• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Wednesdays during term-time (2.30-3.30pm)
• Web Address: https://www.georgeinstitute.org.uk/event-series/the-george-institute-for-global-health-uk-seminars

Wednesday 16 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Investigating the impact of long-term blood pressure in predicting incident of cardiovascular disease in ‘real world’ settings using evidence from large-scale electronic health records
  Dr Dexter Canoy (The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Missing Data (screening)
  Dr Kris Rogers (Senior Biostatician, The George Institute for Global Health )

Wednesday 30 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - SMARThealth Pregnancy: The development and evaluation of a mobile clinical decision support system to support community health workers in rural India to screen high-risk pregnant women
  Dr Shobhana Nagraj (The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 6 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Redefining health in the renal population (screening)
  Meg Jardine, Brendan Smyth

Wednesday 13 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Technology as change agent? (Why introducing technologies in the hope of driving change almost never works)
  **Please note that unlike timings of our other seminars, Trish's talk will run 5-6pm**
  Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 20 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Women's Health Program - A new initiative with big objectives
  Alyssa Chase-Vilchez (The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Getting to Zero – A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline
  Dr Oliver Johnson (King's College London ), Dr Sinead Walsh (EU Ambassador to South Sudan )

Wednesday 6 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - DFID’s Health Work in a Developing World
  Elizabeth (Lizzie) Smith (Head of Profession for Health, DFID)

Wednesday 13 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Navigating the global workforce crisis in healthcare
  Dr Mark Britnell (KPMG Global Chairman for Healthcare, Government & Infrastructure), Professor Stephen MacMahon (The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 20 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Gestational Diabetes: What’s all the fuss about? Novel low-cost approaches to managing an increasing number of women with diabetes in pregnancy
  Dr Jane Hirst (The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 8 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Clinical trial innovations in diabetic kidney disease
  Hiddo Lambers Heerspink (University Medical Center Groningen)

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - The story of cholesterol-lowering in kidney disease: from hypothesis to meta-analysis
  Professor Colin Baigent (Director MRC Population Health Research Unit, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Streamlined trials in cardiovascular disease - a whistle-stop tour
  Professor Jane Armitage (Professor of Clinical Trials and Epidemiology, University of Oxford )

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Modifiable causes of death in Chinese adults: Update from the China Kadoorie Biobank
  Professor Robert Clarke (Nuffield Department of Population Health)

Wednesday 5 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Providing sustainable kidney care in the developing world - challenges and solutions
  Professor Vivekanand Jha (The George Institute for Global Health India)

Wednesday 12 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Towards health research transformation: influencing policy makers
  Professor Göran Tomson (Karolinska Institute)

Wednesday 19 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Mathematical modelling at different stages of an infectious disease outbreak
  Dr Robin Thomspon (University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Creating healthy, sustainable, city food environments
  Professor Corinna Hawkes (City University, London), Dr Jacqui Webster (The George Institute for Global Health), Dr Brian Cook (University of Oxford), Dr Frances Hansford (Good Food Oxford, Consultant), Jamie Izzard (Greater London Authority)

Wednesday 3 July 2019 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Do high levels of risk factors in childhood predict likelihood of major cardiovascular events in middle age?
  Prof. Terry Dwyer (The George Institute for Global Health)

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - CONVINCE: A clinical trial to compare dialysis treatments – from design to analysis
  Dr Mei-Man Lee (The George Institute for Global Health, UK at the University of Oxford )

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Association between maternal infection during pregnancy and childhood leukaemia in the offspring
  Jianrong He (DPhil Student, The George Institute for Global Health, UK at the University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - 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)

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - The double burden of diabetes and global infection
  Susanna Dunachie (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Healthy and sustainable foods and diets (screening)
  Professor Mike Rayner ( Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford)