Opening Remarks

Topic 1: State of the Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker in Health Disparities
Sterling C. Johnson, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Presentation: 30 minutes; Discussion: 15 minutes

Topic 2: Rigorous Approaches to Evaluating Drivers and Solutions for Health Disparities

• Introduction/Overview: Why Causal Inference Methods and Health Disparities Research Go Hand-in-Hand, Maria Glymour, Ph.D., University of California San Francisco [8 minutes]


• Methods to Address Selection Bias: Who's In and Who's Out? Analyzing and Interpreting Non-Representative Data Sets in Health Disparities Research, Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles [15 minutes]


• Methods to Address Confounding Bias: What to Do When You Can't Randomize, Jacqueline Torres, Ph.D., University of California San Francisco [15 minutes]


• Methods to Evaluate Mediation: How Did That Happen? Tools to Evaluate Mechanisms and Point to Interventions, Roch Nianogo, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles [15 minutes]


• Wrap Up/Questions Panel [17 minutes]

Break

Topic 3: Emerging Directions for Improving Health Disparities Research in Alzheimer’s Disease
Presentation: 30 minutes; Discussion: 20 minutes

• Health Disparities in Cognitive Aging and AD: What We Know, Paul Brewster, Ph.D., University of Victoria


• Knowledge Gaps and Challenges for Advancing Knowledge, Rebecca Melrose, Ph.D., VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System


• Recommendations to Advance Research in Health Disparities in Cognitive Aging and AD, Dan M. Mungas, Ph.D., University of California at Davis

Discussion [45 minutes]