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Causal Inference, Artificial Intelligence, and Responsible Healthcare Innovation
Professor Normand discusses data, AI, and healthcare in the Harvard Data Science Initiative Impact Report, 2023-2025.
Spring 2026
March 24-26: Prof. Normand presenting an invited talk, "Causal Inference and Machine Learning for Estimating Quality of Hospital Care," at the 2026 Society of Decision Professional conference at UMass Boston.
May 18-21: Prof. Normand will present at the Central European Network Conference, in Warsaw, Poland. This is a joint meeting of the Austro-Swiss Region, the German Region (DR), and the Polish Region of the International Biometric Society.
Recently Published
2026
Minali Nigam, Chana A Sacks, Daniel Müller, Kim Knoper, Adam Straus, Alison Burke, Sharon-Lise Normand, and Corey Hardin. 2026. “How Minimal Clinically Important Difference Works.”. NEJM Evidence, 5, 1, Pp. EVIDstat2500338. doi:10.1056/EVIDstat2500338
Minali Nigam, Chana A Sacks, Daniel Müller, Kim Knoper, Adam Straus, Alison Burke, Sharon-Lise Normand, and Corey Hardin. 2026. “How Minimal Clinically Important Difference Works.”. NEJM Evidence, 5, 1, Pp. EVIDstat2500338. doi:10.1056/EVIDstat2500338
Andrea B Troxel, Constantine A Gatsonis, Joseph W Hogan, Rebecca A Hubbard, David J Hunter, and Sharon-Lise T Normand. 2026. “Statistics in Medicine - What’s in an Estimand?”. The New England Journal of Medicine, 394, 1, Pp. 6-9. doi:10.1056/NEJMp2513633
Andrea B Troxel, Constantine A Gatsonis, Joseph W Hogan, Rebecca A Hubbard, David J Hunter, and Sharon-Lise T Normand. 2026. “Statistics in Medicine - What’s in an Estimand?”. The New England Journal of Medicine, 394, 1, Pp. 6-9. doi:10.1056/NEJMp2513633
Minali Nigam, Chana A Sacks, Daniel Müller, Kim Knoper, Adam Straus, Alison Burke, Sharon-Lise Normand, and Corey Hardin. 2026. “How Minimal Clinically Important Difference Works.”. NEJM Evidence, 5, 1, Pp. EVIDstat2500338. doi:10.1056/EVIDstat2500338
Minali Nigam, Chana A Sacks, Daniel Müller, Kim Knoper, Adam Straus, Alison Burke, Sharon-Lise Normand, and Corey Hardin. 2026. “How Minimal Clinically Important Difference Works.”. NEJM Evidence, 5, 1, Pp. EVIDstat2500338. doi:10.1056/EVIDstat2500338
2025
Andrea B Troxel, Constantine A Gatsonis, Joseph W Hogan, Rebecca A Hubbard, David J Hunter, and Sharon-Lise T Normand. 2025. “Statistics in Medicine - What’s in an Estimand?”. The New England Journal of Medicine. doi:10.1056/NEJMp2513633
Andrea B Troxel, Constantine A Gatsonis, Joseph W Hogan, Rebecca A Hubbard, David J Hunter, and Sharon-Lise T Normand. 2025. “Statistics in Medicine - What’s in an Estimand?”. The New England Journal of Medicine. doi:10.1056/NEJMp2513633
Benjamin Lê Cook, John McConnell, Gareth Parry, Michael Flores, Stephanie Renfro, Anika Kumar, Catherine Holmes, Akhil Reddy, Rujuta Takalkar, Brian Mullin, Sharon-Lise T Normand, and Marcela Horvitz-Lennon. 2025. “Disparities in Access to Serious Mental Illness Care Following the Implementation of Value-Based Payment Reform in the Oregon Medicaid Program.”. Medical Care Research and Review : MCRR, 82, 5, Pp. 376-86. doi:10.1177/10775587251339969
Benjamin Lê Cook, John McConnell, Gareth Parry, Michael Flores, Stephanie Renfro, Anika Kumar, Catherine Holmes, Akhil Reddy, Rujuta Takalkar, Brian Mullin, Sharon-Lise T Normand, and Marcela Horvitz-Lennon. 2025. “Disparities in Access to Serious Mental Illness Care Following the Implementation of Value-Based Payment Reform in the Oregon Medicaid Program.”. Medical Care Research and Review : MCRR, 82, 5, Pp. 376-86. doi:10.1177/10775587251339969