Research Seminar in Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health: Sander Greenland (still seats available)

Expert lecture by Sander Greenland: Limitations and extensions of directed acyclic graphs and causal models for observational epidemiology

Sander Greenland has for decades been a leading force in developing and refining the research
methods used in public health and clinical epidemiology. He is without doubt the most productive
scientist in theoretical epidemiology worldwide. He carried a full teaching program at UCLA
providing advanced courses for doctoral students in epidemiology or biostatistics. He retired in
2012 only to focus on research and philosophy of science. He is author of some of the best known
and most widely used textbooks in epidemiology. We now know much more about the power and
the limitations of epidemiologic methods than we did 30 years ago; much due to his achievements
over the years.

Sander Greenland is still affiliated to the Departments of Epidemiology and Statistics at UCLA in
Los Angeles. His main affiliation is with the Department of Epidemiology. He received an
Honorary Doctorate Degree from Aarhus University in 2013.

In 1999, Dr. Greenland and colleagues published the paper “Causal diagrams for epidemiologic
research”, and since then causal directed acyclic graphs have been widely applied in the
epidemiological literature. In his lecture, Dr. Greenland will present recent insights into the
limitations and potential extensions of this methodology.

To sign up for the lecture, follow the link below (required).
https://auws.au.dk/Sander_Greenland_Seminar