).

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, May 8, 2019, Brooklyn, NY

Sherri Rose taught a one-day short course on machine learning in epidemiology for both prediction and causal inference questions in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health.

ENAR Webinar, November 30, 2018

Sherri Rose presented a two-hour webinar on machine learning for health care policy that covered prediction, fairness, inference, and generalizability. This webinar was designed to be accessible to graduate students with technical derivations provided in the reference material. Download the slides via Dropbox (large file).

Harvard Catalyst, January 18, 2018, Boston, MA

Sherri Rose and Laura Hatfield taught a short course on machine learning and Bayesian approaches to data science in medicine for Harvard Catalyst. Download the slides.

Channel Network Conference of the International Biometric Society, April 24, 2017, Hasselt, Belgium

Sherri Rose taught a half-day short course on targeted learning methods at the Channel Network Conference of the International Biometric Society (IBS). This conference is organized by the Belgium, France, Great Britain/Ireland, and Netherlands regions of the IBS. Download the slides; code is posted on GitHub.

CIMPOD Conference, February 27-28, 2017, Bethesda, MD

Sherri Rose taught two half-day short courses on targeted learning at the Causal Inference Methods for Patient Centered Outcomes Research using Observational Data (CIMPOD) Conference. Download the slides from Day 1 and Day 2.

Columbia Causal Inference Conference, November 10, 2016, New York, NY

Sherri Rose and Mark van der Laan taught a half-day short course on targeted learning for the Causal Inference Conference held at Columbia University's Department of Statistics. Download the slides.

MDEpiNet Annual Meeting, September 30, 2015, Silver Spring, MD

A half-day short course on methods for multiple treatment comparisons was presented by Laura Hatfield and Sherri Rose at the MDEpiNet Annual Meeting. Download the slides.

Atlantic Causal Inference Conference, May 19, 2015, Philadelphia, PA

Sherri Rose taught a short course on targeted learning at the Atlantic Causal Inference Conference this Spring. Slides can be downloaded here.

University of Utah, April 23-24, 2014, Salt Lake City, UT

A seminar on machine learning for prediction in epidemiology and a half-day short course on targeted learning were presented at the University of Utah by professor Sherri Rose.  Download slides: seminar, short course.

Joint Statistical Meetings, July 29, 2012, San Diego, CA

A one-day continuing education course, Targeted Learning: Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Data, was presented at the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings.  The instructors were Mark van der Laan, Maya Petersen, and Sherri Rose, and the course summary is available online.  Slide decks from the course can be downloaded as a zip file. 

Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, September 26-28, 2011, Washington, DC

The Forum for Collaborative HIV Research and the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health presented the short course Statistical Methods for Causal Inference in Observational and Randomized Studies with instructors Mark van der Laan, Maya Petersen, and Sherri Rose. Course materials, including outline, slides, and sample code can be found online.