Environmental Mixtures Workshop: Applications in Environmental Health Studies

"The workshop was extremely informative and clear for someone who has not utilized mixture methods in the past, while still providing in-depth information and code that I am sure I will dip back into time and time again." - Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Michigan, 2023

"An excellent introduction to an emerging field of increasing importance. Would recommend." - Student at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, 2023

"Great overview of the status quo of environmental mixtures research methods. Instructors mapped research questions by theme and introduced methods accordingly, which was extremely helpful!" - PhD student at University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, 2023

"This workshop provided an excellent overview of modern methods for statistically analyzing mixtures of environmental chemicals. Everyone was really enthusiastic and helpful and I appreciated how easy it was to follow along."- Associate Professor at USF, 2022

"I greatly enjoyed the training. The step-by-step instruction in the labs was incredibly helpful and was useful for understanding how the code is executed and what it is doing. The instructors engaged well with participants and were open to questions." - Research Assistant at Michigan State University, 2022

"The workshop provides a fantastic overview of mixture analysis. It demonstrates method utility using real datasets and provides very helpful materials along the way."- Postdoc at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, 2022

"Complex mixtures analyses were presented and compared in an easily digestible way. Interactive labs, along with thoughtful discussions with experts and participants, made this workshop a great experience."-  Student at Columbia University Medical Center, 2022

"A great two-day introductory workshop on mixtures methods to handle complex exposure data. The instructors are extremely knowledgeable in their subjects and addressed questions really well. The R codes and resources provided are invaluable for my research. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to get a quick jumpstart on environmental health data involving complex exposure mixtures."- Postdoc at Columbia University Medical Center, 2022

"The workshop is very well organized and excellent overview of several major mixtures methods with very helpful examples and materials! I really appreciate all of the instructors!" - Faculty member at Emory University, 2021

"The workshop provided a foundation for using mixture methods in my own research, from identifying appropriate tools for a specific question to implementing analyses. As this field is rapidly changing, it was helpful to learn directly from investigators involved in method development." - Anne B., Postdoc at University of California, Berkeley, 2021

"This is a great introductory workshop to get a good grounding of some mixture methods using real data. The ability to learn about and practice/work through the modeling is particularly helpful." - Postdoc at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021

"This workshop will be invaluable for my research. Such a fantastic resource!" - Student at Colorado School of Public Health, 2021

"The workshop gave a good, broad overview of different methods to address different research questions related to environmental mixture analysis. It did a good job of laying the foundation for understanding these methods, even for those with little to no experience with these specific methods before." - Danielle I., Postdoc at Swarthmore College

"Wonderful overview of environmental mixtures methods that will definitely improve my skills as a researcher in my research in both mixtures and non-mixtures research." - Student at University at Albany, 2021

"The workshop was appropriately intense and packed with loads of information and skills to take home for months of practice!" - Faculty member at Emory University, 2020.

"Excellent introduction to tools for analyzing chemical mixtures or other high dimensional data." - Program Officer at NIH, 2020.

"This workshop focused on common methods used in environmental health for understanding mixtures of pollutants. It was a good grounding in the techniques and I learned many things I can use in my current work." - Postdoc at Michigan State University, 2020.

"The workshop presented well-organized and detailed reviews of several mixtures methods using real dataset as an example. Lecturers were all very experienced and materials provided were very useful!" - Student at Emory University, 2020.

"This was an excellent overview of a number of different methods to address mixtures of exposures. The instructors not only explained how the methods work, but also gave interactive examples of which methods might be preferred in specific applications." - Non-profit staff member, 2020.

"I enjoyed hearing from each mixture expert. I feel up-to-date on current mixture methods and enjoyed the 'rapid' overview of many different methods which I can now explore further according to my data and research aims." - Research analyst at NIH, 2020.

​"The mixtures workshop was really well done, and I came out of it with an abundance of new knowledge and resources. I really appreciate all of the speakers, as I thought they did a really nice job presenting the material. I can tell how much work was put into this, and I was impressed at how smooth the transitions were from presentation to R lab. I thought it was useful to have a presentation overview and then the hands on lab to view how to conduct the analyses. I thought this was especially well done, considering the necessary quick transition from in-person to virtual. Thanks so much for all your work and for developing this workshop!" - Student at University of California, Berkeley, 2020.

"The Environmental Mixtures workshop is very efficient in covering multiple models for environmental mixtures data. Excellent lectures and hands-on practices!" - Postdoc at Columbia University, 2020.

"This workshop is a really nice overview of the major mixtures methods currently being used in environmental health. Even as an individual with no prior mixtures methods experience, I was able to gain a solid foundation in these mixtures methods to apply to my own research." - Student at Michigan State University, 2020.

"Great workshop and would recommend to anyone in the field of environmental health." - Faculty member at Maine Medical Center, 2020.

"A fantastic primer to enter the field of mixtures research- helpful briefings on the theory but a great emphasis on practical application including useful example code." - Student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2020.

"Excellent workshop taught by experts in cutting-edge methods for parsing and analyzing the combined effects of mixtures of environmental pollutants on health outcomes. The methods are extensible for other applications, such as reducing the dimensionality of outcome data and/or for investigating other non-environmental exposures. All materials and code are provided." - Health scientist attendee, 2019.

"The quality of the teaching is incredible -- the lectures are worth it even if you have no intention of using these methods. The instructors are that good. The matched lecture-lab sequence is a great way to introduce and apply these topics, and makes them relevant to a broad audience. And, thank you for using a standard data set and lab example across all methods. That makes so much sense." - Postdoc at NIEHS, 2019.

"Excellent workshop! I am just learning R, and did not feel debilitated at all. I greatly appreciated the html code where I could follow along and takes notes. Wonderful experience. Thank you!" - Postdoc at the University of Toronto, 2019.

"Amazing workshop with instructors that were very knowledgeable and open about the techniques uses and limitations. Support staff was really helpful, and I learned a lot from this short training - thank you!" - PhD student from Oregon State University, 2019.

"Fantastic opportunity to learn state of the art mixtures methodologies." - Postdoc at Dartmouth College, 2018.

"Great job! I learned a lot about the methods I will be using in my research. It was a perfect mix of theory and practical applications (R code)." - Postdoc at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2018.

"Interesting, informing and interactive." - Student at Northeastern University, 2018.

"It's a great primer/workshop that is accessible to all epidemiologist/statisticians working on related fields. I think it's supremely helpful for anyone trying to get started on this." - Postdoc at Columbia University, 2018.

"This was an excellent distillation of incredibly challenging concepts. The resources provided were fantastic." - Student attendee, 2018.

"Excellent overview of range of different methods to use when studying environmental mixtures. It was very helpful to use the R code during lab sections and get a taste of what running the code will be like." -  Postdoc at University of California, San Francisco, 2018.