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Kara Rudolph

Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Columbia University

About

I am an epidemiologist with research interests in developing and applying causal inference methods to understand social and contextual influences on mental health, substance use, and violence.

My current work focuses on developing and applying methods for transportability and mediations to understand mechanisms relevant for drug use disorder prevention and treatment in various target populations. More generally, my work on generalizing/ transporting findings from study samples to target populations and identifying subpopulations most likely to benefit from interventions contributes to efforts to optimally target available policy and program resources.

I completed a PhD in Epidemiology and an MHS in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar.

Publications

Selected Methodologic Papers:

Selected Methods-y/Applied papers

Selected Applied Papers

Team

We have an amorphous team, which is really the collection of several close collaborations. Ivan Diaz and I work together much of the time. Liz Stuart and Caleb Miles are other co-mentors of team and co-leads of our projects.

Team Github

Rachael Ross, co-mentored with Liz Stuart
Harsh Parikh, co-mentored with Liz Stuart
Catherine Gimbrone
Amy Pitts, co-mentored with Caleb Miles
Brian Gilbert, postdoc, co-mentored with Ivan Diaz

Not pictured

Shodai Inose
Richard Liu

Alums

Floriana Milazzo
Alex Perlmutter

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