Come join us for our next talk in our seminar series on April 23rd. Joy Nakato, CTML GSR will present her talk on "Efficient estimation of causal effects of HIV prevention and care strategies in clustered data settings." The talk will take place at 12 PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5101 (Caravan Room). Please note the room change this week.
In this mock QE talk, I will present ongoing work focused on developing, evaluating, and applying efficient and robust estimators for causal inference in the context of HIV prevention and care. Motivated by real world challenges from cluster randomized trials and observational studies in resource limited settings, I will be addressing two critical barriers for valid inference: complex informative missingness and practical violations of the positivity assumption often due to small cluster sizes. The talk will include methodological contributions evaluated with finite sample simulations as well as directions for future work.