2020 - 2021 HPI Seminar Series Schedule
All seminars are from 1pm - 2pm EST, unless otherwise noted.
July 21, 2021
Jiebing Wen, PhD | Former Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
The Impact of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Mandates on Opioid Tapering
June 9, 2021
Yanlei Ma, PhD, MSc | Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Starting Salary for Primary Care Physicians Grows Faster in Medicaid Expansion States: Evidence from a Matched Difference-in-Difference Analysis
May 12, 2021
Michael Halpern, MD, PhD, MPH | Medical Officer, Health Assessment Research Branch, Healthcare Delivery Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute
NCI Portfolio Analysis: Funded Grants Including Economic Outcomes and a Focus on Retrospective Data Resources
April 14, 2021
Joseph Zikafoose, MD, MS | Senior Researcher; Director, Center on Health Care Effectiveness, Mathematica | Primary Care Pediatrician, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Carol Irvin | Senior Fellow, Director of Health Programs, Mathematica
New Opportunities for Medicaid Research and Evaluation: The Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System Analytic Files (TAF)
March 10, 2021
Ziad Obermayer, MD | Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley
Dissecting Algorithmic Bias
January 6, 2021 | PLEASE NOTE: This seminar takes place from 12pm - 1pm EST
Sebastian Schneeweiss, MD, ScD | Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School | Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Machine-learning Augmented Causal Interference with Propensity Scores in RWE Studies
February 10, 2021
Kelvin Chan, MD | Medical Oncologist, Associate Scientist | Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Developing a Framework for the Generation and Use of Real-World Evidence to Inform Cancer Drug Funding Decisions in Canada
December 9, 2020
Alessandra Ferrario, PhD | Senior Research Fellow | Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Searching for pearls: Measuring palliative care in claims data
November 4, 2020
David Auerbach, PhD | Senior Director for Research and Cost Trends | Massachusetts Health Policy Commission
Coding Intensity | Reading Material
October 14, 2020
Michael Barnett, MD, MS | Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Examining Opioid Use Disorder Treatment with Secret Shopper Surveys