health disparities

Purpose of Review: To summarize recent literature on selection bias in disparities research addressing either descriptive or causal questions, with examples from dementia research. Recent Findings: Defining a clear estimand, including the target population, is essential to assess whether generalizability bias or collider-stratification bias is a threat to inferences.

I presented this talk at the Symposia: What has it meant to be an epidemiologist in 2020: 2021 Redux. This work was inspired by the commentary “In the midst of two realities”, published in Epidemiology on 2021.