BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:19th Armitage Workshop and Lecture - Keynote Lecturer: Professor Nicholas Jewell\, London School of Hygiene &\; Tropical Medicine DTSTART:20220929T090000Z DTEND:20220929T163000Z UID:TALK177881@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Alison Quenault DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to be organising our 19th Armitage Workshop & Lecture on the theme of ‘Meeting the challenges of COVID-19 through sta tistics’.\n\nOur Armitage Lecturer will be Professor Nicholas Jewell fro m the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine\, speaking on:\n\n“Bi ostatistics in Infectious Disease Research: Test-negative designs from Inf luenza\, Dengue and Ebola\, to COVID-19”\n\nAbstract: Test-negative desi gns are a relatively recent addition to observational study toolboxes\, or iginally employed for assessment of seasonal influenza vaccination program s. I will review the rationale and development of the original test-negati ve design and discuss extensions to cover randomized exposures\, various k inds of clustering and mixed testing programs\, with illustrations from bo th dengue fever and Ebola virus disease. Recent interest has focused on us es of the test-negative design to estimate and compare effectiveness of CO VID-19 vaccines. The presentation will highlight statistical issues associ ated with the design\, analysis\, and interpretation of resulting data\, w ith suggestions for further research. The lecture will touch on statistica l issues associated with causal inference\, cluster randomised trials\, re trospective studies\, spatial statistics\, and randomisation inference.\n\ nThe keynote lecture is the highlight of a full day workshop\, with talks from Daniela De Angelis\, Thomas Jaki\, Shaun Seaman and Hélène Ruffieux \, who have been at the fore of the response to COVID-19. LOCATION:Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute\, Li Ka Shing Centre\, Rob inson Way\, Cambridge CB2 0RE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR