VIRTUAL EVENT: To the propensity score and beyond!

Ingeborg Waernbaum received her Ph.D. in Statistics from Umeå University in 2008. She is professor at Uppsala University, Department of Statistics (2019). Her research interests include general statistical methods for population-based register data, and in particular causal analysis. Methodological development concerning covariate balance, confounder selection and robust estimation of causal effects in observational studies, as well as applications where causal effects are estimated with register data lies within her field of research. Since 2019 she is the chair of the Swedish Society of Medical Statistics.

Els Goetghebeur holds a mathematics degree from KULeuven and obtained a PhD in statistics from Hasselt University, Belgium. Through her first position at the London LSHTM (1990-1993) and later at the Harvard School of Public Health she became interested in public health, viruses (HIV) and quality of care, amongst other applications of biostatistics. Her main methodological interests relate to survival analysis and causal inference. Today, she is professor at Ghent University where she leads a consulting lab and co-coordinates FLAMES (FLAnders’ training network in MEthodology and Statistics). She is Editor in Chief of Statistics in Medicine and spends 20% of her time at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden (corona permitting), with a focus on methodology for studies based on disease registers. She is a member of the steering group of the international STRATOS initiative.