Hosted by the GPH Center for Anti-Racism, Social Justice and Public Health
In this talk Dr. John Jackson will outline how to incorporate equity value judgements in analytic approaches to measure and identify leverage points for reducing disparities. He will focus on the particular issue of how covariate adjustments in defining disparities and in equalizing potential determinants of disparities (decompositions) ultimately conveys value judgements about what is fair and equitable in the distribution of health and its determinants. He will discuss various principles to guide the choice of covariates for meaningfully defining disparities and decompositions while adjusting for other covariates to account for confounding.
About the Speaker:
Dr. John W Jackson is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Jackson earned his ScD in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2013 with a concentration in psychiatric epidemiology. From 2011 to 2014, he trained in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as a predoctoral trainee and postdoctoral research fellow, where his work focused on the safety and utilization of antipsychotic medications, as well as methods for comparative effectiveness research. Dr. Jackson current research focuses on understanding and reducing the excess morbidity and mortality in patients with mental illness, and uses state-of-the-art methods to provide insight about the effectiveness of potential interventions.