Outcome-Wide Analysis

Outcome-Wide Analysis provides consulting support for researchers and public agencies working at the intersection of policy, environment, transportation, and population health.

I help teams develop rigorous, policy-relevant studies, particularly where causal inference, spatial data, and public-health concepts intersect.

Areas of expertise

Quasi-experimental methods for policy evaluation, including difference-in-differences, generalized synthetic control, and related approaches
Epidemiologic study design and analytic strategy, including innovative case-control designs for transportation-safety and place-based research
Framing transportation and environmental questions within population-health and public-health frameworks
Integration of complex datasets, including spatial, mobility, environmental, and administrative data sources
Scientific writing support for grants and manuscripts, particularly methods and conceptual framing sections

Background

Michael Garber, PhD, MPH is an epidemiologist whose work focuses on how transportation systems, urban design, and environmental policy shape population health. He has authored 25+ peer-reviewed articles, including work published in Epidemiology, The Lancet Planetary Health, and Journal of Transport & Health, and received the 2022 Rothman Epidemiology Prize for methodological innovation.

Contact

To discuss a possible project, please email: michael@outcomewide.com

On the name

The name Outcome-Wide Analysis is inspired by Tyler VanderWeele’s 2017 article “Outcome-wide Epidemiology,” which argues for studying multiple outcomes togeher rather than one at a time. This thinking informs my approach to studying upstream determinants of population health, including transportation, environmental, and land-use decisions that can affect health, climate, equity, mobility, and quality of life through interconnected pathways.