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Actionable #causalinference with real-world impact.

We use health data to help decision makers make better decisions.
We train investigators at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Connect with CAUSALab: https://linktr.ee/causalab
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Save the dates! 📌

CAUSALab's Summer Courses on Causal Inference return June 2026. Course information and registration details to be announced in the coming weeks.

Join our 2025-2026 listserv to receive updates first:
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Last call for Friday's symposium! Registration closes Wednesday 11/12 at 9:00 AM ET.

In-person limited to Harvard ID holders due to space restrictions. Online attendance free & public. Details will be emailed to registrants this week.
You're invited! ✉️

20th Kolokotrones Symposium: “Acetaminophen During Pregnancy and Autism: What Does Causal Inference Take?"

Details in comments. In-person limited to Harvard ID holders due to space restrictions. Online attendance free & public.

Register:
www.eventbrite.com/e/acetaminop...
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Follow along this month as @harvardepi.bsky.social spotlights the CAUSALab team! 👇 #causalinference #epidemiology
This month, we are featuring @causalab.bsky.social as the final installment in our '25 series spotlighting our research groups.

Launched in '21, by @miguelhernan.org, CAUSALab uses data to investigate what works in medicine, public health & policy.

Follow along to learn more about #causalinference
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Save the dates! 📌

CAUSALab's Summer Courses on Causal Inference return June 2026. Course information and registration details to be announced in the coming weeks.

Join our 2025-2026 listserv to receive updates first:
harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #causalinference #epidemiology
October 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Next week! Check out the Methods talk, "Informing clinical decision making in mental health when randomized trials are not available."
Clinical decision making in mental health 🧠

Alejandro Szmulewicz @hsph.harvard.edu continues the Methods Series @ki.se in 2 weeks.

📆 Nov 4, 2025
⏰ 15.00 CET/9.00 ET
📍 Online

Attend online:
stats.sender.net/forms/e7JD1d...
#causalinference #epidemiology
October 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Clinical decision making in mental health 🧠

Alejandro Szmulewicz @hsph.harvard.edu continues the Methods Series @ki.se in 2 weeks.

📆 Nov 4, 2025
⏰ 15.00 CET/9.00 ET
📍 Online

Attend online:
stats.sender.net/forms/e7JD1d...
#causalinference #epidemiology
October 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Next week! Join CAUSALab postdoc Jing Li for a seminar on Non-Iterative Conditional Expectation (NICE) g-formula.
Join us online on Wednesday, October 22 at 1:00pm ET for the Department's "Works-In-Progress" seminar with Dr. Jing Li speaking on "Deep Learning–Based Estimator for the Non-Iterative Conditional Expectation (NICE) g-formula" ➡️ Go to event page to register: hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology...
October 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
You're invited! ✉️

20th Kolokotrones Symposium: “Acetaminophen During Pregnancy and Autism: What Does Causal Inference Take?"

Details in comments. In-person limited to Harvard ID holders due to space restrictions. Online attendance free & public.

Register:
www.eventbrite.com/e/acetaminop...
October 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
A new editorial in @ai.nejm.org explores how AI computational tools can transform causal analyses.

Researchers examine how AI can support #targettrial emulation, enhance observational data extraction and analysis, and improve efficiency of clinical trials.

🔗 ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
October 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Register now to attend next Tuesday's Methods talk 🔎
2️⃣ weeks! 2025 Methods Series @ki.se continues.

"Promoting the use of causal inference methods in applied health research by integrating causal reasoning into academic curricula: barriers and solutions."

📆 Oct 7, 2025
⏰ 15.00 CEST/9.00 ET
📍 Online

Register 👇
stats.sender.net/forms/e7JD1d...
October 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
2️⃣ weeks! 2025 Methods Series @ki.se continues.

"Promoting the use of causal inference methods in applied health research by integrating causal reasoning into academic curricula: barriers and solutions."

📆 Oct 7, 2025
⏰ 15.00 CEST/9.00 ET
📍 Online

Register 👇
stats.sender.net/forms/e7JD1d...
September 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
September is in full swing!

CAUSALab kicked off the semester with a team social welcoming new members to our lab. Here's to a fall season full of collaboration and exciting projects ahead!

#causalinference #harvardchan #causalab
September 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Let's talk causal mediation and separable treatments.

Vanessa Didelez (Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology) continues the 2025 Methods Series @ki.se next week.

📆 Sep 23, 2025
⏰ 15.00 CEST/9.00 ET
📍 Virtual

Register to attend online 👇
stats.sender.net/forms/e7JD1d...
September 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Today kicks off National Postdoc Appreciation Week!

We are thankful to have a team of incredible postdocs who help make our #causalinference research @hsph.harvard.edu possible.

We appreciate your key contributions & hard work!
#NPAW2025 #causalab #harvardchan #publichealth
September 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Reposted by CAUSALab
New publication: Effect of colonoscopy screening on risks of colorectal cancer and related death: instrumental variable estimation of per-protocol effects now in the European Journal of Epidemiology

➡️ Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#cancer #screening #colorectal
Effect of colonoscopy screening on risks of colorectal cancer and related death: instrumental variable estimation of per-protocol effects - European Journal of Epidemiology
Background We recently reported per-protocol estimates of colonoscopy screening on colorectal cancer incidence and mortality in NordICC, a large-scale randomized trial. Our results may be affected by ...
link.springer.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The CAUSALab Methods Series @ki.se is back!

Fall 2025 lineup kicks off Sep 23 with Vanessa Didelez (BIPS), “Causal mediation and separable treatments in time-to-event analyses.”

All talks are virtual, except for Nov. 4, 2025 hybrid session.

Learn more & register:
hsph.harvard.edu/research/cau...
September 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Reposted by CAUSALab
When using observational data for #causalinference, the choice isn’t between emulating or not emulating a #TargetTrial, but between reporting or not reporting the target trial that we are emulating.

For those who prefer to be explicit about what they do, we have developed the TARGET Statement 👇
🎯 TARGET Guideline published 🎉

TARGET is a reporting guideline for observational studies of interventions that use the target trial framework.

Over 3 years the @TARGETGuideline was rigorously developed and was co-published today in @jama.com & @bmj.com

doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.13350

#episky
September 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Fall applications are OPEN for CAUSALab Clinics!

Free #causalinference consulting open to Boston-based, junior clinical investigators. Postdoc fellows provide guidance pertaining to #studydesign, data analysis and results for works in progress.

Learn more & apply:
hsph.harvard.edu/research/cau...
September 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It's National Suicide Prevention Month. 💙💜

This year, CAUSALab is shining a spotlight on researchers furthering the field of suicide prevention. (See comments)
September 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Reposted by CAUSALab
Welcome back students! Joining us from 29 different countries hailing from 6 continents across the various degree programs are: 72 PhD students, 15 SM1 students, 13 SM1 summer-only students, 62 SM2 students, and 76 MPH Epi students in the Department of Epidemiology @hsph.harvard.edu.
September 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Reposted by CAUSALab
September @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar:

Camila Olarte Parra from @causalab.bsky.social Karolinska will speak on combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials.

All welcome online 25 September.

More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/combin...
Combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials
Even though the advantages of randomised tria
www.vicbiostat.org.au
August 11, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Causal inference on-demand 🎥

CAUSALab's YouTube channel is your front-row seat for past programming, including Kolokotrones Symposium lectures, the Methods Series @ki.se and more.

Subscribe to be notified when new videos are uploaded: www.youtube.com/@CAUSALab
#causalinference #epidemiology
August 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Last chance to register for @cemfi.es Summer School! Details below 👇
Don't miss out!

CAUSALab is partnering w/ @cemfi.es for the course, Causal Inference for Health and Social Scientists.

📆 Aug 25-29, 2025

CEMFI course introduces 2 step causal framework for experimental & non-experimental data. Applications still accepted.

www.cemfi.es/programs/css...
August 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Summer at Oxford 📸

Sonia Hernández-Díaz was featured at RWE Summer School 2025 @ox.ac.uk. Sonia presented #targettrial emulation and real-world evidence to inform safety of pharmaceuticals during pregnancy.

Thank you @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk!
August 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Publication alert!

Research in European Journal of Epidemiology used trial data to examine the effect of colonoscopy screening on colorectal cancer & related death incidence.

Authors include @joy-shi.bsky.social bsky.social @miguelhernan.org

Read now:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Reposted by CAUSALab
Missed an Epi Department event this year? Summer is the perfect time to catch up! From our seminar series and Cutter Lectures to our End-of-Year video, all our past Epi Department events are available on our YouTube channel. 🎥📚
Check them out and stay connected ➡️ www.youtube.com/@harvardepi
July 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM