Cambridge Institute of Public Health 


2007-01-16 14:30: Medical statistics: A little bit of history (Vern Farewell and Tony Johnson, MRC Biostatistics Unit)

2007-02-20 14:30: Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic models in structured populations based on final outcome data (Philip O'Neill, University of Nottingham)

2007-03-27 14:30: Models for baseline and treatment effects in meta-analysis (Tony Ades, University of Bristol)

2007-04-17 14:30: 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)

2007-05-22 14:30: Representing uncertainty in numerical climate models (Nadja Leith, UCL)

2007-06-05 14:30: Inference for binary Markov random fields without tears (or MCMC). (Nial Friel, University of Glasgow)

2007-07-09 14:30: The Reporting of Associations in Genome-Wide Studies (Jon Wakefield, University of Washington)

2007-07-10 14:30: Identifying true positive associations in genome-wide association studies (Jenny Barrett, University of Leeds)

2007-07-12 11:30: Graphical Data and Data Graphics in R (Paul Murrell, University of Auckland)

2007-09-25 14:30: Efficient Bayesian Segmentation of DNA data (Paul Fearnhead, University of Lancaster)

2007-10-16 14:30: Online inference and prediction for infectious diseases: a case study in Avian Influenza (Gareth Roberts, University of Warwick)

2007-10-25 14:00: What is the deviance information criterion? (Martyn Plummer, International Agency for Research on Cancer)

2007-11-12 14:30: 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)

2007-12-11 14:30: Non-ignorable missing data in parametric survival models (Katherine Boyd, MRC Clinical Trials Unit)

2007-12-17 14:30: Building Models of Juvenile Salmon Demography (Paul Birrell, MRC Biostatistics Unit)

2008-01-15 14:30: Graphical models for causal reasoning in epidemiology (Vanessa Didelez, University of Bristol)

2008-02-08 14:15: Bayesian variable selection in generalized linear models under cost constraints (David Draper, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

2008-02-12 14:30: The evolution and adaptation of HIV-1 virulence (Christophe Fraser, Imperial College London)

2008-03-11 14:30: New copulae from an order-statistics approach (Rose Baker, University of Salford)

2008-04-08 14:30: Issues and controversies in  life course epidemiology (Bianca De Stavola, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

2008-05-06 14:30: Dynamic predicting by landmarking as an alternative for multi-state modeling: an application to acute lymphoid leukemia data (Hans van Houwelingen, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands)

2008-06-03 14:30: Focussed model selection and model averaging for the Cox regression model (Gerda Claeskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

2008-06-10 14:30: Structure Ranking and System Identification for Non-Linear Biochemical Process Models: Inferring the Structure of the ERK Pathway via Bayes Factors (Mark Girolami, University of Glasgow)

2008-06-18 13:00: A parametric approach to modeling changes in general health and cognition: developing a stochastic model of aging (Arnold Mitnitski, PhD, Department of Medicine, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)

2008-06-24 14:45: Epidemiological models for a Respondent Driven Sample (Märt Möls, University of Tartu, Estonia)

2008-07-01 14:30: Hierarchical Evolutionary Stochastic Search with Adaptive Proposals (Leonardo Bottolo, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London)

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)

2008-10-14 14:30: Transdimensional sampling algorithms for Bayesian variable selection in classification problems with many more variables than observations (Jim Griffin, University of Kent)

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

2008-10-21 14:30: Multiply robust estimation of statistical interaction parameters (Stijn Vansteelandt, University of Ghent, Belgium)

2008-10-30 13:00: Nutritional Metabolomics - Making the pieces fit (Dr Don Otter, AgResearch Ltd, New Zealand)

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)

2008-11-10 16:00: Is it time to re-evaluate fatty acids as biomarkers? (Dr Leanne Hodson, Oxford University)

2008-11-11 14:30: Modeling relationships between food intakes and health-related outcomes: zero-inflated data subject to measurement error (Laurence Freedman, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Sheba Medical Center, Israel)

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)

2008-12-02 14:30: Bayesian meta-analysis of genetic association studies using Stata (John Thompson, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester)

2008-12-03 16:00: Genes and biomarkers in coronary heart disease (Prof. John Danesh, IPH, University of Cambridge)

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)

2008-12-09 14:30: The Error Statistical Philosophy (Professor Deborah G. Mayo, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

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

2009-01-27 14:30: Estimating the impact of school closure on influenza transmission from sentinel data (Simon Cauchemez, Imperial College London)

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)

2009-02-23 13:00: Adipose tissue inflammation and ceramide (Assoc. Prof Rachel Fisher, Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Karolinska Institute)

2009-02-24 14:30: Lessons from livestock - some things animal movements can tell us about social networks in epidemiology (Rowland Kao, University of Glasgow)

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)

2009-03-10 14:30: Hypothesis testing and estimation in a group sequential phase II/III clinical trial (Nigel Stallard, University of Warwick)

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)

2009-03-30 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Sadaf Farooqi, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Institute of Metabolic Science)

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

2009-04-27 14:30: Individual Prediction in Prostate Cancer Studies Using a Joint Longitudinal-Survival Model (Jeremy Taylor, University of Michigan)

2009-04-27 16:00: 'Genes for common obesity - what have we learned from genome-wide association studies so far ?' (Dr Ruth Loos, MRC Epidemiology)

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)

2009-05-19 14:30: The use of baseline covariates in cross-over studies (Mike Kenward, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

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)

2009-06-09 14:30: Generalized Multilevel Functional Regression (Ana-Maria Staicu, University of Bristol)

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)

2009-10-20 14:30: A Bayesian dose-escalation procedure for phase I/II clinical trials (John Whitehead, Lancaster University)

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)

2009-10-27 14:30: Estimation of time to pregnancy from current duration data (Niels Keiding, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen)

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)

2009-11-03 14:30: The Value for Medical and Public Health Decisions of Adding Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Data to a Model for Breast Cancer Risk (Mitch Gail, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, USA)

2009-11-10 14:30: Generalized estimating equations for censored data (Daniel Farewell, Cardiff University)

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)

2009-12-01 14:30: Emulation of random output (stochastic) models: theory and application (Dan Cornford, Non-linearity and Complexity Research Group, Aston University)

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)

2010-01-19 14:30: Modelling the association between patient characteristics and the change over time in a disease measure using observational cohort data (Andrew Copas, Centre for sexual health & HIV research, UCL)

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)

2010-02-23 14:30: Regret-regression for optimal dynamic treatment regimes (Robin Henderson, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Newcastle)

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

2010-03-09 13:00: Nutrition Training Seminar Series - Developmental & Early Stage Nutrition (Drs Sophie Hawkesworth, LSHTM and Gail Goldberg, MRC HNR)

2010-03-11 13:00: Nutrition Training Seminar Series - Malnutrition (Prof Catherine Geissler, KCL)

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)

2010-03-16 11:00: Some issues for causal inference in observational epidemiology (Nuala Sheehan, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester)

2010-03-16 13:00: Nutrition Training Seminar Series - growth (Prof Tim Cole, ICH)

2010-03-23 13:00: Nutrition Training Seminar Series - ageing (Prof Kay-Tee Khaw, MRC CNC)

2010-03-30 13:00: Nutrition Training Seminar Series - non-communicable diseases (Dr Cliona NiMurch, MRC HNR)

2010-04-20 14:30: A flexible regression approach  using GAMLSS (Mikis Stasinopoulos, London Metropolitan University)

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)

2010-05-11 14:30: Harnessing social networks for HIV surveillance (Simon Frost, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)

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)

2010-06-22 14:30: Modelling health scores with the multivariate skew normal (Jane Hutton, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick)

2010-06-28 14:30: Model-based cluster analysis for structured data (Sabine Landau, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London)

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

2010-10-19 14:30: Badger culling to control bovine TB - its potential role in a science-led policy (Christl Donnelly, Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College, London)

2010-10-21 14:30: Modeling longitudinal observations with excess zeros and measurement error, with application to nutritional epidemiology (Victor Kipnis, National Cancer Institute, US)

2010-11-02 14:30: The competing explanations: Frailty or individual development? Examples from cancer and from network theory (Odd Aalen, Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo)

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)

2010-11-16 14:30: Modelling Relative Survival: Flexible Parametric Models and the Estimation of Net and Crude Mortality (Paul Lambert, Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Leicester)

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

2010-11-30 14:30: Spatial prediction in the presence of positional error (Thomas Fanshawe, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University)

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)

2011-02-15 14:30: Dropouts in the AB/BA crossover design (John Matthews, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University)

2011-02-22 14:30: A Causal Diagram Approach to Evidence Synthesis (Ian Shrier, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Canada)

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

2011-03-15 14:30: Sensitivity of parameter estimates of marginal and random-effects models to missing data (Rumana Omar, Department of Statistical Science, UCL)

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)

2011-04-05 14:30: Patterns of vulnerability in pregnancy and early childhood: Measurement, interactions, effect moderation and random coefficients in latent variable models (Andrew Pickles, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London)

2011-05-17 14:30: Experience and challenges of applying Bayesian methods in food safety risk assessments (Dr. Marc Kennedy, The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), Risk and Numerical Sciences (RANS) team)

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)

2011-06-07 14:30: Assessing surrogacy using linear mixed models and the surrogate threshold effect (Dr. Sally Galbraith, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of New South Wales, Australia)

2011-06-14 14:30: The Natural History and Predictive Factors of Long Term Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus:  Analysis from the Hopkins Lupus Cohort (Penny Watson, School of Health and Related Research, The University of Sheffield)

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)

2011-09-27 14:30: Statistical Software at the Centre for Multilevel Modelling (Professor William J. Browne, School of Clinical Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol)

2011-10-18 14:30: Modelling the transmission of Clostridium difficile in hospitals (Dr Madeleine Cule, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

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

2011-11-08 14:30: Assessment of Trend in Recurrent Event Processes (Professor  Jerry Lawless, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada)

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))

2011-12-06 14:30: Design and Analysis of Multi-Arm, Multi-Stage Clinical Studies (Dr. Thomas Jaki, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University)

2012-01-17 14:30: Which survival model? Model selection and model averaging issues for analysis of survival and event history data (Prof. Nils Hjort, Department of Mathmatics, University of Oslo, Norway)

2012-01-26 16:30: Implementing whole genome sequencing in clinical practice (Dr Anna Pocorska-Bocci (PHG Foundation) and Dr Mark Ross (Illumina))

2012-02-14 14:30: Latent Mixture Quantile Regression for Longitudinal Data (Dr. Bo Fu, School of Community-Based Medicine, University of Manchester)

2012-02-28 14:30: Some thoughts on multi-parameter evidence synthesis (Mr. Guobing Lu, University of Bristol)

2012-03-08 16:30: Novel prenatal diagnostics and their impact in Asian countries (Alison Hall, PHG Foundation and Dr Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner, University of Sussex)

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)

2012-03-20 14:30: How to use simulation studies in understanding and evaluating statistical methods (Ian White, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge)

2012-04-24 14:00: Setting sample size for common designs when evaluating interventions and biomarkers (Professor Toby Prevost,  Kings College London)

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)

2012-05-15 14:30: Congenial multiple imputation of partially observed covariates within the full conditional specification framework (Jonathan Bartlett, LSHTM.)

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)

2012-05-31 16:30: Epigenetics: The secret key to health (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2012-06-19 11:00: Optimal data combination in seamless Phase II/III clinical trials (Lisa Hampson, Lancaster University.)

2012-07-05 16:30: Genomics in the NHS: are we there yet? (Dr Mark Bale, Interim Director of Health Science & Bioethics in the Department of Health and  Dr Shehla Mohammed MD FRCP, Consultant Clinical Geneticist and Head of Service at Guy’s Hospital.)

2012-09-18 14:30: Modelling the growth and transmission of infectious disease by linking epidemiology and population genetics (Daniel Wilson, University of Oxford)

2012-10-02 14:30: Modelling heterogeneity in gene expression using the matrix-variate  normal distribution (Anestis Touloumis,  EBI, Cambridge)

2012-10-09 14:30: Predictive analytic modelling in clinical trials  (patient recruitment, randomization and drug supply)  (Vladimir Anisimov,  Qunitiles)

2012-10-11 12:00: Mendelian Randomization: the next ten years? (Professor George Davey-Smith, University of Bristol)

2012-10-16 14:30: Bayesian hierarchical models and recent computational development using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation, with applications to pre-implantation genetic screening in IVF (Gianluca Baio, University College, London)

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)

2012-11-20 14:30: Dimension reduction based on sliced inverse regression (SIR): a look at the special case when n ‹p  (Jérôme Saracco,  Bordeaux Institute of Technology & Bordeaux Institute of Mathematics (Probability and Statistics team))

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)

2012-11-27 14:30: Generating partially synthetic data to protect confidentiality in survey microdata (Robin Mitra, University of Southampton)

2012-12-04 09:00: Making science work for health: translating genomics (Speakers include Professor Dennis Lo of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Dr Muin Khoury from the CDC Office of Public Health Genomics in Atlanta)

2012-12-04 18:30: Making science work for health: Gala dinner (Speaker to be confirmed)

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)

2013-01-22 14:30: Causal inference and stratified medicine: an illustration of trial designs incorporating biomarker information for mechanisms evaluation (Richard Emsley, University of Manchester)

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)

2013-02-05 14:30: Conditional Density Estimation through Enriched Dirichlet Process Mixture Models (Sara Wade, University of Cambridge)

2013-03-01 10:30: Haplotype sharing and time to common ancestor: resolving various genetics problems including the studies of rare variants and disease susceptibility variants (Dr Augustine Kong, deCODE genetics)

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

2013-03-12 14:30: Statistical inference of virus phylodynamics (Oliver Ratmann, Imperial College London)

2013-04-08 14:00: Signal Identification for Rare and Weak Features:  Higher Criticism or False Discovery Rates (Prof. Korbinian Strimmer, University of Leipzig)

2013-04-23 14:00: Scalable network modelling for personalized medicine (Sach Mukherjee, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI))

2013-04-29 11:00: Large sample results for tiny significance levels (Professor Kenneth Rice, University of Washington)

2013-04-29 17:30: MRC Centenary Lecture: Failings in hierarchies of evidence for controversial health-policy decisions (Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, of NICE)

2013-04-30 14:30: Causal mediation analysis with multiple mediators (Rhian Daniel, LSHTM)

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)

2013-05-14 14:30: Semi Markov models under panel observation  (Andrew Titman, University of Lancaster)

2013-05-16 12:30: Cognitive theories of Autism Spectrum Condition: Impressive or impressionistic? (Dr Kate Plaisted-Grant)

2013-05-17 16:15: Find out more about dementia (John O Brien)

2013-05-22 17:30: MRC Centenary Lecture: Numbers are weapons: a self defence guide (Tim Harford, of More or Less)

2013-05-28 17:30: MRC Centenary Lecture: What's happening to the world? (Professor Sir John Beddington FRS FRSE)

2013-05-31 13:00: The Puzzle of Child Well-being: Many Measures but No Construct (Dr Anna Alexandrova )

2013-06-04 14:30: The value of CStat (Trevor Lewis, Royal Statistical Society)

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

2013-06-07 12:30: The annual Breathlessness Research Interest Group Open Lecture  (Professor Paul Montgomery (Professor of Psycho-Social Intervention, Centre for Evidence Based Intervention, University of Oxford))

2013-06-17 12:00: The BioSHaRE project (Professor Ronald Stolk, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Gronigen)

2013-06-18 14:30: Phase II/III clinical trials: Recent developments in methodology for trial design and analysis (Sue Todd,  University of Reading)

2013-06-20 18:30: MRC Centenary Lecture:  Putting life into numbers - how statistical science has transformed health care (Professor David J. Spiegelhalter OBE FRS)

2013-06-24 15:00: Is the price right? The feasibility and effectiveness of food pricing strategies to stimulate healthy eating (Dr Wilma Waterlander, Research Fellow, The University of Auckland, New Zealand )

2013-06-25 12:30: Uncovering the Glass Cliff: Examining the precariousness of women’s leadership positions (Professor Michelle Ryan)

2013-06-26 12:00: Assistance for Treatment Resistance: Lessons from the TORDIA Study (Dr David Brent, Academic Chief of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine)

2013-07-01 17:15: Raymond and Beverley Sackler Distinguished Lecture  (Professor Richard Lifton, Sterling Professor of Genetics, Yale University)

2013-07-03 12:30: Lifestyle and cancer prevention – the elephant in the room (Professor 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.)

2013-07-05 11:00: The undernourished child with an overweight mother: a statistical artifact or an emerging public health concern? (Dr Colleen Doak, Department of Health Sciences, Section of Infectious Disease, VU University Amsterdam)

2013-07-29 16:00: The SNaX Study: Randomised controlled trial of a multi-level intervention to prevent obesity among 11 and 12 year olds (Mark Schuster, William Berenberg Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School)

2013-09-25 12:30: An Epidemiologist’s View of Obesity Prevention Research (June Stevens, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, AICR/WCRF Chaired Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill )

2013-10-07 16:00: NIHR CLAHRC CP Open Meeting       (Dr Yun-Hee Jeon, Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Sydney, Australia)

2013-10-07 16:00: Weight Maintenance:  Definition and consequences  (Dr. June Stevens, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, USA)

2013-10-08 15:00: MRC Biostatistics Unit (Oliver Stegle, EMBL – European Bioinformatics Institute)

2013-10-09 09:00: CEDAR research and policy meeting (Nick Wareham)

2013-10-10 12:30: What is poor insight into illness in schizophrenia? (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-10-11 14:30: Toward an understanding of the barriers to and facilitators of dietary change    (Petra J Rydén Ph. D., RD, lecturer Department of Food and Nutrition Umea University)

2013-10-15 19:15: Simulating environmental systems:  the benefits of being discrete (Mike Bithell, Department of Geography)

2013-10-15 19:15: Simulating environmental systems: the benefits of being discrete (Mike Bithell - Department of Geography )

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

2013-10-30 12:30: Going beyond public health nutrition: healthy and environmentally sustainable food choices (Dr Jennie Macdiarmid,  Senior Research Fellow,  Public Health Nutrition Research group, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen)

2013-10-31 10:00: Politics & Collective Health Movements: (Prof Simon Wessely, Dr Monica Greco and Dr Tom Shakespeare)

2013-11-06 10:00: Qualitative Methods in Health Research Masterclass – Ethnographic methods (Dr Darin Weinberg)

2013-11-07 11:00: Cross-study Reproducibility of Predictions, with Application to Genomics (Professor Giovanni Parmigiani, Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health)

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)

2013-11-22 12:30: The trials and tribulations of school based cluster randomised controlled trials to improve dietary quality in children (Dr Charlotte Evans, Lecturer in Nutritional Epidemiology, University of Leeds)

2013-11-25 19:15: Design of multi-arm multi-stage trials (James Wason, MRC Biostatistics)

2013-11-27 12:00: Tackling the epidemic of diabetes in South Asians: reflections on the results of the Prevention of Diabetes and Obesity in South Asians (PODOSA) trial (Professor Raj Bhopal, Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health Centre for Population Health Sciences University of Edinburgh)

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)

2013-12-03 14:30: Uncovering selection bias in case-control studies using Bayesian post-stratification  (Sara Geneletti, London School of Economics.)

2013-12-18 12:30: A Better Start: ‘what works’ to improve nutrition in 0-3 year olds (Professor Carolyn Summerbell, Durham University)

2014-01-09 13:00: Dietary patterns and health: a cardiovascular disease perspective (title TBC) (Dr Janas Harrington, Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College Cork)

2014-01-13 16:00: The evaluation and treatment of Combat Blast wounds (Mr Tim Coakley, International Tactical Medical Solutions Inc. (ITMS), Virginia USA)

2014-01-16 10:00: Qualitative Methods in Health Research Masterclass – sociology of the interview (Dr Tiago Moreira (Durham University))

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)

2014-01-27 19:15: The UK10K Cohorts Project: Rare variant analysis by whole genome sequencing in 3,621 samples (Klaudia Walter, Sanger Institute)

2014-01-29 12:30: How the environment shapes health-behaviours (Dr Carlijn Kamphuis, Postdoctoral Researcher, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Netherlands)

2014-01-30 16:00: Crohn’s disease: triggered by selective failure in the endogenous nanomineral pathway of the gastrointestinal tract? (Dr Jonathan Powell, Head of Biomineral Research, MRC Human Nutrition Research)

2014-02-04 16:00: Interstitial sodium and it relevance to salt-sensitive hypertension (Dr Viknesh Selvarajah, BHF Clinical Research Training Fellow,  Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Addenbrookes Hospital)

2014-02-20 19:15: High-dimensional variable selection (Richard Samworth, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-27 12:00: Social inequalities in the 2004 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study (Dr Aluisio Barros, International Center for Equity in Health, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil)

2014-03-05 12:30: Small, medium, large or supersize: Prices and Portions (Dr Ingrid Steenhuis, Associate Professor Health Promotion, VU University Amsterdam)

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)

2014-03-10 16:00: Nipple shields: A novel system to deliver drugs and nutrients to breastfeeding infants (Dr Stephen Gerrard & Rebekah Scheuerle, BioScience Engineering Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, 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)

2014-03-19 12:00: The impact of taste variety in infancy (Dr Lucy Cooke, Senior Research Psychologist, Health Behaviour Research, Centre University College London)

2014-03-24 16:00: Socioeconomic status, diet and body weight: a search for mechanisms (Dr Pablo Monsivais, UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine)

2014-03-27 19:15: Working with Epidemiologists (Nick Galwey, GlaxoSmithKline)

2014-04-28 16:00: Iodine status in the UK and implications for fetal brain development. (Dr Sarah Bath, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey)

2014-05-01 19:15: Counting the Emperor (Peter Fretwell, British Antarctic Survey)

2014-05-02 12:30: Paving bicycling’s path to redemption in the future of active travel (Professor Kevin Krizek, Environmental Design and Transport, University of Colorado)

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)

2014-05-21 13:00: Food Environments: defining, measuring and developing interventions (Dr Amelia Lake, Lecturer in Knowledge Exchange in Public Health at the Centre for Public Policy & Health, University of Durham )

2014-05-21 16:00: Mechanisms by which broccoli can potentiate endogenous protection against stroke (Dr Paul Fraser, Cardiovascular Division, King’s College London, London)

2014-05-27 14:00: Iron in the Bowels of Cancer (Dr Chris Tselepis, Senior Lecturer, School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK)

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

2014-06-23 16:00: Improving nutrition care processes in hospitals: the Canadian experience. (Dr Heather Keller  University of Waterloo, Canada)

2014-07-03 16:00: From Science to Supermarket - Where does all the knowledge go? (Dr Simon Poole, Family Physician, Firs House Surgery Histon, Cambridge)

2014-07-30 12:30: Becoming bilingual in transport & health to put research into practice (Lucy Saunders, Consultant in Public Health, Greater London Authority and Transport for London)

2014-09-25 12:30: Prospects for Primary Prevention: obesity prevention interventions across pregnancy and early life (Dr Karen Campbell, Associate Professor, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University)

2014-10-08 11:30: Governing European public health nutrition policies – the role of harmonisation (Prof Monique Raats, Director: Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre, University of Surrey. )

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

2014-10-14 12:30: The Teenagers in Leisure Time (TiLT) study – A cluster analysis of adolescent screen time and sport participation (Helen Brown, Lecturer, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University)

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)

2014-10-21 19:15: Adaptive dose-finding designs to identify multiple doses that achieve multiple response targets (Adrian Mander, MRC Biostatistics Unit Hub for Trials Methodology Research)

2014-10-23 16:20: Are we able to solve the puzzle of Crohn’s disease using metagenomic analysis of the gut mucosa microbiome and virome – advances  in using next generation sequencing (Dr Josef Wagner, Pathogens Genomic Group at the Sanger Institute)

2014-11-03 16:00: Clinical and nutritional implications of the low FODMAP diet (Heidi Staudacher, Dietitian & NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellow, Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences, King's College London)

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

2014-11-14 12:30: Novel Group-dynamics Approaches to Physical Activity Promotion Across the Lifespan (Dr Mark Beauchamp, Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Canada)

2014-11-14 15:00: Genetics in Africa (Dr Manjinder Sandu, International Health Research Group & Genetic Epidemiology Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

2014-11-17 19:15: Reflections on a career as a professional statistician and the increasing value of the role of professional bodies (Trevor Lewis, PhD, CStat, CSci, PStat, Director, TLwise Consulting Limited and RSS Theme Director for Professional Affairs)

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)

2014-12-01 16:00: Nutrition and cancer: prevention, management and policy (Prof Martin Wiseman, Medical and Scientific Adviser, World Cancer Research Fund International)

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)

2014-12-05 15:00: A physical activity and fundamental movement skill intervention for children attending primary schools in low-income communities: The SCORES cluster RCT (Associate Professor David Lubans, University of Newcastle, AUS )

2014-12-18 12:30: Novel Group-dynamics Approaches to Physical Activity Promotion Across the Lifespan  (Dr Mark Beauchamp, Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Canada)

2015-01-14 13:00: Multiple Interacting Diseases and Risk Factors - the UK Health Forum's MIDRIF program (Dr Martin Brown, MA Cambs, Phd London IC)

2015-02-02 19:15: On reading Bernoulli’s Ars conjectandi 1713 (Anthony Edwards, Gonville and Caius)

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)

2015-03-04 12:30: The association between multimorbidity, healthcare utilisation and out-of-pocket spending in 22 countries: evidence from WHO SAGE and SHARE (Dr John Tayu Lee, health economist, Research Design Service, Imperial College London.)

2015-03-05 19:15: Statistics and Examinations (Tom Bramley, Cambridge Assessment)

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)

2015-03-16 15:00: How and why would you do data science in health? (Dr Philippe Giabbanelli, Investigator Scientist, Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), University of Cambridge)

2015-03-16 16:00: Quantifying diet and lifestyle: web-based methodological guidance and assessment tools for the population health researcher (Dr Simon Wheeler, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine)

2015-03-26 19:15: Blyth abandoned: sound science or flawed policy? (Richard Steward, Blyth Estuary Group)

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,)

2015-04-23 15:00: Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Papers (Professor Marcus Munafò, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol)

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)

2015-04-28 12:30: Designing cities to improve health and well-being: contributions from the HABITAT multilevel longitudinal study of Brisbane (Australia) neighbourhoods  (Professor Gavin Turrell, Queensland University of Technology)

2015-05-07 19:15: The cost of saving nature: how much and is it a price worth paying (Donal McCarthy, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds)

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

2015-06-01 13:00: Use of novel technologies to explore effective ways to improve population diets:  policy-relevant research from New Zealand (Dr Helen Eyles, National Institute for Health Innovation,  University of Auckland, New Zealand)

2015-06-01 16:00: Lipidomics, infancy nutrition and growth (Dr Philippa Prentice, MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow, University of Cambridge)

2015-06-05 12:30: Sitting time and chronic disease prevention: strengthening the evidence base (Dr Genevieve Healy, School of Public Health at The University of Queensland, Australia)

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:)

2015-06-22 16:00: Modifiable early life risk factors for childhood obesity – evaluating the potential for prevention (Professor Sian Robinson, Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton)

2015-06-23 12:30: Modelling health gain and cost (savings) from prevention: tobacco tax and food taxes and subsidies (Prof Tony Blakely University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand)

2015-06-25 14:00: Are all inequalities in heart disease unfair? (Dr. M. Justin Zaman, James Paget University Hospital & UEA)

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)

2015-06-29 10:30: “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? (Prof Tony Okely, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Interdisciplinary Educational Research Institute (IERI), University of Wollongong, Australia)

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)

2015-10-13 19:15: Fundamental Fallacies of Finance (Chris Rogers, Statistical Laboratory)

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)

2015-10-19 12:30: MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Dafna Merom  (Dr Dafna Merom)

2015-10-28 12:30: MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Prof Atul Singhal (Professor Atul Singhal, Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH))

2015-11-03 14:30: Title TBC (Prof Walter Gregory, Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Leeds)

2015-11-11 12:30: MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Janis Baird & Dr Christina Vogel (Dr Janis Baird and Dr Christina Vogel, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology, University of Southampton)

2015-11-16 19:15: Variation in measures and markers of timeliness of diagnosis in cancer  (Yoryos Lyratzopoulos, Cancer Epidemiology & Cancer Research-UK)

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)

2015-11-27 13:30: MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Audrey de Nazelle ( DrAudreyde Nazelle, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London)

2015-12-08 12:30: MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Professor Larry Frank (Professor Larry Frank, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia)

2015-12-08 14:30: "Blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease & Temporal Clustering of biological, medical and wearable data" (Dr Steven Kiddle MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London)

2015-12-10 11:00: MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Derek Yach (Dr Derek Yach, the Vitality Institute.)

2016-01-12 14:30: "An Unbiased and Scalable Monte Carlo Method for Bayesian Inference for Big Data" (Dr Murray Pollock, University of Warwick)

2016-01-18 13:00: MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Jennifer Badham & Dr Ruth Hunter (Dr Jennifer Badham and Dr Ruth Hunter)

2016-02-02 14:30: "Genomic prediction of complex human traits: relatedness, trait architecture and predictive meta-models" (Dr Athina Spiliopoulou University of Edinburgh)

2016-02-04 11:00: Estimating the global burden of disease attributable to excess sodium within the GBD2010 study (Dr John Powles, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.)

2016-02-08 19:15: My Fisher: Memories of R.A. Fisher by his last student  (Anthony Edwards, Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge)

2016-02-09 14:30: "Understanding the role of secondary outcomes in multivariate meta-analysis" (Professor John Copas, University of Warwick)

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)

2016-02-23 14:30: "The Implications of Differential Clustering for the Analysis of Binary Outcome Measures" (Dr Chris Roberts, University of Manchester)

2016-03-01 14:30: "Design for ABC and history matching with Gaussian processes" (Dr Richard Wilkinson, Sheffield University)

2016-03-10 19:15: Measuring Ethnicity in the NHS (Katie Saunders, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research)

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)

2016-03-16 09:00: Tackling obesity with Big Data – Seminar 16/03/16 – methods & models (Dr Michelle Morris, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (Organizer))

2016-03-22 14:30: "Better prediction by use of co-data: Adaptive group-regularized ridge regression" (Dr Mark van de Wiel, VU University Medical Center and VU university, Amsterdam)

2016-04-07 19:15: Genome-wide association studies: in search of common and low frequency variants in complex traits (Ioanna Tachmazidou, Sanger Institute)

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)

2016-04-26 14:30: "Some aspects in high-dimensional Bayesian model choice" (Dr David Rossell, University of Warwick)

2016-04-28 19:15: Risk prediction for primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases (Lisa Pennells, Department of Public Health and Primary Care)

2016-05-03 14:30: "The analysis of variance and the analysis of causes" (Prof Neil Pearce, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

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)

2016-05-10 14:30: "Improved ranking and selection for large-scale inference" (Prof Michael Newton, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2016-05-11 12:00: The contribution of physical activity to increased life expectancy (Professor Terence Dwyer, George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford.)

2016-05-24 14:30: "Modelling the evolution of brain signals" (Dr Mark Fiecas, University of Warwick)

2016-06-07 14:30: "Exploring dependence between categorical variables: Benefits and limitations of using variable selection within Bayesian clustering in relation to searching for interactions" (Dr Michail Papathomas, University of St Andrews)

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)

2016-07-05 14:30: "A non-stationary Bayesian model for across-site heterogeneity in molecular phylogenetics" (Dr Sarah Heaps, University of Newcastle)

2016-09-09 14:30: "Addressing missingness using two-phase sampling for nonresponse: methods and benefits" (Dr Nanhua Zhang, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center)

2016-09-13 14:30: Title TBC (Professor Rebecca Steorts, Duke University)

2016-09-19 13:00: Science publishing – behind the scenes at Nature (Dr Francesca Cesari, Chief Biological Sciences Editor at Nature)

2016-10-11 19:15: Driving the Robustness of Preclinical Research within the Pharmaceutical Industry (Katrina Gore, formerly of Pfizer Neusentis)

2016-10-17 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: On the Management of Population Immunity (Dr Flavio Toxvaerd, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge)

2016-10-18 14:30: "The Analysis of Recurrent Events: A Summary of Methodology and Informative Censoring Considerations" (Dr Jennifer Rogers, University of Oxford)

2016-10-19 12:30: A Capital Appetite: The Political Economy of UK Sugar Consumption  (Dr Ben Richardson, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.)

2016-11-02 12:30: Youth Fitness Assessment and Promotion: Insights from the Evaluation and Dissemination of FITNESSGRAM Programming. (Dr Greg Welk, Barbara E Forker Professor of Kinesiology at Iowa State University.)

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.)

2016-11-08 14:30: "Breaking non-identifiability using genetic information : an application to metabolite data and gene expression" (Benjamin Frot, University of Oxford)

2016-11-09 12:30: Is it too early to stand up?  Has the epidemiological evidence for sitting and health changed? (Dr Adrian Bauman, Sesquicentenary Professor of Public Health and Director of the Prevention Research Collaboration at the University of Sydney, Australia)

2016-11-17 13:00: Greedy genes: the role of appetite in genetic susceptibility to obesity (Dr Clare Llewellyn, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London)

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)

2016-11-21 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: MOVING TOWARDS A SMALLER ROLE FOR HEALTH MAXIMISATION IN THE PRIORITISATION OF NHS RESOURCES (Dr Gabriele Badano (University of Cambridge))

2016-11-21 19:15: Use of historical information to supplement a future study: opportunity and difficulty  (Nick Galwey, GlaxoSmithKline)

2016-11-29 14:30: "A Bayesian analysis of microbiome data" (Dr Sergio Bacallado, University of Cambridge)

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)

2016-12-13 14:30: Provisional title: "Percentage study weights in meta-analysis and meta-regression" (Professor Richard Riley, Keele University)

2016-12-14 12:30: Modelling cardiovascular and metabolic disease using transgenic zebrafish (Dr Marcel den Hoed, Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and SciLifeLab, Uppsala University.)

2017-01-09 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: NICE Technology Appraisal Process and Challenges to Decision Makers (Dr Amanda Adler, Chair, NICE Technology Appraisal Committee B)

2017-01-12 14:30: “Statistical opportunities and challenges in observational health data: Addressing missingness using two-phase sampling for nonresponse: methods and benefits" (Dr Matthew Sperrin, University of Manchester)

2017-01-19 14:30: "Dynamic prediction of survival using landmarking in large healthcare databases, with an application in cystic  fibrosis" (Dr Ruth Keogh, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

2017-02-02 18:45: What can gambling machine data tell us about betting behaviour? (David Excell, Featurespace)

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)

2017-02-22 12:30: A life-course investigation of influences on physical inactivity stability and change: findings from the 1958 British Birth Cohort (Dr Snehal Pinto Pereira, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.)

2017-02-23 14:30: CANCELLED - Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendations (Prof Richard Emsley, University of Manchester)

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

2017-03-07 19:15: A lab of one’s own: science & suffrage in the First World War (Patricia Fara, Clare College)

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)

2017-03-20 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Wealth, Marriage and Sex Selection. (Prof Kaivan Munshi, Faculty of Economics)

2017-03-22 12:30: Food marketing regulation and childhood obesity prevention (Professor Amandine Garde, Law & Non-Communicable Diseases, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool.)

2017-03-28 14:30: "The Analysis of Recurrent Events: A Summary of Methodology and Informative Censoring Considerations" (Dr Jennifer Rogers, University of Oxford)

2017-03-31 12:30: Seminar – Effects of Macronutrient Distribution on Weight Change and Related Cardiometabolic Profiles in Healthy Non-Obese Chinese: A Randomized, Clinical Trial (Professor Duo Li, Professor of Nutrition, Department of Food Science & Nutrition, Zhejiang University, China)

2017-04-03 19:15: Mapping regulatory variation in human cells (Daniel Gaffney, Sanger Institute)

2017-04-24 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Are next generation sequencing technologies affordable?  A cost-effectiveness analysis of a cancer panel versus single gene testing (Jilles Fermont, PhD Candidate)

2017-05-03 19:15: Innovative statistical approaches for studies in anti-infective drug combination development (Alun Bedding (Roche Products))

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)

2017-05-23 14:30: “Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendations” (Prof Richard Emsley, Centre for Biostatistics, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre)

2017-05-25 17:30: Seminar – Risk scores, risk communication and public health (Professor Simon Griffin)

2017-05-30 14:30: “The xyz algorithm for fast interaction search in high-dimensional data” (Dr Rajen Shah, University of Cambridge)

2017-06-20 14:30: “Joint variational inference for genetic association studies with multiple outcomes” (Hélène Ruffieux, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences)

2017-06-21 12:30: Evidence and policy in public health: reflections from Public Health England (Dr Felix Greaves, Deputy Director, Science and Strategic Information, Public Health England.)

2017-08-02 12:30: Early Life Undernutrition Alters Cardiac Muscle Development Resulting in Reduced Physical Activity Engagement and Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (David P. Ferguson PhD, RCEP , Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Michigan State University.)

2017-09-05 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Merryn Gott, Professor of Health Sciences, University of Auckland)

2017-09-12 14:30: Dirichlet Process Mixtures of Multivariate Skew t-distributions for Unsupervised Clustering of Cell Populations from Flow-Cytometry Data (Dr Boris Hejblum, University of Bordeaux)

2017-09-14 14:30: A Bayesian model-based approach to finding cell-type level associations in heterogeneous methylation samples (Daniel Kennedy, Queensland University of Technology)

2017-09-20 15:00: Market Socialism and Community Rating in Health Insurance (Peter Zweifel - Professor Emeritus, University of Zurich)

2017-09-21 14:30: Network Time Series (Prof Guy Nason, University of Bristol)

2017-10-03 16:00: Genome-wide epistasis in bacteria, new statistical tools and fresh biological insight (Prof Jukka Corander, University of Oslo)

2017-10-05 14:30: Extended multivariate generalised linear and non-linear mixed effect models (Dr Michael Crowther, University of Leicester)

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 )

2017-10-10 19:15: Probabilistic machine learning: foundations and frontiers (Zoubin Ghahramani, Department of Engineering)

2017-10-16 15:00: The Spanish Pension System, Disability Pensions and Vulnerability (Patricia Peinado - Assistant Professor, University of the Basque Country)

2017-10-18 12:30: Global trade in food and agriculture and the risk of non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countries (Dr Anne Marie Thow, Senior Lecturer in Health Policy at the University of Sydney.)

2017-10-31 14:30: Individual dynamic predictions using landmarking and joint modelling: validation of estimators and robustness assessment (Dr Loic Ferrer, ISPED, Bordeaux)

2017-11-08 12:30: Building your best day: combining compositional analysis and optimisation theory (Professor Tim Olds, School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia)

2017-11-14 19:15: The frequency of ‘America’ in America (Adam Kashlak, Statistical Laboratory)

2017-11-20 15:00: HE@Cam Seminar: Christian Léonard - Social Preferences as an Alternative to Cost-Utility Analysis (Professor Christian Léonard, General Director of the Belgian Healthcare Knowledge Centre (KCE))

2017-11-21 14:30: Continuous inference for aggregated point process data (Dr Ben Taylor, University of Lancaster)

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)

2018-01-04 12:00: The supermarket food environment and the promotion of healthier purchasing behaviour (Dr Adrian Cameron, Senior Research Fellow at the Deakin University Global Global Obesity Centre (GLOBE).)

2018-01-15 15:00: HE@Cam Seminar: John Buckell - Smokers’ cigarette choices and risk perceptions: Experimental evidence on US adults (John Buckell - Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University)

2018-01-18 12:30: Seminar – Implications of Brexit on the effectiveness of the UK soft drinks industry levy upon coronary heart disease in England: a modelling study (Evi Seferidi, Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London)

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

2018-01-23 12:30: Pathways to healthy urban living (Professor Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, ISGlobal, The Barcelona Institute for Global Health.)

2018-01-31 12:30: Tackling obesity in England: a policy journey (Dr Alison Tedstone, Chief Nutritionist Public Health England)

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

2018-02-07 12:30: Seminar – The Cambridge Sustainable Food Hub (Duncan Catchpole, founding committee member of Cambridge Sustainable Food)

2018-02-20 14:30: BSU Seminar: “Quasi Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods” (Dr. Ben Calderhead, Imperial College London)

2018-02-21 12:30: Seminar – Why do policymakers seem to ignore your evidence? (Professor Paul Cairney,  Department of History and Politics, University of Stirling.)

2018-03-01 19:15: Solving the Reproducibility Crisis  (Nicole Janz, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge)

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

2018-03-14 12:30: Seminar – Gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, mothers, and fathers (Associate Professor Kaberi Dasgupta, McGill University and Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre)

2018-04-05 14:30: BSU Seminar: “Bayesian adaptive designs for Phase III trials” (Dr. Liz Ryan, University of Warwick)

2018-04-12 12:30: Seminar – Using fiscal policies to improve the food supply and demand (Associate Professor Shu Wen Ng, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

2018-04-23 15:00: HE@Cam Seminar: Anna Heath - Value of Sample Information as a Tool for Clinical Trial Design (Anna Heath, University College London)

2018-04-26 14:30: BSU Seminar: “Exchangeable Random Measures for Sparse and Modular Graphs with Overlapping Communities” (Prof. François Caron, University of Oxford)

2018-04-26 19:15: Statistical Methods in Pre- and Clinical Drug Development: Tumour Growth-Inhibition Model Example (Robert Kozarski, AstraZeneca)

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 )

2018-05-10 14:30: BSU Seminar: “Cox-process representation and inference for stochastic reaction-diffusion processes” (Dr Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh)

2018-05-14 15:00: HE@Cam Seminar: Tray Brown - Building a Discrete Event Simulation to Determine the Cost-Effectiveness of Treatments for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Tray Brown -Department of Public Health and Primary care)

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

2018-05-29 14:30: BSU Seminar: "Optimal bootstrapping with dependent data" (Prof Alastair Young, Imperial College London)

2018-06-07 14:30: BSU Seminar: "Mass spectrometry-based proteomics: challenges and opportunities" (Dr Laurent Gatto, University of Cambridge )

2018-06-14 14:30: BSU Seminar: “Biomarker discovery through statistical signal processing and Bayesian modelling on large-scale quantitative proteomics data” (Professor Andrew Dowsey, University of Bristol)

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

2018-06-20 12:30: Seminar – Evidence for healthy and equitable population food policies (Dr Kathryn Backholer, Global Obesity Centre, Deakin University, Australia.)

2018-07-17 14:30: BSU Seminar: "Using Gaussian processes to model branching dynamics from single-cell data" (provisional) (Prof. Magnus Rattray, University of Manchester)

2018-07-24 12:30: Seminar by Chris Holmes, Shift Design (Chris Holmes, Shift Design)

2018-09-26 12:30: Walking on sunshine: What is the evidence for the effects of walking on mental health? (Dr Paul Kelly, University of  Edinburgh, UK.)

2018-10-02 15:30: BSU Seminar: “Statistical learning for drug screening in personalized cancer therapy” (Manuela Zucknick, University of Oslo)

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

2018-10-10 19:15: Why is cancer survival lower in England than in other high income countries? (Sarah Walters & Sara Benitez Majano, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

2018-10-19 11:00: Seminar – Can we promote physical activity at the population level? Findings from a community-based cluster randomised trial and a sport fandom-based app study (Dr Masamitsu Kamada, University of Tokyo)

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)

2018-11-05 12:30: Seminar – The nexus between food literacy, food security and disadvantage (Professor Danielle Gallegos, Queensland University of Technology.)

2018-11-06 13:00: CIPH Seminar – Improving access to primary care – evidence from a cluster feasibility trial using a realist perspective (Dr John Ford, NIHR Doctoral Fellow in Public Health, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia)

2018-11-08 14:00: BSU Seminar: “Unsupervised substructure discovery in mass spectrometry metabolomics data” (Dr Simon Rogers, University of Glasgow)

2018-11-14 12:30: Seminar – Social Networks for Health Behaviour Change (Dr Ruth Hunter, Queen’s University Belfast.)

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)

2018-11-20 19:15: Bayesian and structural integration of background evidence in the design, analysis and interpretation of clinical trial data (Fabio Rigat (GSK) & Nicky Best (Imperial College))

2018-11-29 13:30: BSU Seminar: “Estimation in two-stage adaptive threshold enrichment clinical trials” (Dr Peter Kimani, University of Warwick)

2019-01-21 19:15: Mapping Health: Why, How, Considering what ... (Sylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit @ University of Cambridge)

2019-01-22 14:00: BSU Seminar: “How to obtain valid tests and confidence intervals for treatment effects after confounder selection” (Dr Oliver Dukes, Ghent University )

2019-01-28 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Probabilistic approaches for optimal sequential feature acquisition" (Dr Christopher Yau, University of Birmingham and The Alan Turing Institute)

2019-01-30 12:30: Real life investigations of Sustainability Conundrums: Drawing together Human Behaviour and Living Lab approaches (Dr Amy Munro-Faure, Living Laboratory for Sustainability, University of Cambridge)

2019-02-04 19:15: From Fingertips to RAP: getting statistics into public health policy and practice (Sian Evans and Stephen Yeung (Public Health England))

2019-02-15 13:30: Seminar – Longitudinal growth modeling: a tool for genetic discovery (Dr Diana Cousminer, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Philadelphia)

2019-02-21 14:00: 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)

2019-02-25 19:15: Solving the Reproducibility Crisis  (Nicole Janz, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham)

2019-02-26 14:00: BSU Seminar: “Optimal Feature Selection using model-based Deep Reinforcement Learning” (Dr Konstantina Pallas, Microsoft)

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

2019-03-19 19:15: A Bayesian model‐free approach to combination therapy phase I trials using censored time‐to‐toxicity data (Graham Wheeler, Cancer Research UK and UCL Cancer Trials Centre @ University College London)

2019-03-21 11:00: Seminar – Flavio Toxvaerd, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge (Dr Flavio Toxvaerd, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.)

2019-04-08 15:00: BSU Seminar: "Information theory in dose-finding trials" (Prof. Thomas Jaki, Lancaster University)

2019-04-11 14:00: BSU Seminar: “Building Representative Matched Samples with Multi-valued Treatments in Large Observational Studies” (Professor Jose Zubizarreta, Harvard University)

2019-04-30 19:15: The Algorithm is Going to Get You: Should We Fear the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice? (Matthew Bland, Institute of Criminology)

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)

2019-06-27 12:30: Seminar – Responding to Revolution; Utilising new methods to explore the relationship between transport, health and urban design (Dr Jason Thompson, University of Melbourne, Transport, Health and Urban Design Research Hub.)

2019-09-18 12:30: Seminar – Overview of Road Safety Globally (Dr 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.)

2019-10-09 19:15: Clueless Voting (Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics)

2019-10-16 12:30: Nutritional Psychiatry: recent advances in evidence for diet and nutrition for mental and brain health (Professor Felice N Jacka, Food & Mood Centre, Deakin University, Australia.)

2019-10-30 18:00: Transforming Healthcare through Prevention - Ageing Well on a national scale: achieving the balance between fitness and frailty (Professor 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)

2019-11-06 12:30: Seminar – Politics, policy and the absence of evidence: decision making about speed restrictions in Edinburgh and Belfast. (Professor Mike Kelly, Primary Care Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge.)

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

2019-11-12 19:15: Invoicing and Pricing-to-market: Evidence from UK Exports/Imports Transactions (Meredith Crowley, Department of Economics)

2019-11-20 12:30: Seminar - Community engagement to prevent and control of diabetes in Bangladesh - Dr Ed Fottrell (Dr Ed Fottrell, Director, UCL Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases.)

2019-11-26 19:15: How feasible is DNA as a long-term digital storage system? (Nick Goldman, European Bioinformatics Institute)

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 )

2020-01-23 13:00: Assessing the impacts of the introduction of South Africa’s tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (Nicholas 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)

2020-02-03 19:15: The impact of uncertainty on trade agreements between the UK and EU (Oliver Exton, Department of Economics)

2020-02-20 12:00: Applications of geospatial data and methods in environmental epidemiology (S.M. Labib, Department of Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), University of Manchester.)

2020-02-27 19:15: Invoicing and Pricing-to-market: Evidence from UK Exports/Imports Transactions (Meredith Crowley, Department of Economics)

2020-03-03 14:00: “Squeezing the most out of ridge” (Professor Mark van de Wiel, Amsterdam University Medical Center)

2020-03-12 12:30: Seminar – How does it work? Using process tracing methods to study policy processes (Professor Derek Beach, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.)

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)

2020-03-18 12:30: Healthy Cities from the Bottom Up: A Human-centred Approach to Urban and Transport Planning (Dr Andy Hong, Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford.)

2020-04-01 11:00: Introducing the Propensity to Cycle Tool and explaining the new health impact calculation methods (Dr Anna Goodman, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Dr Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster, London.)

2020-04-08 13:00: Seminar – How does it work? Using process tracing methods to study policy processes (Professor Derek Beach, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.)

2020-04-16 11:00: Seminar – Movement behaviours and parenting in the first two years of life (Dr Alessandra Prioreschi, Associate Director of the SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand.)

2020-04-16 14:00: Virtual Seminar: “Including expert knowledge in genomic selection through intuitive tree-based joint priors” (Ingeborg Hem, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

2020-04-23 11:00: The Challenges of Meta-analysing Metabolomics Data; Experiences from the Consortium Of METabolomics Studies (COMETS). (Dr Rachel Kelly, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA.)

2020-05-06 11:00: Seminar – Systems approaches to obesity: The lived experience of young people (Dr Wendy Wills, Professor of Food and Public Health, Director of the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care.)

2020-05-13 11:30: Movement behaviours and cognitive development in early childhood: Evidence, insights and interventions from South Africa (Dr Catherine Draper, MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand.)

2020-05-21 10:00: Virtual Seminar: “Delayed-acceptance Sequential Monte Carlo” (Joshua Bon, Queensland University of Technology)

2020-06-09 14:00: Seminar - The Greek National Survey on Health and Nutrition (the HYDRIA Project) (Dr Elissavet Valanou, European Food Risk Assessment (EU-FORA) Fellow, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.)

2020-06-16 14:00: Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Parameterizing Causal Marginal Models' (Prof Robin Evans, University of Oxford)

2020-06-22 13:00: Seminar – Gestational Diabetes: a nutritional disorder? (Dr Claire Meek, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, UK.)

2020-09-15 11:00: Health as an asset: estimating the causal effects of health conditions and health behaviours on social and economic outcomes using Mendelian randomization (Dr Laura Howe, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol)

2020-09-24 14:00: Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Assumption-lean inference for generalised linear model parameters' (Prof Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University )

2020-10-06 19:15: Title to be confirmed (Rod Jones, Department of Chemistry)

2020-10-13 14:00: Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Stochastic treatment interventions in causal survival analysis' (Dr Lan Wen, Harvard University )

2020-11-10 14:00: Virtual Seminar: 'Using auxiliary variables in mediation analysis to address unmeasured confounding' (Professor Richard Emsley, NIHR Research Professor, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London)

2020-11-19 14:00: Virtual Seminar: ‘Score driven modeling of  spatio-temporal data’ (Alessandra Luati, University of Bologna )

2020-12-08 14:00: Virtual Seminar: 'PROGRESS in sample size calculations for clinical prediction model research' (Professor Richard Riley, Centre for Prognosis Research, School of Medicine, Keele University)

2020-12-15 14:00: Virtual Seminar: ‘The DURATIONS design: a practical trial design to optimise treatment duration’ (Dr Matteo Quartagno, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, UCL)

2021-02-23 14:00: BSU Virtual Seminar: 'A Simulation-Free Approach To Assessing the Performance of the Continual Reassessment Method' (Professor Thomas Braun, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA)

2021-03-23 11:00: From a pragmatic weight management intervention to bariatric surgery (Dr Helen Parretti, University of East Anglia.)

2021-03-31 14:00: Virtual Seminar: 'Bayesian pyramids: Identifying interpretable deep structure underlying high-dimensional data’ (Professor David Dunson, Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University, USA)

2021-04-29 14:00: Virtual Seminar: 'Statistical Inference with M-Estimators on Bandit Data’ (Kelly Zhang, Harvard University)

2021-05-05 11:00: Integrating diverse data sets to improve causal inference (Professor Judith Green, University of Exeter.)

2021-05-13 14:00: Virtual Seminar: 'Adapting Real-World Experimentation To Balance Enhancement of User Experiences with Statistically Robust Scientific Discovery' (Professor Joseph Jay Williams, University of Toronto )

2021-05-20 14:00: Virtual Seminar: 'Probabilistic models of transcriptomic dysregulation in human genetic disease' (Prof David Knowles, Columbia University)

2021-05-27 14:00: Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Confidence intervals for policy evaluation in adaptive experiments’ (Dr Vitor Hadad, Stanford University)

2021-07-19 12:00: Policymaking: why it matters to us, how it works, what to do (Dolly Theis (MRC Epidemiology Unit), Dr Kelly Parsons (University Of Hertfordshire) & Dame Una O’Brien (Independent advisor and expert on health policy))

2021-07-19 12:00: Policymaking: why it matters to us, how it works, what to do (Dolly Theis (MRC Epidemiology Unit), Dr Kelly Parsons (University Of Hertfordshire) & Dame Una O’Brien (Independent advisor and expert on health policy))

2021-09-14 09:30: BSU Virtual Seminar: “Estimating treatment effects from adaptive clinical trials” (Prof Ian Marschner, University of Sydney)

2021-10-22 14:00: Virtual BSU Seminar: “Methodological Advances in Risk Prediction" (Dr Glen Martin, University of Manchester)

2021-11-02 10:00: Virtual BSU seminar: "NanoSplicer: Accurate identification of splice junctions using Oxford Nanopore sequencing" (Dr Heejung Shim, Melbourne Integrative Genomics (MIG), University of Melbourne)

2021-11-23 12:00: BSU virtual seminar: "Assessing batch effects and their implications in single cell RNA sequencing experiments" (Prof Sarah Langley, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU, Singapore)

2021-12-07 12:00: Using administrative data linkage to create electronic birth cohorts: opportunities and challenges (Dr Katie Harron, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health)

2022-02-01 14:00: Virtual BSU Seminar: "Using Variational Bayes for fast inference in large longitudinal datasets” (Dr David Hughes, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool)

2022-02-10 14:00: Virtual BSU Seminar: "A flexible sensitivity analysis for sample selection bias" (Matt Tudball, University of Bristol)

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)

2022-04-26 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Sparse Hamiltonian Flows (or: Bayesian Coresets Without all the Fuss)" (Prof Trevor Campbell, The University of British Columbia )

2022-05-10 14:00: BSU Seminar: “Optimal design of First in Human trials via dynamic programming” (Dr Lizzi Pitt, University of Bath)

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)

2022-05-19 15:00: BSU Virtual Seminar: “Group Testing in Structured and Dynamic Networks” (Batuhan Arasli, University of Maryland)

2022-06-14 14:00: BSU Seminar: “Optimising the discovery and development of gene silencing drugs with genetics and genomics”  (Dan Swerdlow, Silence Therapeutics )

2022-06-16 12:00: Historical and contemporary perspectives of the nutrition transition (Dr Cornelia Guell, University of Exeter)

2022-06-28 11:00: Seminar - Using time use and trajectory data to unpack the interrelated geographies of food, care, and household labor (Dr Michael Widener, University of Toronto)

2022-07-05 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Design and Inference for Enrichment Trials with a Continuous Biomarker" (Prof William Rosenberger, George Mason University)

2022-07-14 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Challenges in risk prediction using routinely collected health data" (Dr Elizabeth Williamson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine )

2022-08-22 15:30: BSU Seminar: "Genome-wide genetic models for association, heritability analyses and prediction" (David Balding, Honorary Professor of Statistical Genetics at UCL Genetics Institute and University of Melbourne)

2022-10-18 14:00: Virtual BSU Seminar: "Variable Selection and Prioritization in Bayesian Machine Learning Methods" (Lorin Crawford, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Brown University )

2022-11-01 14:00: Moving beyond one-size-fits-all: Exploring patterns of physical activity and sedentary behaviour across the lifespan (Dr Gregore Mielke, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland)

2022-11-01 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Making all pairwise comparisons in multi-arm clinical trials without control treatment" (Dr Thomas Burnett, University of Bath)

2022-11-10 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Derivative-Based Neural Modelling of Cumulative Distribution Functions for Survival Analysis" (Prof Christopher Yau, University of Oxford )

2022-11-15 14:00: BSU Seminar: "The HealthGap study: Using linked administrative data to understand cardiovascular health of Indigenous people living in Victoria, Australia" (Dr Karen Lamb, University of Melbourne)

2022-11-22 14:00: BSU Seminar: “Using Electronic Health Records for Scientific Research: Promises and Perils” (Professor Bhramar Mukherjee, John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan)

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

2022-11-24 15:00: Seminar - Realising the health potential through sustainable built environment designs (Dr Ronita Bardhan, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge)

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)

2022-12-16 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Double soft-thresholded model for multi-group scalar on vector-valued image regression' (Prof Arkaprava Roy, University of Florida)

2023-01-10 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Statistical approaches for differential analyses on transcriptomics data" (Dr Simone Tiberi, Universita di Bologna)

2023-01-24 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Detecting National, Regional and Global Changes in Terror Activity' (Dr Sam Tickle, University of Bristol)

2023-01-31 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Phases of research for statistical methods’ (Dr Tim Morris, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL)

2023-02-14 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'From Data to Decisions: Causal Inference Motivated by Policy Questions' (Prof Mats Stensrud, EPFL)

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)

2023-02-20 13:00: Seminar - Diabetes No More: lessons from the DiRECT trial and beyond - Professor Mike Lean (Professor Mike Lean, University of Glasgow)

2023-02-21 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian Covariance Structure Modelling of Clinical Trial Data' (Stef Baas, University of Twente)

2023-03-07 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Methods for Bayesian optimal design of experiments, with application in biological science’ (Prof Dave Woods, University of Southampton)

2023-03-13 12:00: Obesity Prevention: The role of evidence in the policy cycle (Dr Tazeem Bhatia, Office of Health Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health and Social Care)

2023-03-20 14:00: Seminar – Physical Activity research: strengthening ties between Brazil and the United Kingdom (Dr Samuel Dumith, Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil)

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)

2023-04-18 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Covariate Adjustment in Randomized Experiments with Incomplete Covariate and Outcome Data' (Prof Fan Li, Duke University )

2023-05-12 09:00: Agent based Modelling for Urban Health Impact Assessment (Tabea Sonnenschein, University of Utrecht)

2023-05-15 11:00: Seminar – UPF: a need for clarification to enhance public health policies (Dr Zoé Colombet, University of Liverpool)

2023-05-23 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Modelling the response to vaccine in non-human primates to define SARS-CoV-2 mechanistic correlates of protection'  (Mélanie Prague, Inria, University of Bordeaux)

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

2023-06-06 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian analysis of diffusion-driven multi-type epidemic models with application to COVID-19' (Dr Lampros Bouranis, Athens University of Economics and Business)

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)

2023-07-06 13:00: Seminar - Diet-gut microbiome interaction for type 2 diabetes (Ju-Sheng Zheng, Westlake University, China)

2023-09-12 13:00: Do boutique cohort studies have a role in diabetes epidemiology? (Professor Timothy Davis, University of Western Australia)

2023-09-27 12:30: Seminar – Independent and Joint Effects of Multiple Pollutants and their Interactions with Meteorological Variables on Stroke Hospitalization (Lei Li, Huazhong University of Science, China)

2023-10-03 15:00: BSU Seminar: 'Some advances and applications of robust gradient-based Markov chain Monte Carlo'  (Sam Livingstone, University College London)

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)

2023-10-04 14:00: Seminar – Precision approaches to improving obesity prevention in Queensland, Australia (Dr Oliver Canfell, University of Queensland)

2023-10-10 19:15: Statistics and Data Analytics in the Film Industry  (Allègre L. Hadida, Cambridge Judge Business School & Magdalene College)

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)

2023-10-24 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Dynamic survival analysis: modelling the hazard function via ordinary differential equations" (Dr F. Javier Rubio, University College London)

2023-11-14 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Harnessing Extra Randomness: Replicability, Flexibility and Causality" (Richard Guo, Stas Lab, University of Cambridge)

2023-11-21 14:00: BSU Seminar: "A new frequentist implementation of the Daniels and Hughes bivariate meta-analysis model for surrogate outcomes" (Dan Jackson, AstraZeneca)

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)

2023-11-22 19:00: Quantifying personal exposure to air pollution  with sensor technologies and digital science (Lia Chatzidiakou/Rod Jones)

2023-12-05 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Unravelling the mechanisms and decision-making logic of biological systems" (Giorgos Minas, St Andrew's University)

2023-12-06 12:00: Seminar - Air pollution and health in the 21st Century (Dr Gary Fuller, Imperial College London)

2023-12-12 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Hyper-Localization and Predictive Modeling of Rapid Lung Function Decline in Cystic Fibrosis" (Rhonda Szczesniak and Emrah Gecili, both from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati)

2024-01-23 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Causal machine learning for biomarker subgroup discovery in randomised trials".   (Paul Newcombe, GlaxoSmithKline)

2024-01-30 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Semiparametric posterior corrections" (Andrew Yiu, University of Oxford)

2024-02-05 19:00: Wildlife from space: detecting, monitoring and studying wildlife using satellite imagery (Peter Fretwell, British Antarctic Survey)

2024-02-13 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models" (Ida Scheel, University of Oslo)

2024-02-20 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Statistical modelling for state-of-the-art gene editing experiments" (Magdalena Strauss, European Bioinformatics Institute )

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)

2024-03-07 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Uncertainty Quantification in the Digital Medicine Era" (Marcos Matabuena, Harvard University )

2024-03-12 12:00: BSU Seminar: "Using Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data to Investigate the Causal Effect of Salvage Therapy after Prostatectomy" (Dimitris Rizopoulos, Professor of Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam)

2024-03-14 14:00: BSU Seminar: “Bayesian behavioural-change epidemic models: is your population alarmed?” (Rob Deardon, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Calgary)

2024-03-21 19:15: What has genomics ever done for us? A 20-year history of the human genome (Klaudia Walter, Sanger Institute)

2024-05-02 19:15: Monitoring Vaccine Effectiveness: can we trust results from parties with a vested interest? (Roger Sewell)

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)

2024-05-15 13:15: Seminar – Population nutrition: upstream/downstream (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-05-21 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Making predictions under intervention to avoid causal blind spots in treatment decisions" (Prof Niels Peek, THIS Institute, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-23 14:00: BSU Seminar: "The Topological Properties of the Protein Universe" (Christian Madsen, University of Melbourne)

2024-06-18 14:00: BSU Seminar: "A Bayesian framework for incorporating exposure uncertainty into health analyses with application to air pollution and stillbirth" (Joshua Warren, Yale School of Public Health)

2024-08-27 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Bayesian nonparametric spectral analysis of multivariate time series" (Renate Meyer, University of Aukland)

2024-10-08 19:15: A conservative approach to leveraging external evidence for effective clinical trial design  (Fabio Rigat, AstraZeneca Ltd))

2024-10-15 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Bayesian latent multi-state modelling for longitudinal health trajectories" (Yu Luo, Kings College London)

2024-10-22 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models" (Ida Scheel, University of Oslo)

2024-11-04 19:00: Time: The next frontier in causal machine learning (Mihaela van der Schaar, Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine)

2024-11-05 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Multi-state modelling to estimate infectious disease burden"  (Peter Kirwan, MRC Biostatistics Unit)

2024-11-19 14:00: BSU Seminar: "IV-learner: learning conditional average treatment effects using instrumental variables" (Karla Diaz Ordaz, University College London )

2024-11-20 13:15: 20-minute neighbourhoods as an urban design concept to improve health and reduce health inequalities (Dr Jon Olsen, University of Glasgow)

2024-11-27 19:15: Cancer: misfortune or carelessness? (Peter Treasure, Peter Treasure Statistical Services Ltd)

2024-12-03 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Personalized Decision-Making for Infectious Disease Control: Causal Inference and Complex Dependence" (Ivana Malenica, Harvard University)

2025-01-21 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models" (Ida Scheel, University of Oslo)

2025-02-03 19:00: Building global resilience to high-impact volcanic eruptions (Lara Mani, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk)

2025-02-04 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Efficient Sequential Experimentation: Bridging Model-Based Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design" (Alberto Caron, The Alan Turing Institute)

2025-02-11 14:00: BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme" (Alice Corbella, University of Warwick)

2025-02-11 14:00: BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme" (Alice Corbella, University of Warwick)

2025-03-03 19:15: Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine (James Grime, Institute of Continuing Education)

2025-03-18 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Reclassification of multiple sclerosis using probabilistic machine learning" (Habib Ganjgahi, Oxford Big Data Institute)

2025-03-18 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Reclassification of multiple sclerosis using probabilistic machine learning" (Habib Ganjgahi, Oxford Big Data Institute)

2025-03-25 14:00: BSU Seminar: "A Nonparanormal Approach to Marginal Inference" (Susanne Dandl, University of Zurich)

2025-04-10 19:15: Predicting recurrence of prostate cancer: a Bayesian approach (Roger Sewell)

2025-04-29 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Common atoms mixture models in some biostatistical inference problems" (Prof Peter Mueller, University of Texas)

2025-04-29 15:15: BSU Seminar: "Investigating complex dependence structures using Bayesian mixture modelling" (Dr Michail Papathomas, University of St Andrews)

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)

2025-05-13 14:00: BSU Seminar: "A Regression Tree Approach to Missing Data" (Professor Wei-Yin Loh, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

2025-05-20 14:00: BSU Seminar: "AI for the Human Cell Atlas" (Professor Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci FRS, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute & Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge)

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)

2025-09-11 13:00: BSU Seminar: "Predictive Polygenic Scores: Considerations and an Example" (Allison Meisner, Assistant Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center)

2025-09-23 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Upgrading survival models with CARE" (William Underwood, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2025-09-23 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Upgrading survival models with CARE" (William Underwood, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2025-09-30 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Effective Health Technologies Faster? Value-Based, Response Adaptive Learning in Clinical Trials" (Professor Stephen Chick, INSEAD)

2025-10-07 19:15: All models are wrong and yours are useless: making clinical prediction models impactful for patients (Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute)

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)

2025-11-03 19:00: Benefits of data openness in a digital world (Sam Gilbert, Bennett Institute for Public Policy)

2025-11-04 10:00: BSU Seminar: "Predictive resampling for scalable Bayes" (Edwin Fong, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong)

2025-11-11 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Robust and conjugate Gaussian processes" (François-Xavier Briol, University College London)

2025-11-26 19:15: 100 years of educational trials – no significant difference?  (Riikka Hofmann, Faculty of Education)

2026-01-13 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Graphical  models for missing data not at random: identification, inference, and imputation" (Ilya Shpitser, Johns Hopkins School University )

2026-02-03 19:15: Connecting the False Discovery Rate to shrunk estimates (Nick W Galwey (Former Statistics Leader, Research Statistics, at GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development (Retired)))

2026-02-10 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Genomic newborn screening, and how to evaluate it" (Ellen Thomas, Genomics England)

2026-02-26 14:00: BSU Seminar: "New Bayesian methods and tools to address health challenges" (Dr Raiha Browning, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)

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)

2026-03-11 19:15: How can the pedagogy of statistics inform the teaching of machine learning? (Paul Fannon, Department of Genetics: Bioinformatics Training Facility)

2026-04-07 14:00: BSU Seminar: "A unifying framework for generalised Bayesian online learning in non-stationary environments" (Gerado Duran-Martin, Oxford-Man Institute, University of Oxford )

2026-04-13 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Nonparametric causal decomposition of group disparities" (Ang Yu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

2026-04-14 14:30: BSU Seminar: "Generating crossmodal gene expression from cancer histopathology improves multimodal AI predictions" (Samiran Dey, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkota)

2026-04-22 19:15: Real-time nowcasting and forecasting of COVID-19 dynamics in England (Daniela De Angelis, MRC Biostatistics Unit)