MALDONADO EPIDEMIOLOGY CONSULTING

Associate Professor
University of Minnesota
School of Public Health
GMPhD@umn.edu
Mobile: 612-701-3822

 

 

 

 

Services

• Causation in toxic tort litigation
• Review and interpretation of epidemiologic literature
• Design and analysis of epidemiologic studies
• Epidemiologic bias (uncertainty) analysis

About

I am a PhD epidemiologist who specializes in epidemiologic methods.

I spend my time thinking about how to get good answers to causal questions from imperfect, nonexperimental studies—most human health studies being both imperfect and non-experimental.

I have spent the last 30 years studying how to design, analyze and interpret human health (epidemiologic) studies. I have spent countless hours in the classroom teaching undergraduate, master’s and PhD students how to do this. I have published numerous articles in the peer reviewed, health-science literature on this topic.

Selected Publications

• Maldonado G, Cox LA. Causal reasoning in epidemiology: philosophy and logic. Global
  Epidemiology 2020. (Commentary.)
• Jurek AM, Maldonado G. Quantitative bias analysis in an asthma study of rescue-recovery
  workers and volunteers from the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. Annals of Epidemiology
  2016;26:794-801. (Awarded Best 2016 Paper in Annals of Epidemiology.)
• Maldonado G. Toward a clearer understanding of causal concepts in epidemiology. Annals of
  Epidemiology 2013;23:743-749.
• Maldonado G. Adjusting a relative-risk estimate for study imperfections. Journal of
  Epidemiology and Community Health 2008;62:655-663.
• Jurek AM, Greenland S, Maldonado G. How far from non-differential does exposure or disease
  misclassification have to be to bias results away from the null? International Journal of
  Epidemiology 2008;37:382-385.
• Jurek AM, Greenland S, Maldonado G, Church TR. Proper interpretation of non-differential
  misclassification effects: expectations versus observations. International Journal of
  Epidemiology 2005;34:680-687.
• Maldonado G, Greenland S. Estimating causal effects. International Journal of Epidemiology
  2002;31:422-429 (with commentaries).
• Maldonado G, Greenland S. Interpreting model coefficients when the true model form is
  unknown. Epidemiology 1993;4:310-318.
• Maldonado G, Greenland S. Simulation study of confounder-selection strategies. American
  Journal of Epidemiology 1993;138:923-936.