Methods to study social inequality in health DES Fall meeting 2024

Date: Thursday November 7th 2024

Location: Merete Barker Auditorium (The Lakeside Auditorium), Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus C

Link to registration: https://www.dansk-epidemiologisk-selskab.dk/arrangementer/des-fall-meeting-2024/

Program

10:00-10:30 Arrival and small breakfast
10:30-10:35  Introduction and welcome

10:35-12:00 

Session 1: Causal inference in social epidemiology 

Moderator: Gro Askgaard

Else Foverskov, Assistant Professor at the Section of Social Medicine. Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen: - The promise of natural experiments in social epidemiology
Anne Helby Petersen, Assistant Professor at the Section of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen:- Data-driven witchcraft: Can machine learning infer causal models for life-course epidemiology?
Linda Ejlskov, Assistant Professor at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital: - Sibling designs and claims of causality within social epidemiology. Concerns and empirical investigation

12:00-12:45   

Lunch

12:45-13:45 

 

General assembly

Incl. announcement of the first two honorary members of DES
- Professor Emerita, Marianne Schroll
- Professor Emeritus, Jørn Olsen

13:45-15:00 

 

Session 2: Economist’s perspectives on social inequality in health                                                                            

Moderator: Terese Sara Høj Jørgensen

Torben Heien Nielsen, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Centre for economic behavior and inequality, University of Copenhagen: - Cushioning Adverse Health Events – The Role of Families and Social Insurance
Birthe Larsen, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School: - Why should we be concerned about rising inequality?

15:00-15:30    

Coffee break

15:30-16:00

Schroll Prize 2024 

Moderator: Oleguer Plana-Ripoll

16:00-16:45 

Session 3 

Moderator: Oleguer Plana-Ripoll

Sam Harper, Professor at the Centre on Population Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University: - Multilevel Models in Social Epidemiology: Past, Present, and Future

16:45-18:00 

Light dinner and mingling

Methods to study social inequality in health

Pre-meeting workshop for early career researchers

Date: Wednesday November 6th 2024 (The day before the main meeting)

Location: Aarhus University, specific location TBD

Link to registration: https://www.dansk-epidemiologisk-selskab.dk/arrangementer/des-fall-meeting-2024-pre-meeting-workshop-for-early-career-researchers/

Program:

10:00-10:30 

 Arrival and small breakfast

10:30-12:00    

Session 1: How to measure socio-economic position using the Danish registers – Insights from the SEP-line project

Cathrine Fonnesbech Hjorth, Postdoc at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital
Maja Halgren Olsen, Postdoc at the Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-15:00 

Discussion of own research

Each participant will submit an abstract of their own work, including a specification of 1-3 methodological questions/issues, which they would like to discuss. Time slots of 15-20 minutes will be allocated to each researcher (i.e., we will make groups of 6-8 students each) – the student should present their work, followed by feedback from peers and moderators + discussion of their questions

15:00-15:30

Break

15:30-16:30 

Sam Harper, Professor at the Centre on Population Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University: - Difference-in-Differences for Social Epidemiology
16:30-18:00 Social activity
18:00-        Dinner