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MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "IV-learner: learning conditional average treatment effects using instrumental variables"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0od-CorDouHdEyadWd2HkaL_HUObpPwuoJ

UserKarla Diaz Ordaz, University College London .

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 19 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

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

UserPeter Kirwan, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 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

UserIda Scheel, University of Oslo.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 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

UserYu Luo, Kings College London.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 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

UserRenate Meyer, University of Aukland.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 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

UserJoshua Warren, Yale School of Public Health.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 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

UserChristian Madsen, University of Melbourne.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockThursday 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

UserProf Niels Peek, THIS Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 21 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

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

UserRob Deardon, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Calgary.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockThursday 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

UserDimitris Rizopoulos, Professor of Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam.

HouseOnline Seminar.

ClockTuesday 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

UserMarcos Matabuena, Harvard University .

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockThursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar - Social justice and health equity

UserProfessor Sir Michael Marmot, Institute of Health Equity and UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health.

House Webinar (via Teams).

ClockWednesday 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

UserMagdalena Strauss, European Bioinformatics Institute .

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 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

UserIda Scheel, University of Oslo.

HouseOnline Seminar.

ClockTuesday 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

UserAndrew Yiu, University of Oxford.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 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

UserPaul Newcombe, GlaxoSmithKline.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 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

UserRhonda Szczesniak and Emrah Gecili, both from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 12 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

UserGiorgos Minas, St Andrew's University.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 05 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

UserDan Jackson, AstraZeneca.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 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

UserRichard Guo, Stas Lab, University of Cambridge.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Primary Care

We need to talk about the workers: researching the health and social care workforce

Annual Lecture, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research (CCHSR)

UserJill Manthorpe CBE, Professor Emerita, King’s Policy Institute, King’s College London.

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 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.

UserProfessor Alexander Bird.

House Heart and Lung Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

ClockThursday 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

UserSilvia Del Din, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle Univerisity.

HouseComputer Lab, FW11 and Online (zoom link on this page).

ClockTuesday 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

UserDr F. Javier Rubio, University College London.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Using wearable-derived cardiac signals to predict cardiovascular events

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89965171767?pwd=RlJSUCtaVHlPL0laTzM2VzB6d1V6UT09

UserMichele Orini, Institute of Healthcare Engineering, UCL.

HouseComputer Lab, FW11 and Online.

ClockTuesday 17 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Statistics and Data Analytics in the Film Industry

UserAllègre L. Hadida, Cambridge Judge Business School & Magdalene College.

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

ClockTuesday 10 October 2023, 19:15-21:30

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

UserSam Livingstone, University College London.

HouseMRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

ClockTuesday 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 Diabetes

UserProfessor Zach Gerhart-Hines, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen.

Housein person & via zoom .

ClockTuesday 03 October 2023, 13:15-14:15

Primary Care

General Practice in Crisis: is there a positive future? IN-PERSON

Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research "In Conversation"

UserProfessor Martin Marshall CBE, Chair of the Nuffield Trust, Emeritus Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL, Board member at Royal Devon University Foundation Trust.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College.

ClockThursday 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

UserDr Lampros Bouranis, Athens University of Economics and Business.

HouseOnline Seminar.

ClockTuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

UserMélanie Prague, Inria, University of Bordeaux.

HouseOnline Seminar.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

UserProf Dave Woods, University of Southampton.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 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

UserStef Baas, University of Twente.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar - Social justice and health equity – Professor Sir Michael Marmot

UserProfessor Sir Michael Marmot, Institute of Health Equity.

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

ClockWednesday 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

UserProf Mats Stensrud, EPFL.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 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

UserDr Tim Morris, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

UserDr Sam Tickle, University of Bristol.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species

Host - Richard Durbin

UserProfessor Steve Horvath from Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA .

HouseBiffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 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

UserDr Simone Tiberi, Universita di Bologna.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 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

UserProf Arkaprava Roy, University of Florida.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockFriday 16 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Primary Care

The potentials and pitfalls of digital healthcare in the 21st Century

CCHSR Annual Lecture 2022

UserProfessor Jonathan Benger CBE MD FRCS FRCEM, interim Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) for NHS England.

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockWednesday 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

UserProfessor Bhramar Mukherjee, John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 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

UserDr Karen Lamb, University of Melbourne.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 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

UserProf Christopher Yau, University of Oxford .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 10 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

UserDr Thomas Burnett, University of Bath.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

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

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain is Built

UserProfessor Bill Harris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 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

UserLorin Crawford, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Brown University .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 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?

UserProf. Stephen Baker, Cambridge Inst. for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 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

UserDavid Balding, Honorary Professor of Statistical Genetics at UCL Genetics Institute and University of Melbourne.

HouseSeminar Rooms 1 & 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

ClockMonday 22 August 2022, 15:30-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Integrating Genomics and Multi-omics at Population Scale for Disease Insights

TGM126 - Cambridge Mathematics of Information in Healthcare Hub (CMIH) - Academic Engagement Event

UserAdam Butterworth (University of Cambridge).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 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

UserDr Elizabeth Williamson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine .

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 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

UserProf William Rosenberger, George Mason University.

HouseSeminar Room 12, School of Clinical Medicine, Hills Rd, Cambridge CB2 0SP.

ClockTuesday 05 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Historical and contemporary perspectives of the nutrition transition

UserDr Cornelia Guell, University of Exeter.

HouseOnline.

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

CRASSH

'Ethno-Science': Recent reflections on bioprospecting | gloknos Research Group

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

Medical Staff Round

Title: Travelling Communities: Challenging Misconceptions

User Presenter: Dr Kathryn Dixon.

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 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

UserDan Swerdlow, Silence Therapeutics .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 14 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

El-Erian Institute Events

"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

UserProf Cass R Sunstein, Harvard Law School.

HouseFitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College, Cambridge .

ClockWednesday 08 June 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism

UserProfessor Simon Baron Cohen, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 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

UserBatuhan Arasli, University of Maryland.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 19 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

The future of cancer screening: stratified, pan, both or neither?

UserProfessor Peter Sasieni, King’s Clinical Trials Unit, King’s College London.

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

ClockWednesday 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

UserDr Lizzi Pitt, University of Bath.

HouseSeminar Room 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

ClockTuesday 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 Series

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required

UserDr Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft Research.

HouseAuditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

ClockMonday 09 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture Series

Consumer Healthcare - Finding Research that Changes the World

Talk is presented in person at CGC Seminar room or online, register for online access at: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/88168435422

UserTom Watt, Claudia Maw, Philip James. GSK Consumer Healthcare.

HouseElectrical Engineering, Department of Engineering - CGC Seminar Room, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FA.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Developments in Photoplethysmography

Clinical applications of photoplethysmography

UserJohn Allen, Coventry University; Panicos Kyriacou, City University of London.

HouseOnline - see registration link.

ClockThursday 28 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

Brain and behavioural impacts of early life adversity

UserProfessor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychology/Psychiatry.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 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

UserProf Trevor Campbell, The University of British Columbia .

HouseThis will be a virtual seminar. FREE registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rc-2vpz4qHNxdJ4Cm4hyLEn4BVOG5YcIt .

ClockTuesday 26 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Giving Voice to Digital Democracies

Children and artificial intelligence: risks, opportunities and the future

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/children-and-artificial-intelligence-risks-opportunities-and-the-future-tickets-266694980867

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 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/Health

TGM119 - Socio-Economic Determinants of Coronavirus in the UK

UserJeanelle de Gruchy (Department of Health and Social Care).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 05 April 2022, 15:15-15:45

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Talk 7 - The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities

TGM119 - Socio-Economic Determinants of Coronavirus in the UK

UserClare Bambra (Newcastle University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockTuesday 05 April 2022, 14:45-15:15

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

The UKHSA/University of Cambridge Real-time Pandemic Modelling Project

TGM117 - Epidemic Models: Insights from the RAMP Project

UserPaul Birrell (UK Health Security Agency).

HouseNo Room Required.

ClockThursday 24 March 2022, 14:15-14:45

Bradford Hill Seminars

Epidemiology and control of COVID-19 in Hong Kong

UserProfessor Benjamin Cowling, School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong.

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

ClockWednesday 23 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Neighbourhood Disadvantage, Everyday Urban Mobility, and Well-Being

UserProfessor Robert J Sampson, Harvard University.

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

ClockWednesday 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

UserMatt Tudball, University of Bristol.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 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

UserDr David Hughes, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 01 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 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.

UserProf Sarah Langley, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU, Singapore.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 23 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Primary Care

Universal NHS healthcare: has the pandemic changed the promise?

CCHSR Annual Lecture 2021

UserCharlotte Augst, Chief Executive, National Voices .

HouseOnline panel format.

ClockThursday 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

UserProfessor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 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

UserDr Heejung Shim, Melbourne Integrative Genomics (MIG), University of Melbourne.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 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.

UserDr Glen Martin, University of Manchester.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockFriday 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.

UserProf Ian Marschner, University of Sydney.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 14 September 2021, 09:30-10:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

Primary Care

Mentalising, Epistemic Trust and Attachment: Changing Theories and their Practice Implications

Book Launch: Robbie Duschinsky and Sarah Foster's 'Mentalising and Epistemic Trust: The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre.'

UserChair: Dr Dickon Bevington, Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the NHS, and Medical Director for Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockThursday 15 July 2021, 18:00-19:00

Babraham Seminar

Research Ecosystems, Cognitive Bias and Incentives

This webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required.

UserProf. Marcus Munafò; MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol .

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockWednesday 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.

UserDr Vitor Hadad, Stanford University.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 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.

UserProf David Knowles, Columbia University.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 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.

UserProfessor Joseph Jay Williams, University of Toronto .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Integrating diverse data sets to improve causal inference

UserProfessor Judith Green, University of Exeter..

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 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.

UserKelly Zhang, Harvard University.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Babraham Seminar

The biology of CNS progenitor ageing

This webinar will be online via zoom. No registration required.

UserProf. Robin Franklin; Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell institute, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockWednesday 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.

UserProfessor David Dunson, Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University, USA.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockWednesday 31 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

From a pragmatic weight management intervention to bariatric surgery

UserDr Helen Parretti, University of East Anglia..

HouseOnline.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

UserMr Marc Quinn, Artist.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana Fruk

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserDr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseYoutube https://youtu.be/e_AZzwsLbfw.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:00

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.

UserProfessor Thomas Braun, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 23 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

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.

UserDr Matteo Quartagno, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, UCL.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 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.

UserProfessor Richard Riley, Centre for Prognosis Research, School of Medicine, Keele University.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 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 health

Please register via https://www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/hhevents/the-covid19-pandemic-impact-on-thinking-and-practice-in-some-key-sectors-26-nov/

UserProfessor 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.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Who moves the Dial on Diversity and Inclusion?

UserProfessor Dame Sandra Dawson.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockWednesday 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.

UserAlessandra Luati, University of Bologna .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Primary Care

Closing the survival gap: The importance of screening and early diagnosis in improving cancer survival in England

CCHSR Annual Lecture

UserProfessor Sir Mike Richards.

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockThursday 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.

UserProfessor Richard Emsley, NIHR Research Professor, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 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.

UserDr Lan Wen, Harvard University .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 13 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

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“Misinformation, pseudoscience and the unhealthy commodity industries”

UserProfessor Mark Petticrew, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

ClockThursday 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.

UserProf Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University .

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 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

UserProfessor Gill Livingston, Division of Psychiatry, University College London .

House Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

ClockThursday 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 randomization

This seminar will be broadcast live online, please register in advance for this meeting: https://mrc-epid.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckcu6vqTwoHdNAY3h7JqDyxMYglX6JTQuT

UserDr Laura Howe, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol.

HouseOnline.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Gestational Diabetes: a nutritional disorder?

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

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 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.

UserProf Robin Evans, University of Oxford.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockTuesday 16 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar - The Greek National Survey on Health and Nutrition (the HYDRIA Project)

UserDr Elissavet Valanou, European Food Risk Assessment (EU-FORA) Fellow, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens..

HouseOnline.

ClockTuesday 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.

UserJoshua Bon, Queensland University of Technology.

HouseVirtual Seminar .

ClockThursday 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 Africa

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

HouseOnline.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 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).

UserDr Rachel Kelly, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA..

HouseOnline.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

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

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 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 methods

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

HouseOnline.

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

Primary Care

CANCELLED: How perspectives from social sciences can help address practical questions of healthcare improvement

Seminar from Applied Social Science Group, PCU

UserDr Alex Gillespie, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics, and Dr Mary Adams, Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London.

HouseThomas and Dorothy Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort’s Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN.

ClockTuesday 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 Planning

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

HouseOnline.

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

Primary Care

CANCELLED: Rethinking Medicine

Annual GP Lecture organised by Cambridge General Practice Education Group. PLEASE BOOK

UserDr Martin Marshall Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL, Improvement Science London and Chair-elect of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge CB2 0SP, United Kingdom.

ClockTuesday 17 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Paediatric Genomics - what have we learnt so far?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Brian H. Y. Chung, Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Paediatrics, Hong Kong University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 13 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Ageing: perspectives from cell to society

Call for poster abstracts now open

UserSpeakers incl. Prof Carol Brayne, Prof Nabeel Affara, Prof Andrew Flewitt, Prof Kay-Tee Khaw & Prof Peter Landshoff.

HousePavilion Room at Hughes Hall, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2020, 09:30-17:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Applications of geospatial data and methods in environmental epidemiology

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

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

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

UserNicholas 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.

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

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

Bradford Hill Seminars

Recent insights into drug resistant Shigella: a major contributor to the global diarrhoeal disease burden

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserStephen Baker, Professor of molecular microbiology, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease .

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Public Health Policy Talks

How can your research influence policy? Event for Post-Docs & Early Career Researchers

UserProf Jonathan Mant, Dr Clare Oliver-Williams, Dr Sarah Gentry & Caitlin Grant .

HouseSchool of Clinical Medicine, Lecture Theatre 2.

ClockMonday 13 January 2020, 12:00-14:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Food for health - food for thought

chair: Dr Graham Murray

UserProfessor Nita Forouhi, Programme Leader of the Nutritional Epidemiology programme, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge..

HouseWest Forvie Building Seminar Room, Forvie Site..

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 12:30-13:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Big data and small talk: why we need both

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProf. Nick Steel, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 29 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Advancing Human Health in the Era of Climate Change and Planetary Health: Lessons and Experiences from the Philippines

UserDr Renzo Guinto, Chief Planetary Doctor, PH Lab, Philippines Doctor of Public Health graduate, Harvard University, USA Visiting Fellow, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.

HouseSmall Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockMonday 18 November 2019, 13:15-14:15

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

UserProfessor 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.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Clueless Voting

UserImre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

HouseMRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

ClockWednesday 09 October 2019, 19:15-21:30

Your personal list

Behaviour Change by Design Annual Lecture 2019: Why Don’t We Stick with Behaviour Change?

UserWendy Wood, Provost Professor of Psychology and Business, University of Southern California.

HouseHoward Theatre, Downing College.

ClockThursday 26 September 2019, 18:00-19:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Overview of Road Safety Globally

UserDr 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..

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

ClockWednesday 18 September 2019, 12:30-13:30

Primary Care

Mental Health Without Well-being

Organised by the Applied Social Science Group at the Primary Care Unit

UserAnna Alexandrova Reader in Philosophy of Science, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Univ of Cambridge.

HouseClinical School, Seminar Room 10.

ClockMonday 08 July 2019, 14:45-15:45

Cambridge ESRC DTP Annual Lecture

Cambridge ESRC DTP Annual Lecture 2019 - The ‘HAVES’ and the ‘HAVE YACHTS’

UserProfessor Roger Burrows, Professor of Cities at Newcastle University.

HouseFaculty of Law, Room LG19, Sidgwick Site.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2019, 17:30-18:30

Primary Care

Public Engagement Activities around Patients’ Experiences within Institutions (Roundtable)

Health, Medicine and Agency CRASSH Research Network

UserDr Elizabeth Fistein (Cambridge), Dr Jenny Crane (Wellcome Trust), Dr Janet Weston (LSHTM).

HouseSeminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 04 March 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Solving the Reproducibility Crisis

UserNicole Janz, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham.

HouseThe Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 25 February 2019, 19:15-21:30

Primary Care

Patients, Expertise and New Markets (Roundtable)

Health, Medicine and Agency CRASSH Research Network

UserDr Marcin Smietana (Cambridge), Professor Wendy Kline (Purdue College of Liberal Arts), Dr Charlotte Faircloth (UCL).

HouseSeminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 18 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Longitudinal growth modeling: a tool for genetic discovery

UserDr Diana Cousminer, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Philadelphia.

HouseSeminar room 2, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, CB2 0SP.

ClockFriday 15 February 2019, 13:30-14:30

Primary Care

Prenatal Testing, Women and Risk: discussion with Dr Ilana Lowy on her new book

Health, Medicine and Agency CRASSH Research Network

UserDr Ilana Löwy, Research Director, CERMES-3 and visiting Professor, King's College London.

HouseSeminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 04 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Mapping Health: Why, How, Considering what ...

UserSylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit @ University of Cambridge.

HouseMRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

ClockMonday 21 January 2019, 19:15-21:30

Primary Care

Patients as Consumers and the Personalisation of Medicine (Reading Group)

Health, Medicine and Agency CRASSH Research Network

UserHealth, Medicine and Agency Reading Group.

HouseSeminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 21 January 2019, 17:00-19:00

Primary Care

Patients as Consumers and the Personalisation of Medicine (Reading Group)

Health, Medicine and Agency CRASSH Research Network

UserHealth, Medicine and Agency Reading Group.

HouseSeminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 21 January 2019, 17:00-19:00

THIS Institute

Engineering the patient-provider experience

UserDr Enid Montague, Associate Professor, College of Computing and Digital Media, DePaul University .

HouseSmall Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 08 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

THIS Institute

CCHSR Annual Lecture: Patient and public involvement in research: progress and challenges

Attendance is free but advanced registration is required.

UserProfessor Trish Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0RE .

ClockTuesday 20 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Why is cancer survival lower in England than in other high income countries?

UserSarah Walters & Sara Benitez Majano, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 19:15-21:30

Primary Care

PCU Twitter workshop

For members of the Primary Care Unit

UserIsla Kuhn, Medical Librarian, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2018, 12:30-14:00

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Behaviour Change by Design Annual Lecture 2018

UserDr David Halpern, Chief Executive of the Behavioural Insight Team.

House The Howard Theatre, Downing College.

ClockThursday 27 September 2018, 18:00-19:00

THIS Institute

Innovative Approaches for Improving Surgical Quality

UserProfessor Justin Dimick, Professor of Surgery, University of Michigan.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road.

ClockThursday 19 July 2018, 16:30-17:30

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 Change

Please reserve your place at: https://esrc-dtp-annual-lecture-2018.eventbrite.co.uk

UserProfessor 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.

HouseInstitute of Criminology, Rooms B3 and B4, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 14 June 2018, 17:30-18:30

Primary Care

Public Lecture: Development of social behaviour in children from infancy: neurobiological, relational and situational interactions

Convenor: St John’s College Reading Group on Health Inequalities

UserMarinus H. van IJzendoorn & Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Leiden University, University of Cambridge.

HouseOld Divinity School, St John's College, St John's Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

ClockFriday 01 June 2018, 17:00-18:00

Primary Care

Comparative perspectives on social inequalities in life and death: an interdisciplinary conference

This conference is organised by St John’s College Reading Group on Health Inequalities

UserMike 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 .

HouseOld Divinity School, St John's College, St John's Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

ClockFriday 01 June 2018, 10:00-16:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

The power of parenting support

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Leiden University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 18 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

BHRU Annual Lecture 2018

Changing Behaviour to Improve Health: from Research to Policy

UserProfessor Dame Theresa Marteau ( Behaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge).

House The Howard Theatre, Downing College.

ClockThursday 17 May 2018, 18:00-19:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The puzzle of adolescent depression

UserProfessor Shirley Reynolds, Professor of Evidence Based Psychological Therapies, University of Reading.

HouseSeminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

ClockThursday 17 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Is Primary Care Research important, and can it be led by primary care?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Richard Hobbs, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford .

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 04 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Primary Care

Childhood adversity and chronic disease: risks, mechanisms and resilience

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM, APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE GROUP over two evenings

UserGreg Miller and Edith Chen, Northwestern University, USA.

HouseOld Divinity School, St John's College, St John's Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

ClockThursday 29 March 2018, 17:00-19:00

Primary Care

Childhood adversity and chronic disease: risks, mechanisms and resilience.

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM, APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE GROUP over two evenings

UserGreg Miller and Edith Chen, Northwestern University, USA.

HouseOld Divinity School, St John's College, St John's Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

ClockWednesday 28 March 2018, 17:00-19:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

UserAssociate Professor Kaberi Dasgupta, McGill University and Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.

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

ClockWednesday 14 March 2018, 12:30-13:30

Primary Care

Not 'just a GP'

GP Annual Lecture 2018

UserProfessor David Haslam, Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge CB2 0SP, United Kingdom.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2018, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Solving the Reproducibility Crisis

UserNicole Janz, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Music Room, Downing College, Regent Street, Cambridge CB2 1DQ.

ClockThursday 01 March 2018, 19:15-21:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Why do policymakers seem to ignore your evidence?

UserProfessor Paul Cairney, Department of History and Politics, University of Stirling..

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

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – The Cambridge Sustainable Food Hub

UserDuncan Catchpole, founding committee member of Cambridge Sustainable Food.

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

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

THIS Institute

Common missteps with quality improvement interventions (and how you can avoid them)

UserDr Kaveh Shojania, Editor-in-Chief, BMJ Quality & Safety.

HouseClifford Albutt Lecture theatre, Clinical School.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Evidence is Not Enough: Towards a democratically legitimate role for evidence in health policymaking

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserDr Katherine Smith, Reader - Global Public Health Unit Social Policy, School of Social & Political Science, University of Edinburgh.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Primary Care

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age

Annual CCHSR Lecture

UserProfessor Robert Wachter, Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco .

HouseCancer Research UK Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 17:30-19:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Genetics and genomics: focus on value

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Martina Cornel, Clinical Genetics & Amsterdam Public Health research institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam .

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 06 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Primary Care

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

UserMerryn Gott, Professor of Health Sciences, University of Auckland.

HouseSeminar rooms, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 05 September 2017, 15:30-17:00

Primary Care

The Art & Science of Clinical Problem-Solving

Please register for this talk, which is organised by Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, RAND Professor of Health Services Research

UserProfessor 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).

HouseCancer Research UK Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 05 July 2017, 17:30-19:00

Primary Care

Primary Care Unit Away Day for Unit members

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseKaetsu Centre, Murray Edwards College.

ClockTuesday 20 June 2017, 10:00-16:30

PublicHealth@Cambridge

2017 PublicHealth@Cambridge Network Showcase

UserPeter 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 .

HouseMurray Edwards College (New Hall), Huntingdon Road CB3 0DF.

ClockWednesday 14 June 2017, 10:00-17:00

Primary Care

Socialising the Genome: talking to patients about genetics

All welcome to this Primary Care Unit seminar

UserDr Anna Middleton, Head of Society and Ethics Research at Wellcome Genome Campus.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 13 June 2017, 14:00-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

“Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendations”

UserProf Richard Emsley, Centre for Biostatistics, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge-Africa Programme

Rethinking Resilient Healthcare Systems in Contexts of Conflict in Uganda

Drinks and refreshments available after

UserDr Sarah Ssali, Makerere University.

HouseSeminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 22 May 2017, 17:00-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data not the data to the analysis

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Paul Burton, Professor of Data Science for Health, Newcastle University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 19 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Primary Care

Research Conference and Showcase - Research and Practice: Making the connections

Organised by Professor Christi Deaton at the Clinical Nursing Research Group

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block Keith Day Road CB2 0QQ .

ClockThursday 18 May 2017, 08:15-16:00

Primary Care

Lies, Damn'd lies and statistics: why it is (almost) impossible to communicate risk ethically

2017 Annual Symposium of the Applied Social Science Group at the Primary Care Unit. Refreshments for all served from 13.45

UserDr Stephen John, University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Public Health at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 16 May 2017, 14:00-15:30

Primary Care

Lies, Damn'd lies and statistics: why it is (almost) impossible to communicate risk ethically

This event is organised by the Applied Social Science Group at the Primary Care Unit

UserDr Stephen John, University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Public Health at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 16 May 2017, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Research outside of academia: How to be an asset in policy-related work

UserDr Amanda Aldercotte, Quantitative Researcher at the Equality Challenge Unit.

HouseRoom 606, Centre for Family Research.

ClockTuesday 09 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Public Health Policy Talks

Images of Care and Dying with Profs Jane Maher, Bill Noble & Emma Wilson

UserProfessor 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.

HouseSeminar rooms SG1 and SG2 Alison Richard Building.

ClockThursday 27 April 2017, 15:00-19:00

Primary Care

The Swedish model for CVD prevention: Public Health cultivation combined with individual health dialogues in Primary Care

Organised by the Prevention Research Group at the Primary Care Unit

UserProfessor Lars Weinehall, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockFriday 07 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Food marketing regulation and childhood obesity prevention

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

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

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

Primary Care

The politics of health system metrics, 1924-2000

This seminar is organised by the Applied Social Science Group at the Primary Care Unit and introduced by Professor Mary Dixon-Woods

UserMartin Gorsky, Professor in the History of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 21 March 2017, 14:00-15:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Is the NHS financially sustainable?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserJohn Appleby, Director of Research and Chief Economist, The Nuffield Trust & Visiting professor City University and Imperial College, London.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 10 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Primary Care

The future of General Practice: Opportunities, challenges and leadership with patients as our focus

All invited to reception after this lecture and there will also be a career forum looking at GP as a career

User Professor Helen Jayne Stokes-Lampard MBBS (Lon), FRCGP, PhD, DFSRH, DRCOG, LOC(IUS), Chair, RCGP.

HouseCancer Research UK Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2017, 17:30-19:30

Public Health Policy Talks

Images of Care and Dying with Claire Henry and Prof Sarah Cooper

UserClaire Henry, Chief Executive of the National Council for Palliative Care and Sarah Cooper, Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London.

HouseSeminar rooms SG1 and SG2 Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2017, 17:00-19:00

Primary Care

Managing demand and maintaining quality in emergency medicine: a view from the US on clinically efficacious flow

This event is organised by Professor Mary Dixon-Woods with Cambridge University Hospitals and CUHP

UserDr Carol Barsky M.D., M.B.A Vice President and Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer of Hackensack University Health Network, New Jersey.

HouseClifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre, Clifford Allbutt Building (former LMB building).

ClockTuesday 28 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Primary Care

Improving Diagnosis in the Era of Electronic Health Records

Organised by Dr Fiona Walter and the Cancer Group, Cambridge Primary Care Unit

UserDr Hardeep Singh, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston and Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center.

HouseThomas and Dorothy Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort’s Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Public Health Policy Talks

Images of Care and Dying with Drs Stephen Barclay and Steven Eastwood

UserDr 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.

House Seminar rooms SG1 and SG2 Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2017, 17:00-19:00

Primary Care

‘The present and future of primary care big data research’

ALL INVITED by the Primary Care Unit's CPRD Group

UserProfessor Deborah Saltman, Chair, Independent Scientific Advisory Committee, Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD).

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Modelling cardiovascular and metabolic disease using transgenic zebrafish

UserDr Marcel den Hoed, Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and SciLifeLab, Uppsala University..

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

ClockWednesday 14 December 2016, 12:30-13:30

Primary Care

Toward Eliminating Patient Harm

Please book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/toward-eliminating-patient-harm-lecture-by-dr-peter-pronovost-registration-29373716577

UserPeter 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.

HouseClifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre, Clifford Allbutt Building (former LMB building).

ClockThursday 08 December 2016, 16:30-17:30

Primary Care

Toward Eliminating Patient Harm

Please book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/toward-eliminating-patient-harm-lecture-by-dr-peter-pronovost-registration-29373716577

UserPeter 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.

HouseClifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre, Clifford Allbutt Building (former LMB building).

ClockThursday 08 December 2016, 16:30-17:30

Primary Care

A Brief History of NHS Politics 1948-2030

Annual Lecture of the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research, followed by reception

UserProfessor Martin Roland CBE, Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research, University of Cambridge.

HouseCancer Research UK Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 06 December 2016, 17:30-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Describing the HIV cascade of care using routine clinic and surveillance databases: methodological challenges

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserCaroline Sabin, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Healthcare.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 02 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Statistics Meets Public Health

Using statistics to estimate the extent of dementia in the population

UserProfessor Fiona Matthews, University of Newcastle and MRC Biostatistics Unit.

HouseHarrods Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge CB2 3AP.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 17:00-19:00

2016 Annual Public Health Conference & Lecture

Please register to confirm your place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2016-annual-public-health-conference-lecture-tickets-27875639789

UserProfessor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer for England .

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0RE .

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 10:30-19:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

What causes wellness? The social determinants of health

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserSir Harry Burns, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Strathclyde; former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 18 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Public Health Policy Talks

Images of Care and Dying with Prof Bee Wee and Dr Anna Elsner

UserProfessor Bee Wee, National Clinical Director for End of Life Care, NHS England, and Dr Anna Elsner, University of Zurich.

House McCrum Lecture Theate, Corpus Christi College. Bene’t Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 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?

UserDr Adrian Bauman, Sesquicentenary Professor of Public Health and Director of the Prevention Research Collaboration at the University of Sydney, Australia.

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

ClockWednesday 09 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Should we screen for diabetes and related cardiovascular risk?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Torsten Lauritzen, Department of Public Health, Institute of General Medical Practice, Aarhus University, Denmark..

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 04 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Pembroke College Talks

Can the UK cook its way to better health?

This talks is open to everyone. To register for a place at the lecture, please visit: https://cookscompany2016.eventbrite.co.uk

UserProfessor Martin White (MRC Epidemiology Unit, CEDAR).

HouseOld Library, Pembroke College.

ClockFriday 28 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

A Capital Appetite: The Political Economy of UK Sugar Consumption

UserDr Ben Richardson, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick..

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

ClockWednesday 19 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Primary Care

The epidemic of thyroid cancer - what’s new and what might come next

UserLouise Davies, Associate Professor of Surgery, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

HouseHerchel Smith Building, Seminar Room on the Ground Floor, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SZ .

ClockWednesday 12 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Primary Care

What’s new (and what isn’t) in improving quality and safety in healthcare

INAUGURAL LECTURE

UserProfessor Mary Dixon-Woods, RAND Professor of Health Services Research, University of Cambridge.

HouseCancer Research UK Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2016, 17:45-19:45

PublicHealth@Cambridge

Evolutionary hypotheses and early human development: findings from the Wirral Child Health and Development Study

Inaugural Annual Symposium for Applied Social Science Group, Primary Care Unit – in association with PublicHealth@Cambridge Network. Please register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/h8bz6c3

UserJonathan Hill, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Reading.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockMonday 10 October 2016, 14:00-16:00

Primary Care

Diagnostic tests in primary care – time to move beyond diagnostic accuracy?

Organised by Dr Fiona Walter and the Cancer Group, Cambridge Primary Care Unit

UserMatthew Thompson, Professor of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, US.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 27 September 2016, 13:00-14:00

PublicHealth@Cambridge

Political Economy of Public Health: Network Showcase 2016

UserMartin 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.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockTuesday 06 September 2016, 09:00-17:00

How can your research impact policy?

SPECIAL EVENT: ORGANISED TO PROMOTE POLICY ENGAGEMENT

UserProfessor Martin Roland with Dr Julian Huppert and Dr Leila Luheshi.

HouseHerchel Smith Building, Seminar Room on the Ground Floor, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SZ .

ClockMonday 18 July 2016, 10:00-11:30

BTRU Seminar Series

Behavioural Studies at Sanquin and Beyond

All welcome. Sandwiches/nibbles available from 12:30.

UserWim de Kort, Professor of Donor Health Care and Director of Donor Services, Sanquin Blood Supply.

HouseThomas Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 22 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Head and neck cancer: insights into aetiology and prognosis from a clinical cohort

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Andy Ness, Director, Bristol Nutrition Biomedical Research Unit, University of Bristol.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 10 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre "Distinguished Visitors" 2016 Lecture Series

"Frailty in older adults: implications for contemporary health care and clinical research"

UserDr. 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 .

HouseCRUK CRI lecture theatre - (Li Ka Shing Centre - Robinson Way).

ClockWednesday 25 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Making an impact on the public’s health and wellbeing in England

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Kevin Fenton, Director of Health and Wellbeing, Public Health England.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 06 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Risk prediction for primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases

UserLisa Pennells, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

HouseAmgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park.

ClockThursday 28 April 2016, 19:15-21:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

UK Biobank: opportunities and challenges

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Catherine Sudlow, Chair of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh and UK Biobank’s Chief Scientist and Senior Epidemiologist.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 22 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

BHRU Annual Lecture 2016

BHRU Annual Lecture 2016 - Electronic cigarettes: a disruptive technology?

UserLinda Bauld, Professor of Health Policy, Director of the Institute for Social Marketing, and Dean of Research at the University of Stirling. .

HouseRiley Auditorium, The Gillespie Centre, Clare College.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 18:00-19:30

BTRU Seminar Series

Malnutrition in resource-poor settings: finding simple solutions to complex problems

All welcome. Sandwiches/nibbles available from 12:30.

UserDr Christopher Charles, Vice President, Global Health at Canadian Federation of Medical Students.

HouseThomas Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 20 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Dietary priorities for obesity - are all calories created equal?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR - note this talk is on a Thursday

UserDean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy,.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre "Distinguished Visitors" 2016 Lecture Series

‘Achieving the WHO goal of “25 by 25” – The challenge for CVD prevention’

UserProf David A. Wood - Garfield Weston Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the International Centre for Circulatory Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.

HouseCRUK CRI lecture theatre - (Li Ka Shing Centre - Robinson Way).

ClockWednesday 06 April 2016, 16:30-17:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

UserDr Michelle Morris, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (Organizer).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2016, 09:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Seeing the wood as well as the trees: the importance of the ‘macro’ perspective for public health

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Richard Smith, Dean, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 11 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Measuring Ethnicity in the NHS

UserKatie Saunders, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College, Saint Andrews Street, Cambridge CB2 3BU.

ClockThursday 10 March 2016, 19:15-21:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

The quest for causal understanding of inequalities in health: holy grail or chimera?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Martin White, MRC Epidemiology Unit and the UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR); Director of the NIHR Public Health Research Programme.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

My Fisher: Memories of R.A. Fisher by his last student

UserAnthony Edwards, Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge.

HouseStatistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

ClockMonday 08 February 2016, 19:15-21:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

UserDr John Powles, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge..

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

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 11:00-12:00

Primary Care

The James Lind Initiative's contributions

All welcome - this talk is to launch the Primary Care Unit's new MPhil teaching programme

UserSir Iain Chalmers.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Primary Care

‘Where next for Academic Primary Care?’

UserDr Joanne Reeve, Associate Clinical Professor in General Practice, University of Warwick Chair, Society for Academic Primary Care.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockMonday 25 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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/

UserDr Jennifer Badham and Dr Ruth Hunter.

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

ClockMonday 18 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

BTRU Seminar Series

Registry Studies in Organ Donation and Transplantation

Lunch/refreshments from 12:30. All welcome.

UserProfessor Dave Collett, Associate Director of Statistics and Clinical Studies, Director of NHSBT Clinical Trials Unit.

HouseThomas Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 13 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Professor Larry Frank

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

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

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

Health Economics @ Cambridge

Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar

UserProf Larry King, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room at the Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site, Addenbrooke's Site, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 23 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

The Global Health Security Agenda

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Mika Salminen, Director of the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland and Chair of the Global Health Security Agenda.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 20 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

UserDr Janis Baird and Dr Christina Vogel, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology, University of Southampton.

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

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Title TBC

UserProf Walter Gregory, Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Leeds.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2015, 14:30-15:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Prof Atul Singhal

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

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

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

Bradford Hill Seminars

Academics, scientists and the future of medical publishing

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserDomhnall MacAuley, University of Ulster; Consultant-Associate Editor, Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) and PLOS Medicine.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Fundamental Fallacies of Finance

UserChris Rogers, Statistical Laboratory.

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2015, 19:15-21:30

Ebola in Context: taking action on the ground in Sierra Leone

Special talk - open to guests

UserJane Greatorex, Senior Research Scientist, PHE with Jonathan W. Ashcroft, Kaser Research Group, Cambridge, Julia Yelloly, Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network, PHE and Miriam Mason-Sesay MBE, EducAid.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockMonday 12 October 2015, 16:30-17:30

Public Health without Borders: The Role of Knowledge in an Interdependent World

This 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

UserDr Julio Frenk, President-Elect, University of Miami; Dean, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

HouseMartin Cohen Lecture Theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

ClockThursday 08 October 2015, 18:00-19:30

Primary Care

Title to be confirmed

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH SUMMER SERIES

UserMatt Sutton, Professor of Health Economics, University of Manchester.

HouseThomas and Dorothy Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 15 July 2015, 13:00-14:30

PublicHealth@Cambridge

Tracking the Brain Health of Older Adults in the United States: The Health and Retirement Study

UserKenneth M. Langa, MD, PhD, Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and Institute for Social Research University of Michigan, USA.

HouseSeminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockTuesday 07 July 2015, 13:00-14:00

Primary Care

“Prescribing safety in a world of multimorbidity and polypharmacy”

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH SUMMER SERIES

UserBruce Guthrie, Professor of Primary Care Medicine, University of Dundee.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockMonday 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?

UserProf Tony Okely, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Interdisciplinary Educational Research Institute (IERI), University of Wollongong, Australia.

HouseIMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockMonday 29 June 2015, 10:30-11:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

“Leveraging Social Psychological Theory to Understand Engagement with Personalized Genomic Information”

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserWilliam Klein, Associate Director, Behavioral Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 26 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Are all inequalities in heart disease unfair?

This seminar is organised by the Clinical Nursing Research Group led by Professor Christi Deaton and Dr. Ian Wellwood. All are welcome to attend. Light refreshments are available outside the seminar room from 13:45.

UserDr. M. Justin Zaman, James Paget University Hospital & UEA.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 25 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

Primary Care

“Motivating Medics: Pay ‘em or Flay ‘em?”

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH SUMMER SERIES

UserTim Doran, Professor of Health Policy, University of York.

HouseThomas and Dorothy Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

ClockThursday 18 June 2015, 13:15-14:45

Primary Care

“The Economics of Elevated Weekend Hospital Mortality”

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH SUMMER SERIES

UserMatt Sutton, Professor of Health Economics, University of Manchester.

HouseSMALL Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 17 June 2015, 13:00-14:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Sitting time and chronic disease prevention: strengthening the evidence base

Please note this is on Friday rather than Wednesday

UserDr Genevieve Healy, School of Public Health at The University of Queensland, Australia.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). .

ClockFriday 05 June 2015, 12:30-13:30

BHRU Annual Lecture 2015

What can history tell us about current health inequalities?

UserSpeaker: Simon Szreter, Professor of History and Public Policy, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Howard Theatre, Lecture Theatre, Downing College.

ClockThursday 04 June 2015, 18:00-19:00

Primary Care

‘Why is patient safety so hard?’

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH SUMMER SERIES

UserMary Dixon-Woods, Professor of Medical Sociology, University of Leicester.

HouseThomas and Dorothy Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort’s Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN.

ClockTuesday 02 June 2015, 13:00-14:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

UserDr Helen Eyles, National Institute for Health Innovation, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

HouseIMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockMonday 01 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Health Economics @ Cambridge

Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar

UserPhilip Chen, PhD Student, Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Genetics in drug discovery and development

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserJohn Whittaker, Professor and Vice President of Statistical Platforms and Technologies at GSK.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 08 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The cost of saving nature: how much and is it a price worth paying

UserDonal McCarthy, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

HouseAmgen Limited, Cambridge Science Park.

ClockThursday 07 May 2015, 19:15-21:30

Cancer Genetic Epidemiology Seminar Series

Genetic susceptibility to radiation-induced toxicity

UserDr Laura Fachal, Leila Dorling, Dr Gill Barnett, University of Cambridge.

HouseThomas Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2015, 11:15-12:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Capacity Building for Tobacco Research and Control in Eastern Europe

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserKristie Foley, PhD, Professor and Director, Medical Humanities and Public Health, Davidson College, USA.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cancer Genetic Epidemiology Seminar Series

Genotype imputation

UserDr Kyriaki Michailidou, University of Cambridge, and Dr Jonathan Tyrer, University of Cambridge.

HouseThomas Strangeways Room, Strangeways Research Laboratory.

ClockMonday 20 April 2015, 11:15-12:00

Primary Care

“Disorganised Attachment: A Lens on Self-Dysregulation and Health”

SOCIAL SCIENCES IN PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH

UserDr Robbie Duschinsky, Research Lead and Reader in the Department of Social Work and Communities at Northumbria University.

HouseSMALL Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 15 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Primary Care

“Doing quality improvement in primary care - fitting intervention to context”

SOCIAL SCIENCES IN PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH

UserDr Natalie Armstrong, Senior Lecturer in Social Science Applied to Health, University of Leicester.

HouseHerchel Smith Building, Seminar Room H139.

ClockTuesday 14 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Title to be confirmed

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserDean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, .

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 14 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Title to be confirmed

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserDean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy,.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 14 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

How and why would you do data science in health?

UserDr Philippe Giabbanelli, Investigator Scientist, Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

ClockMonday 16 March 2015, 15:00-16:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Valuing the economic benefits of complex interventions: when maximising health is not sufficient

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Katherine has an international reputation for the economics of genetic technologies and services

UserProfessor Katherine Payne, Manchester Centre for Health Economics, University of Manchester.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 13 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Assessing causality in perinatal and developmental epidemiology

BRADFORD 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

UserProfessor Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol, MSc(Lond), MBChB, PhD(Bristol), MPH(Leeds), MRCGP, MFPHM Professor of Epidemiology.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 06 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge-Africa Programme

Bush, Bench and Bedside: Nutrition Research in Rural Gambia (King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar)

Wine will be served from 17:45

UserProfessor Andrew Prentice: Head of the MRC International Nutrition Research Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and MRC Keneba, MRC Unit, The Gambia.

HouseWine Room, King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 18:00-19:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

What counts as evidence? Some reflections on what counts as 'good enough' evidence in public health

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Mark's main research interests are in evidence-based policymaking, systematic reviews, and the evaluation of the health effects of social policies

UserMark Petticrew, Professor of Public Health Evaluation, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 13 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

Please note this talk is on Thursday, not the usual Wednesday

UserDr Mark Beauchamp, Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Canada.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). .

ClockThursday 18 December 2014, 12:30-13:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Enlightened Aging: How the Baby Boom Generation can change tomorrow's Long Old Age

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: In this seminar, Dr Larson will draw on his work on Aging and dementia/brain function.

UserProf. 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.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 05 December 2014, 13:00-14:00

Caring for Dying People - what matters?

Annual CCHSR Lecture

UserRabbi Baroness Neuberger DBE Senior Rabbi, West London Synagogue.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0RE .

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Revisiting the use of families in complex genetic disease studies

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Heather J. Cordell, Professor of Statistical Genetics, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 21 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Reflections on a career as a professional statistician and the increasing value of the role of professional bodies

UserTrevor Lewis, PhD, CStat, CSci, PStat, Director, TLwise Consulting Limited and RSS Theme Director for Professional Affairs.

HouseDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambidge.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 19:15-21:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

Please note this talk is on Thursday, not the usual Wednesday

UserDr Mark Beauchamp, Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Canada.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). .

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 12:30-13:30

REDUCING CVD GLOBALLY — FROM RESEARCH TO ACTION

This is the Inaugural Annual Cambridge Public Health Lecture - registration is essential

UserDr SALIM YUSUF MD (Bangalore), DPhil (Oxford), MRCP McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.

HouseMartin Cohen Lecture Theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Adaptive dose-finding designs to identify multiple doses that achieve multiple response targets

Please note change to original date

UserAdrian Mander, MRC Biostatistics Unit Hub for Trials Methodology Research.

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 19:15-21:30

Recent cannabis policy experiments in the USA and Uruguay: What are they and what are their implications?

UserWayne Hall, Professor of Addiction Policy, National Addiction Centre, Kings College London, and Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research University of Queensland.

HouseHerchel Smith building, Forvie Site, ground floor Seminar Room.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

What does experiential knowledge contribute to public health evidence to reduce health inequalities?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Jennie Popay, Sociology and Public Health, Division of Health Research, Lancaster University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 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 participation

Please note this talk is on Tuesday, not the usual Wednesday

UserHelen Brown, Lecturer, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University.

HouseMeeting rooms, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC). .

ClockTuesday 14 October 2014, 12:30-13:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Genomics and Ageing Well

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor David Melzer, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Exeter Medical School.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 10 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Governing European public health nutrition policies – the role of harmonisation

UserProf Monique Raats, Director: Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre, University of Surrey. .

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

ClockWednesday 08 October 2014, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge University Global Health Society

Privatisation of the NHS

UserProfessor Allyson Pollock; Professor of Public Health Research and Policy at Queen Mary University, London.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 03 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

Note Thursday, not Wednesday

UserDr Karen Campbell, Associate Professor, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University.

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

ClockThursday 25 September 2014, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Becoming bilingual in transport & health to put research into practice

UserLucy Saunders, Consultant in Public Health, Greater London Authority and Transport for London.

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

ClockWednesday 30 July 2014, 12:30-13:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Global Burden of Disease: from Global to Local

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Adrian is Public Health England's Director of Population Health Science

UserProfessor Adrian Davis.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 30 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Food Environments: defining, measuring and developing interventions

UserDr Amelia Lake, Lecturer in Knowledge Exchange in Public Health at the Centre for Public Policy & Health, University of Durham .

HouseIMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

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

UserProfessor Greg Rubin, GP and Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at Durham University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 09 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

Note this seminar is on a Friday, not the usual Wednesday.

UserProfessor Kevin Krizek, Environmental Design and Transport, University of Colorado.

HouseMRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms, IMS Level 3, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockFriday 02 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Counting the Emperor

Please note further change of date to those originally listed

UserPeter Fretwell, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseAmgen Limited, Cambridge Science Park.

ClockThursday 01 May 2014, 19:15-21:30

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Iodine status in the UK and implications for fetal brain development.

If you are not from HNR and wish to attend, please email reception.office@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk. Tea will be served beforehand from 3.45pm.

UserDr Sarah Bath, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey.

HouseSeminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

ClockMonday 28 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Rt Hon Vince Cable, MP

UserRt Hon Vince Cable, MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2014, 18:00-19:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

**Postponed to 19 June** Epidemiology

Postponed to 19 June

UserPaul Pharoah, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

HouseCRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 03 April 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Working with Epidemiologists

Please note change of date to that originally listed

UserNick Galwey, GlaxoSmithKline.

HouseInstitute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Addenbrookes Hospital.

ClockThursday 27 March 2014, 19:15-21:30

Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit Centenary celebratory events

Medical Research Council Conference on Biostatistics

28th October 2013: Deadline for Submission of Contributed Paper Abstracts and for Poster Abstracts

UserVarious speakers.

HouseQueens' College, Silver St, Cambridge CB3 9ET.

ClockMonday 24 March 2014, 09:00-17:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The impact of taste variety in infancy

UserDr Lucy Cooke, Senior Research Psychologist, Health Behaviour Research, Centre University College London.

HouseIMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockWednesday 19 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Scaling up capacity for Primary Health Care in Africa

Prof Maeseneer is a Belgian family physician engaged in work to tackle global health inequalities by strengthening primary care systems

UserProfessor Jan De Maeseneer, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 14 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

PublicHealth@Cambridge

NIHR Public Health Research Programme Applicants Workshop

Get top tips from the NIHR team on how to make a successful application to the Public Health Research Programme

UserNIHR Public Health Research Programme team.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 13:00-15:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

The Political Economy of Public Health: Explaining the Postcommunist Mortality Crisis

Larry King is a political economist whose work addresses the 'social determinants of the social determinants' of health

UserProfessor Lawrence King, Professor in Sociology and Political Economy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Small, medium, large or supersize: Prices and Portions

UserDr Ingrid Steenhuis, Associate Professor Health Promotion, VU University Amsterdam.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 12:30-13:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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.

UserDr Aluisio Barros, International Center for Equity in Health, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil.

HouseMRC Epidemiology Unit Seminar Room, Level 3 Institute of Metabolic Science.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

High-dimensional variable selection

UserRichard Samworth, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Downing Site, Cambridge .

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 19:15-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues, Populations & Survival

UserProfessor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 14 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

“What can we do to accelerate the discovery of new medicines for patients?”

Host: Dr Bristi Basu

UserProfessor Chas Bountra, Head of Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Clinical Medicine .

HouseCRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

How the environment shapes health-behaviours

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

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The UK10K Cohorts Project: Rare variant analysis by whole genome sequencing in 3,621 samples

Please note change of date to that originally advertised

UserKlaudia Walter, Sanger Institute.

HouseStatistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

ClockMonday 27 January 2014, 19:15-21:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bacterial Genomes and Metagenomes: from point mutations to public health

Mark 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.

UserProfessor Mark Pallen, Professor of Microbial Genomics and Head of the Division of Microbiology and Infection.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 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.

UserDr Janas Harrington, Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College Cork.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

ClockThursday 09 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

UserProfessor Carolyn Summerbell, Durham University.

HouseIMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2.

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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.

UserDr Charlotte Evans, Lecturer in Nutritional Epidemiology, University of Leeds.

HouseIPH large seminar room.

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

Bradford Hill Seminars

Understanding changing BMI distributions in England, their causes and long term consequences

UserProfessor Klim McPherson, Visiting Professor in Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit Centenary celebratory events

MRC Biostatistics Unit's 11th Annual Armitage Lecture and Workshop

Attendance at the Armitage Lecture and Workshop is Free but all participants should register in advance. For further details, including the programme of the event and registration, please visit http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/NewsandEvents/armitage2013.html

UserProfessor Giovanni Parmigiani, Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health, Chairman of the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Associate Director for Population Sciences of the Dana.

HouseWilliam Harvey Lecture Theatre, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge CB2 0SP, United Kingdom.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 11:00-12:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

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

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

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

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

UserPetra J Rydén Ph. D., RD, lecturer Department of Food and Nutrition Umea University.

HouseATC 6B Seminar Room, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

ClockFriday 11 October 2013, 14:30-15:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

An Epidemiologist’s View of Obesity Prevention Research

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

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

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

MSt in Sustainability Leadership

Chris Huhne - UK Government climate, energy and environmental policy

No need to reserve places, but please arrive by 16.50. Doors will close once the venue's capcity has been reached.

UserChris Huhne, former UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

HouseEngineering Department, Lecture Room 0.

ClockThursday 05 September 2013, 17:00-18:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The undernourished child with an overweight mother: a statistical artifact or an emerging public health concern?

UserDr Colleen Doak, Department of Health Sciences, Section of Infectious Disease, VU University Amsterdam.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

ClockFriday 05 July 2013, 11:00-12:00

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Lifestyle and cancer prevention – the elephant in the room

UserProfessor 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..

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

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

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

The BioSHaRE project

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

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

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

Bradford Hill Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Lawlor's work is focused on the life course and genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance and diabetes

UserProfessor Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 06 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

The geography of obesity: A tale of two cities

UserAdam 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.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 10 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Behavioural Economics and Public Policy

UserProfessor Cass Sunstein, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

HouseCambridge Judge Business School Lecture Theatre 1.

ClockFriday 22 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Baroness Neuberger

UserBaroness Neuberger DBE, Senior Rabbi, West London Synagogue.

HouseTBC.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 18:00-19:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Dimension reduction based on sliced inverse regression (SIR): a look at the special case when n ‹p

UserJérôme Saracco, Bordeaux Institute of Technology & Bordeaux Institute of Mathematics (Probability and Statistics team).

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 14:30-15:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Environments and human health

UserSally Macintyre, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Fat taxes, nutrient profiling and trends in the incidence of coronary heart disease

UserDr Mike Rayner, Director of the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Group, Depatment of Public Health, University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

The Meaning of Liberal Learning

UserRight Honourable Michael Gove, MP and Secretary of State for Education.

HouseLG18, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 18:00-19:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Assessment of Trend in Recurrent Event Processes

UserProfessor Jerry Lawless, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Talking to Terrorists

UserJonathan Powell, Former Downing Street Chief of Staff under Tony Blair.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street, Cambridge (Behind The Eagle pub).

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 18:00-19:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Statistical Software at the Centre for Multilevel Modelling

UserProfessor William J. Browne, School of Clinical Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 27 September 2011, 14:30-15:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

Drawing causal inferences in epidemiological studies of early life influences

UserAndy Ness, Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 08 July 2011, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserMark Cobain, Platform Director, Nutrition and Health, Unilever Discover.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

A Causal Diagram Approach to Evidence Synthesis

UserIan Shrier, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Canada.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Dropouts in the AB/BA crossover design

UserJohn Matthews, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2011, 14:30-15:30

Bradford Hill Seminars

The impact of economic crisis on mental well-being and happiness

UserDora Gudrun Gudmundsdottir, psychologist / a former Director of The Public Health Institute of Iceland.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 03 December 2010, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Child gambling and problem gambling

UserDavid Forrest, Professor of Economics, Centre for the Study of Gambling, University of Salford.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Could Vaginal Lubricants Lead to Safer Sex in Africa?

UserRobert Pool* and the Microbicide Development Programme Team, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research, University of Barcelona.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 05 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Primary prevention of Hepatitis C

UserDr Matthew Hickman, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

How Are Health Inequalities Doing in Scotland? Are We Sure We Know?

UserProfessor John Frank, Director of the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

The Golestan Cohort Study

UserProf. Reza Malekzadeh, Digestive Disease Research Centre, University of Tehran.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Healthy and unhealthy prisons.

UserColonel Clive Fairweather, Former Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 09 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Birth weight and the risk of cardiovascular disease

UserProf. Gordon Smith, Department of Obsetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

The Error Statistical Philosophy

UserProfessor Deborah G. Mayo, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 09 December 2008, 14:30-16:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

A parametric approach to modeling changes in general health and cognition: developing a stochastic model of aging

UserArnold Mitnitski, PhD, Department of Medicine, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 18 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

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