Meeting Calendar

Onsite seminar 

Time: 11/21/2025, Friday 1:30-2:45pm 

Place: Genome Cafe, Room E3609 

Light lunch provided 

Zoom https://jh.zoom.us/j/98520328197

Speaker: Gary Hettinger, Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health, New York University 

Title: Semi-parametric Causal Methods for Health Policy Evaluations Under Spillover

Abstract: Evaluating health policies requires understanding how they may spill over into nearby regions and differentially impact areas implementing the policy, which demands rigorous confounding adjustment and robust modeling to uncover these causal mechanisms. In this talk, I will introduce novel difference-in-difference methods to assess spillover effects and continuous exposures, developing semi-parametric approaches that relax model specification requirements and incorporate flexible modeling techniques. I demonstrate these methods by studying the effects of Philadelphia’s excise tax on sweetened beverages.

Upcoming events

12/5/2025 

Lu Xia, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University.

2/27/2026, 3/6/2026

Yanxun Xu, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Short Course: ``Adapting Generative AI for Task Automation in Biomedical Research''