Biostatistics and Health Services Research Slides

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• Meeting on March 7th, 2023: The Commonwealth’s Roadmap for Behavioral Health Reform: Along the Road from Development to Implementation (presented by Dr. Christie Hager)      

• Meeting on April 19th, 2022: Addressing Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccine Access in Arkansas: Health Equity Strike Teams (presented by Drs. Michelle Smith and Austin Porter)

• Meeting on Nov 16th, 2021: The All of Us Research Program: Opportunities for Researchers (presented by Dr. Mara Epstein)

• Discussion on Nov 2nd, 2021: Standardizing the coding of SDoH data for research and clinical care at UMass Chan: Can we do it, and if so, how? (presented by Drs. Adrian Zai and Arlene Ash) 

• Discussion on Oct 6th, 2020: Association between the modified frailty index and outcomes following lobectomy (presented by Dr. Bryce Bludevich)

• Discussion on Aug 11th, 2020: Thoughts about modeling for paying plans and measuring "quality" for MassHealth (presented by Dr. Arlene Ash)

• Discussion on Aug 4th, 2020: Multilevel models of suicidal ideation among nursing home residents (presented by Dr. Christine Ulbricht)

• Discussion on June 2nd, 2020: High-frequency hospital users: the tail that wags the dog? (presented by Dr. Hassan Fouayzi)

• Discussion on Mar 31st, 2020: Machine Learning Based Outcome Prediction & Hypothesis Generation

• Discussion on Jan 28th, 2020: The INTRODUCTORY session that Dr. Arlene Ash lead on how propensity scores are used to support causal inference. 

• Discussion on Nov 12th, 2019: Downs et al., (2010) Vulnerability-Based Spatial Sampling Stratification for the National Children's Study, Worcester, County, Massachusetts: Capturing Health-Relevant Environmental and Sociodemographic Variability

• Discussion on Oct 1st, 2019: Statistical issue of patient costs in the System of Safety study (PIs: Drs. Kiefe and Boudreaux)