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Welcome to Dr Fernando Pires Hartwig from the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil

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20 January 2022

Dr Pires Hartwig is visiting on the Bristol 'Next Generation' Researcher Programme from 18th January - 12th February 2022.

Dr Pires Hartwig is currently an assistant professor in Epidemiology and a permanent researcher at the Postgraduate Program in Epidemiology. He also holds an honorary research fellow position at Bristol Medical School (University of Bristol, UK). His research interests are related to the field of causal inference in epidemiology, with emphasis on empirical and methodological work on instrumental variable analysis. He is also interested in translation of statistical methods between different fields of epidemiology.

During his stay Dr Pires Hartwig will be working on his research project 'Assessing the INSIDE assumption in Mendelian randomization'.

Dr Pires Hartwig is being hosted by Professor George Davey Smith, Population Health Sciences, you can view his IRP profile page here.