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If you have a question about this list, please contact: . If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 0 upcoming talks and 210 talks in the archive. Paediatric Genomics - what have we learnt so far?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Brian H. Y. Chung, Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Paediatrics, Hong Kong University. Friday 13 March 2020, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars “Squeezing the most out of ridge”Professor Mark van de Wiel, Amsterdam University Medical Center. Tuesday 03 March 2020, 14:00-15:00 Recent insights into drug resistant Shigella: a major contributor to the global diarrhoeal disease burdenBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Stephen Baker, Professor of molecular microbiology, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease . Friday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:00 Big data and small talk: why we need bothBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Prof. Nick Steel, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia. Friday 29 November 2019, 13:00-14:00 Cancer Screening and Prevention: Lessons LearnedBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Mette Kalager, University of Oslo. Friday 08 November 2019, 13:00-14:00 Governance or government? How should researchers understand the policy process?Professor Michael Kenny, Bennett Institute for Public Policy. Friday 07 June 2019, 13:00-14:00 Surveillance, Detection and Response to Emerging International Health Emergencies: the Role of the World Health OrganizationDr Oliver Morgan, World Health Organisation . Friday 03 May 2019, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Building Representative Matched Samples with Multi-valued Treatments in Large Observational Studies”Professor Jose Zubizarreta, Harvard University. Thursday 11 April 2019, 14:00-15:00 Making evidence credible for public health policyDr Kathryn Oliver, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . Friday 01 March 2019, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Optimal Feature Selection using model-based Deep Reinforcement Learning”Dr Konstantina Pallas, Microsoft. Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Sample size considerations for the design clinical trials – quantifying the target difference and the target no-difference”Prof Steven Julious, University of Sheffield. Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Probabilistic approaches for optimal sequential feature acquisition"Dr Christopher Yau, University of Birmingham and The Alan Turing Institute. Monday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “How to obtain valid tests and confidence intervals for treatment effects after confounder selection”Dr Oliver Dukes, Ghent University . Tuesday 22 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 Bradford Hill Seminar with Dr Richard Pebody - The puzzle of influenza – what can we do?Dr Richard Pebody, Head of Respiratory Diseases, Public Health England. Friday 16 November 2018, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Unsupervised substructure discovery in mass spectrometry metabolomics data”Dr Simon Rogers, University of Glasgow. Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 Bradford Hill Seminar with Professor Joan Morris - How safe are medicines used in pregnancy?Professor Joan Morris, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine. Friday 26 October 2018, 13:00-14:00 Options and Opportunities for Health Data ScienceBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Andrew Morris, Farr Institute, Scotland. Friday 05 October 2018, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Statistical learning for drug screening in personalized cancer therapy”Manuela Zucknick, University of Oslo. Tuesday 02 October 2018, 15:30-16:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Using Gaussian processes to model branching dynamics from single-cell data" (provisional)Prof. Magnus Rattray, University of Manchester. Tuesday 17 July 2018, 14:30-15:30 Psychological Medicine in Global Health : research for impactBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Dr Melanie Abas, Kings College London. Friday 15 June 2018, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Biomarker discovery through statistical signal processing and Bayesian modelling on large-scale quantitative proteomics data”Professor Andrew Dowsey, University of Bristol. Thursday 14 June 2018, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Mass spectrometry-based proteomics: challenges and opportunities"Dr Laurent Gatto, University of Cambridge . Thursday 07 June 2018, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: "Optimal bootstrapping with dependent data"Prof Alastair Young, Imperial College London. Tuesday 29 May 2018, 14:30-15:30 The power of parenting supportBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Leiden University. Friday 18 May 2018, 13:00-14:00 HE@Cam Seminar: Tray Brown - Building a Discrete Event Simulation to Determine the Cost-Effectiveness of Treatments for Systemic Lupus ErythematosusTray Brown -Department of Public Health and Primary care. Monday 14 May 2018, 15:00-16:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Cox-process representation and inference for stochastic reaction-diffusion processes”Dr Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh. Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:30-15:30 Is Primary Care Research important, and can it be led by primary care?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Richard Hobbs, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford . Friday 04 May 2018, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Exchangeable Random Measures for Sparse and Modular Graphs with Overlapping Communities”Prof. François Caron, University of Oxford. Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:30-15:30 HE@Cam Seminar: Anna Heath - Value of Sample Information as a Tool for Clinical Trial DesignAnna Heath, University College London. Monday 23 April 2018, 15:00-16:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Bayesian adaptive designs for Phase III trials”Dr. Liz Ryan, University of Warwick. Thursday 05 April 2018, 14:30-15:30 Realising public health research priorities; whose priorities?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Bernie Hannigan, Public Health England. Friday 09 March 2018, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars BSU Seminar: “Quasi Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods”Dr. Ben Calderhead, Imperial College London. Tuesday 20 February 2018, 14:30-15:30 Local integrated prevention of childhood obesity: lessons from AmsterdamBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Jaap Seidell, VU University, Amsterdam . Friday 02 February 2018, 13:00-14:00 Realist Reviews of health interventions – dealing with complexity and contextBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Dr Geoffrey Wong, Clinical Research Fellow, University of Oxford. Friday 19 January 2018, 13:00-14:00 HE@Cam Seminar: John Buckell - Smokers’ cigarette choices and risk perceptions: Experimental evidence on US adultsJohn Buckell - Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University. Monday 15 January 2018, 15:00-16:00 Evidence is Not Enough: Towards a democratically legitimate role for evidence in health policymakingBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Dr Katherine Smith, Reader - Global Public Health Unit Social Policy, School of Social & Political Science, University of Edinburgh. Friday 24 November 2017, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Continuous inference for aggregated point process dataDr Ben Taylor, University of Lancaster. Tuesday 21 November 2017, 14:30-15:30 HE@Cam Seminar: Christian Léonard - Social Preferences as an Alternative to Cost-Utility AnalysisProfessor Christian Léonard, General Director of the Belgian Healthcare Knowledge Centre (KCE). Monday 20 November 2017, 15:00-16:00 The Spanish Pension System, Disability Pensions and VulnerabilityPatricia Peinado - Assistant Professor, University of the Basque Country. Monday 16 October 2017, 15:00-16:00 Genetics and genomics: focus on valueBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Martina Cornel, Clinical Genetics & Amsterdam Public Health research institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam . Friday 06 October 2017, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Extended multivariate generalised linear and non-linear mixed effect modelsDr Michael Crowther, University of Leicester. Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Network Time SeriesProf Guy Nason, University of Bristol. Thursday 21 September 2017, 14:30-15:30 Market Socialism and Community Rating in Health InsurancePeter Zweifel - Professor Emeritus, University of Zurich. Wednesday 20 September 2017, 15:00-16:00 Title to be confirmedProf. Merryn Gott, Professor of Health Sciences, University of Auckland. Tuesday 05 September 2017, 16:00-17:00 DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data not the data to the analysisBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Paul Burton, Professor of Data Science for Health, Newcastle University. Friday 19 May 2017, 13:00-14:00 Can perinatal mental health care prevent mental health problems in children?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Louise Howard, Kings College London. Friday 05 May 2017, 13:00-14:00 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Are next generation sequencing technologies affordable? A cost-effectiveness analysis of a cancer panel versus single gene testingJilles Fermont, PhD Candidate. Monday 24 April 2017, 15:00-16:00 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Wealth, Marriage and Sex Selection.Prof Kaivan Munshi, Faculty of Economics. Monday 20 March 2017, 15:00-16:00 Estimating the burden of infectious diseases in Europe: the BCoDE approachBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Mirjam Kretzschmar, University Medical Center Utrecht. Friday 17 March 2017, 13:00-14:00 Is the NHS financially sustainable?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR John Appleby, Director of Research and Chief Economist, The Nuffield Trust & Visiting professor City University and Imperial College, London. Friday 10 March 2017, 13:00-14:00 Measuring and visualising worldwide trends in cardiovascular risk factorsBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Majid Ezzati, Imperial College London. Friday 24 February 2017, 13:00-14:00 Measuring everything everywhere: the Global Burden of Disease study and its use by Public Health EnglandBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor John Newton, Chief Knowledge Officer, Public Health England. Friday 03 February 2017, 13:00-14:00 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: NICE Technology Appraisal Process and Challenges to Decision MakersDr Amanda Adler, Chair, NICE Technology Appraisal Committee B. Monday 09 January 2017, 15:00-16:00 Describing the HIV cascade of care using routine clinic and surveillance databases: methodological challengesBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Caroline Sabin, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Healthcare. Friday 02 December 2016, 13:00-14:00 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: MOVING TOWARDS A SMALLER ROLE FOR HEALTH MAXIMISATION IN THE PRIORITISATION OF NHS RESOURCESDr Gabriele Badano (University of Cambridge). Monday 21 November 2016, 15:00-16:00 What causes wellness? The social determinants of healthBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Sir Harry Burns, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Strathclyde; former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland. Friday 18 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 Should we screen for diabetes and related cardiovascular risk?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Torsten Lauritzen, Department of Public Health, Institute of General Medical Practice, Aarhus University, Denmark.. Friday 04 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: On the Management of Population ImmunityDr Flavio Toxvaerd, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. Monday 17 October 2016, 15:00-16:00 Head and neck cancer: insights into aetiology and prognosis from a clinical cohortBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Andy Ness, Director, Bristol Nutrition Biomedical Research Unit, University of Bristol. Friday 10 June 2016, 13:00-14:00 Making an impact on the public’s health and wellbeing in EnglandBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Kevin Fenton, Director of Health and Wellbeing, Public Health England. Friday 06 May 2016, 13:00-14:00 UK Biobank: opportunities and challengesBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Catherine Sudlow, Chair of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh and UK Biobank’s Chief Scientist and Senior Epidemiologist. Friday 22 April 2016, 13:00-14:00 Dietary priorities for obesity - are all calories created equal?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR - note this talk is on a Thursday Dean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy,. Thursday 14 April 2016, 13:00-14:00 Seeing the wood as well as the trees: the importance of the ‘macro’ perspective for public healthBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Richard Smith, Dean, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Friday 11 March 2016, 13:00-14:00 The quest for causal understanding of inequalities in health: holy grail or chimera?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Martin White, MRC Epidemiology Unit and the UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR); Director of the NIHR Public Health Research Programme. Friday 12 February 2016, 13:00-14:00 The Global Health Security AgendaBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Mika Salminen, Director of the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland and Chair of the Global Health Security Agenda. Friday 20 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 Academics, scientists and the future of medical publishingBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Domhnall MacAuley, University of Ulster; Consultant-Associate Editor, Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) and PLOS Medicine. Friday 16 October 2015, 13:00-14:00 “Leveraging Social Psychological Theory to Understand Engagement with Personalized Genomic Information”BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR William Klein, Associate Director, Behavioral Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA. Friday 26 June 2015, 13:00-14:00 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. Dr. M. Justin Zaman, James Paget University Hospital & UEA. Thursday 25 June 2015, 14:00-15:00 Health, climate change and unsustainable development – head in the sand or line in the sand?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR David Pencheon, Director of NHS Sustainability Unit:. Friday 12 June 2015, 13:00-14:00 Genetics in drug discovery and developmentBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR John Whittaker, Professor and Vice President of Statistical Platforms and Technologies at GSK. Friday 08 May 2015, 13:00-14:00 Capacity Building for Tobacco Research and Control in Eastern EuropeBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Kristie Foley, PhD, Professor and Director, Medical Humanities and Public Health, Davidson College, USA. Friday 24 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 Title to be confirmedBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Dean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, . Tuesday 14 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 Title to be confirmedBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Dean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy,. Tuesday 14 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 Valuing the economic benefits of complex interventions: when maximising health is not sufficientBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Katherine has an international reputation for the economics of genetic technologies and services Professor Katherine Payne, Manchester Centre for Health Economics, University of Manchester. Friday 13 March 2015, 13:00-14:00 Assessing causality in perinatal and developmental epidemiologyBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Debbie Lawlor is interested in how biological, social and environmental exposures from across life affect the risk of chronic diseases and how appropriate prevention of these diseases can be achieved Professor Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol, MSc(Lond), MBChB, PhD(Bristol), MPH(Leeds), MRCGP, MFPHM Professor of Epidemiology. Friday 06 March 2015, 13:00-14:00 What counts as evidence? Some reflections on what counts as 'good enough' evidence in public healthBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Mark's main research interests are in evidence-based policymaking, systematic reviews, and the evaluation of the health effects of social policies Mark Petticrew, Professor of Public Health Evaluation, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Friday 13 February 2015, 13:00-14:00 Enlightened Aging: How the Baby Boom Generation can change tomorrow's Long Old AgeBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: In this seminar, Dr Larson will draw on his work on Aging and dementia/brain function. Prof. Eric B Larson MD, MPH, MACP Vice President for Research, Group Health Executive Director and Senior Investigator Group Health Research Institute Professor of Medicine and Health Services University of Washington Seattle. Friday 05 December 2014, 13:00-14:00 Revisiting the use of families in complex genetic disease studiesBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Heather J. Cordell, Professor of Statistical Genetics, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University. Friday 21 November 2014, 13:00-14:00 What does experiential knowledge contribute to public health evidence to reduce health inequalities?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor Jennie Popay, Sociology and Public Health, Division of Health Research, Lancaster University. Friday 17 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 Genomics and Ageing WellBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR Professor David Melzer, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Exeter Medical School. Friday 10 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 Global Burden of Disease: from Global to LocalBRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Adrian is Public Health England's Director of Population Health Science Professor Adrian Davis. Friday 30 May 2014, 13:00-14:00 Where are we heading with cancer diagnosis research?BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Prof Rubin's principal research interest is the management of gastrointestinal problems in primary care and at the interface with secondary care, particularly for cancer and inflammatory bowel disease Professor Greg Rubin, GP and Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at Durham University. Friday 09 May 2014, 13:00-14:00 Scaling up capacity for Primary Health Care in AfricaProf Maeseneer is a Belgian family physician engaged in work to tackle global health inequalities by strengthening primary care systems Professor Jan De Maeseneer, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University. Friday 14 March 2014, 13:00-14:00 The Political Economy of Public Health: Explaining the Postcommunist Mortality CrisisLarry King is a political economist whose work addresses the 'social determinants of the social determinants' of health Professor Lawrence King, Professor in Sociology and Political Economy, University of Cambridge. Friday 07 March 2014, 13:00-14:00 Bacterial Genomes and Metagenomes: from point mutations to public healthMark Pallen is a medically qualified bacteriologist with research interests that span genomics and bioinformatics and a spectrum of basic and applied research. He holds an undergraduate degree from Cambridge and a PhD from Imperial. Professor Mark Pallen, Professor of Microbial Genomics and Head of the Division of Microbiology and Infection. Friday 17 January 2014, 13:00-14:00 Nudges, Norms, and Comfort Food: Tiny interventions to get kids to eat vegetables and astronauts to eat anythingProfessor Traci Mann, University of Minnesota Department of Psychology. Friday 29 November 2013, 13:00-14:00 Understanding changing BMI distributions in England, their causes and long term consequencesProfessor Klim McPherson, Visiting Professor in Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford. Friday 15 November 2013, 13:00-14:00 North versus South: England's enduring health divideProfessor Tim Doran, Professor of Health Policy, University of York. Friday 25 October 2013, 13:00-14:00 Title to be confirmedProf Lawlor's work is focused on the life course and genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance and diabetes Professor Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol. Thursday 06 June 2013, 13:00-14:00 The geography of obesity: A tale of two citiesAdam Drewnowski is Professor of Epidemiology and the Director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the School of Public Health at University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Friday 10 May 2013, 13:00-14:00 Social-biological transitions: how does the social become biological?Prof David Blane. Friday 01 March 2013, 13:00-14:00 Estimating the burden of disease attributable to excess sodium (within the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study)Dr John Powles, Department of Public Health and Primary Care. Friday 01 February 2013, 13:00-14:00 What are the benefits and harms of breast cancer screening?Simon Thompson, Department of Public Health, University of Cambridge. Friday 25 January 2013, 13:00-14:00 What matters to people with assistive living needs? Findings from the ATHENE ethnographic study of telehealth and telecare in the homeProf Trisha Greenhalgh. Friday 18 January 2013, 12:00-13:00 Surveillance of Guillain-Barré Syndrome During the 2009–2010 H1N1 Influenza Vaccination Campaign in the United StatesDr Oliver Morgan, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US. Friday 23 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 “Extreme reviewing”: Use of text-mining to reduce impractical screening workload in extremely large scoping reviewsIan Shemilt, Evidence Synthesis Programme, Behaviour and Health Research Unit. Friday 02 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 Environments and human healthSally Macintyre, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow. Friday 08 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 Fat taxes, nutrient profiling and trends in the incidence of coronary heart diseaseDr Mike Rayner, Director of the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Group, Depatment of Public Health, University of Oxford. Friday 25 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 The Salmonella Enteritidis epidemic in the UK Poultry industry: Practices and outcomes of an effective intervention?Chris Lane, Health Protection Agency. Friday 18 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 Exploring possible futures of Tobacco Control in Australia: High tech, low tech and no techProf. Wayne Hall, Deputy Director (Policy) UQ Centre for Clinical Research |The University of Queensland. Friday 04 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 Public Health Genomics: translating genomic advances into improved population health worldwideDr Hilary Burton, Director of Public Health Genomics Foundation. Friday 09 March 2012, 13:00-14:00 The Institute of Public Health and its futureProfessor Carol Brayne ( Department of Public Health and Primary Care). Friday 25 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 Understanding longevity: an epidemiological study of genetics, disease and life-styleHenning Tiemeier, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam. Friday 18 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Statistical Software at the Centre for Multilevel ModellingProfessor William J. Browne, School of Clinical Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol. Tuesday 27 September 2011, 14:30-15:30 Drawing causal inferences in epidemiological studies of early life influencesAndy Ness, Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Friday 08 July 2011, 13:00-14:00 The optimal body shape for health and sports performanceAlan Nevill, University of Wolverhampton. Friday 17 June 2011, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars The Natural History and Predictive Factors of Long Term Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Analysis from the Hopkins Lupus CohortPenny Watson, School of Health and Related Research, The University of Sheffield. Tuesday 14 June 2011, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Assessing surrogacy using linear mixed models and the surrogate threshold effectDr. Sally Galbraith, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of New South Wales, Australia. Tuesday 07 June 2011, 14:30-15:30 Public Health Observatories, Public Health England and the future of public health intelligenceJulian Flowers, Eastern Region Public Health Observatory, IPH. Friday 03 June 2011, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Experience and challenges of applying Bayesian methods in food safety risk assessmentsDr. Marc Kennedy, The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), Risk and Numerical Sciences (RANS) team. Tuesday 17 May 2011, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Patterns of vulnerability in pregnancy and early childhood: Measurement, interactions, effect moderation and random coefficients in latent variable modelsAndrew Pickles, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Tuesday 05 April 2011, 14:30-15:30 Climate-friendly’ intakes of red and processed meat – already adopted by around one fifth of the UK population – would, if generalised, also lower chronic disease risksJohn Powles, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, and Louise Aston, Public Health Specialty Registrar, NHS Bedfordshire. Friday 18 March 2011, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Sensitivity of parameter estimates of marginal and random-effects models to missing dataRumana Omar, Department of Statistical Science, UCL. Tuesday 15 March 2011, 14:30-15:30 Title to be confirmedMark Cobain, Platform Director, Nutrition and Health, Unilever Discover. Friday 25 February 2011, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars A Causal Diagram Approach to Evidence SynthesisIan Shrier, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Canada. Tuesday 22 February 2011, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Dropouts in the AB/BA crossover designJohn Matthews, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University. Tuesday 15 February 2011, 14:30-15:30 Arizona’s Indians, American Samoans, Australian Aborigines - what links them together?Maximilian de Courten, Copenhagen. Friday 21 January 2011, 13:00-14:00 The impact of economic crisis on mental well-being and happinessDora Gudrun Gudmundsdottir, psychologist / a former Director of The Public Health Institute of Iceland. Friday 03 December 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Spatial prediction in the presence of positional errorThomas Fanshawe, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University. Tuesday 30 November 2010, 14:30-15:30 Child gambling and problem gamblingDavid Forrest, Professor of Economics, Centre for the Study of Gambling, University of Salford. Friday 26 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Modelling Relative Survival: Flexible Parametric Models and the Estimation of Net and Crude MortalityPaul Lambert, Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Leicester. Tuesday 16 November 2010, 14:30-15:30 Could Vaginal Lubricants Lead to Safer Sex in Africa?Robert Pool* and the Microbicide Development Programme Team, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research, University of Barcelona. Friday 05 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars The competing explanations: Frailty or individual development? Examples from cancer and from network theoryOdd Aalen, Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo. Tuesday 02 November 2010, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Modeling longitudinal observations with excess zeros and measurement error, with application to nutritional epidemiologyVictor Kipnis, National Cancer Institute, US. Thursday 21 October 2010, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Badger culling to control bovine TB - its potential role in a science-led policyChristl Donnelly, Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College, London. Tuesday 19 October 2010, 14:30-15:30 Self monitoring / management of BP and in particular the TASMINH2 trialRichard McManus, Professor of Primary Care Cardiovascular Research. Friday 15 October 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Model-based cluster analysis for structured dataSabine Landau, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. Monday 28 June 2010, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Modelling health scores with the multivariate skew normalJane Hutton, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick. Tuesday 22 June 2010, 14:30-15:30 Socio-economic inequalities in health dynamicsProf Amanda Sacker, University of Essex. Friday 04 June 2010, 13:00-14:00 Mind over Matter project to raise public understanding of brain donation - the contribution of very old people participating in longitudinal studiesDr Bronwyn Parry, Queen Mary University of London. Friday 21 May 2010, 13:00-14:00 Developmental overnutrition and risk of adverse cardiovascular health.Prof Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol. Friday 14 May 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Harnessing social networks for HIV surveillanceSimon Frost, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 11 May 2010, 14:30-15:30 Our Natural Health Service: Is contact with nature integral to healthcare or just another add on?Dr William Bird, Health Walk founder and Natural England's Strategic Health Advisor. Friday 30 April 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars A flexible regression approach using GAMLSSMikis Stasinopoulos, London Metropolitan University. Tuesday 20 April 2010, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Some issues for causal inference in observational epidemiologyNuala Sheehan, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester. Tuesday 16 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 How much Vitamin D do we need? : a perspective on current controversiesDr Ann Prentice, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge. Friday 12 March 2010, 13:00-14:00 Evidence synthesis for social and behavioural interventions: NICE's experience of developing public health guidanceProfessor Mike Kelly, NICE. Friday 26 February 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Regret-regression for optimal dynamic treatment regimesRobin Henderson, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Newcastle. Tuesday 23 February 2010, 14:30-15:30 Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do BetterProfessor Kate Pickett, Department of Health Sciences, University of York. Friday 19 February 2010, 13:00-14:00 Developmental overnutrition and risk of adverse cardiovascular health.Professor Debbie Lawlor, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol. Friday 05 February 2010, 13:00-14:00 Primary prevention of Hepatitis CDr Matthew Hickman, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol. Friday 29 January 2010, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Modelling the association between patient characteristics and the change over time in a disease measure using observational cohort dataAndrew Copas, Centre for sexual health & HIV research, UCL. Tuesday 19 January 2010, 14:30-15:30 How Are Health Inequalities Doing in Scotland? Are We Sure We Know?Professor John Frank, Director of the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy. Friday 15 January 2010, 13:00-14:00 Importance of patient reported outcomes in cancer clinical trialsProf. Lesley Fallowfield, CRUK Sussex Psychosocial Oncology Group. Friday 04 December 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Emulation of random output (stochastic) models: theory and applicationDan Cornford, Non-linearity and Complexity Research Group, Aston University. Tuesday 01 December 2009, 14:30-15:30 The Golestan Cohort StudyProf. Reza Malekzadeh, Digestive Disease Research Centre, University of Tehran. Friday 20 November 2009, 13:00-14:00 Does comprehensive smoke-free legislation work? - The Scottish ExperienceProf. Jill Pell, University of Glasgow. Friday 13 November 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Generalized estimating equations for censored dataDaniel Farewell, Cardiff University. Tuesday 10 November 2009, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars The Value for Medical and Public Health Decisions of Adding Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Data to a Model for Breast Cancer RiskMitch Gail, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, USA. Tuesday 03 November 2009, 14:30-15:30 The I v Finland Judgment: Setting Boundaries for Research Ethics, Medical Privacy, and Health ITProf. Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Friday 30 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Estimation of time to pregnancy from current duration dataNiels Keiding, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen. Tuesday 27 October 2009, 14:30-15:30 Vital registration before vital Registration: parish registers, social security and population healthDr Simon Szreter, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Friday 23 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars A Bayesian dose-escalation procedure for phase I/II clinical trialsJohn Whitehead, Lancaster University. Tuesday 20 October 2009, 14:30-15:30 Healthy and unhealthy prisons.Colonel Clive Fairweather, Former Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland. Friday 09 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 Does interactive communication between collaborating primary care and specialist physicians improve patient outcomes?Prof. Robbie Foy, University of Leeds. Friday 12 June 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Generalized Multilevel Functional RegressionAna-Maria Staicu, University of Bristol. Tuesday 09 June 2009, 14:30-15:30 Risk estimation for complex genetic disordersProf. Cathryn Lewis, Statistical Genetics Unit, King's College London. Friday 05 June 2009, 13:00-14:00 Whole-genome linkage and association scan in primary, non-syndromic vesicoureteric reflux and reflux nephropathyProf. Heather Cordell, Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University. Friday 29 May 2009, 13:00-14:00 Constructionism: a very brief introductionPrpf. David Armstrong, King's College London. Friday 22 May 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars The use of baseline covariates in cross-over studiesMike Kenward, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Tuesday 19 May 2009, 14:30-15:30 Birth weight and the risk of cardiovascular diseaseProf. Gordon Smith, Department of Obsetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge. Friday 15 May 2009, 13:00-14:00 Cardiovascular disease prevention in the 21st Century. Risk, targets, polypills and public health.Prof. Jonathan Mant, General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit, University of Cambridge. Friday 08 May 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Individual Prediction in Prostate Cancer Studies Using a Joint Longitudinal-Survival ModelJeremy Taylor, University of Michigan. Monday 27 April 2009, 14:30-15:30 Thai health transition: a cohort study of open university studentsDr Christopher Bain, University of Queensland. Friday 24 April 2009, 13:00-14:00 Family matters: the use of family-based studies in life course epidemiologyDr Gita Mishra, MRC National Survey of Health and Development. Friday 13 March 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Hypothesis testing and estimation in a group sequential phase II/III clinical trialNigel Stallard, University of Warwick. Tuesday 10 March 2009, 14:30-15:30 Psychometric modelling in Psychiatric Epidemiology and Developmental Psychopathology research: some definitions, illustrations and examplesDr Tim Croudace, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge. Friday 06 March 2009, 13:00-14:00 Privatization and the Post-Communist Mortality CrisisDr Larry King, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. Friday 27 February 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Lessons from livestock - some things animal movements can tell us about social networks in epidemiologyRowland Kao, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 24 February 2009, 14:30-15:30 Healthy and Wealthy or Injured and Broke in the USADr William Hollingworth, University of Bristol. Friday 20 February 2009, 13:00-14:00 Monitoring the impact of two infection prevention programmes: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Immunisation & Chlamydia ScreeningDr Kate Soldan, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections. Friday 13 February 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Estimating the impact of school closure on influenza transmission from sentinel dataSimon Cauchemez, Imperial College London. Tuesday 27 January 2009, 14:30-15:30 Paternalism and well-beingProf. Avner Offer, University of Oxford. Friday 16 January 2009, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars The Error Statistical PhilosophyProfessor Deborah G. Mayo, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Tuesday 09 December 2008, 14:30-16:30 Discovering the links between development and ageing: the contribution of the first national birth cohort study to the ‘taming of chance’Prof Diana Kuh, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing. Friday 05 December 2008, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Bayesian meta-analysis of genetic association studies using StataJohn Thompson, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester. Tuesday 02 December 2008, 14:30-15:30 Understanding the socio-environmental determinants of diet: current evidence, future directionsDr Steven Cummins, Queen Mary, University of London. Friday 28 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 Using genome-wide data to make biological inferences on complex genetic traits.Prof Peter Holmans, Cardiff University. Friday 21 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Modeling relationships between food intakes and health-related outcomes: zero-inflated data subject to measurement errorLaurence Freedman, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Sheba Medical Center, Israel. Tuesday 11 November 2008, 14:30-15:30 To take or not to take: the economics of taking medicinesProf Rachel Elliott, University of Nottingham. Friday 07 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 Cost effectiveness of Public Health programmes and interventions: NICE thinking.Dr Alastair Fischer, NICE. Friday 31 October 2008, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Multiply robust estimation of statistical interaction parametersStijn Vansteelandt, University of Ghent, Belgium. Tuesday 21 October 2008, 14:30-15:30 International differences in cancer survival: impact on cancer careProf Michel Coleman, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Friday 17 October 2008, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Transdimensional sampling algorithms for Bayesian variable selection in classification problems with many more variables than observationsJim Griffin, University of Kent. Tuesday 14 October 2008, 14:30-15:30 Mixed treatment comparisons meta-analysis: another cost-effective technology for the National Health Service?Dr Deborah Caldwell, University of Bristol. Friday 10 October 2008, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Hierarchical Evolutionary Stochastic Search with Adaptive ProposalsLeonardo Bottolo, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London. Tuesday 01 July 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars A parametric approach to modeling changes in general health and cognition: developing a stochastic model of agingArnold Mitnitski, PhD, Department of Medicine, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Wednesday 18 June 2008, 13:00-14:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Structure Ranking and System Identification for Non-Linear Biochemical Process Models: Inferring the Structure of the ERK Pathway via Bayes FactorsMark Girolami, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 10 June 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Focussed model selection and model averaging for the Cox regression modelGerda Claeskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Tuesday 03 June 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Dynamic predicting by landmarking as an alternative for multi-state modeling: an application to acute lymphoid leukemia dataHans van Houwelingen, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands. Tuesday 06 May 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Issues and controversies in life course epidemiologyBianca De Stavola, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Tuesday 08 April 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars New copulae from an order-statistics approachRose Baker, University of Salford. Tuesday 11 March 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars The evolution and adaptation of HIV-1 virulenceChristophe Fraser, Imperial College London. Tuesday 12 February 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Bayesian variable selection in generalized linear models under cost constraintsDavid Draper, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. Friday 08 February 2008, 14:15-15:00 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Graphical models for causal reasoning in epidemiologyVanessa Didelez, University of Bristol. Tuesday 15 January 2008, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Building Models of Juvenile Salmon DemographyPaul Birrell, MRC Biostatistics Unit. Monday 17 December 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Non-ignorable missing data in parametric survival modelsKatherine Boyd, MRC Clinical Trials Unit. Tuesday 11 December 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Work in progress on the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care database: I modelling mortality using random effects regression, and II the development of quantitative indices reflecting provider 'process-of-care'Patty Solomon, Univerisity of Adelaide. Monday 12 November 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Online inference and prediction for infectious diseases: a case study in Avian InfluenzaGareth Roberts, University of Warwick. Tuesday 16 October 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Efficient Bayesian Segmentation of DNA dataPaul Fearnhead, University of Lancaster. Tuesday 25 September 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Graphical Data and Data Graphics in RPaul Murrell, University of Auckland. Thursday 12 July 2007, 11:30-12:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Identifying true positive associations in genome-wide association studiesJenny Barrett, University of Leeds. Tuesday 10 July 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars The Reporting of Associations in Genome-Wide StudiesJon Wakefield, University of Washington. Monday 09 July 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Inference for binary Markov random fields without tears (or MCMC).Nial Friel, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 05 June 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Representing uncertainty in numerical climate modelsNadja Leith, UCL. Tuesday 22 May 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Joint modelling of competing risks of drug withdrawal and quality of life in epilepsy trials.Paula Williamson, Centre for Medical Statistics and Health Evaluation, University of Liverpool. Tuesday 17 April 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Models for baseline and treatment effects in meta-analysisTony Ades, University of Bristol. Tuesday 27 March 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic models in structured populations based on final outcome dataPhilip O'Neill, University of Nottingham. Tuesday 20 February 2007, 14:30-15:30 MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars Medical statistics: A little bit of historyVern Farewell and Tony Johnson, MRC Biostatistics Unit. Tuesday 16 January 2007, 14:30-15:30 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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