The Kolokotrones Symposium is a biannual event featuring panelists from CAUSALab as well as partner institutions of public health. The spring & fall symposiums are hosted both in-person at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and virtually via Zoom. Past symposium topics have included causal inference in pregnancy, cardiovascular devices, suicide prevention and COVID-19.
Sign up now! CAUSALab’s 17th Kolokotrones Symposium kicks off on Friday, April 19. Please see registration and speaker details below.
Upcoming Event
UK Secure Data Environments: A New Approach to Population-Scale Real World Evidence
17th Kolokotrones Symposium
April 19, 2024
CAUSALab is excited to invite you to join us for the 17th Kolokotrones Symposium, UK Secure Data Environments: A New Approach to Population-Scale Real World Evidence, on Friday, April 19, 2024.
The symposium is a collaboration with researchers at University of Bristol, University of Oxford, University of Liverpool, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine & National Institute for Health Care and Excellence (NICE) and will explore the English approach to medicine data & electronic health records from the lens of causal inference research.
This event will be hosted both in-person at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and virtually via Zoom.
Registration is now open. Information including directions, access to the building, and virtual attendance will be sent directly to registrants in the weeks leading up to the event.
We look forward to seeing you there
Program:
(Official timing will be updated)
Welcome – Jonathan Sterne (University of Bristol, UK)
Why the UK English secure data environments (SDEs) for causal inference?,
Rachel Denholm (University of Bristol, UK)
Causal inference for vaccinations: OpenSAFELY and COVID-19,
Will Hulme (University of Oxford, UK)
Medicines data in UK electronic health records: Opportunities for Target Trial Emulation,
Reecha Sofat (University of Liverpool, UK)
Causal inference for therapeutics: OpenSAFELY and COVID-19,
John Tazare (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)
Causal inference in UK electronic health records: Opportunities for open science,
Venexia Walker (University of Bristol, UK)
Making policy decisions based on real world evidence from secure data environments,
Stephen Duffield (NICE)
Expert Panel: Where do we go from here? – Chaired by Jonathan Sterne (University of Bristol); Panelists: Rachel Denholm (University of Bristol), Will Hulme (University of Oxford), Venexia Walker (University of Bristol), Reecha Sofat (University of Liverpool), John Tazare (LSHTM), Stephen Duffield (NICE)
3:00 PM: Reception for In-Person Attendees
Speakers’ remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, not for Harvard.
Do you have ideas for future Kolokotrones symposium topics? If so, we would love to hear from you! Please send any thoughts to CAUSALab (causalab@hsph.harvard.edu).
