Department: Nuffield Department of Population Health
Talks:

Monday 19 May 2025

From Meningococcus to Gonococcus: The Journey of Vaccine Development and Cross-Protection
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Mariagrazia Pizza (Imperial College London)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Theme: Using genetic data in biobanks to gain insights into genome-disease associations
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Professor Peter Visscher (Oxford Population Health), Dr Siqi Wang (Oxford Population Health)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Ethox Seminar: The Meaning and Dying of Death for Children: Addressing Pediatric Palliative Care Gaps
Date: 20 May 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Christina Lamb (Athabasca University and University of Toronto)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Seminar Room 0 and on Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

How to stop women developing hypertension after a hypertensive pregnancy
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Paul Leeson (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025

Causal inference Best Practice: How to Strengthen your Causal Analysis with Bounds On Your Causal Effect of Interest
Date: 23 May 2025, 9:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Jakob Zeitler (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room LG0 and online
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Contemporary Trends in Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity: Insights from Whole-Population Electronic Health Records in England.
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Angela Wood (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Artificial intelligence for electronic health records
Date: 29 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Shishir Rao (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 June 2025

Will the next pandemic be caused by H5N1 influenza?
Date: 2 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Wendy Barclay (Imperial College London)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Ethox Seminar: Subgroups and equity in cost-effectiveness analysis
Date: 3 June 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker : Dr Leah Rand (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Digital Health and Climate Justice
Date: 4 June 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Jesus College Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Why and how to publish with Nature Communications, and editorial careers
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Hayleah Pickford (Nature Communications)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Hosts: Prof Angela Brueggemann (University of Oxford), Professor Susie Dunachie (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 June 2025

Understanding the Economic Burden of Diseases: A Global Challenge
Date: 9 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford), Assoc Prof Jose Leal (HERC, University of Oxford), Stephen Rock (Health Foundation)
Organiser: Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Towards a new treatment for tuberculosis
Date: 9 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Stewart Cole (Oxford, IOI; Institut Pasteur)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Ethox Seminar - Values Frameworks as Ideal Types: Navigating Ethics Conflicts with Normative Minorities
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Autumn Fiester (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Seminar Room 1 and on Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Trials and tribulations: streamlining large randomized trials to answer important cardiometabolic questions
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Emeritus Professor Jane Armitage (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Examining the causal role of circadian rhythms and sleep in physical and psychological health
Date: 11 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Rebecca Richmond (University of Bristol)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Monday 16 June 2025

The burden of drug resistant infections, the GRAM project
Date: 16 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Christiane Dolecek (Oxford, NDM)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Can a wearable a day keep the questionnaire away?
Date: 16 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Professor Aiden Doherty (Oxford Population Health), Mr. Charilaos Zisou (Oxford Population Health)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford), Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Large scale genetic consortia
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Jemma Hopewell (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 June 2025

Ethox Seminar: The End of Family Authority? The Strange Case of Personalized Patient Preference Predictors in Healthcare (provisional title)
Date: 24 June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Michiel De Proost (Ghent University)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Unsupervised Approaches to Decode the Functional Impact of Genetic Variation
Date: 8 July 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Nathan Palpant (The University of Queensland)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 July 2025

Enhancing Health Behaviors: Leveraging Smartphone Data and Electronic Medical Records for Optimized Health Outcomes
Date: 9 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Samah Hayek (University of Tel Aviv)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 July 2025

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 July 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Farirai Mutenherwa (Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Rosemary Rue Rooms
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 17 July 2025

Ideas for accelerated and integrated compute in imaging, genomics, and devices, in Biobank and other datasets
Date: 17 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Ben Busby (NVIDIA)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 October 2025

Medical Statistics Drop in session
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI conference room (lower ground, near the cafe)
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)