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CADC Measurement and Methods Core Seminars
The Measurement and Methods Core (MMC) provides training in the specialized methods and measurement
issues needed to conduct research relevant to minority aging to CADC scholars and other UCSF investigators.
The training provided to CADC scholars complements the Investigator Development Core. Methodological
training is provided through formal courses and lectures, methods seminars and Workshops delivered to UCSF
investigators at a variety of campus locations (MMC Seminars; MMC Workshops), as well as presentations
and workshops at professional meetings. Formal courses include Research in Health Disparities (EPI 222),
co-taught by MMC faculty, led by Dr. Pérez-Stable; Measurement in Clinical Research (EPI 225) taught
regularly by Dr. Stewart; and a new social epidemiology course created by Dr. Yen, which features
race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and childhood and life course exposures. The following list summarizes
the training provided by the MMC during the funding cycle 2007 – 2011.
Quantitative Methods
2007 (July-Dec)
 MMC Seminar: Missing data and multiple imputation: conceptual introduction
 EPI225: Factor analysis methods
2008
 MMC Seminar: Repeated measures models with multiple, correlated random effects.
 EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: moderation
 EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: mediation.
 EPI225: Factor analysis methods
2009
 MMC Workshop: Multiple imputation in SAS
 MMC Seminar: Estimating and testing mediated effects with binary mediators and/or binary outcomes
 EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: moderation
 EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: mediation.
 EPI225: Factor analysis methods
2010
 MMC Seminar: Power Analysis for Clustered Sampling Designs with Stochastic X variables
 EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: moderation
 EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: mediation.
2011
 MMC Seminar: Comparing effects across nested logistic regression models
 American Geriatric Society Annual Meeting: Research programs and issues series “Methodological issues in
research with diverse populations:” Adjusting for SES in disparities research - a lifecourse perspective
 EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: moderation
 EPI222: Statistical Issues in disparities research: mediation.
General Measurement Issues
2007 (Jul-Dec)
 EPI225: measurement in clinical research (10 lectures)
2008
 EPI222: Identifying and selecting self-report health measures for health disparities research
 EPI222: Measurement issues in research in diverse populations including health disparities research
 EPI225: measurement in clinical research (10 lectures)
2009
 GSA preconference workshop: A framework for understanding modifications to measures in studies of
diverse groups
 EPI222: Identifying and selecting self-report health measures for health disparities research
 EPI222: Measurement issues in research in diverse populations including health disparities research
 EPI225: measurement in clinical research (10 lectures)
2010
 EPI222: Identifying and selecting self-report health measures for health disparities research
 EPI222: Measurement issues in research in diverse populations including health disparities research
2011
 EPI222: Identifying and selecting self-report health measures for health disparities research
 EPI222: Measurement issues in research in diverse populations including health disparities research
Issues with Specific Measures
2007 (Jul-Dec)
 MMC Seminar: Physician ratings of language interpretation methods
2008
 MMC Seminar: Childhood social and economic circumstances of older adults: preliminary results from a new
survey instrument
 EPI222: Measuring neighborhood environment
2009
 MMC Seminar: Conceptualizing and improving measures of racial discrimination for health disparities
research in older African Americans
 EPI222: Measuring neighborhood environment
 GSA preconference workshop: Discrimination measures in diverse groups
 GSA: NIA Technical assistance workshop: Measuring childhood social and economic circumstances
2010
 MMC Seminar: Using mixed methods to investigate neighborhood, activity spaces, and health of older adults
Qualitative methods
2007 (Jul-Dec)
 UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness: Qualitative research methods
 MMC Seminar: applications of qualitative methods for clinical research.
2008
 MMC Seminar: Interactive seminar on focus group and qualitative data analysis. 1-hour didactic presentation
+ 1-hour in-depth session
 EPI222: Using mixed methods in health disparities research
2009
 MMC/IDC Seminar: Qualitative methods to enhance conceptual adequacy and construct validity of self-report
measures
 EPI222: Using mixed methods in health disparities research
 MMC Seminar: Qualitative research methods
 MMC Seminar/Family Services Agency San Francisco: How to use cognitive interviews to pretest
assessment instruments
2010
 EPI222: Using mixed methods in health disparities research
2011
 MMC Seminar: Using mixed methods in mental health disparities research
 EPI222: Using mixed methods in health disparities research
Translation of Evidence-based Interventions
2007 (Jul-Dec)
 MMC Seminar and also Northland Chapter, American College of Sports Medicine Tutorial Program.
“Increasing physical activity in older adults: Adapting the Community Healthy Activities Model Program for
Seniors (CHAMPS) to reach ethnically diverse seniors.
2008
 UC Berkeley course in health behavior and UCSF Psychology and Medicine fellows: Translational research:
experiences implementing a lifestyle program to reduce disparities in diabetes risk in minority populations
 MMC Seminar: Update on academic-community partnership to implement a lifestyle program to reduce
disparities in diabetes risk
2009
 Community Academic Research Training Alliance (CARTA) fellows: Using qualitative methods to develop
and test evidence-based interventions in diverse older communities
 MMC Seminar: Developing a culturally competent peer support intervention for Spanish-speaking Latinas
with breast cancer
2010
 Pre-conference workshop, American Psycho-Oncology Association annual meeting, entitled “Key steps to
adapting evidence-based psychosocial interventions for Latinas.”
 EPI245 course on translational research: Methods of conducting translational research in minority and lowerincome communities
 MMC Seminar: Developing culturally sensitive dementia caregiver interventions.
 Community Academic Research Training Alliance (CARTA) fellows: Using qualitative methods to develop
and test evidence-based interventions in diverse older communities
2011
 MMC Seminar: Nuevo Amanecer: a community-based RCT of a psychosocial health intervention for Latinas
with breast cancer
 RCMAR annual meeting: Translating evidence-based practices into community settings”
 MMC Seminar: Translating evidence-based practices into community settings”
Pathways to Health Disparities
2007 (Jul-Dec)
 MMC Seminar: Psychosocial support services for Latinas with breast cancer
2008
 UC Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative: Place matters: how neighborhoods provide opportunities and
threats to health.
 MMC Seminar: Discrimination, distrust, and antiretroviral therapy adherence in HIV+ patients
2009
 MMC Seminar: Place and health connections for older adults: preliminary results from a qualitative research
study
 MMC Seminar: Colorectal cancer screening discussions with Latino patients
2010
 California Breast Cancer Research Program Symposium:
 Nuevo Amanecer: enhancing the psychosocial health of Latinas with breast cancer
2011
UC Berkeley PH150E Community Health and Human Development: Immigrant health