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In the Southwest of the United States people more likely to die of stroke. African Americans living in the South have a greater risk than any other race/ethnic/geographic population. Diet, socioeconomic status, and the built environment are among the most commonly provided exposures contributing to these disparities. This talk will discuss what is currently known […]

Invited by Pr Christophe Tzourio – Bordeaux Population Health

Estelle DUMAS-MALLETDoctorante en Sciences politiquesCentre Emile Durkheim CNRS-UMR 5116Institut des maladies neurodégénératives CNRS-UMR 5293Programme HEADS (Health determinants in societies)Docteur en Sciences Biologiques et Médicales (Université de Bordeaux

Invited by Xavier Anglaret – IDLIC TEAM

Invited by Hélène Jacqmin-Gadda – BIOSTATISTICS TEAM Assessing whether epigenetic alterations mediate associations between environmental exposures and health outcomes is increasingly popular. We investigate the impact of exposure misclassification in such investigations.We quantify bias and false positive rates due to exposure misclassification in mediation analysis and assess the performance of SIMEX correction approach. Further, we […]

Invited by Simone Mathoulin-Pélissier – EPICENE team Elisabete Weiderpass was trained in medicine (1992) and epidemiology (M.Sc., 1994) in Brazil, and in cancer epidemiology at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (Ph.D., 1999; post doc 1999-2000). She serves as Head of the Department of Research at the Cancer Registry of Norway – Institute of Population Based […]

Pr Patrick M. BossuytProfessor of clinical epidemiology, Dept Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics, BioinformaticsAcademic Medical center, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Dr Emma Anderson, BSc, PhDReasearch fellow / Integrative epidemiology unit, School of social and community medicine, University of Bristol, UK.

Pr Andrea Sylvia WINKLERProfessor, Institute of Health and Society Helsam Common scientific activities (HELSAMCSA) – University of Oslo

Invited by Christophe Tzourio, team HEALTHY, head of BPH U1219 centre.

Pr Daniel NAGINProfessor, Heinz College of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University,United States