When:
Monday, February 5, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: Chambers Hall, Ruan Conference Room (lower level), 600 Foster St, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Ethan Teekah
(847) 491-3395
Group: Institute For Policy Research
Category: Academic, Lectures & Meetings
"Using Measures of Race to Make Clinical Predictions: Decision Making, Patient Health, and Fairness"
by Charles F. Manski, Board of Trustees Professor of Economics and IPR Fellow
Abstract: The use of race measures in clinical prediction models is contentious. Manski and his colleagues seek to inform the discourse by evaluating the inclusion of race in probabilistic predictions of illness that support clinical decision making. Adopting a static utilitarian framework to formalize social welfare, they show that patients of all races benefit when clinical decisions are jointly guided by patient race and other observable covariates. Similar conclusions emerge when the model is extended to a two-period setting where prevention activities target systemic drivers of disease. The researchers also discuss non-utilitarian concepts that have been proposed to guide allocation of healthcare resources.
This event is part of the Fay Lomax Cook Winter 2024 Colloquium Series, where IPR researchers from around the University share their latest policy-relevant research.
Please note all colloquia this quarter will be held in-person only.