JSM Activity #237

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Activity ID:  237
Title
* Combining Information to Improve Health Policy
Date / Time / Room Sponsor Type
08/13/2002
2:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: H-Petit Trianon 		Biometrics Section*, Section on Health Policy Statistics*, Social Statistics Section*, WNAR Invited
Organizer: Carl Morris, Harvard University
Chair: Wesley O. Johnson, University of California, Davis
Discussant: 3:20 PM - Carl Morris, Harvard University    
Floor Discussion 3:40 PM
Description

These studies concern methods and issues in combining and in borrowing information to improve medical and public health decision making. Whether they involve experimental or observational data bases, or both, the research here aims to use all available information so that national and/or international public policy will be based on the best possible evaluations and forecasts.
  300381  By:  Gary  King 2:05 PM 08/13/2002
Methods for Forecasting Multinational Mortality Rates

  300382  By:  Cindy L. Christiansen 2:30 PM 08/13/2002
Combining Information From Clinical Trials and Observational Studies to Evaluate Safety

  300383  By:  James  Ware 2:55 PM 08/13/2002
Bridging and Global Drug Development: A Regional Strategy

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