HEAL-OH: Meet the Author (Episode 2)

In the second of our Meet the Author interviews, the HEAL-Oral Health Research Network spoke with Sreenath Madathil, co-author of the recently published paper Oral Health—Head and Neck Cancers: Addressing Confounding Through Negative Control and Quantitative Bias Analyses, to provide insight into the inspiration behind this paper and how negative controls and quantitative bias analyses can strengthen research on oral health and head and neck cancers.

Watch the conversation below (~9 minutes) and read the publication here.

P. K. Elango, B. Nicolau, N. Farsi, A. V. Grant, M. C. Rousseau, and S. Madathil, “Oral Health—Head and Neck Cancers: Addressing Confounding Through Negative Control and Quantitative Bias Analyses,” Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 54, no. 3 (2026): 347–353, https://doi.org/10.1111/cdoe.70046.