Dr Jade Benjamin-Chung will join us for a seminar with the Health Inequalities Lab to discuss strategies for open science.
In the past decade, an increasing number of studies have found that published study findings could not be reproduced. Researchers found that it was not possible to reproduce estimates from published studies: 1) with the same data and same or similar code and 2) with newly collected data using the same (or similar) study design. This crisis has motivated new practices in reproducibility, transparency, and openness. This seminar organised by the Health Inequalities Lab at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ will focus on the Pre-Analysis Plan which is a vital tool for improving the quality and reliability of research, ensuring that findings are reproducible, transparent, and free from bias. This ultimately contributes to more credible and impactful scientific discoveries. Dr Benjamin-Chung will talk about the checklist to go through while registering your pre-analysis plans.
Meet the speaker
Jade Benjamin-Chung, PhD MPH, is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, as well as a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. She conducts research to develop and evaluate scalable interventions that target the complex interplay between infectious diseases, environmental factors, and human health in resource-limited settings. Her work employs a variety of epidemiologic, computational, and statistical methods, including causal inference and machine learning methods, and focuses on vulnerable populations in low-resource settings, both domestically and internationally.
Health Inequalities Lab
The Health Inequalities Lab is a research group based at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Health. Our team is dedicated to studying and addressing the impact of social inequalities on health outcomes and health care service use. Our approach is interdisciplinary: we bring together insights from epidemiology, biology, social policy and econometrics. Our aim is to build the evidence base for interventions to reduce social inequalities in health over the lifecourse. We are supported by a range of national and international funders, including the European Research Council (UKRI guarantee), UK Research and Innovation, US National Institute on Aging, Medical Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Administrative Data Research UK and the French National Research Agency.
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