Dr. Christiane Didden

Primary research areas

• Modern methods of causal inference, with applications in sociology and epidemiology
• Causal mediation analysis and decomposition techniques
  

Applications:

• Mental health (e.g., depression) and its effects on physical health and mortality
• Social inequality (e.g., gender pay gap)

Publications

• Didden, Christiane (2025). "Targeting mediating mechanisms of social disparities with an interventional effects framework, applied to the gender pay gap in Western Germany" Journal of Causal Inference 13 (1), pp. 20230015. doi.org/10.1515/jci-2023-0015
• Didden, Christiane; Egger, Matthias; Folb, Naomie; Maartens, Gary; Rohner, Elianea; Kassanjee, Reshmac; Mesa-Vieira, Cristinaa; Kriel, Ayeshae; Seedat, Sorayag,h; Haas, Andreas (2025). The Contribution of Noncommunicable and Infectious Diseases to the Effect of Depression on Mortality: A Longitudinal Causal Mediation Analysis. Epidemiology 36(1):p 88-98, doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000001804
• Mesa Vieira, Cristina; Didden, Christiane; Schomaker, Michael; Mouton, Hannes; Folb, Naomi; van den Heuvel, Leigh; Gastaldon, Chiara; Cornell, Morna; Tlali, Mpho; Kassanjee, Reshma; Franco, Oscar; Haas, Andreas D. (2024). Post-traumatic stress disorder as a risk factor for major adverse cardiovascular events: a cohort study of a South African medical insurance scheme. Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences 33 (e5), doi.org/10.1017/S2045796024000052
• Ruffieux, Yann; Fernandez Villalobos, Nathalie Veronica; Didden, Christiane; Haas, Andreas D.; Chinogurei, Chido; Cornell, Morna; Egger, Matthias; Maartens, Gary; Folb, Naomi; Rohner, Eliane (2024). Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Rates among Insured Men with and without HIV in South Africa: A Cohort Study. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 33, doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-24-0137