ECTS: 3.6
Course leader: Anne Gaml-Sørensen
Language: English
Graduate school: Faculty of Health
Graduate program: PH
Course fee: 4,320.00 DKK
Status: Course is open for application
Semester: Spring 2027
Application deadline: 22/03/2027
Cancellation deadline: 04/04/2027
Course type: Classroom teaching
Start date: 26/04/2027
Administrator: Thilde Møller Risgaard
The course P281/08 Causal Inference in Health Sciences is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, spring 2027.
Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or Master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).
Requirements for participation: Knowledge about Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) equivalent to the Aarhus University PhD courses: Epidemiology II. Knowledge in statistics and epidemiology equivalent to the Aarhus University PhD courses: Epidemiology I and Basic Biostatistics part 1 and 2. Knowledge on linear and logistic regression models. Basic knowledge on probability theory. Intermediate skills with Stata or other statistical software.
Aim: Introduce participants to the basic theory and practical usage of modern causal inference methods in the health sciences.
Learning outcomes:
- Introduction to the potential outcome framework and counterfactuals
- Assumptions for causal inference
- Introduction to and practical experience with g-methods
- Introduction to and practical experience with causal interaction analysis
- Introduction to and practical experience with causal mediation analysis
Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 102 hours
Content:
Day 1: Causal concepts and frameworks
Day 2: Definition and identification of total effects
Day 3: Estimation of total effects and g-computation
Day 4: Interaction and mediation analyses
Day 5: Practical application of causal inference methods
Instructors:
Head of course: Anne Gaml-Sørensen
Instructors: Onyebuchi Arah, Matthew Coates, Andreas Ernst, Nis Brix and Anne Gaml-Sørensen
Venue: Aarhus University, Aarhus
Participation in the course is without cost for:
- PhD students, Health Research Year students from Aarhus University
- PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
- PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses
Course dates:
- 26 April 2027 08:00 - 15:00
- 27 April 2027 08:00 - 15:00
- 03 May 2027 08:00 - 15:30
- 04 May 2027 08:00 - 15:30
- 05 May 2027 08:00 - 14:30