CAUSALab

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The CAUSALab Inaugural Event:
Causal Inference from Real World Data in the Era of Covid-19
13^th Kolokotrones Symposium
November 5, 2021

Join us in person or online at:
Snyder Auditorium, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA.
Zoom link available upon registration.

Registration to reserve your seat or to receive Zoom link opens on Wednesday, October 13^th

Program

10:30am Welcome
Albert Hofman, Chair, Department of Epidemiology

10:40am The CAUSALab: A Center to Learn What Works
Miguel Hernán, Director of the CAUSALab

11:00am The CAUSALab’s Response to Covid-19: Data science for decision making
Chaired by Jessica Young, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Population Medicine

Vaccines for Covid-19 prevention: Comparative effectiveness and safety
-Barbra Dickerman
Drug repurposing for COVID-19 prevention: The effects of old drugs on a new disease
-Xabier García-Albéniz
-Katherine Li
Nonpharmacological interventions for the treatment and prevention of Covid-19
-Arin Madenci
-José Zubizarreta

12:45pm Lunch served for in-person attendees

1:30pm Causal inference without randomized experiments: How do we know we are right?
-James Robins, Mitchell L. and Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology
Panel and discussion with the audience
-Issa Dahabreh, Miguel Hernán, Sara Lodi, and James Robins
-Moderated by Andrew Beam

3:00pm Reception for in-person attendees