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If you have a question about this list, please contact: fsc22. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 3 upcoming talks and 612 talks in the archive. MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Multi-state modelling to estimate infectious disease burden"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpf-6gpjkvHNaHjyzJDmLJi7vIrRb-STIQ Peter Kirwan, MRC Biostatistics Unit. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 05 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkf-ysqDgqG9W5MbRoGxq5re7R9XadbBBd Ida Scheel, University of Oslo. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 22 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Bayesian latent multi-state modelling for longitudinal health trajectories"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqcuutqTkoG9R7enI9iOHBr61dOjW5BTKl Yu Luo, Kings College London. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 15 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Bayesian nonparametric spectral analysis of multivariate time series"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrdOmpqzMuHNHNuAnIvofAmb7HOCQIQwzW Renate Meyer, University of Aukland. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 27 August 2024, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "A Bayesian framework for incorporating exposure uncertainty into health analyses with application to air pollution and stillbirth"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/22b7f255-8f6c-4dce-9c83-36281a3261bf@513def5b-df17-4107-b552-3dba009e5990 Joshua Warren, Yale School of Public Health. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 18 June 2024, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "The Topological Properties of the Protein Universe"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/93edb3b5-eb5d-4d19-b30b-1526233e3c17@513def5b-df17-4107-b552-3dba009e5990 Christian Madsen, University of Melbourne. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Thursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Making predictions under intervention to avoid causal blind spots in treatment decisions"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7045e477-b689-46bc-9ec3-fe1ed827a158@513def5b-df17-4107-b552-3dba009e5990 Prof Niels Peek, THIS Institute, University of Cambridge. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 21 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Population nutrition: upstream/downstreamSpeaker to be confirmed. Wednesday 15 May 2024, 13:15-14:15 Bradford Hill seminar - Is perfection the enemy of good? Challenges and opportunities for building the evidence-base to inform sexual and reproductive health policy and practiceProfessor Cath Mercer, UCL Institute for Global Health. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Wednesday 15 May 2024, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Bayesian behavioural-change epidemic models: is your population alarmed?”This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vceqsqDwtHNLalYuBk7GmojclSXN5wIcE Rob Deardon, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Calgary. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Using Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data to Investigate the Causal Effect of Salvage Therapy after Prostatectomy"This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclceGorT0qE9YE3YCcRSFhCPPH_6ZNFPgh Dimitris Rizopoulos, Professor of Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam. Tuesday 12 March 2024, 12:00-13:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Uncertainty Quantification in the Digital Medicine Era"This will be a free hybrid event. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsduitrTotGNZxFmtFPPAx6Jh2LZfCYbV3 Marcos Matabuena, Harvard University . MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 Bradford Hill Seminar - Social justice and health equityProfessor Sir Michael Marmot, Institute of Health Equity and UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health. Wednesday 28 February 2024, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Statistical modelling for state-of-the-art gene editing experiments"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqdOmqqzsuE9HyOT32ptW3DZiTCmkZT-3X#/registration Magdalena Strauss, European Bioinformatics Institute . MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 20 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYocuCvpjotHNQoiEBwivER-WSnaKd-IlFw Ida Scheel, University of Oslo. Tuesday 13 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Semiparametric posterior corrections"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqd-quqjkiHtRsIwSM3Sec0QFfHrtRftXa Andrew Yiu, University of Oxford. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 30 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Causal machine learning for biomarker subgroup discovery in randomised trials".This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rf-qppzwsEtEisA_2ZCkA3KoJ3d53uW1P Paul Newcombe, GlaxoSmithKline. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 23 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Hyper-Localization and Predictive Modeling of Rapid Lung Function Decline in Cystic Fibrosis"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qdOyurDkjHdO0RzdaqWctUrYMks1YPvY1 Rhonda Szczesniak and Emrah Gecili, both from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 12 December 2023, 14:00-15:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar - Air pollution and health in the 21st CenturyDr Gary Fuller, Imperial College London. Wednesday 06 December 2023, 12:00-13:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Unravelling the mechanisms and decision-making logic of biological systems"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtdOisrTosGNIMVJIXmGuq2X_so_tpo7s6 Giorgos Minas, St Andrew's University. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 05 December 2023, 14:00-15:00 Bradford Hill Seminar – What are the Policy Levers for Impact on Health and Sustainability?Professor Jeremy A. Lauer, University of Strathclyde. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Wednesday 22 November 2023, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "A new frequentist implementation of the Daniels and Hughes bivariate meta-analysis model for surrogate outcomes"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcuuurzIuGtEUj6y8h6vKpM1Krt5hj60L Dan Jackson, AstraZeneca. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Harnessing Extra Randomness: Replicability, Flexibility and Causality"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAofuihqzgvHNyG24AgAAytgHlr1nmpetpx Richard Guo, Stas Lab, University of Cambridge. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 We need to talk about the workers: researching the health and social care workforceAnnual Lecture, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research (CCHSR) Jill Manthorpe CBE, Professor Emerita, King’s Policy Institute, King’s College London. Tuesday 14 November 2023, 12:30-13:30 Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series Is NHST a QRP?Null Hypothesis Significance Testing should, in some scientific fields, be regarded as a questionable research practice perpetrated by the scientific community as a whole. Professor Alexander Bird. Heart and Lung Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Thursday 26 October 2023, 13:00-14:00 Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series Measuring mobility outside the laboratory with digital health technology: are we there yet?https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89965171767?pwd=RlJSUCtaVHlPL0laTzM2VzB6d1V6UT09 Silvia Del Din, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle Univerisity. Computer Lab, FW11 and Online (zoom link on this page). Tuesday 24 October 2023, 16:00-17:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Dynamic survival analysis: modelling the hazard function via ordinary differential equations"This will be a free hybrid event. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlce-spjIqHdQ4PYgBuSHSUSDRmLBAJQ5n Dr F. Javier Rubio, University College London. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series Using wearable-derived cardiac signals to predict cardiovascular eventshttps://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89965171767?pwd=RlJSUCtaVHlPL0laTzM2VzB6d1V6UT09 Michele Orini, Institute of Healthcare Engineering, UCL. Computer Lab, FW11 and Online. Tuesday 17 October 2023, 16:00-17:00 Bradford Hill seminar - Tweeting through the storm: how to use social media during a pandemicMeaghan Kall, UK Health Security Agency. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Wednesday 11 October 2023, 13:00-14:00 External Seminars from the IMS-MRL (Institute of Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Laboratories) Obesity-related alterations in beta-cell function and heterogeneity of metabolic function in obesity and in response to weight lossProfessor Bettina Mittendorfer, Division of Geriatrics & Nutritional Science, Washington University, USA. Tuesday 10 October 2023, 13:15-14:15 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Precision approaches to improving obesity prevention in Queensland, AustraliaDr Oliver Canfell, University of Queensland. Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Bradford Hill Seminar – Tackling Bias and Inequities in Health and Genomic DataDr Maxine Mackintosh, Genomics England. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Wednesday 04 October 2023, 13:00-14:00 Bradford Hill Seminar – Tackling Bias and Inequities in Health and Genomic DataDr Maxine Mackintosh, Genomics England. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Wednesday 04 October 2023, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Some advances and applications of robust gradient-based Markov chain Monte Carlo'This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsdOypqTwrH9LeiEEIL8dXxO_IpOC8lVMS Sam Livingstone, University College London. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 03 October 2023, 15:00-16:00 External Seminars from the IMS-MRL (Institute of Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Laboratories) Uncovering Novel GPCR Pathways for the Treatment of Obesity and Type 2 DiabetesProfessor Zach Gerhart-Hines, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen. Tuesday 03 October 2023, 13:15-14:15 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Independent and Joint Effects of Multiple Pollutants and their Interactions with Meteorological Variables on Stroke HospitalizationLei Li, Huazhong University of Science, China. Wednesday 27 September 2023, 12:30-13:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Do boutique cohort studies have a role in diabetes epidemiology?Professor Timothy Davis, University of Western Australia. Tuesday 12 September 2023, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar - Diet-gut microbiome interaction for type 2 diabetesJu-Sheng Zheng, Westlake University, China. Thursday 06 July 2023, 13:00-14:00 Postponed - Bradford Hill Seminar – Tweeting through the storm: how to use social media during a pandemicMeaghan Kall, UK Health Security Agency. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Wednesday 28 June 2023, 13:00-14:00 Bradford Hill Seminar – Tweeting through the storm: how to use social media during a pandemicMeaghan Kall, UK Health Security Agency. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Wednesday 28 June 2023, 13:00-14:00 General Practice in Crisis: is there a positive future? IN-PERSONCambridge Centre for Health Services Research "In Conversation" Professor Martin Marshall CBE, Chair of the Nuffield Trust, Emeritus Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL, Board member at Royal Devon University Foundation Trust. Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College. Thursday 22 June 2023, 18:00-19:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian analysis of diffusion-driven multi-type epidemic models with application to COVID-19'This will be an online seminar. To register to attend, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ocO6qrTsiH9V3mlmvd_EOYT1sTBOKOmUZ Dr Lampros Bouranis, Athens University of Economics and Business. Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-15:00 Bradford Hill Seminar – Tackling Bias and Inequities in Health and Genomic DataDr Maxine Mackintosh, Genomics England. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Modelling the response to vaccine in non-human primates to define SARS-CoV-2 mechanistic correlates of protection'This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-usqDovGdf1TbAtYgsGCRJmoz0Hmbfi Mélanie Prague, Inria, University of Bordeaux. Tuesday 23 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – UPF: a need for clarification to enhance public health policiesDr Zoé Colombet, University of Liverpool. Monday 15 May 2023, 11:00-12:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Agent based Modelling for Urban Health Impact AssessmentTabea Sonnenschein, University of Utrecht. Friday 12 May 2023, 09:00-10:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Covariate Adjustment in Randomized Experiments with Incomplete Covariate and Outcome Data'Prof Fan Li, Duke University . Tuesday 18 April 2023, 14:00-15:00 Bradford Hill Seminar – Driving sustainable improvements in patient outcomes through point of care patient outcome measurement and clinical benchmarkingProfessor Kathy Eagar, Australian Health Services Research Institute. Wednesday 29 March 2023, 09:00-10:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Physical Activity research: strengthening ties between Brazil and the United KingdomDr Samuel Dumith, Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil. Monday 20 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Obesity Prevention: The role of evidence in the policy cycleDr Tazeem Bhatia, Office of Health Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health and Social Care. Monday 13 March 2023, 12:00-13:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Methods for Bayesian optimal design of experiments, with application in biological science’This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrd-uoqjMiGN3f68WQc7zJQ7LmM4sZa2rx Prof Dave Woods, University of Southampton. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 07 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian Covariance Structure Modelling of Clinical Trial Data'This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpf-uvrDMiGtLpMKemoVfOPmiD91Ju0-Xq Stef Baas, University of Twente. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar - Diabetes No More: lessons from the DiRECT trial and beyond - Professor Mike LeanProfessor Mike Lean, University of Glasgow. Monday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine TALK CANCELLEDProf Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Cancer Institute. Cancelled - apologies for any inconvenience caused. Thursday 16 February 2023, 09:30-10:30 Bradford Hill Seminar - Social justice and health equity – Professor Sir Michael MarmotProfessor Sir Michael Marmot, Institute of Health Equity. Wednesday 15 February 2023, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'From Data to Decisions: Causal Inference Motivated by Policy Questions'This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwodOytqjItGNL_he9tZXSxmdT7KTWWQRgF Prof Mats Stensrud, EPFL. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Phases of research for statistical methods’This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtd--hrzItHtTIezm0p763Lsc95VI0Q254 Dr Tim Morris, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 31 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine The development of cancer risk prediction models and their applications to prevention and early detectionProf Antonis Antoniou, Dept of Public Health and Primary Care. William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine. Thursday 26 January 2023, 09:30-10:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Detecting National, Regional and Global Changes in Terror Activity'This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtf-iqrjoiGd3egbADJAIx6u477THr4Et9 Dr Sam Tickle, University of Bristol. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 24 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different speciesHost - Richard Durbin Professor Steve Horvath from Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA . Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom. Thursday 12 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Statistical approaches for differential analyses on transcriptomics data"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkfuivpj0jEta0t6wA4iKlz8YOaojvNwdt Dr Simone Tiberi, Universita di Bologna. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 10 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: 'Double soft-thresholded model for multi-group scalar on vector-valued image regression'This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucOmvrj4pHd3vnOm5ReIZ1wmXR9x-xC1z Prof Arkaprava Roy, University of Florida. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Friday 16 December 2022, 14:00-15:00 Learning About Long COVID from Patients: The Power of Narrative EvidenceSpeaker to be confirmed. Wednesday 07 December 2022, 13:00-14:00 Learning About Long COVID from Patients: The Power of Narrative EvidenceSpeaker to be confirmed. Wednesday 07 December 2022, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar - Realising the health potential through sustainable built environment designsDr Ronita Bardhan, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge. Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:00-16:00 Bradford Hill Seminar – Designing efficient clinical trials during a pandemicSpeaker to be confirmed. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:00 The potentials and pitfalls of digital healthcare in the 21st CenturyCCHSR Annual Lecture 2022 Professor Jonathan Benger CBE MD FRCS FRCEM, interim Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) for NHS England. Wednesday 23 November 2022, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Using Electronic Health Records for Scientific Research: Promises and Perils”This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctduyqrjgsEtYxJkz-fTWdzMmjL7qFrnAC Professor Bhramar Mukherjee, John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "The HealthGap study: Using linked administrative data to understand cardiovascular health of Indigenous people living in Victoria, Australia"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpc-qtqD4iHtMcJUj5fiD4uVwRqMWP4XkI Dr Karen Lamb, University of Melbourne. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 15 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Derivative-Based Neural Modelling of Cumulative Distribution Functions for Survival Analysis"This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdu6gpjgrHd1yp38Mi3xQxgCg_5BOQThO Prof Christopher Yau, University of Oxford . Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Moving beyond one-size-fits-all: Exploring patterns of physical activity and sedentary behaviour across the lifespanDr Gregore Mielke, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland. Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Making all pairwise comparisons in multi-arm clinical trials without control treatment"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlc-Grrj0vHNCSqPPY92EKkTJG5Xjm5yhY Dr Thomas Burnett, University of Bath. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain is BuiltProfessor Bill Harris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosciences, University of Cambridge. Register on Zoom - link in abstract. Tuesday 18 October 2022, 16:00-17:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual BSU Seminar: "Variable Selection and Prioritization in Bayesian Machine Learning Methods"This will be a free virtual seminar. To register, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc--rrT8qGNMFApbQ8304Icj6vW4CDcFo Lorin Crawford, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Brown University . Tuesday 18 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) CSAR lecture - Where do we do go next with antimicrobial resistance?Prof. Stephen Baker, Cambridge Inst. for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease. Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom. Monday 17 October 2022, 19:30-21:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Genome-wide genetic models for association, heritability analyses and prediction"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpcuipqTMuGtP_pIJrVQDLQGbP3ndqAh-N David Balding, Honorary Professor of Statistical Genetics at UCL Genetics Institute and University of Melbourne. Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP. Monday 22 August 2022, 15:30-16:30 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series Integrating Genomics and Multi-omics at Population Scale for Disease InsightsTGM126 - Cambridge Mathematics of Information in Healthcare Hub (CMIH) - Academic Engagement Event Adam Butterworth (University of Cambridge). Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Tuesday 26 July 2022, 16:15-16:45 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Challenges in risk prediction using routinely collected health data"This will be a free online seminar. To register, click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdOupqDspHtK1D30gXlBykdbIvLV8DMdH Dr Elizabeth Williamson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . Thursday 14 July 2022, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Design and Inference for Enrichment Trials with a Continuous Biomarker"This will be a hybrid seminar. If you would like to attend virtually, please register for free here - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErduCprzwiEtQhPshDBMXcqhwlvdZtp_IP Prof William Rosenberger, George Mason University. Seminar Room 12, School of Clinical Medicine, Hills Rd, Cambridge CB2 0SP. Tuesday 05 July 2022, 14:00-15:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar - Using time use and trajectory data to unpack the interrelated geographies of food, care, and household laborDr Michael Widener, University of Toronto. Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Historical and contemporary perspectives of the nutrition transitionDr Cornelia Guell, University of Exeter. Thursday 16 June 2022, 12:00-13:00 'Ethno-Science': Recent reflections on bioprospecting | gloknos Research GroupSpeaker to be confirmed. Wednesday 15 June 2022, 15:00-16:00 Title: Travelling Communities: Challenging MisconceptionsPresenter: Dr Kathryn Dixon. Zoom. Wednesday 15 June 2022, 13:30-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Optimising the discovery and development of gene silencing drugs with genetics and genomics”This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudeGqrDgpH9w6XLGADT0ZoJB-ARc5EdD0 Dan Swerdlow, Silence Therapeutics . Tuesday 14 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 "Welfare Now"Attendance is free, but registration via Eventbrite is essential: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/welfare-now-with-prof-cass-r-sunstein-tickets-329641375227 Prof Cass R Sunstein, Harvard Law School. Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College, Cambridge . Wednesday 08 June 2022, 17:00-18:30 Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of AutismProfessor Simon Baron Cohen, Department of Psychiatry. Register on Zoom - link in abstract. Tuesday 07 June 2022, 16:00-17:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Virtual Seminar: “Group Testing in Structured and Dynamic Networks”This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85960970204?pwd=dnVyWUFTSkM1bjJkWGMvc0ViLzA2Zz09 Batuhan Arasli, University of Maryland. Thursday 19 May 2022, 15:00-16:00 The future of cancer screening: stratified, pan, both or neither?Professor Peter Sasieni, King’s Clinical Trials Unit, King’s College London. Wednesday 11 May 2022, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Optimal design of First in Human trials via dynamic programming”This will be a hybrid seminar. If you would like to participate virtually, please register using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvf-qgrTwrHNMDOZ_UZNN7h-wCbi90t9bA Dr Lizzi Pitt, University of Bath. Seminar Room 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital. Tuesday 10 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks Assisting in the response to the COVID19 pandemic using internet data, Dr Elad Yom-Tov - MSR Cambridge, Lecture SeriesPlease note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required Dr Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft Research. Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB. Monday 09 May 2022, 11:00-12:00 CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series Consumer Healthcare - Finding Research that Changes the WorldTalk is presented in person at CGC Seminar room or online, register for online access at: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/88168435422 Tom Watt, Claudia Maw, Philip James. GSK Consumer Healthcare. Wednesday 04 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 Developments in Photoplethysmography Clinical applications of photoplethysmographyJohn Allen, Coventry University; Panicos Kyriacou, City University of London. Online - see registration link. Thursday 28 April 2022, 14:00-15:00 Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars Brain and behavioural impacts of early life adversityProfessor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychology/Psychiatry. Register on Zoom - link in abstract. Tuesday 26 April 2022, 16:00-17:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Sparse Hamiltonian Flows (or: Bayesian Coresets Without all the Fuss)"This will be a virtual seminar. FREE registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rc-2vpz4qHNxdJ4Cm4hyLEn4BVOG5YcIt Prof Trevor Campbell, The University of British Columbia . Tuesday 26 April 2022, 14:00-15:00 Giving Voice to Digital Democracies Children and artificial intelligence: risks, opportunities and the futurehttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/children-and-artificial-intelligence-risks-opportunities-and-the-future-tickets-266694980867 Speaker to be confirmed. Zoom. Monday 25 April 2022, 13:30-17:15 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series Impacts of Socio-economic Determinants of Coronavirus: Lessons Learned and Future Resilience for UK Policy/HealthTGM119 - Socio-Economic Determinants of Coronavirus in the UK Jeanelle de Gruchy (Department of Health and Social Care). Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute. Tuesday 05 April 2022, 15:15-15:45 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series Talk 7 - The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health InequalitiesTGM119 - Socio-Economic Determinants of Coronavirus in the UK Clare Bambra (Newcastle University). Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute. Tuesday 05 April 2022, 14:45-15:15 Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series The UKHSA/University of Cambridge Real-time Pandemic Modelling ProjectTGM117 - Epidemic Models: Insights from the RAMP Project Paul Birrell (UK Health Security Agency). Thursday 24 March 2022, 14:15-14:45 Centre for Science and Policy Lectures & Seminars Democracy and Distrust after the PandemicProfessor Sheila Jasanoff. Main Lecture Theatre, Divinity School, St John’s College. Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-19:30 Conferences on Classical Architecture Architecture and Spaces of HealingDowning College, Cambridge. The Howard Building, Downing College. Thursday 10 March 2022, 12:00-19:00 Epidemiology and control of COVID-19 in Hong KongProfessor Benjamin Cowling, School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong. Wednesday 23 February 2022, 13:00-14:00 Neighbourhood Disadvantage, Everyday Urban Mobility, and Well-BeingProfessor Robert J Sampson, Harvard University. Wednesday 16 February 2022, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual BSU Seminar: "A flexible sensitivity analysis for sample selection bias"This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-seminar-dr-matt-tudball-tickets-251838374357 Matt Tudball, University of Bristol. Thursday 10 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual BSU Seminar: "Using Variational Bayes for fast inference in large longitudinal datasets”This will be a free virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-virtual-seminar-dr-david-hughes-tickets-242962345917 Dr David Hughes, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool. Tuesday 01 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Using administrative data linkage to create electronic birth cohorts: opportunities and challengesDr Katie Harron, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. Tuesday 07 December 2021, 12:00-13:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU virtual seminar: "Assessing batch effects and their implications in single cell RNA sequencing experiments"This will be a virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for the joining information. Prof Sarah Langley, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU, Singapore. Tuesday 23 November 2021, 12:00-13:00 Universal NHS healthcare: has the pandemic changed the promise?CCHSR Annual Lecture 2021 Charlotte Augst, Chief Executive, National Voices . Thursday 18 November 2021, 12:30-13:30 Cambridge Philosophical Society Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-sir-david-spiegelhalter-frs-obe-tickets-188164062777 Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication. Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Wednesday 03 November 2021, 18:30-19:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual BSU seminar: "NanoSplicer: Accurate identification of splice junctions using Oxford Nanopore sequencing"This will be a online seminar. You can register for free at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-seminar-dr-heejung-shim-tickets-198278104147 Dr Heejung Shim, Melbourne Integrative Genomics (MIG), University of Melbourne. Tuesday 02 November 2021, 10:00-11:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual BSU Seminar: “Methodological Advances in Risk Prediction"This will be a virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for the joining information. Dr Glen Martin, University of Manchester. Friday 22 October 2021, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Virtual Seminar: “Estimating treatment effects from adaptive clinical trials”If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Prof Ian Marschner, University of Sydney. Tuesday 14 September 2021, 09:30-10:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Policymaking: why it matters to us, how it works, what to doDolly Theis (MRC Epidemiology Unit), Dr Kelly Parsons (University Of Hertfordshire) & Dame Una O’Brien (Independent advisor and expert on health policy). Monday 19 July 2021, 12:00-13:15 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Policymaking: why it matters to us, how it works, what to doDolly Theis (MRC Epidemiology Unit), Dr Kelly Parsons (University Of Hertfordshire) & Dame Una O’Brien (Independent advisor and expert on health policy). Monday 19 July 2021, 12:00-13:15 Mentalising, Epistemic Trust and Attachment: Changing Theories and their Practice ImplicationsBook Launch: Robbie Duschinsky and Sarah Foster's 'Mentalising and Epistemic Trust: The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre.' Chair: Dr Dickon Bevington, Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the NHS, and Medical Director for Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. Thursday 15 July 2021, 18:00-19:00 Research Ecosystems, Cognitive Bias and IncentivesThis webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required. Prof. Marcus Munafò; MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol . Wednesday 30 June 2021, 15:00-16:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Confidence intervals for policy evaluation in adaptive experiments’If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Dr Vitor Hadad, Stanford University. Thursday 27 May 2021, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual Seminar: 'Probabilistic models of transcriptomic dysregulation in human genetic disease'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Prof David Knowles, Columbia University. Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual Seminar: 'Adapting Real-World Experimentation To Balance Enhancement of User Experiences with Statistically Robust Scientific Discovery'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Professor Joseph Jay Williams, University of Toronto . Thursday 13 May 2021, 14:00-15:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Integrating diverse data sets to improve causal inferenceProfessor Judith Green, University of Exeter.. Wednesday 05 May 2021, 11:00-12:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual Seminar: 'Statistical Inference with M-Estimators on Bandit Data’If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Kelly Zhang, Harvard University. Thursday 29 April 2021, 14:00-15:00 The biology of CNS progenitor ageingThis webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required. Prof. Robin Franklin; Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell institute, University of Cambridge, UK. Wednesday 21 April 2021, 15:00-16:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual Seminar: 'Bayesian pyramids: Identifying interpretable deep structure underlying high-dimensional data’If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Professor David Dunson, Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University, USA. Wednesday 31 March 2021, 14:00-15:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars From a pragmatic weight management intervention to bariatric surgeryDr Helen Parretti, University of East Anglia.. Tuesday 23 March 2021, 11:00-12:00 Cambridge Philosophical Society Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana FrukYouTube Lecture available online now Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Youtube https://youtu.be/e_AZzwsLbfw. Tuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:00 Bennett Institute for Public Policy Levelling up after Covid: the value of social infrastructureSpeaker to be confirmed. Monday 01 March 2021, 17:30-19:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Virtual Seminar: 'A Simulation-Free Approach To Assessing the Performance of the Continual Reassessment Method'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Professor Thomas Braun, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA. Tuesday 23 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series Happiness in the brain: A computational and neural model for mood dynamicschair: Prof Paul Fletcher Dr Robb Rutledge, Yale University. Thursday 14 January 2021, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual Seminar: ‘The DURATIONS design: a practical trial design to optimise treatment duration’If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Dr Matteo Quartagno, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, UCL. Tuesday 15 December 2020, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual Seminar: 'PROGRESS in sample size calculations for clinical prediction model research'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Professor Richard Riley, Centre for Prognosis Research, School of Medicine, Keele University. Tuesday 08 December 2020, 14:00-15:00 The COVID-19 pandemic: Impact on thinking and practice in some key sectors going forward COVID-19 and its influence on knowledge, skills and healthPlease register via https://www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/hhevents/the-covid19-pandemic-impact-on-thinking-and-practice-in-some-key-sectors-26-nov/ Professor Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry; Dr Caroline Trotter, Departments of Veterinary Medicine and Pathology; Professor Paul Tracey, Judge Business School; Professor Ricardo Sabates Aysa, Faculty of Education. Thursday 26 November 2020, 18:00-19:30 Zoology Departmental Seminar Series Who moves the Dial on Diversity and Inclusion?Professor Dame Sandra Dawson. Wednesday 25 November 2020, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual Seminar: ‘Score driven modeling of spatio-temporal data’If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Alessandra Luati, University of Bologna . Thursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 Closing the survival gap: The importance of screening and early diagnosis in improving cancer survival in EnglandCCHSR Annual Lecture Professor Sir Mike Richards. Thursday 12 November 2020, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual Seminar: 'Using auxiliary variables in mediation analysis to address unmeasured confounding'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Professor Richard Emsley, NIHR Research Professor, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. Tuesday 10 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Stochastic treatment interventions in causal survival analysis'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Dr Lan Wen, Harvard University . Tuesday 13 October 2020, 14:00-15:00 “Misinformation, pseudoscience and the unhealthy commodity industries”Professor Mark Petticrew, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Thursday 01 October 2020, 11:00-12:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Assumption-lean inference for generalised linear model parameters'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Prof Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University . Thursday 24 September 2020, 14:00-15:00 Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series What should we do to prevent dementia?chair: Prof John O'Brien Professor Gill Livingston, Division of Psychiatry, University College London . Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow. Thursday 24 September 2020, 12:30-13:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Health as an asset: estimating the causal effects of health conditions and health behaviours on social and economic outcomes using Mendelian randomizationThis seminar will be broadcast live online, please register in advance for this meeting: https://mrc-epid.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckcu6vqTwoHdNAY3h7JqDyxMYglX6JTQuT Dr Laura Howe, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol. Tuesday 15 September 2020, 11:00-12:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Gestational Diabetes: a nutritional disorder?Dr Claire Meek, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, UK.. Monday 22 June 2020, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Parameterizing Causal Marginal Models'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Prof Robin Evans, University of Oxford. Tuesday 16 June 2020, 14:00-15:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar - The Greek National Survey on Health and Nutrition (the HYDRIA Project)Dr Elissavet Valanou, European Food Risk Assessment (EU-FORA) Fellow, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.. Tuesday 09 June 2020, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual Seminar: “Delayed-acceptance Sequential Monte Carlo”If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Joshua Bon, Queensland University of Technology. Thursday 21 May 2020, 10:00-11:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Movement behaviours and cognitive development in early childhood: Evidence, insights and interventions from South AfricaDr Catherine Draper, MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand.. Wednesday 13 May 2020, 11:30-12:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Systems approaches to obesity: The lived experience of young peopleDr Wendy Wills, Professor of Food and Public Health, Director of the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care.. Wednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars The Challenges of Meta-analysing Metabolomics Data; Experiences from the Consortium Of METabolomics Studies (COMETS).Dr Rachel Kelly, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA.. Thursday 23 April 2020, 11:00-12:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Virtual Seminar: “Including expert knowledge in genomic selection through intuitive tree-based joint priors”Ingeborg Hem, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Thursday 16 April 2020, 14:00-15:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Movement behaviours and parenting in the first two years of lifeDr Alessandra Prioreschi, Associate Director of the SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand.. Thursday 16 April 2020, 11:00-12:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – How does it work? Using process tracing methods to study policy processesProfessor Derek Beach, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.. Wednesday 08 April 2020, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Introducing the Propensity to Cycle Tool and explaining the new health impact calculation methodsDr Anna Goodman, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Dr Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster, London.. Wednesday 01 April 2020, 11:00-12:00 CANCELLED: How perspectives from social sciences can help address practical questions of healthcare improvementSeminar from Applied Social Science Group, PCU Dr Alex Gillespie, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics, and Dr Mary Adams, Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London. Tuesday 24 March 2020, 14:00-16:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Healthy Cities from the Bottom Up: A Human-centred Approach to Urban and Transport PlanningDr Andy Hong, Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford.. Wednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30 CANCELLED: Rethinking MedicineAnnual GP Lecture organised by Cambridge General Practice Education Group. PLEASE BOOK Dr Martin Marshall Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL, Improvement Science London and Chair-elect of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Tuesday 17 March 2020, 18:00-19:30 Paediatric Genomics - what have we learnt so far?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Brian H. Y. Chung, Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Paediatrics, Hong Kong University. Friday 13 March 2020, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – How does it work? Using process tracing methods to study policy processesProfessor Derek Beach, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.. Thursday 12 March 2020, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars “Squeezing the most out of ridge”Professor Mark van de Wiel, Amsterdam University Medical Center. Tuesday 03 March 2020, 14:00-15:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Applications of geospatial data and methods in environmental epidemiologyS.M. Labib, Department of Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), University of Manchester.. Thursday 20 February 2020, 12:00-13:00 Creating policy impact International lessons from science and healthSpeaker to be confirmed. McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College. Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:30-19:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Assessing the impacts of the introduction of South Africa’s tax on sugar-sweetened beveragesNicholas Stacey, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science & SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand. Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00 Recent insights into drug resistant Shigella: a major contributor to the global diarrhoeal disease burdenBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Stephen Baker, Professor of molecular microbiology, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease . Friday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:00 How can your research influence policy? Event for Post-Docs & Early Career ResearchersProf Jonathan Mant, Dr Clare Oliver-Williams, Dr Sarah Gentry & Caitlin Grant . School of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre 2. Monday 13 January 2020, 12:00-14:00 Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series Food for health - food for thoughtchair: Dr Graham Murray Professor Nita Forouhi, Programme Leader of the Nutritional Epidemiology programme, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.. West Forvie Building Seminar Room, Forvie Site.. Thursday 05 December 2019, 12:30-13:30 Big data and small talk: why we need bothBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Prof. Nick Steel, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia. Friday 29 November 2019, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar - Community engagement to prevent and control of diabetes in Bangladesh - Dr Ed FottrellDr Ed Fottrell, Director, UCL Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 20 November 2019, 12:30-13:30 Cancer Screening and Prevention: Lessons LearnedBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Mette Kalager, University of Oslo. Friday 08 November 2019, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Politics, policy and the absence of evidence: decision making about speed restrictions in Edinburgh and Belfast.Professor Mike Kelly, Primary Care Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 06 November 2019, 12:30-13:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Transforming Healthcare through Prevention - Ageing Well on a national scale: achieving the balance between fitness and frailtyRegister for free for this talk at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transforming-healthcare-through-prevention-ageing-well-on-national-scale-tickets-74871840691 Professor Martin Vernon, MA, FRCP : NHS England National Clinical Director for Older People and Person Centred Integrated Care, Chair of the NHS England Hospital to Home Programme Board. Lee Hall, Wolfson College, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB. Wednesday 30 October 2019, 18:00-19:15 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Nutritional Psychiatry: recent advances in evidence for diet and nutrition for mental and brain healthProfessor Felice N Jacka, Food & Mood Centre, Deakin University, Australia.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 16 October 2019, 12:30-13:30 Behaviour Change by Design Annual Lecture 2019: Why Don’t We Stick with Behaviour Change?Wendy Wood, Provost Professor of Psychology and Business, University of Southern California. Howard Theatre, Downing College. Thursday 26 September 2019, 18:00-19:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Overview of Road Safety GloballyDr Kavi Bhalla, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences of the Biological Sciences Division & Faculty at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 18 September 2019, 12:30-13:30 Mental Health Without Well-beingOrganised by the Applied Social Science Group at the Primary Care Unit Anna Alexandrova Reader in Philosophy of Science, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Univ of Cambridge. Clinical School, Seminar Room 10. Monday 08 July 2019, 14:45-15:45 Perioperative Communication and Decision Making: A social science perspectiveProfessor Lee Fleisher, Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania. Small Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 02 July 2019, 12:00-13:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Responding to Revolution; Utilising new methods to explore the relationship between transport, health and urban designDr Jason Thompson, University of Melbourne, Transport, Health and Urban Design Research Hub.. Thursday 27 June 2019, 12:30-13:30 Governance or government? How should researchers understand the policy process?Professor Michael Kenny, Bennett Institute for Public Policy. Friday 07 June 2019, 13:00-14:00 HE@Cam: Michael Laxy - Implementing lifestyle intervention to prevent diabetes in US Medicaid beneficiaries: cost-effectiveness, budgetary impact and health equity impactMichael Laxy. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge. Monday 20 May 2019, 15:00-16:00 Cambridge ESRC DTP Annual Lecture Cambridge ESRC DTP Annual Lecture 2019 - The ‘HAVES’ and the ‘HAVE YACHTS’Professor Roger Burrows, Professor of Cities at Newcastle University. Faculty of Law, Room LG19, Sidgwick Site. Tuesday 07 May 2019, 17:30-18:30 Surveillance, Detection and Response to Emerging International Health Emergencies: the Role of the World Health OrganizationDr Oliver Morgan, World Health Organisation . Friday 03 May 2019, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Building Representative Matched Samples with Multi-valued Treatments in Large Observational Studies”Professor Jose Zubizarreta, Harvard University. Thursday 11 April 2019, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Information theory in dose-finding trials"Prof. Thomas Jaki, Lancaster University. Monday 08 April 2019, 15:00-16:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Flavio Toxvaerd, Faculty of Economics, University of CambridgeDr Flavio Toxvaerd, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Thursday 21 March 2019, 11:00-12:00 ‘Deciding when to visit the GP with cancer symptoms: the Goldilocks Zone differs in England, Denmark and Sweden’Professor Sue Ziebland Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Monday 11 March 2019, 14:00-15:00 Public Engagement Activities around Patients’ Experiences within Institutions (Roundtable)Health, Medicine and Agency CRASSH Research Network Dr Elizabeth Fistein (Cambridge), Dr Jenny Crane (Wellcome Trust), Dr Janet Weston (LSHTM). Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT. Monday 04 March 2019, 17:00-19:00 Making evidence credible for public health policyDr Kathryn Oliver, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . Friday 01 March 2019, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Optimal Feature Selection using model-based Deep Reinforcement Learning”Dr Konstantina Pallas, Microsoft. Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Sample size considerations for the design clinical trials – quantifying the target difference and the target no-difference”Prof Steven Julious, University of Sheffield. Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 Patients, Expertise and New Markets (Roundtable)Health, Medicine and Agency CRASSH Research Network Dr Marcin Smietana (Cambridge), Professor Wendy Kline (Purdue College of Liberal Arts), Dr Charlotte Faircloth (UCL). Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT. Monday 18 February 2019, 17:00-19:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Longitudinal growth modeling: a tool for genetic discoveryDr Diana Cousminer, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Philadelphia. Seminar room 2, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, CB2 0SP. Friday 15 February 2019, 13:30-14:30 Prenatal Testing, Women and Risk: discussion with Dr Ilana Lowy on her new bookHealth, Medicine and Agency CRASSH Research Network Dr Ilana Löwy, Research Director, CERMES-3 and visiting Professor, King's College London. Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT. Monday 04 February 2019, 17:00-19:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Real life investigations of Sustainability Conundrums: Drawing together Human Behaviour and Living Lab approachesDr Amy Munro-Faure, Living Laboratory for Sustainability, University of Cambridge. Wednesday 30 January 2019, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Probabilistic approaches for optimal sequential feature acquisition"Dr Christopher Yau, University of Birmingham and The Alan Turing Institute. Monday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “How to obtain valid tests and confidence intervals for treatment effects after confounder selection”Dr Oliver Dukes, Ghent University . Tuesday 22 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 Patients as Consumers and the Personalisation of Medicine (Reading Group)Health, Medicine and Agency CRASSH Research Network Health, Medicine and Agency Reading Group. Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT. Monday 21 January 2019, 17:00-19:00 Engineering the patient-provider experienceDr Enid Montague, Associate Professor, College of Computing and Digital Media, DePaul University . Small Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 08 January 2019, 12:00-13:00 HE@Cam: Padraig Dixon - The causal effect of BMI on inpatient hospital costs: Mendelian Randomization analysis of the UK Biobank cohortDr Padraig Dixon, University of Bristol. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge. Monday 03 December 2018, 15:00-16:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Estimation in two-stage adaptive threshold enrichment clinical trials”Dr Peter Kimani, University of Warwick. Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:30-14:30 CCHSR Annual Lecture: Patient and public involvement in research: progress and challengesAttendance is free but advanced registration is required. Professor Trish Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0RE . Tuesday 20 November 2018, 18:00-19:00 Bradford Hill Seminar with Dr Richard Pebody - The puzzle of influenza – what can we do?Dr Richard Pebody, Head of Respiratory Diseases, Public Health England. Friday 16 November 2018, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Social Networks for Health Behaviour ChangeDr Ruth Hunter, Queen’s University Belfast.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 14 November 2018, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Unsupervised substructure discovery in mass spectrometry metabolomics data”Dr Simon Rogers, University of Glasgow. Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars CIPH Seminar – Improving access to primary care – evidence from a cluster feasibility trial using a realist perspectiveDr John Ford, NIHR Doctoral Fellow in Public Health, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia. Tuesday 06 November 2018, 13:00-14:00 HE@Cam: Peter Morten - New therapies, new methods: the use of novel survival analysis methods for I-O therapiesPeter Morten - Costello Medical. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge. Monday 05 November 2018, 15:00-16:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – The nexus between food literacy, food security and disadvantageProfessor Danielle Gallegos, Queensland University of Technology.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Monday 05 November 2018, 12:30-13:30 Bradford Hill Seminar with Professor Joan Morris - How safe are medicines used in pregnancy?Professor Joan Morris, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine. Friday 26 October 2018, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Can we promote physical activity at the population level? Findings from a community-based cluster randomised trial and a sport fandom-based app studyDr Masamitsu Kamada, University of Tokyo. Friday 19 October 2018, 11:00-12:00 PCU Twitter workshopFor members of the Primary Care Unit Isla Kuhn, Medical Librarian, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 09 October 2018, 12:30-14:00 Options and Opportunities for Health Data ScienceBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Andrew Morris, Farr Institute, Scotland. Friday 05 October 2018, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Statistical learning for drug screening in personalized cancer therapy”Manuela Zucknick, University of Oslo. Tuesday 02 October 2018, 15:30-16:30 Behaviour Change by Design Annual Lecture 2018Dr David Halpern, Chief Executive of the Behavioural Insight Team. The Howard Theatre, Downing College. Thursday 27 September 2018, 18:00-19:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Walking on sunshine: What is the evidence for the effects of walking on mental health?Dr Paul Kelly, University of Edinburgh, UK.. Wednesday 26 September 2018, 12:30-13:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar by Chris Holmes, Shift DesignChris Holmes, Shift Design. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Tuesday 24 July 2018, 12:30-13:30 Innovative Approaches for Improving Surgical QualityProfessor Justin Dimick, Professor of Surgery, University of Michigan. Lecture Theatre 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road. Thursday 19 July 2018, 16:30-17:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Using Gaussian processes to model branching dynamics from single-cell data" (provisional)Prof. Magnus Rattray, University of Manchester. Tuesday 17 July 2018, 14:30-15:30 "Redesigning primary care and implementing health system change: experiences in multiple global contexts"Charlotte Wu, Director of Adult Primary Care at the Boston Medical Center. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 10 July 2018, 14:00-15:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Evidence for healthy and equitable population food policiesDr Kathryn Backholer, Global Obesity Centre, Deakin University, Australia.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 20 June 2018, 12:30-13:30 Psychological Medicine in Global Health : research for impactBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Dr Melanie Abas, Kings College London. Friday 15 June 2018, 13:00-14:00 Cambridge ESRC DTP Annual Lecture Cambridge ESRC DTP Annual Lecture 2018 - Changing Behaviour: A case for closer links between Behavioural, Social and Political Sciences to tackle Obesity and Climate ChangePlease reserve your place at: https://esrc-dtp-annual-lecture-2018.eventbrite.co.uk Professor Theresa Marteau, Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit in the Clinical School at the University of Cambridge, and Director of Studies in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Institute of Criminology, Rooms B3 and B4, Sidgwick Site. Thursday 14 June 2018, 17:30-18:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Biomarker discovery through statistical signal processing and Bayesian modelling on large-scale quantitative proteomics data”Professor Andrew Dowsey, University of Bristol. Thursday 14 June 2018, 14:30-15:30 HE@Cam seminar: Christian Hill - Patient Access Scheme, Managed Access Agreement and their influence on the approval trends of new medicines, devices and diagnosticsChristian Hill - CEO, MAP Biopharma. Clinical School - Seminar room 10. Monday 11 June 2018, 15:00-16:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Mass spectrometry-based proteomics: challenges and opportunities"Dr Laurent Gatto, University of Cambridge . Thursday 07 June 2018, 14:30-15:30 Public Lecture: Development of social behaviour in children from infancy: neurobiological, relational and situational interactionsConvenor: St John’s College Reading Group on Health Inequalities Marinus H. van IJzendoorn & Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Leiden University, University of Cambridge. Old Divinity School, St John's College, St John's Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP. Friday 01 June 2018, 17:00-18:00 Comparative perspectives on social inequalities in life and death: an interdisciplinary conferenceThis conference is organised by St John’s College Reading Group on Health Inequalities Mike Kelly, Senior Visiting Fellow, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge; Tim Clutton-Brock, Director of Research and formerly Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Cambridge . Old Divinity School, St John's College, St John's Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP. Friday 01 June 2018, 10:00-16:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Optimal bootstrapping with dependent data"Prof Alastair Young, Imperial College London. Tuesday 29 May 2018, 14:30-15:30 The power of parenting supportBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Leiden University. Friday 18 May 2018, 13:00-14:00 Changing Behaviour to Improve Health: from Research to PolicyProfessor Dame Theresa Marteau ( Behaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge). The Howard Theatre, Downing College. Thursday 17 May 2018, 18:00-19:00 Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series The puzzle of adolescent depressionProfessor Shirley Reynolds, Professor of Evidence Based Psychological Therapies, University of Reading. Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site.. Thursday 17 May 2018, 12:30-13:30 HE@Cam Seminar: Tray Brown - Building a Discrete Event Simulation to Determine the Cost-Effectiveness of Treatments for Systemic Lupus ErythematosusTray Brown -Department of Public Health and Primary care. Monday 14 May 2018, 15:00-16:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Cox-process representation and inference for stochastic reaction-diffusion processes”Dr Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh. Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:30-15:30 Is Primary Care Research important, and can it be led by primary care?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Richard Hobbs, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford . Friday 04 May 2018, 13:00-14:00 Seminar: ‘Create powerful, crystal clear improvement work manuscripts using the 3 pillars of the SQUIRE Guidelines’Dr Louise Davies, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. Monday 30 April 2018, 12:00-13:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Exchangeable Random Measures for Sparse and Modular Graphs with Overlapping Communities”Prof. François Caron, University of Oxford. Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:30-15:30 HE@Cam Seminar: Anna Heath - Value of Sample Information as a Tool for Clinical Trial DesignAnna Heath, University College London. Monday 23 April 2018, 15:00-16:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Using fiscal policies to improve the food supply and demandAssociate Professor Shu Wen Ng, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thursday 12 April 2018, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Bayesian adaptive designs for Phase III trials”Dr. Liz Ryan, University of Warwick. Thursday 05 April 2018, 14:30-15:30 Childhood adversity and chronic disease: risks, mechanisms and resilienceANNUAL SYMPOSIUM, APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE GROUP over two evenings Greg Miller and Edith Chen, Northwestern University, USA. Old Divinity School, St John's College, St John's Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP. Thursday 29 March 2018, 17:00-19:00 Childhood adversity and chronic disease: risks, mechanisms and resilience.ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM, APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE GROUP over two evenings Greg Miller and Edith Chen, Northwestern University, USA. Old Divinity School, St John's College, St John's Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP. Wednesday 28 March 2018, 17:00-19:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, mothers, and fathersAssociate Professor Kaberi Dasgupta, McGill University and Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 14 March 2018, 12:30-13:30 Realising public health research priorities; whose priorities?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Bernie Hannigan, Public Health England. Friday 09 March 2018, 13:00-14:00 Not 'just a GP'GP Annual Lecture 2018 Professor David Haslam, Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Tuesday 06 March 2018, 18:00-19:00 Seminar: ‘Pathways to professionalism? Quality improvement, care pathways and the interplay of standardisation and clinical autonomy’No booking required Professor Graham Martin, Professor of Health Organisation and Policy, University of Leicester. Tuesday 06 March 2018, 12:00-13:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Why do policymakers seem to ignore your evidence?Professor Paul Cairney, Department of History and Politics, University of Stirling.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 21 February 2018, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Quasi Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods”Dr. Ben Calderhead, Imperial College London. Tuesday 20 February 2018, 14:30-15:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Epigenetics - Why DNA Is Not Your DestinyDr Nessa Carey, Imperial College, London. Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA. Monday 19 February 2018, 19:30-21:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – The Cambridge Sustainable Food HubDuncan Catchpole, founding committee member of Cambridge Sustainable Food. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 07 February 2018, 12:30-13:30 Local integrated prevention of childhood obesity: lessons from AmsterdamBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Jaap Seidell, VU University, Amsterdam . Friday 02 February 2018, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Tackling obesity in England: a policy journeyDr Alison Tedstone, Chief Nutritionist Public Health England. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 31 January 2018, 12:30-13:30 The challenges and opportunities of implementing RCTs in live social policy settingsSpeaker to be confirmed. Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT. Wednesday 31 January 2018, 11:00-12:00 Common missteps with quality improvement interventions (and how you can avoid them)Dr Kaveh Shojania, Editor-in-Chief, BMJ Quality & Safety. Clifford Albutt Lecture theatre, Clinical School. Wednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Pathways to healthy urban livingProfessor Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, ISGlobal, The Barcelona Institute for Global Health.. Tuesday 23 January 2018, 12:30-13:30 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) Building World Class Life Science Businesses – The Good, The Bad and The UglyDr. Jonathan Milner, Deputy Chairman, Abcam plc. The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. Monday 22 January 2018, 19:30-21:00 Realist Reviews of health interventions – dealing with complexity and contextBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Dr Geoffrey Wong, Clinical Research Fellow, University of Oxford. Friday 19 January 2018, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Implications of Brexit on the effectiveness of the UK soft drinks industry levy upon coronary heart disease in England: a modelling studyEvi Seferidi, Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London. Thursday 18 January 2018, 12:30-13:30 HE@Cam Seminar: John Buckell - Smokers’ cigarette choices and risk perceptions: Experimental evidence on US adultsJohn Buckell - Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University. Monday 15 January 2018, 15:00-16:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars The supermarket food environment and the promotion of healthier purchasing behaviourDr Adrian Cameron, Senior Research Fellow at the Deakin University Global Global Obesity Centre (GLOBE).. Thursday 04 January 2018, 12:00-13:00 Is evidence enough? How academics can influence policy. Dr Ellen Flint, Department for Work and PensionsSpeaker to be confirmed. Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT. Friday 01 December 2017, 17:00-18:30 HE@Cam Seminar: Will Dunlop - Benefits, Challenges and Potential Strategies of Open Source Health Economic ModelsWill Dunlop - Mundipharma International Limited. Seminar Room 18, School of Clinical Medicine, CB2 0SP. Wednesday 29 November 2017, 15:30-16:30 Evidence is Not Enough: Towards a democratically legitimate role for evidence in health policymakingBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Dr Katherine Smith, Reader - Global Public Health Unit Social Policy, School of Social & Political Science, University of Edinburgh. Friday 24 November 2017, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Continuous inference for aggregated point process dataDr Ben Taylor, University of Lancaster. Tuesday 21 November 2017, 14:30-15:30 HE@Cam Seminar: Christian Léonard - Social Preferences as an Alternative to Cost-Utility AnalysisProfessor Christian Léonard, General Director of the Belgian Healthcare Knowledge Centre (KCE). Monday 20 November 2017, 15:00-16:00 The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer AgeAnnual CCHSR Lecture Professor Robert Wachter, Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco . Cancer Research UK Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge. Wednesday 08 November 2017, 17:30-19:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Building your best day: combining compositional analysis and optimisation theoryProfessor Tim Olds, School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia. Wednesday 08 November 2017, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Individual dynamic predictions using landmarking and joint modelling: validation of estimators and robustness assessmentDr Loic Ferrer, ISPED, Bordeaux. Tuesday 31 October 2017, 14:30-15:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Global trade in food and agriculture and the risk of non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countriesDr Anne Marie Thow, Senior Lecturer in Health Policy at the University of Sydney.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 18 October 2017, 12:30-13:30 The Spanish Pension System, Disability Pensions and VulnerabilityPatricia Peinado - Assistant Professor, University of the Basque Country. Monday 16 October 2017, 15:00-16:00 Genetics and genomics: focus on valueBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Martina Cornel, Clinical Genetics & Amsterdam Public Health research institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam . Friday 06 October 2017, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Extended multivariate generalised linear and non-linear mixed effect modelsDr Michael Crowther, University of Leicester. Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Genome-wide epistasis in bacteria, new statistical tools and fresh biological insightProf Jukka Corander, University of Oslo. Tuesday 03 October 2017, 16:00-17:00 Stratification of treatment by disease severity measures – an application to treatment for sleep apnoeaClaire Simons, MRC Biostatistics Unit. Tuesday 03 October 2017, 15:30-16:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Network Time SeriesProf Guy Nason, University of Bristol. Thursday 21 September 2017, 14:30-15:30 Market Socialism and Community Rating in Health InsurancePeter Zweifel - Professor Emeritus, University of Zurich. Wednesday 20 September 2017, 15:00-16:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars A Bayesian model-based approach to finding cell-type level associations in heterogeneous methylation samplesDaniel Kennedy, Queensland University of Technology. Thursday 14 September 2017, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Dirichlet Process Mixtures of Multivariate Skew t-distributions for Unsupervised Clustering of Cell Populations from Flow-Cytometry DataDr Boris Hejblum, University of Bordeaux. Tuesday 12 September 2017, 14:30-15:30 Are hospital admissions for people with palliative care needs avoidable and unwanted?Organised by the Palliative and End-of-life Care Group at the Primary Care Unit Merryn Gott, Professor of Health Sciences, University of Auckland. Seminar rooms, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 05 September 2017, 15:30-17:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Early Life Undernutrition Alters Cardiac Muscle Development Resulting in Reduced Physical Activity Engagement and Increased Risk of Cardiovascular DiseaseDavid P. Ferguson PhD, RCEP , Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Michigan State University.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 02 August 2017, 12:30-13:30 The Art & Science of Clinical Problem-SolvingPlease register for this talk, which is organised by Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, RAND Professor of Health Services Research Professor Sanjay Saint, Chief of Medicine at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the Director of the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center/University of Michigan Patient Safety Enhancement Program (PSEP). Cancer Research UK Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge. Wednesday 05 July 2017, 17:30-19:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Evidence and policy in public health: reflections from Public Health EnglandDr Felix Greaves, Deputy Director, Science and Strategic Information, Public Health England.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 21 June 2017, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars “Joint variational inference for genetic association studies with multiple outcomes”Hélène Ruffieux, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences. Tuesday 20 June 2017, 14:30-15:30 Primary Care Unit Away Day for Unit membersSpeaker to be confirmed. Kaetsu Centre, Murray Edwards College. Tuesday 20 June 2017, 10:00-16:30 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Is it cost-effective to screen women for abdominal aortic aneurysm? Results from the Screening Women for AAA (SWAN) projectDr Mike Sweeting, Cadiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. Monday 19 June 2017, 15:00-16:00 2017 PublicHealth@Cambridge Network ShowcasePeter Jones; Emma Howarth ; Elizabeth Foyster ; Juliet Foster ; Tim Dalgleish ; Sriya Iyer Sriya Iyer ; Hannah Jongsma ; Maria Ttofi; Andres Roman-Urrestarazu 1;Carol Brayne ;Jane Fleming . Murray Edwards College (New Hall), Huntingdon Road CB3 0DF. Wednesday 14 June 2017, 10:00-17:00 Socialising the Genome: talking to patients about geneticsAll welcome to this Primary Care Unit seminar Dr Anna Middleton, Head of Society and Ethics Research at Wellcome Genome Campus. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 13 June 2017, 14:00-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars “The xyz algorithm for fast interaction search in high-dimensional data”Dr Rajen Shah, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 30 May 2017, 14:30-15:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Risk scores, risk communication and public healthProfessor Simon Griffin. Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, CB2 3AP. Thursday 25 May 2017, 17:30-19:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars “Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendations”Prof Richard Emsley, Centre for Biostatistics, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre. Tuesday 23 May 2017, 14:30-15:30 Rethinking Resilient Healthcare Systems in Contexts of Conflict in UgandaDrinks and refreshments available after Dr Sarah Ssali, Makerere University. Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT. Monday 22 May 2017, 17:00-18:30 DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data not the data to the analysisBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Paul Burton, Professor of Data Science for Health, Newcastle University. Friday 19 May 2017, 13:00-14:00 Research Conference and Showcase - Research and Practice: Making the connectionsOrganised by Professor Christi Deaton at the Clinical Nursing Research Group Speaker to be confirmed. Alice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block Keith Day Road CB2 0QQ . Thursday 18 May 2017, 08:15-16:00 Cambridge ESRC DTP Annual Lecture Cambridge ESRC DTC Annual Lecture 2017: After Brexit, UKRI if you want to: a social scientist's field guide to the new research landscapeProfessor James Wilsdon (University of Sheffield). Faculty of Law, Room LG18, Sidgwick Site. Tuesday 16 May 2017, 17:30-18:30 Lies, Damn'd lies and statistics: why it is (almost) impossible to communicate risk ethically2017 Annual Symposium of the Applied Social Science Group at the Primary Care Unit. Refreshments for all served from 13.45 Dr Stephen John, University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Public Health at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 16 May 2017, 14:00-15:30 Behaviour and Health Research Unit (BHRU) Annual Lecture - Tackling Childhood Obesity: Are we doing enough?Corinna Hawkes, Professor of Food Policy and Director, Centre for Food Policy, City University. Howard Lecture Theatre, Downing College, Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DQ. Thursday 11 May 2017, 18:00-19:00 Centre for Family Research Seminar Series Research outside of academia: How to be an asset in policy-related workDr Amanda Aldercotte, Quantitative Researcher at the Equality Challenge Unit. Room 606, Centre for Family Research. Tuesday 09 May 2017, 13:00-14:00 Can perinatal mental health care prevent mental health problems in children?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Louise Howard, Kings College London. Friday 05 May 2017, 13:00-14:00 Images of Care and Dying with Profs Jane Maher, Bill Noble & Emma WilsonProfessor Jane Maher, Chief Medical Officer at Macmillan Cancer Support, Professor Bill Noble, Medical Director at Marie Curie, and Emma Wilson, Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge. Seminar rooms SG1 and SG2 Alison Richard Building. Thursday 27 April 2017, 15:00-19:00 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Are next generation sequencing technologies affordable? A cost-effectiveness analysis of a cancer panel versus single gene testingJilles Fermont, PhD Candidate. Monday 24 April 2017, 15:00-16:00 The Swedish model for CVD prevention: Public Health cultivation combined with individual health dialogues in Primary CareOrganised by the Prevention Research Group at the Primary Care Unit Professor Lars Weinehall, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Friday 07 April 2017, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Seminar – Effects of Macronutrient Distribution on Weight Change and Related Cardiometabolic Profiles in Healthy Non-Obese Chinese: A Randomized, Clinical TrialProfessor Duo Li, Professor of Nutrition, Department of Food Science & Nutrition, Zhejiang University, China. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Friday 31 March 2017, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "The Analysis of Recurrent Events: A Summary of Methodology and Informative Censoring Considerations"Dr Jennifer Rogers, University of Oxford. Tuesday 28 March 2017, 14:30-15:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Food marketing regulation and childhood obesity preventionProfessor Amandine Garde, Law & Non-Communicable Diseases, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool.. Wednesday 22 March 2017, 12:30-13:30 The politics of health system metrics, 1924-2000This seminar is organised by the Applied Social Science Group at the Primary Care Unit and introduced by Professor Mary Dixon-Woods Martin Gorsky, Professor in the History of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 21 March 2017, 14:00-15:30 Workshop: Professor Mike Kelly: “What do policy makers want from systematic reviews”Prof Mike Kelly. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 21 March 2017, 13:00-14:00 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Wealth, Marriage and Sex Selection.Prof Kaivan Munshi, Faculty of Economics. Monday 20 March 2017, 15:00-16:00 Estimating the burden of infectious diseases in Europe: the BCoDE approachBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Mirjam Kretzschmar, University Medical Center Utrecht. Friday 17 March 2017, 13:00-14:00 Is the NHS financially sustainable?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR John Appleby, Director of Research and Chief Economist, The Nuffield Trust & Visiting professor City University and Imperial College, London. Friday 10 March 2017, 13:00-14:00 The future of General Practice: Opportunities, challenges and leadership with patients as our focusAll invited to reception after this lecture and there will also be a career forum looking at GP as a career Professor Helen Jayne Stokes-Lampard MBBS (Lon), FRCGP, PhD, DFSRH, DRCOG, LOC(IUS), Chair, RCGP. Cancer Research UK Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge. Tuesday 07 March 2017, 17:30-19:30 Images of Care and Dying with Claire Henry and Prof Sarah CooperClaire Henry, Chief Executive of the National Council for Palliative Care and Sarah Cooper, Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London. Seminar rooms SG1 and SG2 Alison Richard Building. Tuesday 07 March 2017, 17:00-19:00 Managing demand and maintaining quality in emergency medicine: a view from the US on clinically efficacious flowThis event is organised by Professor Mary Dixon-Woods with Cambridge University Hospitals and CUHP Dr Carol Barsky M.D., M.B.A Vice President and Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer of Hackensack University Health Network, New Jersey. Clifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre, Clifford Allbutt Building (former LMB building). Tuesday 28 February 2017, 17:00-18:00 Measuring and visualising worldwide trends in cardiovascular risk factorsBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Majid Ezzati, Imperial College London. Friday 24 February 2017, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars CANCELLED - Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendationsProf Richard Emsley, University of Manchester. Thursday 23 February 2017, 14:30-15:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars A life-course investigation of influences on physical inactivity stability and change: findings from the 1958 British Birth CohortDr Snehal Pinto Pereira, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 22 February 2017, 12:30-13:30 Improving Diagnosis in the Era of Electronic Health RecordsOrganised by Dr Fiona Walter and the Cancer Group, Cambridge Primary Care Unit Dr Hardeep Singh, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston and Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. Tuesday 21 February 2017, 13:00-14:00 Measuring everything everywhere: the Global Burden of Disease study and its use by Public Health EnglandBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor John Newton, Chief Knowledge Officer, Public Health England. Friday 03 February 2017, 13:00-14:00 Images of Care and Dying with Drs Stephen Barclay and Steven EastwoodDr Stephen Barclay (University of Cambridge), University Senior Lecturer in General Practice and Palliative Care, General Practitioner and Honorary Consultant Physician in Palliative Care, and Dr Steven Eastwood, Reader in Film Practice, Convenor, MA Film. Seminar rooms SG1 and SG2 Alison Richard Building. Tuesday 24 January 2017, 17:00-19:00 ‘The present and future of primary care big data research’ALL INVITED by the Primary Care Unit's CPRD Group Professor Deborah Saltman, Chair, Independent Scientific Advisory Committee, Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD). Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 24 January 2017, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "Dynamic prediction of survival using landmarking in large healthcare databases, with an application in cystic fibrosis"Dr Ruth Keogh, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Thursday 19 January 2017, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars “Statistical opportunities and challenges in observational health data: Addressing missingness using two-phase sampling for nonresponse: methods and benefits"Dr Matthew Sperrin, University of Manchester. Thursday 12 January 2017, 14:30-15:30 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: NICE Technology Appraisal Process and Challenges to Decision MakersDr Amanda Adler, Chair, NICE Technology Appraisal Committee B. Monday 09 January 2017, 15:00-16:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Modelling cardiovascular and metabolic disease using transgenic zebrafishDr Marcel den Hoed, Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and SciLifeLab, Uppsala University.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 14 December 2016, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Provisional title: "Percentage study weights in meta-analysis and meta-regression"Professor Richard Riley, Keele University. Tuesday 13 December 2016, 14:30-15:30 Toward Eliminating Patient HarmPlease book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/toward-eliminating-patient-harm-lecture-by-dr-peter-pronovost-registration-29373716577 Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., FCCM, director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medicine’s senior vice president for patient safety and quality. Clifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre, Clifford Allbutt Building (former LMB building). Thursday 08 December 2016, 16:30-17:30 Toward Eliminating Patient HarmPlease book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/toward-eliminating-patient-harm-lecture-by-dr-peter-pronovost-registration-29373716577 Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., FCCM, director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medicine’s senior vice president for patient safety and quality. Clifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre, Clifford Allbutt Building (former LMB building). Thursday 08 December 2016, 16:30-17:30 A Brief History of NHS Politics 1948-2030Annual Lecture of the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research, followed by reception Professor Martin Roland CBE, Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research, University of Cambridge. Cancer Research UK Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge. Tuesday 06 December 2016, 17:30-18:30 Describing the HIV cascade of care using routine clinic and surveillance databases: methodological challengesBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Caroline Sabin, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Healthcare. Friday 02 December 2016, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "A Bayesian analysis of microbiome data"Dr Sergio Bacallado, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 29 November 2016, 14:30-15:30 2016 Annual Public Health Conference & LecturePlease register to confirm your place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2016-annual-public-health-conference-lecture-tickets-27875639789 Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer for England . Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0RE . Wednesday 23 November 2016, 10:30-19:00 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: MOVING TOWARDS A SMALLER ROLE FOR HEALTH MAXIMISATION IN THE PRIORITISATION OF NHS RESOURCESDr Gabriele Badano (University of Cambridge). Monday 21 November 2016, 15:00-16:00 What causes wellness? The social determinants of healthBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Sir Harry Burns, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Strathclyde; former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland. Friday 18 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Greedy genes: the role of appetite in genetic susceptibility to obesityDr Clare Llewellyn, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London. Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 Recommendations for improving care and support in advanced COPD - CambridgeDr Morag Farquhar, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 15 November 2016, 12:30-14:00 Images of Care and Dying with Prof Bee Wee and Dr Anna ElsnerProfessor Bee Wee, National Clinical Director for End of Life Care, NHS England, and Dr Anna Elsner, University of Zurich. McCrum Lecture Theate, Corpus Christi College. Bene’t Street, Cambridge. Wednesday 09 November 2016, 17:00-19:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Is it too early to stand up? Has the epidemiological evidence for sitting and health changed?Dr Adrian Bauman, Sesquicentenary Professor of Public Health and Director of the Prevention Research Collaboration at the University of Sydney, Australia. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 09 November 2016, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "Breaking non-identifiability using genetic information : an application to metabolite data and gene expression"Benjamin Frot, University of Oxford. Tuesday 08 November 2016, 14:30-15:30 Should we screen for diabetes and related cardiovascular risk?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Torsten Lauritzen, Department of Public Health, Institute of General Medical Practice, Aarhus University, Denmark.. Friday 04 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Youth Fitness Assessment and Promotion: Insights from the Evaluation and Dissemination of FITNESSGRAM Programming.Dr Greg Welk, Barbara E Forker Professor of Kinesiology at Iowa State University.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 02 November 2016, 12:30-13:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars A Capital Appetite: The Political Economy of UK Sugar ConsumptionDr Ben Richardson, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 19 October 2016, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "The Analysis of Recurrent Events: A Summary of Methodology and Informative Censoring Considerations"Dr Jennifer Rogers, University of Oxford. Tuesday 18 October 2016, 14:30-15:30 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: On the Management of Population ImmunityDr Flavio Toxvaerd, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. Monday 17 October 2016, 15:00-16:00 The epidemic of thyroid cancer - what’s new and what might come nextLouise Davies, Associate Professor of Surgery, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Wednesday 12 October 2016, 11:00-12:00 What’s new (and what isn’t) in improving quality and safety in healthcareINAUGURAL LECTURE Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, RAND Professor of Health Services Research, University of Cambridge. Cancer Research UK Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge. Tuesday 11 October 2016, 17:45-19:45 Evolutionary hypotheses and early human development: findings from the Wirral Child Health and Development StudyInaugural Annual Symposium for Applied Social Science Group, Primary Care Unit – in association with PublicHealth@Cambridge Network. Please register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/h8bz6c3 Jonathan Hill, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Reading. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Monday 10 October 2016, 14:00-16:00 Diagnostic tests in primary care – time to move beyond diagnostic accuracy?Organised by Dr Fiona Walter and the Cancer Group, Cambridge Primary Care Unit Matthew Thompson, Professor of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, US. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 27 September 2016, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Science publishing – behind the scenes at NatureDr Francesca Cesari, Chief Biological Sciences Editor at Nature. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Monday 19 September 2016, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Title TBCProfessor Rebecca Steorts, Duke University. Tuesday 13 September 2016, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "Addressing missingness using two-phase sampling for nonresponse: methods and benefits"Dr Nanhua Zhang, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Friday 09 September 2016, 14:30-15:30 Political Economy of Public Health: Network Showcase 2016Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Larry King, University of Cambridge; Anna Gilmore, University of Bath; David Stuckler, University of Oxford; Sarah Hawkes, University College London. Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF. Tuesday 06 September 2016, 09:00-17:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "A non-stationary Bayesian model for across-site heterogeneity in molecular phylogenetics"Dr Sarah Heaps, University of Newcastle. Tuesday 05 July 2016, 14:30-15:30 Head and neck cancer: insights into aetiology and prognosis from a clinical cohortBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Andy Ness, Director, Bristol Nutrition Biomedical Research Unit, University of Bristol. Friday 10 June 2016, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "Exploring dependence between categorical variables: Benefits and limitations of using variable selection within Bayesian clustering in relation to searching for interactions"Dr Michail Papathomas, University of St Andrews. Tuesday 07 June 2016, 14:30-15:30 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Why is socioeconomic disadvantage associated with obesity?Dr Pablo Monsivais, Centre for Diet and Activity Research, University of Cambridge. Monday 06 June 2016, 15:00-16:00 Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre "Distinguished Visitors" 2016 Lecture Series "Frailty in older adults: implications for contemporary health care and clinical research"Dr. Kenneth Rockwood - Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer’s Research and chair of Alzheimer Research, Centre for Health Care of the Elderly Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia . CRUK CRI lecture theatre - (Li Ka Shing Centre - Robinson Way). Wednesday 25 May 2016, 17:00-18:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "Modelling the evolution of brain signals"Dr Mark Fiecas, University of Warwick. Tuesday 24 May 2016, 14:30-15:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars The contribution of physical activity to increased life expectancyProfessor Terence Dwyer, George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 11 May 2016, 12:00-13:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "Improved ranking and selection for large-scale inference"Prof Michael Newton, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tuesday 10 May 2016, 14:30-15:30 Making an impact on the public’s health and wellbeing in EnglandBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Kevin Fenton, Director of Health and Wellbeing, Public Health England. Friday 06 May 2016, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "The analysis of variance and the analysis of causes"Prof Neil Pearce, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Tuesday 03 May 2016, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "Some aspects in high-dimensional Bayesian model choice"Dr David Rossell, University of Warwick. Tuesday 26 April 2016, 14:30-15:30 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Social Health Insurance and Treatment-Seeking Behaviour - Evidence from the Chinese New Rural Cooperative Medical SchemeDr Miaoqing Yang, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research, RAND Europe. Monday 25 April 2016, 15:00-16:00 UK Biobank: opportunities and challengesBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Catherine Sudlow, Chair of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh and UK Biobank’s Chief Scientist and Senior Epidemiologist. Friday 22 April 2016, 13:00-14:00 BHRU Annual Lecture 2016 - Electronic cigarettes: a disruptive technology?Linda Bauld, Professor of Health Policy, Director of the Institute for Social Marketing, and Dean of Research at the University of Stirling. . Riley Auditorium, The Gillespie Centre, Clare College. Thursday 21 April 2016, 18:00-19:30 Dietary priorities for obesity - are all calories created equal?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR - note this talk is on a Thursday Dean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy,. Thursday 14 April 2016, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "Better prediction by use of co-data: Adaptive group-regularized ridge regression"Dr Mark van de Wiel, VU University Medical Center and VU university, Amsterdam. Tuesday 22 March 2016, 14:30-15:30 Tackling Obesity with Big Data: methods & models - One Day Seminar Modelling and visualising large and complex datasets to guide active travel policies: a case study from the Propensity to Cycle ToolDr James Woodcock, CEDAR & MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge & Dr Robin Lovelace, School of Geography, University of Leeds. Mill Lane Lecture Rooms 8 Mill Lane, Old Press Site. University of Cambridge. Cambridge CB2 1RX. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 09:30-11:30 Tackling Obesity with Big Data: methods & models - One Day Seminar Interpreting results from analysis with big data: examples from epidemiologyDarren Greenwood, Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine. Mill Lane Lecture Rooms 8 Mill Lane, Old Press Site. University of Cambridge. Cambridge CB2 1RX. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 09:30-11:30 Tackling Obesity with Big Data: methods & models - One Day Seminar Big Data and the Obesity EpidemicAdam Drewnowski, School of Public Health, University of Washington. Mill Lane Lecture Rooms 8 Mill Lane, Old Press Site. University of Cambridge. Cambridge CB2 1RX. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 09:30-11:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Tackling obesity with Big Data – Seminar 16/03/16 – methods & modelsDr Michelle Morris, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (Organizer). Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX. Wednesday 16 March 2016, 09:00-14:00 Seeing the wood as well as the trees: the importance of the ‘macro’ perspective for public healthBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Richard Smith, Dean, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Friday 11 March 2016, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "Design for ABC and history matching with Gaussian processes"Dr Richard Wilkinson, Sheffield University. Tuesday 01 March 2016, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "The Implications of Differential Clustering for the Analysis of Binary Outcome Measures"Dr Chris Roberts, University of Manchester. Tuesday 23 February 2016, 14:30-15:30 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Does walking or cycling to work improve psychological wellbeing? Evidence from the British Household Panel SurveyAll welcome. Adam Martin, RAND Europe & Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research. Monday 22 February 2016, 15:00-16:00 The quest for causal understanding of inequalities in health: holy grail or chimera?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Martin White, MRC Epidemiology Unit and the UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR); Director of the NIHR Public Health Research Programme. Friday 12 February 2016, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "Understanding the role of secondary outcomes in multivariate meta-analysis"Professor John Copas, University of Warwick. Tuesday 09 February 2016, 14:30-15:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Estimating the global burden of disease attributable to excess sodium within the GBD2010 studyDr John Powles, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Thursday 04 February 2016, 11:00-12:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "Genomic prediction of complex human traits: relatedness, trait architecture and predictive meta-models"Dr Athina Spiliopoulou University of Edinburgh. Tuesday 02 February 2016, 14:30-15:30 The James Lind Initiative's contributionsAll welcome - this talk is to launch the Primary Care Unit's new MPhil teaching programme Sir Iain Chalmers. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Wednesday 27 January 2016, 13:00-14:00 Cost-effectiveness analysis of multiplex targeted sequencing in lung adenocarcinomaBrett Doble, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research. Monday 25 January 2016, 15:00-16:00 ‘Where next for Academic Primary Care?’Dr Joanne Reeve, Associate Clinical Professor in General Practice, University of Warwick Chair, Society for Academic Primary Care. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Monday 25 January 2016, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Jennifer Badham & Dr Ruth HunterRead more at http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/event/seminar-18-january-2016-dr-jennifer-badham-dr-ruth-hunter/ Dr Jennifer Badham and Dr Ruth Hunter. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Monday 18 January 2016, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "An Unbiased and Scalable Monte Carlo Method for Bayesian Inference for Big Data"Dr Murray Pollock, University of Warwick. Tuesday 12 January 2016, 14:30-15:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Derek YachDr Derek Yach, the Vitality Institute.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Thursday 10 December 2015, 11:00-12:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars "Blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease & Temporal Clustering of biological, medical and wearable data"Dr Steven Kiddle MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Tuesday 08 December 2015, 14:30-15:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Professor Larry FrankProfessor Larry Frank, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia. Tuesday 08 December 2015, 12:30-13:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Audrey de NazelleDrAudreyde Nazelle, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London. Friday 27 November 2015, 13:30-14:30 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminarProf Larry King, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. Seminar Room at the Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site, Addenbrooke's Site, Cambridge. Monday 23 November 2015, 15:00-16:00 The Global Health Security AgendaBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Mika Salminen, Director of the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland and Chair of the Global Health Security Agenda. Friday 20 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Janis Baird & Dr Christina VogelDr Janis Baird and Dr Christina Vogel, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology, University of Southampton. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 11 November 2015, 12:30-13:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Title TBCProf Walter Gregory, Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Leeds. Tuesday 03 November 2015, 14:30-15:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Prof Atul SinghalProfessor Atul Singhal, Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH). Wednesday 28 October 2015, 12:30-13:30 HE@Cam seminar: The Cambridge Bioscience Impact StudyProf Pete Tyler, Department of Land Economy. Seminar Room at the Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site, Addenbrooke's Site, Cambridge. Monday 19 October 2015, 15:00-16:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Dafna MeromDr Dafna Merom. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Monday 19 October 2015, 12:30-13:30 Academics, scientists and the future of medical publishingBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Domhnall MacAuley, University of Ulster; Consultant-Associate Editor, Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) and PLOS Medicine. Friday 16 October 2015, 13:00-14:00 Public Health without Borders: The Role of Knowledge in an Interdependent WorldThis Lecture has now sold out - tickets will be issued to those who have already booked which will be requested at the door - PUBLIC HEALTH ANNUAL LECTURE Dr Julio Frenk, President-Elect, University of Miami; Dean, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Martin Cohen Lecture Theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Thursday 08 October 2015, 18:00-19:30 Modelling the cost of cancer: understanding inter-relationships between types of careDr Paula Lorgelly, Associate Professor, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University. Monday 07 September 2015, 11:00-12:00 Title to be confirmedHEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH SUMMER SERIES Matt Sutton, Professor of Health Economics, University of Manchester. Thomas and Dorothy Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory. Wednesday 15 July 2015, 13:00-14:30 Systematic reviews - how to check you're doing all the things, and how the library can help.Isla Kuhn, Medical Librarian, University of Cambridge Medical Library. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Wednesday 08 July 2015, 13:00-14:00 “Prescribing safety in a world of multimorbidity and polypharmacy”HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH SUMMER SERIES Bruce Guthrie, Professor of Primary Care Medicine, University of Dundee. Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Monday 06 July 2015, 16:00-17:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars “Standing up” for young children’s health: How sedentary are young children, what factors may influence sedentariness and what can be done to reduce it?Prof Tony Okely, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Interdisciplinary Educational Research Institute (IERI), University of Wollongong, Australia. IMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre. Monday 29 June 2015, 10:30-11:30 “Leveraging Social Psychological Theory to Understand Engagement with Personalized Genomic Information”BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR William Klein, Associate Director, Behavioral Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA. Friday 26 June 2015, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Modelling health gain and cost (savings) from prevention: tobacco tax and food taxes and subsidiesProf Tony Blakely University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand. Meeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). . Tuesday 23 June 2015, 12:30-13:30 “Motivating Medics: Pay ‘em or Flay ‘em?”HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH SUMMER SERIES Tim Doran, Professor of Health Policy, University of York. Thomas and Dorothy Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory. Thursday 18 June 2015, 13:15-14:45 “The Economics of Elevated Weekend Hospital Mortality”HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH SUMMER SERIES Matt Sutton, Professor of Health Economics, University of Manchester. Wednesday 17 June 2015, 13:00-14:30 Health, climate change and unsustainable development – head in the sand or line in the sand?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR David Pencheon, Director of NHS Sustainability Unit:. Friday 12 June 2015, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Sitting time and chronic disease prevention: strengthening the evidence basePlease note this is on Friday rather than Wednesday Dr Genevieve Healy, School of Public Health at The University of Queensland, Australia. Meeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). . Friday 05 June 2015, 12:30-13:30 ‘Why is patient safety so hard?’HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH SUMMER SERIES Mary Dixon-Woods, Professor of Medical Sociology, University of Leicester. Tuesday 02 June 2015, 13:00-14:30 Long term health economic modelling of screening strategies for cardiovascular disease prevention (work in progress).Dr Stephen Kaptoge, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit. Monday 01 June 2015, 14:30-15:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Use of novel technologies to explore effective ways to improve population diets: policy-relevant research from New Zealandhttps://diet.auckland.ac.nz/content/dr-helen-eyles Dr Helen Eyles, National Institute for Health Innovation, University of Auckland, New Zealand. IMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre. Monday 01 June 2015, 13:00-14:00 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminarPhilip Chen, PhD Student, Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research. Monday 11 May 2015, 14:30-15:30 Genetics in drug discovery and developmentBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR John Whittaker, Professor and Vice President of Statistical Platforms and Technologies at GSK. Friday 08 May 2015, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Designing cities to improve health and well-being: contributions from the HABITAT multilevel longitudinal study of Brisbane (Australia) neighbourhoodsPlease note this talk is on Tuesday, not the usual Wednesday Professor Gavin Turrell, Queensland University of Technology. Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Cambridge Institute of Public Health. Tuesday 28 April 2015, 12:30-13:30 Capacity Building for Tobacco Research and Control in Eastern EuropeBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Kristie Foley, PhD, Professor and Director, Medical Humanities and Public Health, Davidson College, USA. Friday 24 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 “Disorganised Attachment: A Lens on Self-Dysregulation and Health”SOCIAL SCIENCES IN PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH Dr Robbie Duschinsky, Research Lead and Reader in the Department of Social Work and Communities at Northumbria University. Wednesday 15 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 “Doing quality improvement in primary care - fitting intervention to context”SOCIAL SCIENCES IN PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH Dr Natalie Armstrong, Senior Lecturer in Social Science Applied to Health, University of Leicester. Herchel Smith Building, Seminar Room H139. Tuesday 14 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 Title to be confirmedBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Dean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, . Tuesday 14 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 Title to be confirmedBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Dean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy,. Tuesday 14 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars How and why would you do data science in health?Dr Philippe Giabbanelli, Investigator Scientist, Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), University of Cambridge. Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Cambridge Institute of Public Health. Monday 16 March 2015, 15:00-16:30 Valuing the economic benefits of complex interventions: when maximising health is not sufficientBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Katherine has an international reputation for the economics of genetic technologies and services Professor Katherine Payne, Manchester Centre for Health Economics, University of Manchester. Friday 13 March 2015, 13:00-14:00 Assessing causality in perinatal and developmental epidemiologyBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Debbie Lawlor is interested in how biological, social and environmental exposures from across life affect the risk of chronic diseases and how appropriate prevention of these diseases can be achieved Professor Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol, MSc(Lond), MBChB, PhD(Bristol), MPH(Leeds), MRCGP, MFPHM Professor of Epidemiology. Friday 06 March 2015, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars The association between multimorbidity, healthcare utilisation and out-of-pocket spending in 22 countries: evidence from WHO SAGE and SHAREDr John Tayu Lee, health economist, Research Design Service, Imperial College London.. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 04 March 2015, 12:30-13:30 Quality of data and handling missing data in costing studies.Dr Adam Wagner, Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group. Monday 16 February 2015, 14:30-15:30 What counts as evidence? Some reflections on what counts as 'good enough' evidence in public healthBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Mark's main research interests are in evidence-based policymaking, systematic reviews, and the evaluation of the health effects of social policies Mark Petticrew, Professor of Public Health Evaluation, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Friday 13 February 2015, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Multiple Interacting Diseases and Risk Factors - the UK Health Forum's MIDRIF programDr Martin Brown, MA Cambs, Phd London IC. IMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre. Wednesday 14 January 2015, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Novel Group-dynamics Approaches to Physical Activity Promotion Across the LifespanPlease note this talk is on Thursday, not the usual Wednesday Dr Mark Beauchamp, Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Canada. Meeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). . Thursday 18 December 2014, 12:30-13:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars A physical activity and fundamental movement skill intervention for children attending primary schools in low-income communities: The SCORES cluster RCTPlease note afternoon Friday rather than lunch Wednesday Associate Professor David Lubans, University of Newcastle, AUS . IMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre. Friday 05 December 2014, 15:00-16:00 Enlightened Aging: How the Baby Boom Generation can change tomorrow's Long Old AgeBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: In this seminar, Dr Larson will draw on his work on Aging and dementia/brain function. Prof. Eric B Larson MD, MPH, MACP Vice President for Research, Group Health Executive Director and Senior Investigator Group Health Research Institute Professor of Medicine and Health Services University of Washington Seattle. Friday 05 December 2014, 13:00-14:00 Revisiting the use of families in complex genetic disease studiesBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Heather J. Cordell, Professor of Statistical Genetics, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University. Friday 21 November 2014, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Novel Group-dynamics Approaches to Physical Activity Promotion Across the LifespanPlease note this talk is on Thursday, not the usual Wednesday Dr Mark Beauchamp, Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Canada. Meeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). . Friday 14 November 2014, 12:30-13:30 REDUCING CVD GLOBALLY — FROM RESEARCH TO ACTIONThis is the Inaugural Annual Cambridge Public Health Lecture - registration is essential Dr SALIM YUSUF MD (Bangalore), DPhil (Oxford), MRCP McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. Martin Cohen Lecture Theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Monday 03 November 2014, 17:30-18:30 What does experiential knowledge contribute to public health evidence to reduce health inequalities?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Jennie Popay, Sociology and Public Health, Division of Health Research, Lancaster University. Friday 17 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars The Teenagers in Leisure Time (TiLT) study – A cluster analysis of adolescent screen time and sport participationPlease note this talk is on Tuesday, not the usual Wednesday Helen Brown, Lecturer, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University. Meeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). . Tuesday 14 October 2014, 12:30-13:30 Genomics and Ageing WellBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor David Melzer, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Exeter Medical School. Friday 10 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Governing European public health nutrition policies – the role of harmonisationProf Monique Raats, Director: Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre, University of Surrey. . Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 08 October 2014, 11:30-12:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Prospects for Primary Prevention: obesity prevention interventions across pregnancy and early lifeNote Thursday, not Wednesday Dr Karen Campbell, Associate Professor, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Thursday 25 September 2014, 12:30-13:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Becoming bilingual in transport & health to put research into practiceLucy Saunders, Consultant in Public Health, Greater London Authority and Transport for London. Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). Wednesday 30 July 2014, 12:30-13:30 Global Burden of Disease: from Global to LocalBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Adrian is Public Health England's Director of Population Health Science Professor Adrian Davis. Friday 30 May 2014, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Food Environments: defining, measuring and developing interventionsDr Amelia Lake, Lecturer in Knowledge Exchange in Public Health at the Centre for Public Policy & Health, University of Durham . IMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre. Wednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00 Where are we heading with cancer diagnosis research?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Prof Rubin's principal research interest is the management of gastrointestinal problems in primary care and at the interface with secondary care, particularly for cancer and inflammatory bowel disease Professor Greg Rubin, GP and Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at Durham University. Friday 09 May 2014, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Paving bicycling’s path to redemption in the future of active travelNote this seminar is on a Friday, not the usual Wednesday. Professor Kevin Krizek, Environmental Design and Transport, University of Colorado. MRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms, IMS Level 3, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre. Friday 02 May 2014, 12:30-13:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars The impact of taste variety in infancyDr Lucy Cooke, Senior Research Psychologist, Health Behaviour Research, Centre University College London. IMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre. Wednesday 19 March 2014, 12:00-13:00 Scaling up capacity for Primary Health Care in AfricaProf Maeseneer is a Belgian family physician engaged in work to tackle global health inequalities by strengthening primary care systems Professor Jan De Maeseneer, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University. Friday 14 March 2014, 13:00-14:00 The Political Economy of Public Health: Explaining the Postcommunist Mortality CrisisLarry King is a political economist whose work addresses the 'social determinants of the social determinants' of health Professor Lawrence King, Professor in Sociology and Political Economy, University of Cambridge. Friday 07 March 2014, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Small, medium, large or supersize: Prices and PortionsDr Ingrid Steenhuis, Associate Professor Health Promotion, VU University Amsterdam. Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Cambridge Institute of Public Health. Wednesday 05 March 2014, 12:30-13:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Social inequalities in the 2004 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort studyPlease note: This CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Diet Seminar is held on a Thursday, not the usual Wednesday. Dr Aluisio Barros, International Center for Equity in Health, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil. MRC Epidemiology Unit Seminar Room, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Science. Thursday 27 February 2014, 12:00-13:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars How the environment shapes health-behavioursDr Carlijn Kamphuis, Postdoctoral Researcher, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Netherlands. Wednesday 29 January 2014, 12:30-13:30 Bacterial Genomes and Metagenomes: from point mutations to public healthMark Pallen is a medically qualified bacteriologist with research interests that span genomics and bioinformatics and a spectrum of basic and applied research. He holds an undergraduate degree from Cambridge and a PhD from Imperial. Professor Mark Pallen, Professor of Microbial Genomics and Head of the Division of Microbiology and Infection. Friday 17 January 2014, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Dietary patterns and health: a cardiovascular disease perspective (title TBC)Please note: This CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Diet Seminar is held on a Thursday, not the usual Wednesday. Dr Janas Harrington, Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College Cork. Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Cambridge Institute of Public Health. Thursday 09 January 2014, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars A Better Start: ‘what works’ to improve nutrition in 0-3 year oldsProfessor Carolyn Summerbell, Durham University. IMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2. Wednesday 18 December 2013, 12:30-13:30 Nudges, Norms, and Comfort Food: Tiny interventions to get kids to eat vegetables and astronauts to eat anythingProfessor Traci Mann, University of Minnesota Department of Psychology. Friday 29 November 2013, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Tackling the epidemic of diabetes in South Asians: reflections on the results of the Prevention of Diabetes and Obesity in South Asians (PODOSA) trialProfessor Raj Bhopal, Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health Centre for Population Health Sciences University of Edinburgh. Wednesday 27 November 2013, 12:00-13:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars The trials and tribulations of school based cluster randomised controlled trials to improve dietary quality in childrenPlease note: This CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Diet Seminar is held on a Friday, not the usual Wednesday. Dr Charlotte Evans, Lecturer in Nutritional Epidemiology, University of Leeds. Friday 22 November 2013, 12:30-13:30 Understanding changing BMI distributions in England, their causes and long term consequencesProfessor Klim McPherson, Visiting Professor in Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford. Friday 15 November 2013, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Going beyond public health nutrition: healthy and environmentally sustainable food choicesDr Jennie Macdiarmid, Senior Research Fellow, Public Health Nutrition Research group, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen. Wednesday 30 October 2013, 12:30-13:30 North versus South: England's enduring health divideProfessor Tim Doran, Professor of Health Policy, University of York. Friday 25 October 2013, 13:00-14:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Toward an understanding of the barriers to and facilitators of dietary changePetra J Rydén Ph. D., RD, lecturer Department of Food and Nutrition Umea University. ATC 6B Seminar Room, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre. Friday 11 October 2013, 14:30-15:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars An Epidemiologist’s View of Obesity Prevention ResearchJune Stevens, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, AICR/WCRF Chaired Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill . Wednesday 25 September 2013, 12:30-13:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars The undernourished child with an overweight mother: a statistical artifact or an emerging public health concern?Dr Colleen Doak, Department of Health Sciences, Section of Infectious Disease, VU University Amsterdam. Large Seminar Room, Cambridge Institute of Public Health. Friday 05 July 2013, 11:00-12:00 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Lifestyle and cancer prevention – the elephant in the roomProfessor Annie S Anderson, Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Centre for Public Health Nutrition Research, Centre for Research into Cancer Prevention and Screening, University of Dundee.. Wednesday 03 July 2013, 12:30-13:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars Is the price right? The feasibility and effectiveness of food pricing strategies to stimulate healthy eatingDr Wilma Waterlander, Research Fellow, The University of Auckland, New Zealand . Large Seminar Room, Cambridge Institute of Public Health. Monday 24 June 2013, 15:00-16:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars MRC Centenary Lecture: Putting life into numbers - how statistical science has transformed health careA summer reception to follow Professor David J. Spiegelhalter OBE FRS. Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Thursday 20 June 2013, 18:30-19:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Phase II/III clinical trials: Recent developments in methodology for trial design and analysisSue Todd, University of Reading. Tuesday 18 June 2013, 14:30-15:30 MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars The BioSHaRE projectProfessor Ronald Stolk, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Gronigen. Monday 17 June 2013, 12:00-13:00 Title to be confirmedProf Lawlor's work is focused on the life course and genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance and diabetes Professor Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol. Thursday 06 June 2013, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars The value of CStatTrevor Lewis, Royal Statistical Society. Tuesday 04 June 2013, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars MRC Centenary Lecture: What's happening to the world?Professor Sir John Beddington FRS FRSE. Babbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site. Tuesday 28 May 2013, 17:30-18:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars MRC Centenary Lecture: Numbers are weapons: a self defence guideTim Harford, of More or Less. Babbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site. Wednesday 22 May 2013, 17:30-18:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Semi Markov models under panel observationAndrew Titman, University of Lancaster. Tuesday 14 May 2013, 14:30-15:30 The geography of obesity: A tale of two citiesAdam Drewnowski is Professor of Epidemiology and the Director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the School of Public Health at University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Friday 10 May 2013, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Causal mediation analysis with multiple mediatorsRhian Daniel, LSHTM. Tuesday 30 April 2013, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars MRC Centenary Lecture: Failings in hierarchies of evidence for controversial health-policy decisionsProfessor Sir Michael Rawlins, of NICE. Babbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site. Monday 29 April 2013, 17:30-18:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Large sample results for tiny significance levelsProfessor Kenneth Rice, University of Washington. Monday 29 April 2013, 11:00-12:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Scalable network modelling for personalized medicineSach Mukherjee, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI). Tuesday 23 April 2013, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Signal Identification for Rare and Weak Features: Higher Criticism or False Discovery RatesProf. Korbinian Strimmer, University of Leipzig. Monday 08 April 2013, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Statistical inference of virus phylodynamicsOliver Ratmann, Imperial College London. Tuesday 12 March 2013, 14:30-15:30 Social-biological transitions: how does the social become biological?Prof David Blane. Friday 01 March 2013, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Haplotype sharing and time to common ancestor: resolving various genetics problems including the studies of rare variants and disease susceptibility variantsDr Augustine Kong, deCODE genetics. Friday 01 March 2013, 10:30-11:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Conditional Density Estimation through Enriched Dirichlet Process Mixture ModelsSara Wade, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 05 February 2013, 14:30-15:30 Estimating the burden of disease attributable to excess sodium (within the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study)Dr John Powles, Department of Public Health and Primary Care. Friday 01 February 2013, 13:00-14:00 What are the benefits and harms of breast cancer screening?Simon Thompson, Department of Public Health, University of Cambridge. Friday 25 January 2013, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Causal inference and stratified medicine: an illustration of trial designs incorporating biomarker information for mechanisms evaluationRichard Emsley, University of Manchester. Tuesday 22 January 2013, 14:30-15:30 What matters to people with assistive living needs? Findings from the ATHENE ethnographic study of telehealth and telecare in the homeProf Trisha Greenhalgh. Friday 18 January 2013, 12:00-13:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Generating partially synthetic data to protect confidentiality in survey microdataRobin Mitra, University of Southampton. Tuesday 27 November 2012, 14:30-15:30 Surveillance of Guillain-Barré Syndrome During the 2009–2010 H1N1 Influenza Vaccination Campaign in the United StatesDr Oliver Morgan, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US. Friday 23 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Dimension reduction based on sliced inverse regression (SIR): a look at the special case when n ‹pJérôme Saracco, Bordeaux Institute of Technology & Bordeaux Institute of Mathematics (Probability and Statistics team). Tuesday 20 November 2012, 14:30-15:30 “Extreme reviewing”: Use of text-mining to reduce impractical screening workload in extremely large scoping reviewsIan Shemilt, Evidence Synthesis Programme, Behaviour and Health Research Unit. Friday 02 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Bayesian hierarchical models and recent computational development using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation, with applications to pre-implantation genetic screening in IVFGianluca Baio, University College, London. Tuesday 16 October 2012, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Mendelian Randomization: the next ten years?Professor George Davey-Smith, University of Bristol. Thursday 11 October 2012, 12:00-13:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Predictive analytic modelling in clinical trials (patient recruitment, randomization and drug supply)Vladimir Anisimov, Qunitiles. Tuesday 09 October 2012, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Modelling heterogeneity in gene expression using the matrix-variate normal distributionAnestis Touloumis, EBI, Cambridge. Tuesday 02 October 2012, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Modelling the growth and transmission of infectious disease by linking epidemiology and population geneticsDaniel Wilson, University of Oxford. Tuesday 18 September 2012, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Optimal data combination in seamless Phase II/III clinical trialsLisa Hampson, Lancaster University.. Tuesday 19 June 2012, 11:00-12:30 Environments and human healthSally Macintyre, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow. Friday 08 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 Fat taxes, nutrient profiling and trends in the incidence of coronary heart diseaseDr Mike Rayner, Director of the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Group, Depatment of Public Health, University of Oxford. Friday 25 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 The Salmonella Enteritidis epidemic in the UK Poultry industry: Practices and outcomes of an effective intervention?Chris Lane, Health Protection Agency. Friday 18 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Congenial multiple imputation of partially observed covariates within the full conditional specification frameworkJonathan Bartlett, LSHTM.. Tuesday 15 May 2012, 14:30-15:30 Exploring possible futures of Tobacco Control in Australia: High tech, low tech and no techProf. Wayne Hall, Deputy Director (Policy) UQ Centre for Clinical Research |The University of Queensland. Friday 04 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Setting sample size for common designs when evaluating interventions and biomarkersNote the earlier than usual start time Professor Toby Prevost, Kings College London. Tuesday 24 April 2012, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars How to use simulation studies in understanding and evaluating statistical methodsIan White, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 14:30-15:30 Public Health Genomics: translating genomic advances into improved population health worldwideDr Hilary Burton, Director of Public Health Genomics Foundation. Friday 09 March 2012, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Some thoughts on multi-parameter evidence synthesisMr. Guobing Lu, University of Bristol. Tuesday 28 February 2012, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Latent Mixture Quantile Regression for Longitudinal DataDr. Bo Fu, School of Community-Based Medicine, University of Manchester. Tuesday 14 February 2012, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Which survival model? Model selection and model averaging issues for analysis of survival and event history dataProf. Nils Hjort, Department of Mathmatics, University of Oslo, Norway. Tuesday 17 January 2012, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Design and Analysis of Multi-Arm, Multi-Stage Clinical StudiesDr. Thomas Jaki, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University. Tuesday 06 December 2011, 14:30-15:30 The Institute of Public Health and its futureProfessor Carol Brayne ( Department of Public Health and Primary Care). Friday 25 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 Understanding longevity: an epidemiological study of genetics, disease and life-styleHenning Tiemeier, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam. Friday 18 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Assessment of Trend in Recurrent Event ProcessesProfessor Jerry Lawless, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. Tuesday 08 November 2011, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Modelling the transmission of Clostridium difficile in hospitalsDr Madeleine Cule, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. Tuesday 18 October 2011, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Statistical Software at the Centre for Multilevel ModellingProfessor William J. Browne, School of Clinical Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol. Tuesday 27 September 2011, 14:30-15:30 Drawing causal inferences in epidemiological studies of early life influencesAndy Ness, Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Friday 08 July 2011, 13:00-14:00 The optimal body shape for health and sports performanceAlan Nevill, University of Wolverhampton. Friday 17 June 2011, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars The Natural History and Predictive Factors of Long Term Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Analysis from the Hopkins Lupus CohortPenny Watson, School of Health and Related Research, The University of Sheffield. Tuesday 14 June 2011, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Assessing surrogacy using linear mixed models and the surrogate threshold effectDr. Sally Galbraith, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of New South Wales, Australia. Tuesday 07 June 2011, 14:30-15:30 Public Health Observatories, Public Health England and the future of public health intelligenceJulian Flowers, Eastern Region Public Health Observatory, IPH. Friday 03 June 2011, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Experience and challenges of applying Bayesian methods in food safety risk assessmentsDr. Marc Kennedy, The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), Risk and Numerical Sciences (RANS) team. Tuesday 17 May 2011, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Patterns of vulnerability in pregnancy and early childhood: Measurement, interactions, effect moderation and random coefficients in latent variable modelsAndrew Pickles, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Tuesday 05 April 2011, 14:30-15:30 Climate-friendly’ intakes of red and processed meat – already adopted by around one fifth of the UK population – would, if generalised, also lower chronic disease risksJohn Powles, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, and Louise Aston, Public Health Specialty Registrar, NHS Bedfordshire. Friday 18 March 2011, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Sensitivity of parameter estimates of marginal and random-effects models to missing dataRumana Omar, Department of Statistical Science, UCL. Tuesday 15 March 2011, 14:30-15:30 Title to be confirmedMark Cobain, Platform Director, Nutrition and Health, Unilever Discover. Friday 25 February 2011, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars A Causal Diagram Approach to Evidence SynthesisIan Shrier, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Canada. Tuesday 22 February 2011, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Dropouts in the AB/BA crossover designJohn Matthews, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University. Tuesday 15 February 2011, 14:30-15:30 Arizona’s Indians, American Samoans, Australian Aborigines - what links them together?Maximilian de Courten, Copenhagen. Friday 21 January 2011, 13:00-14:00 The impact of economic crisis on mental well-being and happinessDora Gudrun Gudmundsdottir, psychologist / a former Director of The Public Health Institute of Iceland. Friday 03 December 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Spatial prediction in the presence of positional errorThomas Fanshawe, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University. Tuesday 30 November 2010, 14:30-15:30 Child gambling and problem gamblingDavid Forrest, Professor of Economics, Centre for the Study of Gambling, University of Salford. Friday 26 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Modelling Relative Survival: Flexible Parametric Models and the Estimation of Net and Crude MortalityPaul Lambert, Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Leicester. Tuesday 16 November 2010, 14:30-15:30 Could Vaginal Lubricants Lead to Safer Sex in Africa?Robert Pool* and the Microbicide Development Programme Team, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research, University of Barcelona. Friday 05 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars The competing explanations: Frailty or individual development? Examples from cancer and from network theoryOdd Aalen, Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo. Tuesday 02 November 2010, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Modeling longitudinal observations with excess zeros and measurement error, with application to nutritional epidemiologyVictor Kipnis, National Cancer Institute, US. Thursday 21 October 2010, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Badger culling to control bovine TB - its potential role in a science-led policyChristl Donnelly, Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College, London. Tuesday 19 October 2010, 14:30-15:30 Self monitoring / management of BP and in particular the TASMINH2 trialRichard McManus, Professor of Primary Care Cardiovascular Research. Friday 15 October 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Model-based cluster analysis for structured dataSabine Landau, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. Monday 28 June 2010, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Modelling health scores with the multivariate skew normalJane Hutton, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick. Tuesday 22 June 2010, 14:30-15:30 Socio-economic inequalities in health dynamicsProf Amanda Sacker, University of Essex. Friday 04 June 2010, 13:00-14:00 Mind over Matter project to raise public understanding of brain donation - the contribution of very old people participating in longitudinal studiesDr Bronwyn Parry, Queen Mary University of London. Friday 21 May 2010, 13:00-14:00 Developmental overnutrition and risk of adverse cardiovascular health.Prof Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol. Friday 14 May 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Harnessing social networks for HIV surveillanceSimon Frost, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 11 May 2010, 14:30-15:30 Our Natural Health Service: Is contact with nature integral to healthcare or just another add on?Dr William Bird, Health Walk founder and Natural England's Strategic Health Advisor. Friday 30 April 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars A flexible regression approach using GAMLSSMikis Stasinopoulos, London Metropolitan University. Tuesday 20 April 2010, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Some issues for causal inference in observational epidemiologyNuala Sheehan, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester. Tuesday 16 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 How much Vitamin D do we need? : a perspective on current controversiesDr Ann Prentice, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge. Friday 12 March 2010, 13:00-14:00 Evidence synthesis for social and behavioural interventions: NICE's experience of developing public health guidanceProfessor Mike Kelly, NICE. Friday 26 February 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Regret-regression for optimal dynamic treatment regimesRobin Henderson, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Newcastle. Tuesday 23 February 2010, 14:30-15:30 Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do BetterProfessor Kate Pickett, Department of Health Sciences, University of York. Friday 19 February 2010, 13:00-14:00 Developmental overnutrition and risk of adverse cardiovascular health.Professor Debbie Lawlor, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol. Friday 05 February 2010, 13:00-14:00 Primary prevention of Hepatitis CDr Matthew Hickman, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol. Friday 29 January 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Modelling the association between patient characteristics and the change over time in a disease measure using observational cohort dataAndrew Copas, Centre for sexual health & HIV research, UCL. Tuesday 19 January 2010, 14:30-15:30 How Are Health Inequalities Doing in Scotland? Are We Sure We Know?Professor John Frank, Director of the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy. Friday 15 January 2010, 13:00-14:00 Importance of patient reported outcomes in cancer clinical trialsProf. Lesley Fallowfield, CRUK Sussex Psychosocial Oncology Group. Friday 04 December 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Emulation of random output (stochastic) models: theory and applicationDan Cornford, Non-linearity and Complexity Research Group, Aston University. Tuesday 01 December 2009, 14:30-15:30 The Golestan Cohort StudyProf. Reza Malekzadeh, Digestive Disease Research Centre, University of Tehran. Friday 20 November 2009, 13:00-14:00 Does comprehensive smoke-free legislation work? - The Scottish ExperienceProf. Jill Pell, University of Glasgow. Friday 13 November 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Generalized estimating equations for censored dataDaniel Farewell, Cardiff University. Tuesday 10 November 2009, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars The Value for Medical and Public Health Decisions of Adding Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Data to a Model for Breast Cancer RiskMitch Gail, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, USA. Tuesday 03 November 2009, 14:30-15:30 The I v Finland Judgment: Setting Boundaries for Research Ethics, Medical Privacy, and Health ITProf. Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Friday 30 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Estimation of time to pregnancy from current duration dataNiels Keiding, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen. Tuesday 27 October 2009, 14:30-15:30 Vital registration before vital Registration: parish registers, social security and population healthDr Simon Szreter, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Friday 23 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars A Bayesian dose-escalation procedure for phase I/II clinical trialsJohn Whitehead, Lancaster University. Tuesday 20 October 2009, 14:30-15:30 Healthy and unhealthy prisons.Colonel Clive Fairweather, Former Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland. Friday 09 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 Does interactive communication between collaborating primary care and specialist physicians improve patient outcomes?Prof. Robbie Foy, University of Leeds. Friday 12 June 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Generalized Multilevel Functional RegressionAna-Maria Staicu, University of Bristol. Tuesday 09 June 2009, 14:30-15:30 Risk estimation for complex genetic disordersProf. Cathryn Lewis, Statistical Genetics Unit, King's College London. Friday 05 June 2009, 13:00-14:00 Whole-genome linkage and association scan in primary, non-syndromic vesicoureteric reflux and reflux nephropathyProf. Heather Cordell, Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University. Friday 29 May 2009, 13:00-14:00 Constructionism: a very brief introductionPrpf. David Armstrong, King's College London. Friday 22 May 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars The use of baseline covariates in cross-over studiesMike Kenward, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Tuesday 19 May 2009, 14:30-15:30 Birth weight and the risk of cardiovascular diseaseProf. Gordon Smith, Department of Obsetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge. Friday 15 May 2009, 13:00-14:00 Cardiovascular disease prevention in the 21st Century. Risk, targets, polypills and public health.Prof. Jonathan Mant, General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit, University of Cambridge. Friday 08 May 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Individual Prediction in Prostate Cancer Studies Using a Joint Longitudinal-Survival ModelJeremy Taylor, University of Michigan. Monday 27 April 2009, 14:30-15:30 Thai health transition: a cohort study of open university studentsDr Christopher Bain, University of Queensland. Friday 24 April 2009, 13:00-14:00 Family matters: the use of family-based studies in life course epidemiologyDr Gita Mishra, MRC National Survey of Health and Development. Friday 13 March 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Hypothesis testing and estimation in a group sequential phase II/III clinical trialNigel Stallard, University of Warwick. Tuesday 10 March 2009, 14:30-15:30 Psychometric modelling in Psychiatric Epidemiology and Developmental Psychopathology research: some definitions, illustrations and examplesDr Tim Croudace, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge. Friday 06 March 2009, 13:00-14:00 Privatization and the Post-Communist Mortality CrisisDr Larry King, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. Friday 27 February 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Lessons from livestock - some things animal movements can tell us about social networks in epidemiologyRowland Kao, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 24 February 2009, 14:30-15:30 Healthy and Wealthy or Injured and Broke in the USADr William Hollingworth, University of Bristol. Friday 20 February 2009, 13:00-14:00 Monitoring the impact of two infection prevention programmes: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Immunisation & Chlamydia ScreeningDr Kate Soldan, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections. Friday 13 February 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Estimating the impact of school closure on influenza transmission from sentinel dataSimon Cauchemez, Imperial College London. Tuesday 27 January 2009, 14:30-15:30 Paternalism and well-beingProf. Avner Offer, University of Oxford. Friday 16 January 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars The Error Statistical PhilosophyProfessor Deborah G. Mayo, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Tuesday 09 December 2008, 14:30-16:30 Discovering the links between development and ageing: the contribution of the first national birth cohort study to the ‘taming of chance’Prof Diana Kuh, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing. Friday 05 December 2008, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Bayesian meta-analysis of genetic association studies using StataJohn Thompson, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester. Tuesday 02 December 2008, 14:30-15:30 Understanding the socio-environmental determinants of diet: current evidence, future directionsDr Steven Cummins, Queen Mary, University of London. Friday 28 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 Using genome-wide data to make biological inferences on complex genetic traits.Prof Peter Holmans, Cardiff University. Friday 21 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Modeling relationships between food intakes and health-related outcomes: zero-inflated data subject to measurement errorLaurence Freedman, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Sheba Medical Center, Israel. Tuesday 11 November 2008, 14:30-15:30 To take or not to take: the economics of taking medicinesProf Rachel Elliott, University of Nottingham. Friday 07 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 Cost effectiveness of Public Health programmes and interventions: NICE thinking.Dr Alastair Fischer, NICE. Friday 31 October 2008, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Multiply robust estimation of statistical interaction parametersStijn Vansteelandt, University of Ghent, Belgium. Tuesday 21 October 2008, 14:30-15:30 International differences in cancer survival: impact on cancer careProf Michel Coleman, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Friday 17 October 2008, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Transdimensional sampling algorithms for Bayesian variable selection in classification problems with many more variables than observationsJim Griffin, University of Kent. Tuesday 14 October 2008, 14:30-15:30 Mixed treatment comparisons meta-analysis: another cost-effective technology for the National Health Service?Dr Deborah Caldwell, University of Bristol. Friday 10 October 2008, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Hierarchical Evolutionary Stochastic Search with Adaptive ProposalsLeonardo Bottolo, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London. Tuesday 01 July 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Epidemiological models for a Respondent Driven SampleMärt Möls, University of Tartu, Estonia. Tuesday 24 June 2008, 14:45-15:45 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars A parametric approach to modeling changes in general health and cognition: developing a stochastic model of agingArnold Mitnitski, PhD, Department of Medicine, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Wednesday 18 June 2008, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Structure Ranking and System Identification for Non-Linear Biochemical Process Models: Inferring the Structure of the ERK Pathway via Bayes FactorsMark Girolami, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 10 June 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Focussed model selection and model averaging for the Cox regression modelGerda Claeskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Tuesday 03 June 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Dynamic predicting by landmarking as an alternative for multi-state modeling: an application to acute lymphoid leukemia dataHans van Houwelingen, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands. Tuesday 06 May 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Issues and controversies in life course epidemiologyBianca De Stavola, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Tuesday 08 April 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars New copulae from an order-statistics approachRose Baker, University of Salford. Tuesday 11 March 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars The evolution and adaptation of HIV-1 virulenceChristophe Fraser, Imperial College London. Tuesday 12 February 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Bayesian variable selection in generalized linear models under cost constraintsDavid Draper, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. Friday 08 February 2008, 14:15-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Graphical models for causal reasoning in epidemiologyVanessa Didelez, University of Bristol. Tuesday 15 January 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Building Models of Juvenile Salmon DemographyPaul Birrell, MRC Biostatistics Unit. Monday 17 December 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Non-ignorable missing data in parametric survival modelsKatherine Boyd, MRC Clinical Trials Unit. Tuesday 11 December 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Work in progress on the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care database: I modelling mortality using random effects regression, and II the development of quantitative indices reflecting provider 'process-of-care'Patty Solomon, Univerisity of Adelaide. Monday 12 November 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars What is the deviance information criterion?Martyn Plummer, International Agency for Research on Cancer. Thursday 25 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Online inference and prediction for infectious diseases: a case study in Avian InfluenzaGareth Roberts, University of Warwick. Tuesday 16 October 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Efficient Bayesian Segmentation of DNA dataPaul Fearnhead, University of Lancaster. Tuesday 25 September 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Graphical Data and Data Graphics in RPaul Murrell, University of Auckland. Thursday 12 July 2007, 11:30-12:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Identifying true positive associations in genome-wide association studiesJenny Barrett, University of Leeds. Tuesday 10 July 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars The Reporting of Associations in Genome-Wide StudiesJon Wakefield, University of Washington. Monday 09 July 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Inference for binary Markov random fields without tears (or MCMC).Nial Friel, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 05 June 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Representing uncertainty in numerical climate modelsNadja Leith, UCL. Tuesday 22 May 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Joint modelling of competing risks of drug withdrawal and quality of life in epilepsy trials.Paula Williamson, Centre for Medical Statistics and Health Evaluation, University of Liverpool. Tuesday 17 April 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Models for baseline and treatment effects in meta-analysisTony Ades, University of Bristol. Tuesday 27 March 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic models in structured populations based on final outcome dataPhilip O'Neill, University of Nottingham. Tuesday 20 February 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Medical statistics: A little bit of historyVern Farewell and Tony Johnson, MRC Biostatistics Unit. 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