DES efterårsmøde 2024 havde temaet: Measurement error and information bias in epidemiological research

We are excited to announce the upcoming Summer Meeting of the Danish Epidemiological Society on June 2nd, 2025 in Copenhagen with a stellar line-up of Danish and international speakers.

Programme

 

Measurement error and information bias in epidemiological research

DES Summer meeting 2025 – Monday June 2nd, 2025

Location: Auditorium 35.01.05, City Campus (CSS), Gammeltoftsgade 15, 1355 Copenhagen.

10:00-10:30: Arrival, coffee and snacks

10:30-10:35: Introduction and welcome

10:35-11:30: Understanding measurement error in advanced epidemiology

Moderator: Stine Schramm

  • Chunsen Wu, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
    • Depicting measurement error and information bias with DAGs

11:30-12:00: Two short talks from Society members on measurement error/information bias

  • Terese SH Jørgensen. Associate Professor, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. Use of register- and survey-based measures of anxiety in a population-based Danish cohort
  • Emely Blæhr. Post doc, National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University. Misclassification in medication treatment: Implications and methodological approaches for pharmacoepidemiologic research

12:00-13:00: Lunch

13:00-14:30: Measuring gender and ethnicity

Moderator: Terese Sara Høj Jørgensen

  • Alissa Koski, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health and Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy, McGill University, Canada
    • Measuring dimensions of sex and gender in population health research
  • Christopher Jamil de Montgomery, Assistant Professor, the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Blind spots in register perspectives on ethnicity 

14:30-15:15: Coffee break with refreshments

15:15-15:45: Two short talks from Society members on measurement error/information bias

    Moderator: Julie Werenberg Dreier

  • Sigrid Normann Biener, PhD student, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. Tackling measurement errors when estimating the timing of natural menopause – a case from KISO Survey Cohort
  • Josefine Klakk, PhD student, National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University. Correlation of Self-reported Well-being across Schooling in Children with and without Neurodevelopmental Disorders: What does it tell us about measurement error?

15:45-16:45: Methods of analysis for error-prone data

Moderator: Amalie Timmermann

  • Pamela A. Shaw, Senior Investigator, Biostatistics Division, Kaiser Permanente, Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA and Affiliate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

16:45- :          Food and drinks

The meeting is hosted together with Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, UCPH