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Winter/Spring 2026 Schedule

Date Reference Paper
January 23 Discussion Are association questions just causal questions in disguise?
February 6 Westreich 2017 From patients to policy
February 20 van den Broek Does SES affect long term health-related quality of life in patients with traumatic rib fractures?
March 6 Azizi Investigating IgG N-glycosylation changes in relation to cancer development
March 20 Oberndorfer et al. 2026 Descriptive estimands, causal estimands, and avoiding the jungle of adjusted associations ‘in between’
April 17 Al-kassab-Córdova & Soto-Becerra 2025 Causal Inference in Public Health: A Call to Stop Causal Fishing
May 1 Dagelinckx Mendelian Methodology: Is this the end of the Mendelian era?
May 15 Conti et al 2024 Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter
May 29 Qizilbash et al 2015 BMI and risk of dementia in two million people over two decades: a retrospective cohort study
June 12 Phillips and Davey Smith How independent are “independent” effects? relative risk estimation when correlated exposures are measured imprecisely

Fall 2023 Schedule

Date Reference Paper
September 8 Epidemiology X Submit a question
September 22 Westreich et al 2023 Target Validity and the Hierarchy of Study Designs
October 6 Pearce and Vandenbroucke 2023 Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?
October 20 Amrhein and Greeland 2022 Discuss practical importance of results based on interval estimates and p-value functions, not only on point estimates and null p-values
November 3 Lakens Confirmation Bias and Organized Skepticism
November 17 Dr. Kirsten Bibbens-Domingo Medical Publishing in Dynamic Times (Part I)
December 1 Dr. Kirsten Bibbens-Domingo Medical Publishing in Dynamic Times (Part II) & the C-Word paper

Winter/Spring 2023 Schedule

Date Reference Paper
January 13 Epidemiology X
January 27 Kaufman 2017 Statistics, Adjusted Statistics and Maladjusted Statistics
February 10 Discussion about statistical testing
February 24 Rothman 1976 Causes
March 10 Huitfeldt 2016 Is caviar a risk factor for being a millionaire?
March 24 Flexner 1939 The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
April 7 Westreich 2017 From Patients to Policy: Population Intervention Effects in Epidemiology
April 21 What does an epidemiologist need to know?
May 5 What motivates scientists to do research?
May 19 Should basic methodological errors have consequences?
June 2 Explaning causal assumptions to non-experts
June 16 Glass 1976 Primary, Secondary, and Meta-Aanlysis of Research
June 30 Westkop @ 16h



Winter 2022 Schedule

Date Reference Paper
January 21 Kronmal 1993 Spurious Correlation and the Fallacy of the Ratio Standard Revisited
February 4 Van Calster et al 2021 Methodology over metrics: current scientific standards are a disservice to patients and society
February 18 Ackley et al 2022 Dynamical Modeling as a Tool for Inferring Causation
March 4 Medden et al 2022 Inverse probability weighting to handle attrition in cohort studies: some guidance and a call for caution
March 18 Epidemiology X
April 1 Jim Smit Causal Infernece and the ICU
April 15 Haushofer CV of failure
April 29
May 13 Savitz and Wellenius 2022 Can Cross-Sectional Studies Contribute to Causal Inference? It Depends
May 27 Wagenmakers et al 2022 One statistical analysis must not rule them all





Fall 2021 Schedule

Date Reference Paper
November 26 Nimdet et al 2015 A Systematic Review of Studies Eliciting Willingness-to-Pay per Quality-Adjusted Life Year: Does It Justify CE Threshold?
November 12 Haber et al 2021 Causal and Associational Language in Observational Health Research: A systematic evaluation
October 29 Greenland 2021 Dealing With the Inevitable Deficiencies of Bias Analysis-and All Analyses
October 15 MacLehose et al 2021 The Importance of Making Assumptions in Bias Analysis
October 1 CANCELLED
September 17 CANCELLED
September 3 Epidemiology X