History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Strategic adaptation: Dibia and the negotiation of medical authority in eastern Nigeria

Chidi Ugwu (University of Nigeria, Nsukka).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 17:00-18:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Visualizing difference: Amelia Newsham, John Hunter, and the refinement of racial knowledge

Meleisa Ono-George (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 17:00-18:30

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Re-Analysis of Three Network Meta-Analyses of Fluoxetine for Depression in Children and Adolescents: Clarifying Efficacy and Finding a Zombie

Dr Martin Plöderl, Dr Florian Naudet, and Dr Richard Lyus.

Online via zoom.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "New Bayesian methods and tools to address health challenges"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/7KTIPoNBSVuPXcFtZh8MiQ

Dr Raiha Browning, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

Large Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Leveraging External Data for Testing Experimental Therapies with Biomarker Interactions in Randomized Clinical Trials

Professor Lorenzo Trippa, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Large Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Leveraging External Data for Testing Experimental Therapies with Biomarker Interactions in Randomized Clinical Trials

Professor Lorenzo Trippa, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Large Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

How to master a zoonotic pandemic: plague, rats and epidemiological reasoning

Cristos Lynteris (University of St Andrews) .

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 17:00-18:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Researching everyday mobility practices and experiences in the past.

Colin Pooley, University of Lancaster.

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 16:15-17:45

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Neuroinflammation in dementia: a patient-centred multimodal approach

Dr Maura Malpetti, University of Cambridge.

Online via zoom.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 12:30-13:30

Early Science and Medicine

Public instructions, colonial distances: prize questions in the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (c. 1770–1800)

Maria Florutau (Uppsala University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

How can the pedagogy of statistics inform the teaching of machine learning?

Paul Fannon, Department of Genetics: Bioinformatics Training Facility.

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

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 19:15-21:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Predicting a Timeline of Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease Deterioration

Henry Musto, University of Cambridge.

Online via zoom.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 12:30-13:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The birth of scientific anti-racism

Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 17:00-18:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Public and private water provision and health outcomes in industrializing Britain

Toke Aidt, University of Cambridge.

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 16:15-17:45

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

Mental health, memory and menopause: the role of sex steroids and lifestyle

Professor Eef Hogervorst.

Hybrid (in-person at the Herchel Smith Building and online via zoom).

Thursday 19 March 2026, 12:30-13:30