Bradford Hill Seminars


2008-10-10 13:00: Mixed treatment comparisons meta-analysis: another cost-effective technology for the National Health Service? (Dr Deborah Caldwell, University of Bristol)

2008-10-17 13:00: International differences in cancer survival: impact on cancer care (Prof Michel Coleman, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

2008-10-31 13:00: Cost effectiveness of Public Health programmes and interventions:
NICE thinking. (Dr Alastair Fischer, NICE)

2008-11-07 13:00: To take or not to take: the economics of taking medicines (Prof Rachel Elliott, University of Nottingham)

2008-11-21 13:00: Using genome-wide data to make biological inferences on 
complex genetic traits. (Prof Peter Holmans, Cardiff University)

2008-11-28 13:00: Understanding the socio-environmental determinants of diet: current evidence, future directions (Dr Steven Cummins, Queen Mary, University of London)

2008-12-05 13:00: 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)

2009-01-16 13:00: Paternalism and well-being (Prof. Avner Offer, University of Oxford)

2009-02-13 13:00: Monitoring the impact of two infection prevention
programmes: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Immunisation & Chlamydia
Screening (Dr Kate Soldan, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections)

2009-02-20 13:00: Healthy and Wealthy or Injured and Broke in the USA (Dr William Hollingworth, University of Bristol)

2009-02-27 13:00: Privatization and the Post-Communist Mortality Crisis (Dr Larry King, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge)

2009-03-06 13:00: Psychometric modelling in Psychiatric Epidemiology and Developmental Psychopathology research: some definitions, illustrations and examples (Dr Tim Croudace, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge)

2009-03-13 13:00: Family matters: the use of family-based studies in life course epidemiology (Dr Gita Mishra, MRC National Survey of Health and Development)

2009-04-24 13:00: Thai health transition: a cohort study of open university students (Dr Christopher Bain, University of Queensland)

2009-05-08 13:00: 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)

2009-05-15 13:00: Birth weight and the risk of cardiovascular disease (Prof. Gordon Smith, Department of Obsetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge)

2009-05-22 13:00: Constructionism: a very brief introduction (Prpf. David Armstrong, King's College London)

2009-05-29 13:00: Whole-genome linkage and association scan in primary, non-syndromic vesicoureteric reflux and reflux nephropathy (Prof. Heather Cordell, Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University)

2009-06-05 13:00: Risk estimation for complex genetic disorders (Prof. Cathryn Lewis, Statistical Genetics Unit, King's College London)

2009-06-12 13:00: Does interactive communication between collaborating primary care and specialist physicians improve patient outcomes? (Prof. Robbie Foy, University of Leeds)

2009-10-09 13:00: Healthy and unhealthy prisons. (Colonel Clive Fairweather, Former Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland)

2009-10-23 13:00: Vital registration before vital Registration: parish 
registers, social security and population health (Dr Simon Szreter, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge)

2009-10-30 13:00: The I v Finland Judgment: Setting Boundaries for Research Ethics, Medical Privacy, and Health IT (Prof. Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory)

2009-11-13 13:00: Does comprehensive smoke-free
legislation work? - The Scottish Experience (Prof. Jill Pell, University of Glasgow)

2009-11-20 13:00: The Golestan Cohort Study (Prof. Reza Malekzadeh, Digestive Disease Research Centre, University of Tehran)

2009-12-04 13:00: Importance of patient reported outcomes in cancer clinical trials (Prof. Lesley Fallowfield, CRUK Sussex Psychosocial Oncology Group)

2010-01-15 13:00: 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)

2010-01-29 13:00: Primary prevention of Hepatitis C (Dr Matthew Hickman, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol)

2010-02-05 13:00: Developmental overnutrition and risk of adverse cardiovascular health. (Professor Debbie Lawlor, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol)

2010-02-19 13:00: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (Professor Kate Pickett, Department of Health Sciences, University of York)

2010-02-26 13:00: Evidence synthesis for social and behavioural interventions:  NICE's experience of developing public health guidance (Professor Mike Kelly, NICE)

2010-03-12 13:00: How much Vitamin D do we need? : a perspective on current controversies (Dr Ann Prentice, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge)

2010-04-30 13:00: 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)

2010-05-14 13:00: Developmental overnutrition and risk of adverse cardiovascular health. (Prof Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol)

2010-05-21 13:00: Mind over Matter project to raise public understanding of brain
donation - the contribution of very old people participating in
longitudinal studies (Dr Bronwyn Parry, Queen Mary University of London)

2010-06-04 13:00: Socio-economic inequalities in health dynamics (Prof Amanda Sacker, University of Essex)

2010-10-15 13:00: Self monitoring / management of BP and in particular the TASMINH2 trial (Richard McManus, Professor of Primary Care Cardiovascular Research)

2010-11-05 13:00: 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)

2010-11-26 13:00: Child gambling and problem gambling (David Forrest, Professor of Economics, Centre for the Study of Gambling, University of Salford)

2010-12-03 13:00: The impact of economic crisis on mental well-being and happiness (Dora Gudrun Gudmundsdottir, psychologist / a former Director of The Public Health Institute of Iceland)

2011-01-21 13:00: Arizona’s Indians, American Samoans, Australian Aborigines - what links them together? (Maximilian de Courten, Copenhagen)

2011-02-25 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Mark Cobain, Platform Director, Nutrition and Health, Unilever Discover)

2011-03-18 13:00: 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 risks (John Powles, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, and Louise Aston, Public Health Specialty Registrar, NHS Bedfordshire)

2011-06-03 13:00: Public Health Observatories, Public Health England and the future of public health intelligence (Julian Flowers, Eastern Region Public Health Observatory, IPH)

2011-06-17 13:00: The optimal body shape for health and sports performance (Alan Nevill, University of Wolverhampton)

2011-07-08 13:00: Drawing causal inferences in epidemiological studies of early life influences (Andy Ness, Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children)

2011-11-04 13:00: Lessons from the MMR scare (Dr Fiona Godlee, BMJ)

2011-11-18 13:00: Understanding longevity: an epidemiological study of genetics, disease and life-style (Henning Tiemeier, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam)

2011-11-25 13:00: The Institute of Public Health and its future (Professor Carol Brayne ( Department of Public Health and Primary Care))

2012-03-09 13:00: Public Health Genomics: translating genomic advances into improved population health worldwide (Dr Hilary Burton, Director of Public Health Genomics Foundation)

2012-05-04 13:00: Exploring possible futures of Tobacco Control in Australia: High tech, low tech and no tech (Prof. Wayne Hall, Deputy Director (Policy) UQ Centre for Clinical Research |The University of Queensland)

2012-05-18 13:00: The Salmonella Enteritidis epidemic in the UK Poultry industry: Practices and outcomes of an effective intervention? (Chris Lane, Health Protection Agency)

2012-05-25 13:00: Fat taxes, nutrient profiling and trends in the incidence of coronary heart disease (Dr Mike Rayner, Director of the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Group, Depatment of Public Health, University of Oxford)

2012-06-08 13:00: Environments and human health (Sally Macintyre, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow)

2012-11-02 13:00: “Extreme reviewing”: Use of text-mining to reduce impractical screening workload in extremely large scoping reviews (Ian Shemilt, Evidence Synthesis Programme, Behaviour and Health Research Unit)

2012-11-23 13:00: Surveillance of Guillain-Barré Syndrome During the 2009–2010 H1N1 Influenza Vaccination Campaign in the United States (Dr Oliver Morgan, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US)

2013-01-18 12:00: What matters to people with assistive living needs? Findings from the ATHENE ethnographic study of telehealth and telecare in the home (Prof Trisha Greenhalgh)

2013-01-25 13:00: What are the benefits and harms of breast cancer screening? (Simon Thompson, Department of Public Health, University of Cambridge)

2013-02-01 13:00: 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)

2013-03-01 13:00: Social-biological transitions: how does the social become biological? (Prof David Blane)

2013-05-10 13:00: The geography of obesity: A tale of two cities (Adam 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)

2013-06-06 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol)

2013-10-25 13:00: North versus South: England's enduring health divide (Professor Tim Doran, Professor of Health Policy, University of York)

2013-11-15 13:00: Understanding changing BMI distributions in England, their causes and long term consequences (Professor Klim McPherson, Visiting Professor in Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford)

2013-11-29 13:00: Nudges, Norms, and Comfort Food: Tiny interventions to get kids to eat vegetables and astronauts to eat anything (Professor Traci Mann, University of Minnesota Department of Psychology)

2014-01-17 13:00: Bacterial Genomes and Metagenomes: from point mutations to public health (Professor Mark Pallen, Professor of Microbial Genomics and Head of the Division of Microbiology and Infection)

2014-03-07 13:00: The Political Economy of Public Health: Explaining the Postcommunist Mortality Crisis (Professor Lawrence King, Professor in Sociology and Political Economy, University of Cambridge)

2014-03-14 13:00: Scaling up capacity for Primary Health Care in Africa (Professor Jan De Maeseneer, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University)

2014-05-09 13:00: Where are we heading with cancer diagnosis research? (Professor Greg Rubin, GP and Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at Durham University)

2014-05-30 13:00: Global Burden of Disease: from Global to Local (Professor Adrian Davis)

2014-10-10 13:00: Genomics and Ageing Well (Professor David Melzer, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Exeter Medical School)

2014-10-17 13:00: What does experiential knowledge contribute to public health evidence to reduce health inequalities?  (Professor Jennie Popay, Sociology and Public Health, Division of Health Research, Lancaster University)

2014-11-03 17:30: REDUCING CVD GLOBALLY — FROM RESEARCH TO ACTION (Dr SALIM YUSUF MD (Bangalore), DPhil (Oxford), MRCP McMaster University, Ontario, Canada)

2014-11-21 13:00: Revisiting the use of families in complex genetic disease studies (Professor Heather J. Cordell, Professor of Statistical Genetics, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University)

2014-12-05 13:00: Enlightened Aging:  How the Baby Boom Generation can change  tomorrow's Long Old Age (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)

2015-02-13 13:00: What counts as evidence? Some reflections on what counts as 'good enough' evidence in public health (Mark Petticrew, Professor of Public Health Evaluation, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

2015-03-06 13:00: Assessing causality in perinatal and developmental epidemiology (Professor Debbie Lawlor, University of Bristol, MSc(Lond), MBChB, PhD(Bristol), MPH(Leeds), MRCGP, MFPHM  Professor of Epidemiology)

2015-03-13 13:00: Valuing the economic benefits of complex interventions:  when maximising health is not sufficient (Professor Katherine Payne, Manchester Centre for Health Economics, University of Manchester)

2015-04-14 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Dean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, )

2015-04-14 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Dean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy,)

2015-04-24 13:00: Capacity Building for Tobacco Research and Control in Eastern Europe (Kristie Foley, PhD, Professor and Director, Medical Humanities and Public Health, Davidson College, USA)

2015-05-08 13:00: Genetics in drug discovery and development (John Whittaker, Professor and Vice President of Statistical Platforms and Technologies at GSK)

2015-06-12 13:00: Health, climate change and unsustainable development – head in the sand or line in the sand? (David Pencheon, Director of NHS Sustainability Unit:)

2015-06-26 13:00: “Leveraging Social Psychological Theory to Understand Engagement with Personalized Genomic Information” (William Klein,  Associate Director, Behavioral Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA)

2015-10-08 18:00: Public Health without Borders:  The Role of Knowledge in an Interdependent World (Dr Julio Frenk, President-Elect, University of Miami; Dean, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health)

2015-10-16 13:00: Academics, scientists and the future of medical publishing (Domhnall MacAuley, University of Ulster; Consultant-Associate Editor, Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) and PLOS Medicine)

2015-11-20 13:00: The Global Health Security Agenda (Professor Mika Salminen, Director of the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland and Chair of the Global Health Security Agenda)

2016-02-12 13:00: The quest for causal understanding of inequalities in health: holy grail or chimera? (Professor Martin White,  MRC Epidemiology Unit and the UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR); Director of the NIHR Public Health Research Programme)

2016-03-11 13:00: Seeing the wood as well as the trees: the importance of the ‘macro’ perspective for public health (Professor Richard Smith, Dean, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

2016-04-14 13:00: Dietary priorities for obesity - are all calories created equal?  (Dean Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy,)

2016-04-22 13:00: UK Biobank: opportunities and challenges (Professor Catherine Sudlow, Chair of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh and UK Biobank’s Chief Scientist and Senior Epidemiologist)

2016-05-06 13:00: Making an impact on the public’s health and wellbeing in England (Professor Kevin Fenton, Director of Health and Wellbeing, Public Health England)

2016-06-10 13:00: Head and neck cancer: insights into aetiology and prognosis from a clinical cohort (Professor Andy Ness, Director, Bristol Nutrition Biomedical Research Unit, University of Bristol)

2016-11-04 13:00: Should we screen for diabetes and related cardiovascular risk? (Professor Torsten Lauritzen, Department of Public Health, Institute of General Medical Practice, Aarhus University, Denmark.)

2016-11-18 13:00: What causes wellness?  The social determinants of health (Sir Harry Burns, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Strathclyde; former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland)

2016-12-02 13:00: Describing the HIV cascade of care using routine clinic and surveillance databases: methodological challenges (Caroline Sabin, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Healthcare)

2017-02-03 13:00: Measuring everything everywhere: the Global Burden of Disease study and its use by Public Health England (Professor John Newton, Chief Knowledge Officer, Public Health England)

2017-02-24 13:00: Measuring and visualising worldwide trends in cardiovascular risk factors (Professor Majid Ezzati, Imperial College London)

2017-03-10 13:00: Is the NHS financially sustainable? (John Appleby, Director of Research and Chief Economist, The Nuffield Trust & Visiting professor City University and Imperial College, London)

2017-03-17 13:00: Estimating the burden of infectious diseases in Europe: the BCoDE approach (Professor Mirjam Kretzschmar, University Medical Center Utrecht)

2017-05-05 13:00: Can perinatal mental health care prevent mental health problems in children? (Professor Louise Howard, Kings College London)

2017-05-19 13:00: DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data not the data to the analysis (Professor Paul Burton, Professor of Data Science for Health, Newcastle University)

2017-10-06 13:00: Genetics and genomics: focus on value (Professor Martina Cornel, Clinical Genetics & Amsterdam Public Health research institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam )

2017-11-24 13:00: Evidence is Not Enough: Towards a democratically legitimate role for evidence in health policymaking (Dr Katherine Smith, Reader - Global Public Health Unit Social Policy, School of Social & Political Science, University of Edinburgh)

2018-01-19 13:00: Realist Reviews of health interventions – dealing with complexity and context (Dr Geoffrey Wong, Clinical Research Fellow, University of Oxford)

2018-02-02 13:00: Local integrated prevention of childhood obesity: lessons from  Amsterdam (Professor Jaap Seidell, VU University, Amsterdam )

2018-03-09 13:00: Realising public health research priorities; whose priorities? (Professor Bernie Hannigan, Public Health England)

2018-05-04 13:00: Is Primary Care Research important, and can it be led by primary care? (Professor Richard Hobbs, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford )

2018-05-18 13:00: The power of parenting support (Professor Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Leiden University)

2018-06-15 13:00: Psychological Medicine in Global Health : research for impact (Dr Melanie Abas, Kings College London)

2018-10-05 13:00: Options and Opportunities for Health Data Science (Professor Andrew Morris, Farr Institute, Scotland)

2018-10-26 13:00: Bradford Hill Seminar with Professor Joan Morris - How safe are medicines used in pregnancy? (Professor Joan Morris, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine)

2018-11-16 13:00: 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)

2019-03-01 13:00: Making evidence credible for public health policy (Dr Kathryn Oliver, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine )

2019-05-03 13:00:  Surveillance, Detection and Response to Emerging International Health Emergencies: the Role of the World Health Organization (Dr Oliver Morgan, World Health Organisation )

2019-06-07 13:00: Governance or government? How should researchers understand the policy process? (Professor Michael Kenny, Bennett Institute for Public Policy)

2019-11-08 13:00: Cancer Screening and Prevention: Lessons Learned  (Professor Mette Kalager, University of Oslo)

2019-11-29 13:00: Big data and small talk: why we need both (Prof. Nick Steel, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia)

2020-01-17 13:00: Recent insights into drug resistant Shigella: a major contributor to the global diarrhoeal disease burden (Stephen Baker, Professor of molecular microbiology, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease )

2020-03-13 13:00: Paediatric Genomics - what have we learnt so far? (Professor Brian H. Y. Chung, Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Paediatrics, Hong Kong University)

2022-02-16 13:00: Neighbourhood Disadvantage, Everyday Urban Mobility, and Well-Being (Professor Robert J Sampson, Harvard University)

2022-02-23 13:00: Epidemiology and control of COVID-19 in Hong Kong (Professor Benjamin Cowling, School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong)

2022-05-11 13:00: The future of cancer screening: stratified, pan, both or neither? (Professor Peter Sasieni, King’s Clinical Trials Unit, King’s College London)

2022-11-23 13:00: Bradford Hill Seminar – Designing efficient clinical trials during a pandemic (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-12-07 13:00: Learning About Long COVID from Patients: The Power of Narrative Evidence (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-12-07 13:00: Learning About Long COVID from Patients: The Power of Narrative Evidence (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-02-15 13:00: Bradford Hill Seminar - Social justice and health equity – Professor Sir Michael Marmot (Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Institute of Health Equity)

2023-03-29 09:00: Bradford Hill Seminar – Driving sustainable improvements in patient outcomes through point of care patient outcome measurement and clinical benchmarking (Professor Kathy Eagar, Australian Health Services Research Institute)

2023-05-31 13:00: Bradford Hill Seminar – Tackling Bias and Inequities in Health and Genomic Data (Dr Maxine Mackintosh, Genomics England)

2023-06-28 13:00: Postponed - Bradford Hill Seminar – Tweeting through the storm: how to use social media during a pandemic (Meaghan Kall, UK Health Security Agency)

2023-06-28 13:00: Bradford Hill Seminar – Tweeting through the storm: how to use social media during a pandemic (Meaghan Kall, UK Health Security Agency)

2023-10-04 13:00: Bradford Hill Seminar – Tackling Bias and Inequities in Health and Genomic Data (Dr Maxine Mackintosh, Genomics England)

2023-10-04 13:00: Bradford Hill Seminar – Tackling Bias and Inequities in Health and Genomic Data (Dr Maxine Mackintosh, Genomics England)

2023-10-11 13:00: Bradford Hill seminar - Tweeting through the storm: how to use social media during a pandemic (Meaghan Kall, UK Health Security Agency)

2023-11-22 13:00: Bradford Hill Seminar – What are the Policy Levers for Impact on Health and Sustainability? (Professor Jeremy A. Lauer, University of Strathclyde)

2024-02-28 13:00: Bradford Hill Seminar - Social justice and health equity (Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Institute of Health Equity and UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health)

2024-05-15 13:00: Bradford Hill seminar - Is perfection the enemy of good? Challenges and opportunities for building the evidence-base to inform sexual and reproductive health policy and practice (Professor Cath Mercer, UCL Institute for Global Health)

2025-05-07 13:00: The SIREN study at five years: Tracking SARS-CoV-2 and respiratory infections in UK healthcare workers since 2020 (Victoria Hall, UK Health Security Agency)

2025-05-07 13:00: The SIREN study at five years: Tracking SARS-CoV-2 and respiratory infections in UK healthcare workers since 2020 (Victoria Hall, UK Health Security Agency)

2025-07-02 13:00: Bradford Hill Seminar – The Cancer Loyalty Card Study (CLOCS), aiming to help reduce the delays in cancer diagnosis using transaction data (Professor James Flanagan, Imperial College London)

2025-10-15 13:00: Bradford Hill Seminar – The politics of epidemiology and public health in the UK - Professor Danny Dorling (Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford)

2026-02-27 13:00: 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)

2026-02-27 13:00: 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)