ARACY LSN Masterclass 2018

Call for Papers

We are delighted to open registrations for the 2018 Longitudinal Studies Masterclass with international presenter Professor Jonathan Sterne, focusing on data analysis methods, titled:

Maximising the Value of Australasian Cohorts 

Combined analyses of observational data: meta-analytic and integrated approaches

The masterclass will be held Monday-Thursday, 19-22 March 2018, in Byron Bay, NSW, and will include 4 days of presentations and workshops tailored for Australasian longitudinal data experts. 

Topics

• An overview of principles and methods for meta-analysis of observational data 
• Defining the question and assessing data quality 
• Assessing potential confounding and other sources of bias 
• Data preparation and principles of data harmonisation 
• Meta-regression: going beyond summary statistics 

Practical lab sessions 

• Adjusting for potential confounders that differ across cohorts 
• Cross-cohort data preparation for meta-analysis
• Examples of meta-regression: the potential for cross-cohort approaches 

Venue 

The masterclass and workshops are being held at the beautiful Elements Resort, Byron Bay. In addition to hosting the 4-day masterclass event, the venue offers luxurious 1, 2 and 3-bedroom villas. Our events team has negotiated an accommodation discount with Elements Resort for LSN Masterclass delegates (conditions apply), plus other accommodation options are available nearby and in central Byron Bay.

About the presenter

Professor Jonathan Sterne is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology in the University of Bristol’s Department of Population Health Sciences, and Deputy Director of the new NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre. Having studied undergraduate mathematics at the University of Oxford, Jonathan obtained an MSc in Statistics at UCL, after which he completed a PhD while working at the MRC Dental Research Unit. After six years at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and three years at King’s College London, he moved to Bristol in 1999.

Jonathan leads a large scale collaboration of HIV cohort studies that led to advances in our understanding of prognosis of HIV positive people in the era of effective antiretroviral therapy. He has a longstanding interest in methodology for systematic reviews and meta-analysis, led development of the ROBINS-I tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions, and contributed to the development of the Cochrane risk of bias tool for randomised trials. He has authored highly-cited papers on causal inference, including methodology for instrumental variable analyses of Mendelian randomisation studies. Other research interests methodology for epidemiology and health services research and the epidemiology of asthma and allergic diseases.