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SUMMARY:Bradford Hill seminar - Is perfection the enemy of good? Challenge
 s and opportunities for building the evidence-base to inform sexual and re
 productive health policy and practice - Professor Cath Mercer\, UCL Instit
 ute for Global Health
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CONTACT:Paul Browne
DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to our next hybrid Bradford Hill Seminar by Pr
 of Cath Mercer of the UCL Institute for Global Health\, who will discuss: 
 \n\n'Is perfection the enemy of good? Challenges and opportunities for bui
 lding the evidence-base to inform sexual and reproductive health policy an
 d practice'.\n\n\nThis will be a hybrid event\n\nNo registration required 
 to attend in person at:\n\nLarge Seminar Room\, East Forvie Building\, For
 vie Site\, Robinson Way\, Cambridge CB2 0SRT.\n\nRegistration required to 
 attend online\n\nPlease register in Teams in advance at https://rb.gy/4svy
 5i\n\nAbout this talk\n\nPoor sexual and reproductive health causes signif
 icant morbidity. Last year\, nearly 400\,000 new sexually transmitted infe
 ctions were diagnosed in England alone. Additionally\, there is increasing
  awareness of sexual rights\, the role of sexual pleasure and wellbeing\, 
 and what these mean for a satisfying sex life and our general health and w
 ellbeing.\n\nYet this critical aspect of our lives is highly sensitive and
  sometimes stigmatised making sexual behaviour\, its drivers and consequen
 ces difficult to research. Methods are required that maximise response and
  minimise bias so that the resulting evidence is of sufficient quality\, i
 ncluding for informing policy and practice.\n\nSuch methodological rigour 
 is neither cheap nor quick\, and since the COVID-19 pandemic shifted expec
 tations around both the timelines for acquiring evidence and the public’
 s willingness to participate in research\, do we need to re-think how we d
 o research in challenging fields such as sexual and reproductive health? D
 o we need to revise in our definition of what is 'good enough'?\n\nAbout P
 rofessor Cath Mercer\n\nCath Mercer is Professor of Sexual Health Science 
 at University College London. A statistician and demographer by training\,
  Cath is internationally recognised as an expert in developing and employi
 ng robust methods that advance the scientific study of sexual behaviour\, 
 one of the most socially-sensitive disciplines\, leading studies that work
  for - and with - marginalised communities through to the general populati
 on\, in a variety of settings\, employing a range of study designs and res
 earch methods.
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, East Forvie Building\, Forvie Site Robinson 
 Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.
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