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Date(s) - 28/05/2025
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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IASS Webinar 52: Statistical Data Integration for Health Policy Evidence-Building
Speaker: Carolina Franco
Principal Statistician, NORC at the University of Chicago
28 May 2025 at 2pm – 3:30pm (CET)
All are invited to the webinar, organised by the International Association of Survey Statisticians.
Please register for the IASS Webinar at:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4017434211947/WN_noY68S1kQeu1MDjoK-DQjA#/registration
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. There will be time for questions. The webinar will be recorded and made available on the IASS and ISI web site. See below for the abstract and biography of the speakers.
Webinar Abstract
Health policy evidence-building requires data sources such as healthcare claims, electronic health records, probability and nonprobability survey data, epidemiological surveillance databases, administrative data, and more, all of which have strengths and limitations for a given policy analysis. Data integration techniques leverage the relative strengths of input sources to obtain a blended source that is richer, more informative, and with better fitness-for-use than any single input component. This presentation notes the expansion of opportunities to use data integration for health policy analyses, reviews key methodological approaches to expand the number of variables in a data set or to increase the precision of estimates, and provides directions for future research. As data quality improvement motivates data integration, key data quality frameworks are provided to structure assessments of candidate input data sources.
Biography
Carolina Franco is a Principal Statistician at NORC at the University of Chicago. She has over 12 years of experience in statistics research and consulting and is an expert in Small Area Estimation (SAE). She has designed and implemented the statistical methodology for important and complex applications in public health, the social sciences, and official statistics. Dr. Franco is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and has several peer-reviewed publications. She has given dozens of invited talks at conferences, universities, companies, and government agencies, including widely attended webinars organized by various international organizations like the American Statistical Association’s Committee on International Relations, Statistics Without Borders, the United Nation’s Intersecretariat Group for Household Surveys, and others. She holds several appointments in the statistics community including being Guest Editor of the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, Past Chair of the Washington Statistical Society’s Morris Hansen Lecture Committee, Past Chair of the American Statistical Association’s (ASA) Committee on International Relations in Statistics, a member of the Program Committee for the 2025 SAE Conference in Turin, and others.