AUSTRALASIAN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
2025 Scientific Meeting
Embracing change: epidemiological methods for the future
Wednesday 16 to Friday 18 July 2025
Hotel Grand Chancellor Hobart
#AEA2025
Pre- Conference Workshops - Wednesday 16 July
Workshop Registration Fees
Workshop Registration Inclusions:-
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Admission to Workshop Session on Wednesday 16 July ONLY;
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Workshop Registration does not provide access to the AEA Conference 17-18 July;
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Morning and/or afternoon tea will be provided for Workshop Registration on Wednesday 16 July.
AEA MEMBER - Half Day $165 / 2x Half Day $225
NON - MEMBER - Half Day $290 / 2x Half Day $410
WORKSHOP 1 - Half Day Wednesday 16 July - 8:00am to 12:00pm
Title: Analysis planning for handling missing data in epidemiological studies: a new roadmap
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Description: Missing data are a common problem in epidemiological studies that can lead to bias if there is a violation in the assumptions about the causes of missing data that underlie (implicitly or explicitly) the analysis. Yet, the traditional forms of missing data assumptions (e.g. “missing at random”) are difficult to assess in practice where it is common for multiple variables to have missing data. This workshop will take participants through the steps of a new roadmap for handling missing data that is grounded in the use of causal diagrams to facilitate the specification and assessment of missingness assumptions, and thereby decide on the most appropriate approach to handle missing data.
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Prerequisites and intended audience: The target audience is epidemiologists with some statistical background, including some knowledge of regression methods.
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Presenter:
Margarita Moreno-Betancur
Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute & University of Melbourne
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Presenter:
Ghazaleh Dashti
Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute & University of Melbourne
WORKSHOP 2 - Half Day Wednesday 16 July - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Title: Meet the Editors
Description:
This free workshop will feature short presentations from the Editor-in-Chiefs about their respective journals (Cancer Epidemiology, International Journal of Epidemiology and Journal of Epidemiology), followed by a facilitated question and answer session. The second half of the workshop will open to the floor; participants are encouraged to come prepared with all their pressing questions about how to get their research published.
Intended audience:
This workshop is open to all, however the focus of discussion will be targeted to early career epidemiologists.
Facilitator:
Dr Brooklyn Fraser, University of Tasmania
Presenter:
Assoc. Prof. Freddy Sitas
Editor-in-Chief of Cancer Epidemiology
Presenter:
Prof. Alistair Woodward
Co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Epidemiology
Presenter:
Prof. Kota Katanoda
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Epidemiology
Sponsors: Elsevier, OUP, Japan Epidemiological Association
WORKSHOP 3 - Half Day Wednesday 16 July - 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Title: Quantitative Bias Analysis with application to issues of misclassification
Description: Random error is nearly always quantified in biomedical / epidemiologic research results, while systematic error is rarely quantified. This disparate treatment exists despite the fact that systematic error often dominates the uncertainty about an estimate, and the fact that methods for quantitative bias analysis have been described for decades. Shifting point estimates to account for bias, as well as widening study intervals to account for the uncertainty due to systematic error, provides a more complete assessment of total study error and reduces the chances of inferential errors. The course will give an introduction to the available methods for the case of bias due to misclassification.
Presenter:
Dr Matthew Fox DSc
Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health, Boston University
Additional Workshop information will be added as they are confirmed.
Need Assistance?​
Contact: AEA 2025 Conference Secretariat
P: 02 6171 1312
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