Location:
Level 6, Seminar Room Wallace Wurth Building UNSW Australia Sydney NSW 2052
Open to
All
Contact for enquiries
Rata Joseph +61 (0)2 9385 0900 rjoseph@kirby.unsw.edu.au
The Kirby Institute is pleased to present:
Professor Caroline Sabin -Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, University College London
"Estimating the Cascade of Care (CoC): Is it as simple as it seems?"
Monday 14th March 2016
Seminar: 1pm-2pm
Lunch will be served at 12.30pm.Please RSVP to rjoseph@kirby.unsw.edu.au for catering purposes.
Abstract:
Since Gardner and colleagues first described the steps that make up the continuum of HIV care in 2011, the so-called ‘Cascade of Care’ (CoC) has been reported from many different settings and patient groups. Although the CoC is a relatively simple concept, estimation of the numbers of people living with HIV at each step of the cascade is not always straightforward and methodological approaches frequently differ, with little consensus on an optimal approach. Thus, comparisons of the CoC from different settings/population groups are likely to be biased. This talk will describe some of the methodological difficulties that are encountered when applying the CoC to routinely collected data, with a particular focus on the measures used to assess retention-in-care (RIC). The talk will be illustrated using data from the UK Collaborative HIV Cohort (UK CHIC).
Bio:
Caroline Sabin is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at University College London (UCL) and is Director of the National Institutes for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections, a partnership between UCL, Public Health England (PHE) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Caroline has worked for many years on the analysis of large observational HIV databases with a particular interest in raising awareness of the biases inherent in these databases; she is the principal investigator on the UK CHIC Study, the principal statistician on the D:A:D Study, co-principal investigator on the POPPY Study, and has worked with many other research groups in the UK and elsewhere.