Dean Galea Co-Authors AJE ‘Article of the Year’.
The American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE) has named an article co-authored by Dean Sandro Galea one of its 2015 “Articles of the Year.”
“Formalizing the Role of Agent-Based Modeling in Causal Inference and Epidemiology” was nominated by AJE readers and editors as one of the top 10 articles representing “the very best of AJE.”
The titles of the 10 articles were published in the April 15 issue of the AJE, and award winners were recognized during the 2016 Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) meeting in Miami on June 24, which coincided with the Epidemiology Congress of the Americas.
Dean Galea co-authored the article with Brandon D. L. Marshall, assistant professor of epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health. Galea and Marshall showed how agent-based models, which simulate the actions and interactions of autonomous “agents” to assess their effects on a system as a whole, “can be used to simulate counterfactual outcomes in the presence of complexity.” The authors call this “a promising novel approach to identify and evaluate complex causal effects,” illuminating new areas for intervention.
An article co-authored by Dean Galea was also selected as an AJE 2014 Article of the Year. Research led by Lauren Wise, professor of epidemiology, was honored as a 2013 Article of the Year, one of the first 10 articles to receive the award.
Matthew Fox, associate professor of epidemiology, was also honored as an AJE Reviewer of the Year during the Epidemiology Congress of the Americas.