Transporting Treatment Effects from Randomised Trials to Target Populations: Casual Inference for External Validity

Third-cycle level | 1.5 credits (HEC) | Course code: C6F6031
VT 2025
Study period: 2025-04-14 - 2025-04-18
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: The course is given in English
Application period: 2024-10-15 - 2024-11-05
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Course description

Purpose of the course:
To understand how to assess and quantitatively address external validity problems in randomized trials

Requirements and Selection

Prerequisite courses, or equivalent

Knowledge equivalent to "Epidemiology I: Introduction to epidemiology", "Biostatistics I: Introduction for epidemiologists", "Epidemiology II: Design of epidemiological studies", and "Biostatistics II: Logistic regression for epidemiologists" or corresponding courses.

Selection

Selection will be based on:  
1) the relevance of the course syllabus for the applicant’s doctoral project (according to written motivation). 
2) start date of doctoral studies (priority given to earlier start date). 

 

Course director

Anthony Matthews, anthony.matthews@ki.se

Course syllabus

C6F6031

Department

Institute of Environmental Medicine

Doctoral programme

Epidemiology

Type of course

**Other course

Keywords

causal inference, epidemiology, transportability

CONTACTJohanna Bergman

johanna.bergman@ki.se