20-minute neighbourhoods as an urban design concept to improve health and reduce health inequalities

Dr Jon Olsen, University of Glasgow.

MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 13:15-14:15

Seminar – Population nutrition: upstream/downstream

Speaker to be confirmed.

MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Wednesday 15 May 2024, 13:15-14:15

Seminar - Air pollution and health in the 21st Century

Dr Gary Fuller, Imperial College London.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Wednesday 06 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

Seminar – Precision approaches to improving obesity prevention in Queensland, Australia

Dr Oliver Canfell, University of Queensland.

MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Seminar – Independent and Joint Effects of Multiple Pollutants and their Interactions with Meteorological Variables on Stroke Hospitalization

Lei Li, Huazhong University of Science, China.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Wednesday 27 September 2023, 12:30-13:30

Do boutique cohort studies have a role in diabetes epidemiology?

Professor Timothy Davis, University of Western Australia.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Tuesday 12 September 2023, 13:00-14:00

Seminar - Diet-gut microbiome interaction for type 2 diabetes

Ju-Sheng Zheng, Westlake University, China.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 06 July 2023, 13:00-14:00

Seminar – UPF: a need for clarification to enhance public health policies

Dr Zoé Colombet, University of Liverpool.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Monday 15 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Agent based Modelling for Urban Health Impact Assessment

Tabea Sonnenschein, University of Utrecht.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Friday 12 May 2023, 09:00-10:00

Seminar – Physical Activity research: strengthening ties between Brazil and the United Kingdom

Dr Samuel Dumith, Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil.

MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Monday 20 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Obesity Prevention: The role of evidence in the policy cycle

Dr Tazeem Bhatia, Office of Health Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health and Social Care.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Monday 13 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Seminar - Diabetes No More: lessons from the DiRECT trial and beyond - Professor Mike Lean

Professor Mike Lean, University of Glasgow.

MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Monday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Seminar - Realising the health potential through sustainable built environment designs

Dr Ronita Bardhan, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Moving beyond one-size-fits-all: Exploring patterns of physical activity and sedentary behaviour across the lifespan

Dr Gregore Mielke, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Seminar - Using time use and trajectory data to unpack the interrelated geographies of food, care, and household labor

Dr Michael Widener, University of Toronto.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Historical and contemporary perspectives of the nutrition transition

Dr Cornelia Guell, University of Exeter.

Online.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Using administrative data linkage to create electronic birth cohorts: opportunities and challenges

Dr Katie Harron, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

Online.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 12:00-13:00

Policymaking: why it matters to us, how it works, what to do

Dolly Theis (MRC Epidemiology Unit), Dr Kelly Parsons (University Of Hertfordshire) & Dame Una O’Brien (Independent advisor and expert on health policy).

Online.

Monday 19 July 2021, 12:00-13:15

Policymaking: why it matters to us, how it works, what to do

Dolly Theis (MRC Epidemiology Unit), Dr Kelly Parsons (University Of Hertfordshire) & Dame Una O’Brien (Independent advisor and expert on health policy).

Online.

Monday 19 July 2021, 12:00-13:15

Integrating diverse data sets to improve causal inference

Professor Judith Green, University of Exeter..

Online.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

From a pragmatic weight management intervention to bariatric surgery

Dr Helen Parretti, University of East Anglia..

Online.

Tuesday 23 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

Health as an asset: estimating the causal effects of health conditions and health behaviours on social and economic outcomes using Mendelian randomization

This 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.

Online.

Tuesday 15 September 2020, 11:00-12:00

Seminar – Gestational Diabetes: a nutritional disorder?

Dr Claire Meek, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, UK..

Online.

Monday 22 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

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..

Online.

Tuesday 09 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Movement behaviours and cognitive development in early childhood: Evidence, insights and interventions from South Africa

Dr Catherine Draper, MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand..

Online.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

Seminar – Systems approaches to obesity: The lived experience of young people

Dr Wendy Wills, Professor of Food and Public Health, Director of the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care..

Online.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:00

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..

Online.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 11:00-12:00

Seminar – Movement behaviours and parenting in the first two years of life

Dr Alessandra Prioreschi, Associate Director of the SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand..

Online.

Thursday 16 April 2020, 11:00-12:00

Seminar – How does it work? Using process tracing methods to study policy processes

Professor Derek Beach, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark..

Online.

Wednesday 08 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

Introducing the Propensity to Cycle Tool and explaining the new health impact calculation methods

Dr Anna Goodman, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Dr Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster, London..

Online.

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 11:00-12:00

Healthy Cities from the Bottom Up: A Human-centred Approach to Urban and Transport Planning

Dr Andy Hong, Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford..

Online.

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Seminar – How does it work? Using process tracing methods to study policy processes

Professor Derek Beach, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark..

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 12:30-13:30

Applications of geospatial data and methods in environmental epidemiology

S.M. Labib, Department of Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), University of Manchester..

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Assessing the impacts of the introduction of South Africa’s tax on sugar-sweetened beverages

Nicholas 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.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Seminar - Community engagement to prevent and control of diabetes in Bangladesh - Dr Ed Fottrell

Dr 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

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

Transforming Healthcare through Prevention - Ageing Well on a national scale: achieving the balance between fitness and frailty

Register 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

Nutritional Psychiatry: recent advances in evidence for diet and nutrition for mental and brain health

Professor 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

Seminar – Overview of Road Safety Globally

Dr 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

Seminar – Responding to Revolution; Utilising new methods to explore the relationship between transport, health and urban design

Dr Jason Thompson, University of Melbourne, Transport, Health and Urban Design Research Hub..

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 27 June 2019, 12:30-13:30

Seminar – Flavio Toxvaerd, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Dr 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

Seminar – Longitudinal growth modeling: a tool for genetic discovery

Dr 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

Real life investigations of Sustainability Conundrums: Drawing together Human Behaviour and Living Lab approaches

Dr Amy Munro-Faure, Living Laboratory for Sustainability, University of Cambridge.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Seminar – Social Networks for Health Behaviour Change

Dr 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

CIPH Seminar – Improving access to primary care – evidence from a cluster feasibility trial using a realist perspective

Dr John Ford, NIHR Doctoral Fellow in Public Health, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia.

Seminar room 11, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus Cambridge, CB2 0SP United Kingdom.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Seminar – The nexus between food literacy, food security and disadvantage

Professor 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

Seminar – Can we promote physical activity at the population level? Findings from a community-based cluster randomised trial and a sport fandom-based app study

Dr Masamitsu Kamada, University of Tokyo.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Friday 19 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Walking on sunshine: What is the evidence for the effects of walking on mental health?

Dr Paul Kelly, University of  Edinburgh, UK..

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Wednesday 26 September 2018, 12:30-13:30

Seminar by Chris Holmes, Shift Design

Chris Holmes, Shift Design.

Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Tuesday 24 July 2018, 12:30-13:30

Seminar – Evidence for healthy and equitable population food policies

Dr 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

Seminar – Using fiscal policies to improve the food supply and demand

Associate Professor Shu Wen Ng, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Lecture Theatre 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0SP.

Thursday 12 April 2018, 12:30-13:30

Seminar – Gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, mothers, and fathers

Associate 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

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

Seminar – The Cambridge Sustainable Food Hub

Duncan 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

Tackling obesity in England: a policy journey

Dr 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

Pathways to healthy urban living

Professor Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, ISGlobal, The Barcelona Institute for Global Health..

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 12:30-13:30

Seminar – Implications of Brexit on the effectiveness of the UK soft drinks industry levy upon coronary heart disease in England: a modelling study

Evi Seferidi, Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 12:30-13:30

The supermarket food environment and the promotion of healthier purchasing behaviour

Dr Adrian Cameron, Senior Research Fellow at the Deakin University Global Global Obesity Centre (GLOBE)..

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 04 January 2018, 12:00-13:00

Building your best day: combining compositional analysis and optimisation theory

Professor Tim Olds, School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Global trade in food and agriculture and the risk of non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countries

Dr 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

Early Life Undernutrition Alters Cardiac Muscle Development Resulting in Reduced Physical Activity Engagement and Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

David 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

Evidence and policy in public health: reflections from Public Health England

Dr 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

Seminar – Risk scores, risk communication and public health

Professor Simon Griffin.

Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, CB2 3AP.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 17:30-19:00

Seminar – Effects of Macronutrient Distribution on Weight Change and Related Cardiometabolic Profiles in Healthy Non-Obese Chinese: A Randomized, Clinical Trial

Professor 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

Food marketing regulation and childhood obesity prevention

Professor Amandine Garde, Law & Non-Communicable Diseases, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool..

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

A life-course investigation of influences on physical inactivity stability and change: findings from the 1958 British Birth Cohort

Dr 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

Modelling cardiovascular and metabolic disease using transgenic zebrafish

Dr 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

Greedy genes: the role of appetite in genetic susceptibility to obesity

Dr Clare Llewellyn, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

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

A Capital Appetite: The Political Economy of UK Sugar Consumption

Dr 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

Science publishing – behind the scenes at Nature

Dr 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

The contribution of physical activity to increased life expectancy

Professor 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

Tackling obesity with Big Data – Seminar 16/03/16 – methods & models

Dr 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

Estimating the global burden of disease attributable to excess sodium within the GBD2010 study

Dr 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 Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Jennifer Badham & Dr Ruth Hunter

Read 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 Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Derek Yach

Dr 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 Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Professor Larry Frank

Professor Larry Frank, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia.

MRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Tuesday 08 December 2015, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Audrey de Nazelle

DrAudreyde Nazelle, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London.

MRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Friday 27 November 2015, 13:30-14:30

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Janis Baird & Dr Christina Vogel

Dr 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 Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Prof Atul Singhal

Professor Atul Singhal, Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH).

MRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Dafna Merom

Dr Dafna Merom.

Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

Monday 19 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

“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

Modelling health gain and cost (savings) from prevention: tobacco tax and food taxes and subsidies

Prof 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

Sitting time and chronic disease prevention: strengthening the evidence base

Please 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

Use of novel technologies to explore effective ways to improve population diets: policy-relevant research from New Zealand

https://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

Designing cities to improve health and well-being: contributions from the HABITAT multilevel longitudinal study of Brisbane (Australia) neighbourhoods

Please 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

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

The association between multimorbidity, healthcare utilisation and out-of-pocket spending in 22 countries: evidence from WHO SAGE and SHARE

Dr 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

Multiple Interacting Diseases and Risk Factors - the UK Health Forum's MIDRIF program

Dr 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

Novel Group-dynamics Approaches to Physical Activity Promotion Across the Lifespan

Please 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

A physical activity and fundamental movement skill intervention for children attending primary schools in low-income communities: The SCORES cluster RCT

Please 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

Novel Group-dynamics Approaches to Physical Activity Promotion Across the Lifespan

Please 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

The Teenagers in Leisure Time (TiLT) study – A cluster analysis of adolescent screen time and sport participation

Please 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

Governing European public health nutrition policies – the role of harmonisation

Prof 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

Prospects for Primary Prevention: obesity prevention interventions across pregnancy and early life

Note 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

Becoming bilingual in transport & health to put research into practice

Lucy 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

Food Environments: defining, measuring and developing interventions

Dr 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

Paving bicycling’s path to redemption in the future of active travel

Note 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

The impact of taste variety in infancy

Dr 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

Small, medium, large or supersize: Prices and Portions

Dr 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

Social inequalities in the 2004 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study

Please 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

How the environment shapes health-behaviours

Dr Carlijn Kamphuis, Postdoctoral Researcher, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Netherlands.

MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 12:30-13:30

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

A Better Start: ‘what works’ to improve nutrition in 0-3 year olds

Professor Carolyn Summerbell, Durham University.

IMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2.

Wednesday 18 December 2013, 12:30-13:30

Tackling the epidemic of diabetes in South Asians: reflections on the results of the Prevention of Diabetes and Obesity in South Asians (PODOSA) trial

Professor Raj Bhopal, Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health Centre for Population Health Sciences University of Edinburgh.

MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

The trials and tribulations of school based cluster randomised controlled trials to improve dietary quality in children

Please 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.

IPH large seminar room.

Friday 22 November 2013, 12:30-13:30

Going beyond public health nutrition: healthy and environmentally sustainable food choices

Dr Jennie Macdiarmid, Senior Research Fellow, Public Health Nutrition Research group, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen.

MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

Toward an understanding of the barriers to and facilitators of dietary change

Petra 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

An Epidemiologist’s View of Obesity Prevention Research

June Stevens, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, AICR/WCRF Chaired Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill .

MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Wednesday 25 September 2013, 12:30-13:30

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

Lifestyle and cancer prevention – the elephant in the room

Professor 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..

MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Wednesday 03 July 2013, 12:30-13:30

Is the price right? The feasibility and effectiveness of food pricing strategies to stimulate healthy eating

Dr 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

The BioSHaRE project

Professor Ronald Stolk, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Gronigen.

MRL meeting rooms 1 & 2, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) .

Monday 17 June 2013, 12:00-13:00