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SUMMARY:How can researchers better engage  with national and global policy
 making? - Charlotte Watts (DfID)\, Peter Sellen (Education Policy Institut
 e)\, Roy Head (CEO of DMI) and Pauline Rose (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:*Professor Charlotte Watts* is Chief Scientific Adviser to the
  Department for International Development\, where she is Director of the R
 esearch and Evidence Division. Charlotte is seconded from the London Schoo
 l of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine\, where she is a Professor in Social an
 d Mathematical Epidemiology.  She is a global expert on HIV and on violenc
 e against women\, with her work over the past twenty five years spanning a
 nalyses of the social\, economic and gendered determinants of HIV risk\, m
 athematical modelling of disease trajectories\, intervention design and ev
 aluation\, economic evaluation and co-financing approaches.\n\n*Peter Sell
 en* is Chief Economist at the Education Policy Institute. Between 2006 and
  2016 Peter worked as a Government economist\, including time in the Depar
 tment for Education as Head of Teachers and Teaching Analysis\, and Head o
 f Economics\, Evaluation & Appraisal at the Education Standards Directorat
 e. He has previously worked as an economic adviser on Infrastructure and G
 rowth Strategy at HM Treasury and as head of affordable housing economics 
 at Communities and Local Government.\n\n*Roy Head* is the CEO of Developme
 nt Media International. DMI has conducted the first scientific trial to pr
 ove that mass media can change health-related behaviours and is ranked by 
 GiveWell.com as one of the most cost-effective charities in the world. Roy
 ’s earlier career included time as a BBC television producer\, as a mana
 ger of UN radio and television campaigns in war zones\, and as founder of 
 the BBC’s own health campaigns charity.\n\n*Pauline Rose* is Director of
  the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the Unive
 rsity of Cambridge\, and Senior Research Fellow at the UK Department for I
 nternational Development.\n\nRegister your attendance at https://researchp
 olicymaking.eventbrite.co.uk
LOCATION:Boulind Room\, Mary Allen Building\, Homerton College\, Hills Roa
 d\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PH
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