Evidence Triangulation in Dementia Research

Department of Epidemiology Seminar Series

Speaker:
Maria Glymour, ScD
Chair, Department of Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Abstract: Research on cognitive aging, including development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, is fraught with causal inference challenges. This talk will briefly review why identifying the causes and potential prevention strategies for dementia is particularly challenging.  I will discuss a framework for evidence triangulation and offer examples of promising approaches in dementia research.” 

Bio: Maria Glymour (she/her) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. Her research examines how social factors experienced across the lifecourse, from infancy to adulthood, influence cognitive function, dementia, stroke, and other health outcomes in aging. A separate theme of her research focuses on overcoming methodological problems encountered in analyses of the social determinants of health, Alzheimer’s disease, and dementia.