BHRU Annual Lecture 2015


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)

2008-02-19 20:00: Whose risk? Whose choice? Whose health? (Lord Krebbs)

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)

2008-10-31 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)

2008-11-11 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)

2008-12-05 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)

2009-02-24 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)

2009-04-24 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)

2009-05-08 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)

2010-03-12 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)

2010-04-20 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)

2011-10-20 18:00: Talking to Terrorists (Jonathan Powell, Former Downing Street Chief of Staff under Tony Blair)

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)

2011-11-24 18:00: The Meaning of Liberal Learning (Right Honourable Michael Gove, MP and Secretary of State for Education)

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)

2012-02-14 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)

2012-03-09 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)

2012-06-08 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.)

2012-09-18 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)

2012-10-25 18:00: Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith (Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions)

2012-10-31 18:00: Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Lord Young of Graffham (Lord Young of Graffham)

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)

2012-11-15 18:00: Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Lord O'Donnell (Lord O'Donnell, Former Cabinet Secretary)

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)

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)

2013-01-30 18:00: Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Baroness Neuberger (Baroness Neuberger DBE, Senior Rabbi, West London Synagogue)

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)

2013-03-22 18:00: Behavioural Economics and Public Policy (Professor Cass Sunstein, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School)

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))

2013-04-25 18:00: Redefining Equality (Peter Kellner, President YouGov)

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)

2013-05-22 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)

2013-06-04 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)

2013-06-17 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 )

2013-07-03 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)

2013-09-05 17:00: Chris Huhne - UK Government climate, energy and environmental policy (Chris Huhne, former UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change)

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 )

2013-10-11 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)

2013-10-25 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)

2013-11-07 11:00: MRC Biostatistics Unit's 11th Annual Armitage Lecture and Workshop (Professor Giovanni Parmigiani, Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health, Chairman of the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Associate Director for Population Sciences of the Dana)

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)

2013-11-18 18:00: Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: But The Spell Remains: the role of emotions in public policy (Hilary Cottam, design strategist and founder/ principal partner of Participle)

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)

2013-12-18 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)

2014-01-17 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)

2014-02-11 12:00: “What can we do to accelerate the discovery of new medicines for patients?” (Professor Chas Bountra, Head of Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford, Nuffield Dept of Clinical Medicine )

2014-02-14 17:30: Plagues, Populations & Survival (Professor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University)

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)

2014-03-13 13:00: NIHR Public Health Research Programme Applicants Workshop (NIHR Public Health Research Programme team)

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 09:00: Medical Research Council Conference on Biostatistics  (Various speakers)

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

2014-04-03 09:30: **Postponed to 19 June** Epidemiology (Paul Pharoah, Department of Public Health and Primary Care)

2014-04-23 18:00: Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Rt Hon Vince Cable, MP (Rt Hon Vince Cable, MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade)

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)

2014-05-02 13:00: Dame Barbara Stocking: Humanitarianism, health and health care (Dame Barbara Stocking, President of Murray Edwards College)

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 )

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

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)

2014-10-03 13:00: Privatisation of the NHS (Professor Allyson Pollock; Professor of Public Health Research and Policy at Queen Mary University, London)

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 13:00: Recent cannabis policy experiments in the USA and Uruguay: What are they and what are their implications? (Wayne Hall, Professor of Addiction Policy, National Addiction Centre, Kings College London, and Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research University of Queensland)

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)

2014-11-03 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)

2014-11-17 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)

2014-11-26 17:00: Caring for Dying People - what matters? (Rabbi Baroness Neuberger DBE Senior Rabbi, West London Synagogue)

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)

2015-02-16 14:30: Quality of data and handling missing data in costing studies. (Dr Adam Wagner, Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group)

2015-02-23 11:15: Data is Evil and Must be Deleted (Dr Michael Lush, University of Cambridge)

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 18:00: Bush, Bench and Bedside: Nutrition Research in Rural Gambia (King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar) (Professor Andrew Prentice: Head of the MRC International Nutrition Research Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and MRC Keneba, MRC Unit, The Gambia)

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)

2015-03-09 11:15: Challenges in risk prediction using rare variants (Prof Doug Easton, University of Cambridge)

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)

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

2015-04-14 13:00:  “Doing quality improvement in primary care -  fitting intervention to context” (Dr Natalie Armstrong, Senior Lecturer in Social Science Applied to Health, University of Leicester)

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,)

2015-04-15 13:00: “Disorganised Attachment:  A Lens on Self-Dysregulation and Health” (Dr Robbie Duschinsky, Research Lead and Reader in the Department of Social Work and Communities at Northumbria University)

2015-04-17 10:30: ‘Evidence Based Antidotes to Ageing’ (Sir Muir Gray)

2015-04-20 11:15: Genotype imputation (Dr Kyriaki Michailidou, University of Cambridge, and Dr Jonathan Tyrer, University of Cambridge)

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 11:15: Genetic susceptibility to radiation-induced toxicity (Dr Laura Fachal, Leila Dorling, Dr Gill Barnett, University of Cambridge)

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)

2015-05-11 14:30: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar (Philip Chen, PhD Student, Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research)

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 14:30: Long term health economic modelling of screening strategies for cardiovascular disease prevention (work in progress). (Dr Stephen Kaptoge, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit)

2015-06-02 13:00: ‘Why is patient safety so hard?’ (Mary Dixon-Woods, Professor of Medical Sociology, University of Leicester)

2015-06-04 18:00: What can history tell us about current health inequalities? (Speaker: Simon Szreter, Professor of History and Public Policy, Faculty of History, 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:)

2015-06-17 13:00: “The Economics of Elevated Weekend Hospital Mortality” (Matt Sutton, Professor of Health Economics, University of Manchester)

2015-06-18 12:00: The INSPIRED COPD Outreach Program  from Cambridge to Canada - Insights and Outcomes (Professor Graeme Rocker, Dalhousie University,  Halifax, Nova Scotia)

2015-06-18 13:15: “Motivating Medics:  Pay ‘em or Flay ‘em?” (Tim Doran, Professor of Health Policy, University of York)

2015-06-19 12:00: Big Data in Medicine: Exemplars and Opportunities in Data Science (See website)

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)

2015-06-29 11:15: DEPTH - A novel method for genome-wide scanning of regions associated with prostate cancer risk (Dr Robert MacInnis, University of Melbourne)

2015-07-02 14:00: Development of a Risk Prediction Model for Colorectal Cancer (Dr Robert MacInnis, University of Melbourne)

2015-07-06 11:15:  Methodologies for the functional annotation of GWAS loci: Examples from the 5p12 breast cancer susceptibility locus (Dr Maya Ghoussaini, University of Cambridge)

2015-07-06 16:00: “Prescribing safety in a world of multimorbidity and polypharmacy” (Bruce Guthrie, Professor of Primary Care Medicine, University of Dundee)

2015-07-07 13:00: Tracking the Brain Health of Older Adults in the United States: The Health and Retirement Study (Kenneth M. Langa, MD, PhD,  Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine  and Institute for Social Research  University of Michigan, USA)

2015-07-08 13:00: Systematic reviews - how to check you're doing all the things, and how the library can help. (Isla Kuhn, Medical Librarian, University of Cambridge Medical Library)

2015-07-15 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Matt Sutton, Professor of Health Economics, University of Manchester)

2015-07-20 11:15: Melanoma: Genetics, UV and immune-response (Prof Tim Bishop, University of Leeds)

2015-07-27 11:15: An update of PRACTICAL consortium projects (Dr Ali Amin, University of Cambridge)

2015-09-07 11:00: Modelling the cost of cancer: understanding inter-relationships between types of care (Dr Paula Lorgelly, Associate Professor, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University)

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)

2015-10-12 16:30: Ebola in Context: taking action on the ground in Sierra Leone (Jane Greatorex, Senior Research Scientist, PHE with Jonathan W. Ashcroft, Kaser Research Group, Cambridge, Julia Yelloly, Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network, PHE and Miriam Mason-Sesay MBE, EducAid)

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)

2015-10-19 15:00: HE@Cam seminar:  The Cambridge Bioscience Impact Study (Prof Pete Tyler, Department of Land Economy)

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)

2015-11-23 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar (Prof Larry King, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge)

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)

2016-01-13 13:00: Registry Studies in Organ Donation and Transplantation (Professor Dave Collett, Associate Director of Statistics and Clinical Studies, Director of NHSBT Clinical Trials Unit)

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

2016-01-25 13:00: ‘Where next for Academic Primary Care?’ (Dr Joanne Reeve, Associate Clinical Professor in General Practice, University of Warwick Chair, Society for Academic Primary Care)

2016-01-25 15:00: Cost-effectiveness analysis of multiplex targeted sequencing in lung adenocarcinoma (Brett Doble, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research)

2016-01-27 13:00: The James Lind Initiative's contributions  (Sir Iain Chalmers)

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)

2016-02-22 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Does walking or cycling to work improve psychological wellbeing?  Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey (Adam Martin, RAND Europe & Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research)

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))

2016-03-16 09:30: Modelling and visualising large and complex datasets to guide active travel policies: a case study from the Propensity to Cycle Tool (Dr James Woodcock, CEDAR & MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge & Dr Robin Lovelace, School of Geography, University of Leeds)

2016-03-16 09:30: Interpreting results from analysis with big data: examples from epidemiology (Darren Greenwood, Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine)

2016-03-16 09:30: Big Data and the Obesity Epidemic (Adam Drewnowski, School of Public Health, University of Washington)

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)

2016-04-06 16:30: ‘Achieving the WHO goal of “25 by 25” – The challenge for CVD prevention’ (Prof David A. Wood - Garfield Weston Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the International Centre for Circulatory Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London)

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,)

2016-04-20 13:00: Malnutrition in resource-poor settings: finding simple solutions to complex problems  (Dr Christopher Charles, Vice President, Global Health at Canadian Federation of Medical Students)

2016-04-21 18:00: BHRU Annual Lecture 2016 - Electronic cigarettes: a disruptive technology? (Linda Bauld, Professor of Health Policy, Director of the Institute for Social Marketing, and Dean of Research at the University of Stirling. )

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)

2016-04-25 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Social Health Insurance and Treatment-Seeking Behaviour - Evidence from the Chinese New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (Dr Miaoqing Yang, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research, RAND Europe)

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)

2016-05-25 17:00: "Frailty in older adults: implications for contemporary health care and clinical research" (Dr. Kenneth Rockwood - Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer’s Research and chair of Alzheimer Research, Centre for Health Care of the Elderly Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia )

2016-06-06 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Why is socioeconomic disadvantage associated with obesity? (Dr Pablo Monsivais, Centre for Diet and Activity Research, University of Cambridge)

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)

2016-06-22 13:00: Behavioural Studies at Sanquin and Beyond  (Wim de Kort, Professor of Donor Health Care and Director of Donor Services,  Sanquin Blood Supply)

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

2016-07-18 10:00: How can your research impact policy? (Professor Martin Roland with Dr Julian Huppert and Dr Leila Luheshi)

2016-09-06 09:00: Political Economy of Public Health: Network Showcase 2016 (Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Larry King, University of Cambridge;  Anna Gilmore, University of Bath;  David Stuckler, University of Oxford; Sarah Hawkes, University College London)

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)

2016-09-27 13:00: Diagnostic tests in primary care – time to move beyond diagnostic accuracy? (Matthew Thompson, Professor of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, US)

2016-10-04 14:00: "Microbe Hunting: From Autism to Zika” (Ian Lipkin, Columbia, NYC)

2016-10-10 14:00: Evolutionary hypotheses and early human development: findings from the Wirral Child Health and Development Study (Jonathan Hill, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Reading)

2016-10-11 17:45: What’s new (and what isn’t) in improving quality and safety in healthcare (Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, RAND Professor of Health Services Research, University of Cambridge)

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

2016-10-12 11:00: The epidemic of thyroid cancer - what’s new and what might come next (Louise Davies, Associate Professor of Surgery, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)

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.)

2016-10-28 17:00: Can the UK cook its way to better health? (Professor Martin White (MRC Epidemiology Unit, CEDAR))

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)

2016-11-09 17:00: Images of Care and Dying with Prof Bee Wee and Dr Anna Elsner (Professor Bee Wee, National Clinical Director for End of Life Care, NHS England, and Dr Anna Elsner, University of Zurich)

2016-11-15 12:30: Recommendations for improving care and support in advanced COPD - Cambridge (Dr Morag Farquhar, University of Cambridge)

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)

2016-11-23 10:30: 2016 Annual Public Health Conference & Lecture (Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer for England )

2016-11-24 17:00: Using statistics to estimate the extent of dementia in the population (Professor Fiona Matthews, University of Newcastle and MRC Biostatistics Unit)

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)

2016-12-06 17:30: A Brief History of NHS Politics 1948-2030 (Professor Martin Roland CBE, Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research, University of Cambridge)

2016-12-08 16:30: Toward Eliminating Patient Harm  (Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., FCCM, director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medicine’s senior vice president for patient safety and quality)

2016-12-08 16:30: Toward Eliminating Patient Harm  (Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., FCCM, director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medicine’s senior vice president for patient safety and quality)

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)

2017-01-24 12:30: ‘The present and future of primary care big data research’ (Professor Deborah Saltman, Chair, Independent Scientific Advisory Committee, Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD))

2017-01-24 17:00: Images of Care and Dying with Drs Stephen Barclay and Steven Eastwood (Dr Stephen Barclay (University of Cambridge), University Senior Lecturer in General Practice and Palliative Care, General Practitioner and Honorary Consultant Physician in Palliative Care, and Dr Steven Eastwood, Reader in Film Practice, Convenor, MA Film)

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)

2017-02-21 13:00: Improving Diagnosis in the Era of Electronic Health Records (Dr Hardeep Singh, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston and Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center)

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)

2017-02-28 17:00: Managing demand and maintaining quality in emergency medicine: a view from the US on clinically efficacious flow (Dr Carol Barsky M.D., M.B.A Vice President and Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer of Hackensack University Health Network, New Jersey)

2017-03-07 17:00: Images of Care and Dying with Claire Henry and Prof Sarah Cooper (Claire Henry, Chief Executive of the National Council for Palliative Care and Sarah Cooper, Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London)

2017-03-07 17:30: The future of General Practice: Opportunities, challenges and leadership with patients as our focus ( Professor Helen Jayne Stokes-Lampard MBBS (Lon), FRCGP, PhD, DFSRH, DRCOG, LOC(IUS), Chair, RCGP)

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)

2017-03-20 19:30: What can we learn about dementia from research with communities? (Professor Carol Brayne)

2017-03-21 13:00: Workshop: Professor Mike Kelly: “What do policy makers want from systematic reviews” (Prof Mike Kelly)

2017-03-21 14:00: The politics of health system metrics, 1924-2000 (Martin Gorsky, Professor in the History of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

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)

2017-04-07 13:00: The Swedish model for CVD prevention:  Public Health cultivation combined with individual health dialogues in Primary Care (Professor Lars Weinehall, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden)

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)

2017-04-27 15:00: Images of Care and Dying with Profs Jane Maher, Bill Noble & Emma Wilson (Professor Jane Maher, Chief Medical Officer at Macmillan Cancer Support, Professor Bill Noble, Medical Director at Marie Curie, and Emma Wilson, Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge)

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)

2017-05-09 13:00: Research outside of academia: How to be an asset in policy-related work (Dr Amanda Aldercotte, Quantitative Researcher at the Equality Challenge Unit)

2017-05-11 18:00: Behaviour and Health Research Unit (BHRU) Annual Lecture - Tackling Childhood Obesity: Are we doing enough? (Corinna Hawkes, Professor of Food Policy and Director, Centre for Food Policy, City University)

2017-05-16 14:00: Lies, Damn'd lies and statistics: why it is (almost) impossible to communicate risk ethically (Dr Stephen John, University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Public Health at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

2017-05-16 17:30: Cambridge ESRC DTC Annual Lecture 2017: After Brexit, UKRI if you want to: a social scientist's field guide to the new research landscape (Professor James Wilsdon (University of Sheffield))

2017-05-18 08:15: Research Conference and Showcase - Research and Practice: Making the connections  (Speaker to be confirmed)

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)

2017-05-22 17:00: Rethinking Resilient Healthcare Systems in Contexts of Conflict in Uganda (Dr Sarah Ssali, Makerere 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)

2017-06-13 14:00: Socialising the Genome: talking to patients about genetics (Dr Anna Middleton, Head of Society and Ethics Research at Wellcome Genome Campus)

2017-06-14 10:00: 2017 PublicHealth@Cambridge Network Showcase (Peter Jones;	Emma Howarth ;	Elizabeth Foyster ;	Juliet Foster ; Tim Dalgleish ;	Sriya Iyer Sriya Iyer ;	Hannah Jongsma	;	Maria Ttofi;	Andres Roman-Urrestarazu 1;Carol Brayne  ;Jane Fleming )

2017-06-19 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Is it cost-effective to screen women for abdominal aortic aneurysm? Results from the Screening Women for AAA (SWAN) project (Dr Mike Sweeting, Cadiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge)

2017-06-20 10:00: Primary Care Unit Away Day for Unit members  (Speaker to be confirmed)

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.)

2017-07-05 17:30: The Art & Science of Clinical Problem-Solving (Professor Sanjay Saint, Chief of Medicine at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the Director of the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center/University of Michigan Patient Safety Enhancement Program (PSEP))

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 15:30: Are hospital admissions for people with palliative care needs avoidable and unwanted?  (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 15:30: Stratification of treatment by disease severity measures – an application to treatment for sleep apnoea (Claire Simons, MRC Biostatistics Unit)

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)

2017-11-08 17:30: The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age (Professor Robert Wachter, Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco )

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)

2017-11-29 15:30: HE@Cam Seminar: Will Dunlop - Benefits, Challenges and Potential Strategies of Open Source Health Economic Models (Will Dunlop - Mundipharma International Limited)

2017-12-01 17:00: Is evidence enough? How academics can influence policy. Dr Ellen Flint, Department for Work and Pensions (Speaker to be confirmed)

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)

2018-01-22 19:30: Building World Class Life Science Businesses – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Dr. Jonathan Milner, Deputy Chairman, Abcam plc)

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

2018-01-24 13:00: Common missteps with quality improvement interventions (and how you can avoid them) (Dr Kaveh Shojania, Editor-in-Chief, BMJ Quality & Safety)

2018-01-31 11:00: The challenges and opportunities of implementing RCTs in live social policy settings (Speaker to be confirmed)

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)

2018-02-19 19:30: Epigenetics - Why DNA Is Not Your Destiny (Dr Nessa Carey, Imperial College, London)

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)

2018-03-06 12:00: Seminar: ‘Pathways to professionalism? Quality improvement, care pathways and the interplay of standardisation and clinical autonomy’ (Professor Graham Martin, Professor of Health Organisation and Policy, University of Leicester)

2018-03-06 18:00: Not 'just a GP' (Professor David Haslam, Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE))

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)

2018-03-28 17:00: Childhood adversity and chronic disease: risks, mechanisms and resilience. (Greg Miller and Edith Chen, Northwestern University, USA)

2018-03-29 17:00: Childhood adversity and chronic disease: risks, mechanisms and resilience (Greg Miller and Edith Chen, Northwestern University, USA)

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)

2018-04-30 12:00: Seminar: ‘Create powerful, crystal clear improvement work manuscripts using the 3 pillars of the SQUIRE Guidelines’ (Dr Louise Davies, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice)

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)

2018-05-17 12:30: The puzzle of adolescent depression (Professor Shirley Reynolds, Professor of Evidence Based Psychological Therapies, University of Reading)

2018-05-17 18:00: Changing Behaviour to Improve Health: from Research to Policy (Professor Dame Theresa Marteau ( Behaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge))

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)

2018-06-01 10:00: Comparative perspectives on social inequalities in life and death: an interdisciplinary conference (Mike Kelly, Senior Visiting Fellow, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge; Tim Clutton-Brock, Director of Research and formerly Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Cambridge )

2018-06-01 17:00: Public Lecture: Development of social behaviour in children from infancy: neurobiological, relational and situational interactions (Marinus H. van IJzendoorn & Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Leiden University, University of Cambridge)

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

2018-06-11 15:00: HE@Cam seminar: Christian Hill - Patient Access Scheme, Managed Access Agreement and their influence on the approval trends of new medicines, devices and diagnostics (Christian Hill - CEO, MAP Biopharma)

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)

2018-06-14 17:30: Cambridge ESRC DTP Annual Lecture 2018 - Changing Behaviour: A case for closer links between Behavioural, Social and Political Sciences to tackle Obesity and Climate Change (Professor Theresa Marteau, Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit in the Clinical School at the University of Cambridge, and Director of Studies in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Christ’s College, Cambridge)

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.)

2018-07-10 14:00:  "Redesigning primary care and implementing health system change: experiences in multiple global contexts" (Charlotte Wu, Director of Adult Primary Care at the Boston Medical Center)

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)

2018-07-19 16:30: Innovative Approaches for Improving Surgical Quality (Professor Justin Dimick, Professor of Surgery, University of Michigan)

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.)

2018-09-27 18:00: Behaviour Change by Design Annual Lecture 2018 (Dr David Halpern, Chief Executive of the Behavioural Insight Team)

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)

2018-10-09 12:30: PCU Twitter workshop (Isla Kuhn, Medical Librarian, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge)

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.)

2018-11-05 15:00: HE@Cam: Peter Morten - New therapies, new methods: the use of novel survival analysis methods for I-O therapies (Peter Morten - Costello Medical)

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 18:00: CCHSR Annual Lecture: Patient and public involvement in research: progress and challenges (Professor Trish Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)

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)

2018-12-03 15:00: HE@Cam: Padraig Dixon - The causal effect of BMI on inpatient hospital costs: Mendelian Randomization analysis of the UK Biobank cohort (Dr Padraig Dixon, University of Bristol)

2019-01-08 12:00: Engineering the patient-provider experience (Dr Enid Montague, Associate Professor, College of Computing and Digital Media, DePaul University )

2019-01-21 17:00: Patients as Consumers and the Personalisation of Medicine (Reading Group) (Health, Medicine and Agency Reading Group)

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 17:00: Prenatal Testing, Women and Risk: discussion with Dr Ilana Lowy on her new book (Dr Ilana Löwy, Research Director, CERMES-3 and visiting Professor, King's College London)

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)

2019-02-18 17:00: Patients, Expertise and New Markets (Roundtable) (Dr Marcin Smietana (Cambridge), Professor Wendy Kline (Purdue College of Liberal Arts), Dr Charlotte Faircloth (UCL))

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 )

2019-03-04 17:00: Public Engagement Activities around Patients’ Experiences within Institutions (Roundtable) (Dr Elizabeth Fistein (Cambridge), Dr Jenny Crane (Wellcome Trust), Dr Janet Weston (LSHTM))

2019-03-11 14:00: ‘Deciding when to visit the GP with cancer symptoms: the Goldilocks Zone differs in England, Denmark and Sweden’ (Professor Sue Ziebland Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)

2019-03-15 10:00: Examining Public Health Workers' Perceptions Toward Response Expectations in Disasters  (Dr Daniel Barnett, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

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 )

2019-05-07 17:30: Cambridge ESRC DTP Annual Lecture 2019 - The ‘HAVES’ and the ‘HAVE YACHTS’ (Professor Roger Burrows, Professor of Cities at Newcastle University)

2019-05-20 15:00: HE@Cam: Michael Laxy - Implementing lifestyle intervention to prevent diabetes in US Medicaid beneficiaries: cost-effectiveness, budgetary impact and health equity impact (Michael Laxy)

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.)

2019-07-02 12:00: Perioperative Communication and Decision Making:  A social science perspective (Professor Lee Fleisher, Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania)

2019-07-08 14:45: Mental Health Without Well-being (Anna Alexandrova   Reader in Philosophy of Science, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Univ of Cambridge)

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.)

2019-09-26 18:00: Behaviour Change by Design Annual Lecture 2019: Why Don’t We Stick with Behaviour Change?  (Wendy Wood, Provost Professor of Psychology and Business, University of Southern California)

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)

2019-11-18 13:15: Advancing Human Health in the Era of Climate Change and Planetary Health: Lessons and Experiences from the Philippines (Dr Renzo Guinto, Chief Planetary Doctor, PH Lab, Philippines Doctor of Public Health graduate, Harvard University, USA Visiting Fellow, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium)

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)

2019-12-05 12:30: Food for health - food for thought (Professor Nita Forouhi, Programme Leader of the Nutritional Epidemiology programme, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.)

2020-01-13 12:00: How can your research influence policy? Event for Post-Docs & Early Career Researchers (Prof Jonathan Mant, Dr Clare Oliver-Williams, Dr Sarah Gentry & Caitlin Grant   )

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)

2020-02-04 17:30: Creating policy impact International lessons from science and health (Speaker to be confirmed)

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.)

2020-02-25 09:30: Ageing: perspectives from cell to society (Speakers incl. Prof Carol Brayne, Prof Nabeel Affara, Prof Andrew Flewitt, Prof Kay-Tee Khaw & Prof Peter Landshoff)

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)

2020-03-17 18:00: CANCELLED: Rethinking Medicine  (Dr Martin Marshall Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL, Improvement Science London and Chair-elect of the Royal College of General Practitioners)

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.)

2020-03-24 14:00: CANCELLED: How perspectives from social sciences can help address practical questions of healthcare improvement (Dr Alex Gillespie, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics, and Dr Mary Adams, Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London)

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 12:30: What should we do to prevent dementia? (Professor Gill Livingston, Division of Psychiatry, University College London )

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

2020-10-01 11:00: “Misinformation, pseudoscience and the unhealthy commodity industries”   (Professor Mark Petticrew, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

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)

2020-11-12 12:30: Closing the survival gap: The importance of screening and early diagnosis in improving cancer survival in England (Professor Sir Mike Richards)

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

2020-11-25 13:00: Who moves the Dial on Diversity and Inclusion? (Professor Dame Sandra Dawson)

2020-11-26 18:00: COVID-19 and its influence on knowledge, skills and health (Professor Tamsin Ford, Department of Psychiatry; Dr Caroline Trotter, Departments of Veterinary Medicine and Pathology; Professor Paul Tracey, Judge Business School; Professor Ricardo Sabates Aysa, Faculty of Education)

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)

2021-01-14 12:30: Happiness in the brain: A computational and neural model for mood dynamics (Dr Robb Rutledge, Yale University)

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)

2021-03-01 17:30: Levelling up after Covid: the value of social infrastructure (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-03-02 00:00: Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana Fruk (Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology)

2021-03-12 17:30: Blood Sculptures (Mr Marc Quinn, Artist)

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)

2021-04-21 15:00: The biology of CNS progenitor ageing (Prof. Robin Franklin; Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell institute, University of Cambridge, UK)

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)

2021-06-30 15:00: Research Ecosystems, Cognitive Bias and Incentives  (Prof. Marcus Munafò; MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol )

2021-07-15 18:00: Mentalising, Epistemic Trust and Attachment: Changing Theories and their Practice Implications (Chair: Dr Dickon Bevington, Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the NHS, and Medical Director for Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families)

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)

2021-11-03 18:30: Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics? (Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication)

2021-11-18 12:30: Universal NHS healthcare: has the pandemic changed the promise? (Charlotte Augst, Chief Executive, National Voices )

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)

2022-03-10 12:00: Architecture and Spaces of Healing (Downing College, Cambridge)

2022-03-11 17:30: Democracy and Distrust after the Pandemic (Professor Sheila Jasanoff)

2022-03-24 14:15: The UKHSA/University of Cambridge Real-time Pandemic Modelling Project (Paul Birrell (UK Health Security Agency))

2022-04-05 14:45: Talk 7 - The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities (Clare  Bambra (Newcastle University))

2022-04-05 15:15: Impacts of Socio-economic Determinants of Coronavirus: Lessons Learned and Future Resilience for UK Policy/Health (Jeanelle  de Gruchy  (Department of Health and Social Care))

2022-04-25 13:30: Children and artificial intelligence: risks, opportunities and the future (Speaker to be confirmed)

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 )

2022-04-26 16:00: Brain and behavioural impacts of early life adversity (Professor Jeff Dalley, Department of Psychology/Psychiatry)

2022-04-28 14:00: Clinical applications of photoplethysmography (John Allen, Coventry University; Panicos Kyriacou, City University of London)

2022-05-04 14:00: Consumer Healthcare - Finding Research that Changes the World (Tom Watt, Claudia Maw, Philip James. GSK Consumer Healthcare)

2022-05-09 11:00: Assisting in the response to the COVID19 pandemic using internet data, Dr Elad Yom-Tov - MSR Cambridge, Lecture Series (Dr Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft Research)

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)

2022-06-07 16:00: The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism (Professor Simon Baron Cohen, Department of Psychiatry)

2022-06-08 17:00: "Welfare Now" (Prof Cass R Sunstein, Harvard Law School)

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

2022-06-15 13:30: Title: Travelling Communities: Challenging Misconceptions ( Presenter: Dr Kathryn Dixon)

2022-06-15 15:00: 'Ethno-Science': Recent reflections on bioprospecting | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

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 )

2022-07-26 16:15: Integrating Genomics and Multi-omics at Population Scale for Disease Insights (Adam Butterworth (University of Cambridge))

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)

2022-10-17 19:30: CSAR lecture - Where do we do go next with antimicrobial resistance? (Prof. Stephen Baker, Cambridge Inst. for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease)

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 )

2022-10-18 16:00: Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain is Built (Professor Bill Harris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosciences, University of Cambridge)

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 12:30: The potentials and pitfalls of digital healthcare in the 21st Century (Professor Jonathan Benger CBE MD FRCS FRCEM, interim Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) for NHS England)

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)

2023-01-12 14:00: Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species (Professor Steve Horvath from Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA  )

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

2023-01-26 09:30: The development of cancer risk prediction models and their applications to prevention and early detection ( Prof Antonis Antoniou,  Dept of Public Health and Primary Care)

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)

2023-02-16 09:30: TALK CANCELLED   (Prof Rebecca Fitzgerald, Early Cancer Institute)

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)

2023-06-22 18:00: General Practice in Crisis: is there a positive future? IN-PERSON (Professor Martin Marshall CBE, Chair of the Nuffield Trust, Emeritus Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL, Board member at Royal Devon University Foundation Trust)

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 13:15: Uncovering Novel GPCR Pathways for the Treatment of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes (Professor Zach Gerhart-Hines, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen)

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 13:15: Obesity-related alterations in beta-cell function and heterogeneity of metabolic function in obesity and in response to weight loss (Professor Bettina Mittendorfer, Division of Geriatrics & Nutritional Science, Washington University, USA)

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)

2023-10-17 16:00: Using wearable-derived cardiac signals to predict cardiovascular events (Michele Orini, Institute of Healthcare Engineering, UCL)

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)

2023-10-24 16:00: Measuring mobility outside the laboratory with digital health technology: are we there yet? (Silvia Del Din, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle Univerisity)

2023-10-26 13:00: Is NHST a QRP?   (Professor Alexander Bird)

2023-11-14 12:30: We need to talk about the workers: researching the health and social care workforce (Jill Manthorpe CBE, Professor Emerita, King’s Policy Institute, King’s 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)