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The power of public health storytelling

The Studio & Online

Presented jointly with the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health  How can storytelling raise awareness of urgent public health issues — and begin to shape a meaningful response? This panel of skilled storytellers will share insights from their own experience and offer ideas about how journalists, authors, and...

Event Series GHP Thursday Brown Bag Series

How to Make People Immortal and Why it is Not a Good Idea: Improving the Causal Analyses of Healthcare Databases

Kresge 502 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract: The generation of "immortal time" is a frequent blunder in survival analyses for causal inference. Immortal time explains why medical treatments often look suspiciously amazing. After two centuries of warnings, immortal time still plagues causal analyses in medicine, which is fascinating because "immortal time" doesn't exist in the data. Rather, we generate immortal time...

ⓘ Harvard Chan School hosts a diverse array of speakers, invited to share both scholarly research and personal perspectives. They do not speak for the School, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.