Barbra Dickerman

Biography

My research is focused on using causal inference methods and large health databases to improve health decision-making, with a focus on cancer control. I am co-director of the VA-CAUSAL Methods Core, an initiative of the U.S. Veterans Health Administration to integrate high-quality data and explicitly causal methodologies in a nationwide learning health system. I currently teach causal inference methodology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where I am Assistant Professor of Global Cancer Prevention in the Department of Epidemiology.

Education and Training

• BSc,
  University of Pennsylvania
• MSc,
  Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
• PhD,
  Harvard University

Publications

• A validated estimate of visceral adipose tissue volume in relation to cancer risk.

  Lu Y, Zhao YC, Liu K, Bever A, Zhou Z, Wang K, Fang Z, Polychronidis G, Liu Y, Tao L, Dickerman BA, Giovannucci EL, Song M. J Natl Cancer Inst 2024 Dec 01

• Neighborhood greenness and long-term physical and psychosocial quality of life among prostate cancer survivors in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study.

  Chen N, Hu CR, Iyer HS, James P, Dickerman BA, Mucci LA, Nethery RC. Environ Res 2024 Dec 01

• Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening and Prostate Cancer Mortality: An Emulation of Target Trials in US Medicare.

  García-Albéniz X, Hsu J, Etzioni R, Chan JM, Shi J, Dickerman B, Hernán MA. JCO Clin Cancer Inform 2024

• Estimating the Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Events Using Observational Data?

  Madenci AL, Kurgansky KE, Dickerman BA, Gerlovin H, Wanis KN, Smith AD, Trinquart L, Gagnon DR, Cho K, Gaziano JM, Casas JP, Robins JM, Hernán MA. Epidemiology 2024 09 01

• Evaluating recommendation-based dietary and physical activity strategies for prostate cancer prevention: a target trial emulation in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study.

  Guo F, McGee EE, Chiu YH, Giovannucci E, Mucci LA, Dickerman BA. Am J Epidemiol 2024 Jul 05