January 24, 2024
McGinty EE, Tormohlen KN, Seewald NJ, Bicket MC, McCourt AD, Rutkow L, et al. Effects of U.S. State Medical Cannabis Laws on Treatment of Chronic Noncancer Pain. Ann Intern Med 2023;176:904–12. https://doi.org/10.7326/M23-0053

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February 21, 2024
van Zwieten A, Tennant PWG, Kelly-Irving M, Blyth FM, Teixeira-Pinto A, Khalatbari-Soltani S. Avoiding overadjustment bias in social epidemiology through appropriate covariate selection: a primer. J Clin Epidemiol. 2022 Sep;149:127-136. https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(22)00143-3/fulltext

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March 20, 2024
Daniel RM, De Stavola BL, Vansteelandt S. Commentary: The formal approach to quantitative causal inference in epidemiology: misguided or misrepresented? Int J Epidemiol. 2016 Dec 1;45(6):1817–29. https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/45/6/1817/2960059

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May 15, 2024
• Galea S, Hernán MA. Win-Win: Reconciling Social Epidemiology and Causal Inference. Am J Epidemiol. 2020 Mar 2;189(3):167-170. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwz158
• Robinson WR, Bailey ZD. Invited Commentary: What Social Epidemiology Brings to the Table-Reconciling Social Epidemiology and Causal Inference. Am J Epidemiol. 2020 Mar 2;189(3):171-174. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwz197

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June 26, 2024
Ross RK, Zivich PN, Stringer JSA, Cole SR. M-estimation for common epidemiological measures: introduction and applied examples. Int J Epidemiol [Internet]. 2024 Feb 14;53(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyae030

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July 17, 2024
Yland JJ, Wesselink AK, Lash TL, Fox MP. Misconceptions About the Direction of Bias From Nondifferential Misclassification. Am J Epidemiol [Internet]. 2022 Jul 23;191(8):1485–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwac035

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August-October: semester break

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November 20, 2024
• Cunningham, S. (2021). Causal inference: The mixtape. Yale university press. Chapter 4: Potential Outcomes Causal Model.
• Barrett, M., D’Agostino McGowan, L., & Gerke, T. (2024). Causal Inference in R. Chapter 3: Estimating counterfactuals.

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