Richard Doll Seminars Archive: 2014 to 2015
Programme for academic year 2014 to 2015
Michaelmas 2014 (Oct to Dec), from 1-2 pm
The termcard for Michaelmas 2014 is available to download in PDF format here.
Conveners: Dr Will Herrington (CTSU) and Dr Dexter Canoy (CEU)
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- 25 Sep (special seminar) Professor Francois Nosten, University of Oxford: Shoklo Malaria Research Unit: between research and humanitarian
- 14 Oct Dr Martin O'Flaherty, University of Liverpool: Here, there and everywhere...Exploring the international variability of determinants of coronary heart disease trends using the IMPACT
- 21 Oct Professor Martin J Landray, University of Oxford: Big data for population health: Opportunities and challenges
- 28 Oct Professor Marjo-Ritta Järvelin, Imperial College London: Lifecourse approach to understanding health and disease
- 4 Nov NO SEMINAR
- 11 Nov Professor Fredrik Karpe, University of Oxford: Human fat distribution and its relationship to cardiovascular and diabetes risk
- 18 Nov Professor Martin Prince, King's College London: Meeting the health and social challenges of population ageing in low and middle income countries
- 25 Nov Professor Tyler VanderWeele, Harvard University: A unification of mediation and interaction: a four-way decomposition
- 2 Dec Dr John Chambers, Imperial College London: Mechanisms underlying the increased risk of cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes in South Asians
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Hilary 2015 (jan to mar), from 1-2 pm
The termcard for Hilary 2015 is available to download in PDF format here.
Conveners: Dr Will Herrington (CTSU) and Dr Dexter Canoy (CEU)
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- 20 Jan Professor Yoav Ben-Shlomo, University of Bristol: The epidemiology of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis: a life course approach
- 27 Jan Professor Judith Bliss, Institute of Cancer Research: Breast cancer tirals - contemporary issues in design
- 3 Feb Professor Debbie Jarvis, Imperial College London: Asthma and allergy in Europe: The European Community Respiratory Health Survey
- 10 Feb Professor Martin Björck, Uppsala University: Swedish data on risk factors for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) development and how to optimize AAA screening
- 17 Feb Professor Douglas Easton, University of Cambridge: Twenty years of breast cancer genetics - what have we learnt and where next?
- 24 Feb Professor Julian Gold, University of New South Wales, and WHO HIV and Health Network in the Western Pacific Region: Human endogenous retroviruses: an epidemiological perspective on the enemy within
- 3 Mar Professor Terence Dwyer, University of Oxford: Constructing supersized birth and child cohort studies to investigate health problems in early life
- 10 Mar Professor Helen Colhoun, University of Dundee: Using big data in the study of diabetic complications - challenges and opportunities
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Trinity 2015 (Apr to Jun), from 1-2 pm
The termcard for Trinity 2015 is available to download in PDF format here.
Conveners: Dr Will Herrington (CTSU) and Dr Dexter Canoy (CEU)
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- 28 Apr Dr Roel Vermeulen, Utrecht University: The future of investigative technologies and the exposome in occupational health
- 5 May Professor Cathie Sudlow, University of Edinburgh, and the UK Biobank: UK Biobank: an update on the challenges and opportunities
- 12 May Professor Liam Smeeth, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: Getting the best out of electronic health records
- 19 May Professor Barbara Casadei, University of Oxford: Do pleiotropic effects of statins matter? Lessons from trials of perioperative statin therapy in cardiac surgery
- 26 May Professor Karl Claxton, University of York: Which health technologies, at what price and for whom: estimating the cost-effectiveness threshold for NICE and the NHS
- 2 Jun Dr Nita Forouhi, University of Cambridge: Diet and type 2 diabetes - where we are now
- 9 Jun Professor Gary Fraser, Loma Linda University: Challenges in nutritional epidemiology and selected results from the Adventist Health Study-2
- 16 Jun Professor Harry Hemingway, University College London: Big data and connected challenges in health: examples in cardiovascular diseases