I will discuss work in progress considering how to estimate the effect of an educational strategy that is targeted at influential individuals in a community so as to raise the overall level of knowledge in that community through both the direct effect of teaching the influential individuals and indirect effects arising due to the dissemination of information between the social network within the community.

Bio: Erica E. M. Moodie is a Professor of Biostatistics and a William Dawson Scholar at McGill University. She obtained her MPhil in Epidemiology in 2001 from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Biostatistics in 2006 from the University of Washington, before joining the faculty at McGill. Her main research interests are in causal inference and longitudinal data with a focus on precision medicine. She is the 2020 recipient of the CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. She holds a Chercheur-Boursier senior career award from the Fonds de recherche du Quebec-Sante.