Webinar: Basic Methods in Survey Design

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Description

Presentation Date
January 31, 2024

Presenters
Helena Silveira Schuch
Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Sponsor Groups
Behavioral, Epidemiologic and Health Services Research Group (BEHSR)

CE Credits
None

Conflict of Interest Disclosure
None

Course Description:
This webinar is intended to provide an overview of basic principles in survey methods, specifically considerations for their design. Emphasis will be placed on topics such as sample selection, data collection techniques, and potential sources of biases. In this seminar, we will have a keynote presentation followed by a Q&A panel as well. Participation of students/trainees/researchers of all levels is highly encouraged.

Learning Objectives

Provide an overview of basic principles in survey methods, specifically considerations for their design.
Discuss potential sources of bias during sample selection and data collection techniques.

Complimentary Member Registration:
The Basic Methods in Survey Design webinar is open to all IADR members. Current IADR members can claim their complimentary registration today in the IADR Webinar & CE On Demand Library. Non-Members can join IADR to attend this virtual webinar.

Contributors

Helena Silveira Schuch

Speaker

Dr. Schuch completed her Doctoral degree in Dentistry from the Universidade Federal de Pelotas in Pelotas, Brazil (2011). In 2014, she completed a master’s degree in Restorative Dentistry from the same Institution and in 2018 she completed her PhD in Dentistry/Public Health from the University of Adelaide where subsequently she completed her post-doctoral training. She returned to her alma mater in Brazil to work as a post-doctoral researcher, and then joined the University of Queensland as a Senior Research Fellow. Currently, Dr. Schuch is a Research Fellow in oral health policy and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. She has extensive research experience in oral epidemiology and is part of the advisory board for the Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology journal. She has also served as International Director and as a Student/Trainee Representative for the Executive committee of the IADR Behavioral, Epidemiologic, and Health Services Research Group (BESHR).
Miguel Simancas

Moderator

Miguel obtained his DDS from the University of Cartagena (’08) and upon graduation; he enrolled in a dual-degree program to obtain his Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology and a certificate in Applied Statistics. He served as a tenured Associate Professor in the dental research department at the University of Cartagena until 2018 where he worked as interim chair of the same department and as visiting professor at the University of Verona in Italy. Upon moving to the United States, he started to work as a post-doctoral fellow researcher in oral epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Adams School of Dentistry under the supervision of Dr. Kimon Divaris (2018-2022) where he also completed his postdoctoral training in Pediatric Dentistry. Throughout his career, he has achieved several research awards including the prestigious American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Graduate Student Research Award (2020), and the North Carolina AADOCR Research Day Award (2022). Since 2020, he has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the IADR Behavioral, Epidemiologic and Health Services Research Group (2019-2021: North America student representative and 2021-2023: Director for North America, present: Symposium coordinator). Currently, Miguel is an associate professor in pediatric dentistry in the division of pediatric and public health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Contributors

Helena Silveira Schuch

Miguel Simancas