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Causality in Epidemiology
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Conference location on Campus - UNI-Center (Mensa-building)- Ist floor, Room BR 6 (BR5)
| Thursday, May 2, 2024 |
| 11.30-12.30 | Arrival |
| 1.30 pm – 2 pm | Welcome and Opening Remarks: Dean Gerald Pruckner (Faculty of Social Sciences, Economics and Business), Univ.-Prof. Andreas Gruber (Medical Faculty, JKU) and Univ.-Prof. Julian Reiss (Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method, JKU, Member of the Steering Committee) |
| 2 pm – 3.15 pm | Keynote: The Paradoxes, Perplexities, and Power of Factor Analysis Tyler VanderWeele, Harvard (online) Chair: Phyllis Illari |
| 3.15 pm – 3.45 pm | Coffee Break - (Room BR6) |
| Session 1 - (Room BR6) | Session 2 - (Room BR5) | |
| 3.45 pm – 4.35 pm | Causation in Epidemiology: An action-related approach - Atocha Aliseda | Exploring Geneticists’ Alternate Understandings of Causation - Hannah S. Allen |
| 4.35 pm – 5.25 pm | A new light on causes in human health-associated microbiome studies by unearthing its ecological roots - Aline Potiron | The answer is right under your nose but the question never arose - Jonah Steen, Sigrid Sterckx, Stijn Vansteelandt, Wim Van Biesen and Johan Decruyenaere |
| 5.25 pm – 6.15 pm | From Treating to Beating Cancer: A Critical Examination of Cancer Prevention, Nutrition, Treatment Methods, and the Production of Ignorance - Courtney E. Foster | What's in an effect? - Veli-Pekka Parkkinen |
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| Friday, May 3, 2024 |
| 9 am – 10.15 am | Keynote: Why most causal diagrams are not causal: The implications of well-defined causal questions Miguel Hernan, Harvard Chair: Jon Williamson |
| 10.15 am – 10.45 am | Coffee Break - (Room BR6) |
| Session 3 - (Room BR6) | Session 4 - (Room BR5) | |
| 10.45 am – 11.35 am | The Logic of Counterfactuals and the Epistemology of Causal Inference: A Dose of Econometrics for Everyone – Hanti Lin (online) | What are causal relations across the sciences? Towards a hybrid account merging difference-making and mechanistic intuitions about the ontology of causation - Mariusz Maziarz |
| 11.35 am – 12.50 pm | Special Session – Causality in the Sciences Roundtable Phyllis Illari, Bert Leuridan, Julian Reiss, Jon Williamson |
| 12.50 pm – 1.50 pm | Lunch Break |
| Session 5 - (Room BR6) | Session 6 - (Room BR5) | |
| 1.50 pm – 2.40 pm | Epidemiological Evidence and Single-Case Evaluation in Forensic Medicine - The Example of the “Excited Delirium Syndrome” - Enno Fischer and Saana Jukola | Biomedical Standard Time somewhere: Unsettling the framing of epigenetic aging as a causal mechanism linking social and environmental exposures to health - Elijah Watson |
| 2.40 pm – 3.30 pm | Epistemology of Epidemiology: Its Relevance for Efficacy of Pandemic Management – the Case of COVID-19 and its “theory-free” Modeling - Felix Tretter | Artificial intelligence methods in Bayesian evidence evaluation - William Peden, Francesco De Pretis and Juergen Landes |
| 3.30 pm – 4.20 pm | The evidential role of the key characteristics of carcinogens - Jon Williamson and Michael Wilde | Health Effects of Loneliness and Causal Pluralism - Elena Popa |
| 4.20 pm – 4.50 pm | Coffee Break - (Room BR6) |
| 4.50 pm – 6.05 pm | General Discussion raised by Dr. Sarah Wieten's work Chair: Bert Leuridan |
| 7.30 pm | Conference Dinner |
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| Saturday, May 4, 2024 |
| 9 am – 10.15 am | Keynote: Rethinking Data and Evidence in Medicine, Rethinking Causality and Empiricism in Philosophy? Stefano Canali, Milan Chair: Julian Reiss |
| 10.15 am – 10.45 am | Coffee Break - (Room BR6) |
| Session 7 - (Room BR6) | Session 8 - (Room BR5) | |
| 10.45 am – 11.35 am | Epistemological and practical challenges in using causal inference analyses in social epidemiology: developing a tool to support researchers - Léna Bonin, Hélène Colineaux, Benoit Lepage and Michelle Kelly-Irving | Individual-level and population-level causes in epidemiology: a stability account - Thomas Blanchard |
| 11.35 am – 12.25 pm | Epidemiology, RCTs and Econometric Modelling – Nancy Cartwright (online) | |
| 12.25 pm | Closing |
