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SERious EPI is a podcast hosted by Hailey Banack and Matt Fox where leading epidemiology researchers are interviewed on cutting edge and novel methods. Interviews focus on why these methods are so important, what problems they solve, and how they are currently being used.

Recent Episodes
  • S4E10: Quantitative Bias Analysis with Dr. Tim Lash
    May 15, 2025 – 58:55
  • S4E9: Regression Discontinuity and Difference in Difference(s?)
    Apr 15, 2025 – 52:16
  • S4E8: Regression Discontinuity and Difference-in-Differences with Dr. Usama Bilal
    Mar 15, 2025 – 55:38
  • S4E7: Instrumental Variables
    Feb 15, 2025 – 49:29
  • S4E6: Instrumental Variables with Dr. Rita Hamad
    Jan 15, 2025 – 55:33
  • S4E5: Mediation Continuation
    Dec 15, 2024 – 52:24
  • S4E4: Mediation with Kara Rudolph and Ivan Diaz
    Nov 15, 2024 – 58:35
  • S4E3: How do we define efficiency?
    Oct 15, 2024 – 53:00
  • S4E2: Study Efficiency with Robert Platt
    Sep 15, 2024 – 51:56
  • S4E1: We’re Baaaaack… A Season 4 Preview
    Sep 3, 2024 – 36:15
  • S3E12: Start with the questions that are easy to answer and then move on to the more challenging questions
    Jan 30, 2024 – 41:11
  • S3E11: You say tomato, I say tom-ah-to: a (somewhat) head-spinning discussion about interaction analyses
    Jan 15, 2024 – 47:17
  • S3E10: Time-varying everything everywhere all at once
    Jan 9, 2024 – 48:05
  • S3E9: Feedback loops? Feedback spirals? Disentangling what we know about time-varying exposures.
    Oct 31, 2023 – 40:22
  • S3E8: Maybe censoring is the least of your worries?
    Sep 30, 2023 – 42:57
  • S3E7: Are time to event analyses the Space Mountain of epidemiology?
    Aug 31, 2023 – 48:26
  • S3E6: Stratification with Rich MacLehose: Should you have Bert or Ernie pick you up from surgery?
    Jul 30, 2023 – 47:30
  • S3E5: Should I memorize the Mantel Haenszel formula?
    Jun 30, 2023 – 41:49
  • S3E4. Selecting people or selecting data: exploring different aspects of selection bias
    May 30, 2023 – 41:51
  • S3E3. How do we deal with the people who never made it into our study?
    May 2, 2023 – 37:51
  • S3E2: Should we try to ensure misclassification is non-differential? Discussing measurement error with Dr. Patrick Bradshaw
    Mar 30, 2023 – 43:31
  • S3E1: Are we measuring what we think we’re measuring?
    Mar 15, 2023 – 41:44
  • S2E16: There’s a 95% probability you’ll enjoy learning about sample size and precision with Dr. Jon Huang
    Dec 15, 2022 – 56:12
  • S2E15: As random as it gets
    Oct 31, 2022 – 43:24
  • S2E14: Confounding will never go away – with Maya Mathur
    Aug 27, 2022 – 50:14
  • S2E13: Confounding: Ten thousand arrows going into a bunch of squiggly things
    Aug 22, 2022 – 49:05
  • S2E12: How great are case-control studies with Ellie Matthay
    Jul 5, 2022 – 52:16
  • S2E11: Case Control Studies
    Jun 6, 2022 – 44:20
  • S2E10: The Return of the Cohort Studies
    Apr 18, 2022 – 53:30
  • S2E9: The Cohort Studies Brouhaha
    Mar 27, 2022 – 47:57
  • S2E8: Measures of Effect with Katie Lesko
    Feb 25, 2022 – 58:14
  • S2E7: The donut episode: Measures of association
    Jan 31, 2022 – 53:11
  • S2E6: Chapter 4 – The building blocks of epi with Dr. Liz Stuart
    Jan 19, 2022 – 47:04
  • S2E5: Chapter 4 – The great open vs closed population debate
    Jan 6, 2022 – 53:34
  • S2E4: More on causal inference with Dr. Jay Kaufman
    Dec 2, 2021 – 50:19
  • S2E3. More on causal inference and scientific reasoning
    Oct 28, 2021 – 45:17
  • S2E2: A discussion on causal inference and scientific reasoning
    Sep 29, 2021 –
  • S2E1: Modern Epidemiology: An interview with Dr. Kenneth Rothman
    Sep 7, 2021 – 32:51
  • 1.20 Season 1 Finale: Will we ever have to stop wearing sweatpants to work? Lessons from a year of pandemic podcasting.
    May 1, 2021 – 38:38
  • 1.19 SERious Epi Journal Club – BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Mass Vaccination Setting
    Apr 15, 2021 – 28:29
  • 1.18 Lifecourse epidemiology: a melting pot of bias?
    Apr 1, 2021 – 36:19
  • 1.17 Do external validity and transportability confuse the daylights out of you?
    Mar 15, 2021 – 45:45
  • 1.16 Finding the Perfect Match Requires Common Support: Matching with Dr. Anusha Vable
    Mar 1, 2021 – 44:45
  • 1.15 The pool is big enough for all of us: Representativeness with Dr. Jonathan Jackson
    Feb 15, 2021 – 44:44
  • 1.14. It’s always a competition: Competing Risks with Dr. Bryan Lau
    Feb 1, 2021 – 43:09
  • 1.13. It’s all about the instruments: with Sonja Swanson
    Jan 15, 2021 – 49:17
  • 1.12. Epidemiology podcast crossover
    Jan 1, 2021 – 52:25
  • 1.11. The need for theory in epidemiology – with Dr. Nancy Krieger
    Dec 14, 2020 – 40:10
  • 1.10. Quasi-experimental Studies – A Love Story: With Tarik Benmarhnia
    Dec 1, 2020 – 51:59
  • 1.9. When Epidemiologists and Variables Collide: with Elizabeth Rose Mayeda
    Nov 15, 2020 – 43:22
Recent Reviews
  • srp345
    Great epi podcast for review - entertaining and educational!
    I’m pursuing my PhD in epidemiology and this podcast helped me pass my comprehensive exam! Thank you Matt and Hailey!
  • apple~jacks
    Great methods resource for students!
    I’m a PhD in Biological Anthropology and MPH in Epidemiology student. Because epi is not my primary field of study and my training is more applied and MPH-level (rather than more research intensive as would be the case in PhD epi courses), this podcast has been a great supplement for digging deeper into epi research methods and causal inference!
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