This debate is probably the most fun I’ve had presenting at a conference, and was nervewrecking too with this admirable adversary!

Great insights from Fiona Russell on why public health physicians & researchers need to understand the types of research questions and different biases applicable to each. Our observational studies course covers all these concepts! Register for the next iteration in October👇

Congratulations to Daisy Shepherd on being awarded a University of Melbourne #EarlyCareer Researcher Grant! 🎉This grant will support Daisy's #biostatistics methodological work in developing novel tools & guidance for modern confounding-adjustment methods in observational longitudinal studies.

New research | A/Prof A/Prof Rachel Peters, NACE Epidemiology Lead, and Dr Diego J Lopez of University of Melbourne, are behind the first study to explore the link between air pollution and food allergy in the first decade of life. Published in JACI In Practice today 👇 #AllergyResearch #FoodAllergy

"Higher exposure to air pollution does increase the risk of developing a food allergy." #MCRI's A/Prof Rachel Peters has spoken to ABC Australia about how pollution in Melbourne contributes to peanut allergy in children. | A/Prof Rachel Peters Centre for Food Allergy Research National Allergy Centre of Excellence Watch ⬇️

Congratulations to Julie Simpson Julie Simpson on election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences! Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences MISCH Research Hub

🚀And we're off...with Prof Kate Lee Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) presenting on everything you need to know about Adaptive and Platform Trials for the MACH #EMCR network - the recording will be available on the Melbourne Academic Centre for Health website post-webinar

Registration is now open for our 2025 Summer School! 10-14 Feb All courses running hybrid in person at Monash Public Health and online via Zoom See full details on our website vicbiostat.org.au/short-courses Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) MISCH Research Hub

NEW PAPER! "Causal inference in multi-cohort studies using the target trial framework to identify and minimize sources of bias" led by Marnie Downes Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) ViCBiostat LifeCourse - A Melbourne Children's Initiative Check it out 👇academic.oup.com/aje/advance-ar… #EpiTwitter #causalinference #Stats

👏👏We are very proud of our teaching superstar Dr Anurika De Silva for receiving the University of Melbourne David White Award for Teaching Excellence - so very well deserved! 🥳 go.unimelb.edu.au/rmk8

Our research methods and software training course timetable for 2025 is out! check it out here: mcri.edu.au/research/resea… Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) Melbourne Academic Centre for Health AUS Data Science Network

Register now to avoid missing these three great courses! vicbiostat.org.au/short-courses Margarita Moreno-Betancur Jonathan Sterne Katherine Lee Jiaxin Zhang Melissa Middleton Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU)

Tutorials in Biostatistics Multiple Imputation for Longitudinal Data: A Tutorial. Rushani Wijesuriya, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, John B. Carlin, Ian R. White, Matteo Quartagno, Katherine J. Lee. Statistics in Medicine. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/si…

New paper!! We find that prevalent exposure designs are very common in dementia research, explain why they are ill-suited for causal inference, and show how the target trial framework helps us move beyond them. Read here👇 thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

Looking forward to speaking at the CAUSALab methods seminar series next week! 👇

Recording of my talk CAUSALab on using m-DAGs to guide the treatment of missing data now available 👇 #epitwitter

NOW PUBLISHED! Featured article + 6 Commentaries + Rejoinder: “On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching” with my colleague John Carlin tinyurl.com/2z2tmkhh Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) ViCBiostat #epitwitter #causaltwitter

🚨New method alert! So excited to see our group’s work led by Tong Chen with now available as an R package 📦 A powerful tool for estimating intervention effects through **multiple mediators**—with real examples to guide you! Check it out ⬇️ #epitwitter #causaltwitter #rstats