Andreas Neophytou: Bridging Differences Across Cohorts in the Relationship Between Prenatal Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Birth Weight: Transportability of Effect Estimates in the ECHO Consortium

Discovery Summary

Key Takeaways:

• The transportability of effects framework is a method researchers can use to determine what research questions can be answered using a given dataset or technique.
• A causal inference framework is a transportability of effects framework that attempts to determine if differences in a given effect can actually be attributed to differences between the cohorts (e.g., differences in sociodemographic characteristics).
• Neophytou and his team used this method to find that the relationship between secondhand smoke exposure and birth weight is at least partially influenced by sociodemographic characteristics.

Speaker:

Andreas Neophytou, ScD

Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences
Colorado State University

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Andreas Neophytou is an Assistant Professor in Epidemiology at the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences at Colorado State University. He also holds an adjunct Assistant Professor appointment with the Department of Epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health. Prior to these appointments, Dr. Neophytou earned a joint doctoral degree in Epidemiology and Environmental Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and completed postdoctoral training at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

Date: Wednesday, November 9th, 1 to 2pm ET