Colloquium: Causal Inference in Infectious Disease Prevention Studies

Join us Tuesday, September 30 for our next invited speaker of the semester! 
Dr. Michael Hudgens will be presenting at 11 AM in the Z. Smith Reynolds (ZSR) Auditorium, Room 404. 

Dr. Michael Hudgens is a professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at UNC-Chapel Hill. He also serves as the director of the Biostatistics Core of the UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). He has experience in collaborative research and statistical methodology development related to studies of infectious diseases.

Professor Hudgens has co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers in statistical journals such as Biometrics, Biometrika, JASA and JRSS-B as well as biomedical journals such as the Lancet, Nature and New England Journal of Medicine. He currently serves as an associate editor for Biometrics. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and has taught graduate-level biostatistics courses at UNC for over 15 years.Dr. Hudgens’s talk is entitled

 “Causal Inference in Infectious Disease Prevention Studies.”

Abstract:  This talk will provide a high-level overview of the development and application of causal inference methods to infectious disease prevention studies, with particular focus on vaccines. Examples will include drawing inference about vaccine effects on post-infection outcomes, immunological correlates of vaccine protection, spillover effects of vaccines, and waning of vaccine effects over time.