• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Graham Bagley (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Population Health)
• Timing: Tuesdays at 1PM (term time only)
• Organising department: Nuffield Department of Population Health

Tuesday 28 April 2015

• 13:00 - The future of investigative technologies and the exposome in occupational health
  Dr Roel Vermeulen (Institute of Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University)

Tuesday 5 May 2015

• 13:00 - UK Biobank: an update on the challenges and opportunities
  Professor Cathie Sudlow (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh and UK Biobank)

Tuesday 12 May 2015

• 13:00 - Getting the best out of electronic health records
  Professor Liam Smeeth (Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Tuesday 19 May 2015

• 13:00 - Do pleiotropic effects of statins matter? Lessons from trials of prioperative statin therapy in cardiac surgery
  Professor Barbara Casadei (Radcliffe Department of Medicine)

Tuesday 26 May 2015

• 13:00 - Which health technologies, at what price and for whom: estimating the cost-effectiveness threshold for NICE and the NHS
  Professor Karl Claxton (Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York)

Tuesday 2 June 2015

• 13:00 - Diet and type 2 diabetes - where are we now?
  Dr Nita Forouhi (MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 9 June 2015

• 13:00 - Challenges in nutritional epidemiology and selected results from Adventist Health Study-2
  Professor Gary Fraser (Loma Linda University)

Tuesday 16 June 2015

• 13:00 - Big Data and connected challenges in health: examples in cardiovascular disease
  Professor Harry Hemingway (Institute of Health Informatics, UCL)

Tuesday 13 October 2015

• 13:00 - Obesity in pregnancy: of mice and women
  Professor Lucilla Poston (Division of Women's Health, King's College London)

Tuesday 20 October 2015

• 13:00 - Bad Science, AllTrials and Big Data
  Dr Ben Goldacre (Dept of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 October 2015

• 13:00 - Streamlining clinical research
  TBA

Tuesday 3 November 2015

• 13:00 - The benefits and risks associated with CT scan
  Professor David Brenner (Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University Medical Centre)

Tuesday 10 November 2015

• 13:00 - The African Partnership for Chronic Disease Research (APCDR)
  Dr Manjinder Sandhu (Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 17 November 2015

• 13:00 - The Dementias Platform UK: integrating epidemiology and experimental medicine
  Professor John Gallacher (Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, University of Cardiff)

Tuesday 24 November 2015

• 13:00 - Prevention of osteoporotic fracture across the lifecourse - CANCELLED
  Please note that this talk has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Cyrus Cooper (MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, and Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Muskuloskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 December 2015

• 13:00 - China Kadoorie Biobank: from population health to drug development
  Professor Zhengming Chen (CTSU, University Of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 April 2016

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes: the scientific evidence
  Professor Jaakko Tuomilehto (Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait)

Wednesday 4 May 2016

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: Developing the evidence base to improve prostate cancer survivorship
  Professor June Chan (Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, University of California San Fransisco)

Tuesday 10 May 2016

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: A life course approach to cardiovascular ageing
  Professor Rebecca Hardy (MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, UCL)

Thursday 12 May 2016

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: Health and the built environment: Challenges and prospects for cities of the future
  Professor Michael Brauer (School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia)

Tuesday 17 May 2016

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: Prostate cancer screening - examining the evidence
  Professor Anssi Auvinen (School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere)

Tuesday 24 May 2016

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: Cardiovascular risk scores: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  Professor Mark Woodward (The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 31 May 2016

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: Understanding breast cancer risk
  Professor David Hunter (Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health)

Tuesday 7 June 2016

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: The genetic epidemiology of epthelial ovarian cancer
  Professor Paul Pharoah (Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 14 June 2016

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: Trial Forge, PRECIS-2 and how to design an efficient trial
  Professor Shaun Treweek (Health Services Unit, University of Aberdeen)

Friday 17 June 2016

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: Getting the best out of electronic health records
  Professor Liam Smeeth (Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Tuesday 9 May 2017

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: Safeguarding health in the Anthropocene Epoch
  Professor Sir Andy Haines (Department of Social and Environmental Health Research & Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Tuesday 16 May 2017

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: Measuring and visualising worldwide trends in cardiovascular risk factors
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Majid Ezzati (Measuring and visualising worldwide trends in cardiovascular risk factors)

Tuesday 23 May 2017

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: Predicting and evaluating the impact of the UK Sugar Drink Industry Levy
  Associate Professor Peter Scarborough (Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: Professor David Taggart
  Professor David Taggart (Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 June 2017

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: Can measures of biological age tell us anything more than chronological age?
  Professor Amanda Sacker (International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health, UCL)

Tuesday 13 June 2017

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminars: New ways to lower cholesterol – PCSK9 inhibition and the FOURIER trial
  Professor Peter Sever (National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London)

Tuesday 10 October 2017

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Novel trials of common infection management in primary care
  Professor Christopher Butler (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 October 2017

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Suicide, psychosis and the case for public mental health
  Professor Peter Jones (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 24 October 2017

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: The REVEAL trial – asking a good question, getting a reliable answer.
  Associate Professor Louise Bowman (Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 31 October 2017

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Measuring and visualising worldwide trends in cardiovascular risk factors
  Professor Majid Ezzati (School of Public Health, Imperial College London)

Tuesday 7 November 2017

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: The genetic analysis of biomedical big data
  Professor Gil McVean (Oxford Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 November 2017

• 13:30 - Richard Doll Seminar: Complexity of Susceptibility to Cancer
  Note change to usual location: LG Seminar Rooms, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus
  Dr Stephen Chanock (Director of NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, US National Cancer Institute)

Tuesday 14 November 2017

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Large-scale epidemiology in South Korea: findings from 1.5 million adults
  Professor Sun Ha Jee (Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Yonsei University)

Tuesday 21 November 2017

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Understanding multiple risk behaviour in adolescence
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Rona Campbell (Centre for Public Health Research, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol)

Tuesday 28 November 2017

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Recent discoveries in the genetics of cardiovascular disease and risk factors
  Dr Joanna Howson (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 13:00 - Richar Doll Seminar - Calcium, vitamin D and older peoples’ health
  Professor Ian Reid (University of Auckland)

Tuesday 26 November 2019

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar - Inhalable microplastics: a new cause for concern
  Professor Frank Kelly (King's College London)

Tuesday 24 May 2022

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar - Genetic Susceptibility to Lung Cancer
  Dr James McKay (International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization)

Tuesday 31 May 2022

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar - Sociocultural beliefs and population diversities affecting outcomes in perinatal research
  Professor Cheah Fook Choe (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)

Tuesday 7 June 2022

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar - Microbiome: Diet, Cancer, and Moving to Population Studies
  Dr Rashmi Sinha (National Institutes of Health)

Tuesday 14 June 2022

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar - Establishing a community-based prospective cohort for chronic infectious diseases in rural sub-Saharan Africa: introducing the Oxford-Uganda Collaboration on Schistosomiasis
  Dr Goylette Chami (Oxford Population Health)

Tuesday 11 October 2022

• 13:00 - Polygenic Risk Scores and Our Future Health
  Professor David Hunter (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 October 2022

• 13:00 - Is psychosis a syndemic manifestation of historical and contemporary adversity?
  Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 13:00 - INPRES - Establishing international collaborations to define the research needs for the most premature babies
  Professor Charles Roehr (Department of Population Health, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 13:00 - Clinical trials in emerging infectious diseases
  Professor Sir Peter Horby (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 November 2022

• 14:00 - Wellbeing-adjusted life years (WELBYs) in policy and practice
  Lord Gus O'Donnell, former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 13:00 - The interplay of race-blindness, race-sensitivity and racism in health research: a Bridge(rton) too far?
  Dr Tanvi Rai (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 13:00 - Bayesian methods for clinical trials: useful or just a distraction?
  Professor Peter Juni (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - Bayesian methods for clinical trials: useful or just a distraction?
  Professor Peter Jüni (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 13:00 - The Role of Physical Activity in Cancer Prevention and Control
  Dr Charles Matthews (National Cancer Institute)

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 13:00 - MBRRACE-UK: How can we use the lessons from the past 70 years of confidential enquiries alongside multidisciplinary research expertise to prevent future maternal cardiovascular deaths?
  Professor Marian Knight (National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit)

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 13:00 - Edgar Sydenstricker: Household Equivalence Scales and the Causes of Pellagra
  Professor Philip Clarke (University of Oxford), Dr Guido Erreygers (Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Business & Economics, University of Antwerp)

Tuesday 14 February 2023

• 13:00 - E-Freeze trial results
  Professor Abha Maheshwari (University of Aberdeen)

Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 13:00 - Triangulation of evidence in aetiological epidemiology: principles, prospects and limitations
  Professor George Davey Smith (University of Bristol)

Tuesday 28 February 2023

• 13:00 - Tobacco: the past 75 years and the next 75 years
  Professor Sir Richard Peto (Oxford Population Health)

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 13:00 - Proteomic epidemiology
  Professor Zhengming Chen (CTSU, University Of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 13:00 - Counting the dead: nationwide studies of premature mortality
  Professor Prabhat Jha (University of Toronto)

Tuesday 9 May 2023

• 13:00 - Racism Lancet Series
  TBA

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 13:00 - Insight to public health and a case for prevention
  Ansaf Azhar

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 13:00 - International comparisons of routine maternal and newborn health indicators: part of the quality-improvement toolbox
  Associate Professor Jennifer Zeitlin (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)

Tuesday 30 May 2023

• 13:00 - Assessing separately the risks and benefits of radiotherapy
  Professor Carolyn Taylor (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 June 2023

• 13:00 - Update on folic acid and disease prevention
  Professor Robert Clarke (Nuffield Department of Population Health)

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 13:00 - TBC
  Becky Im (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 13:00 - Human proteome and cardiovascular health in diverse populations
  TBA

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 13:00 - The Mexico City Prospective Study: a blood-based cohort study of 150,000 adults followed for 20 years
  Professor Jonathan Emberson (Oxford Population Health)

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 13:00 - Cash for COVID-19 Vaccines in Africa: A Financial Incentives Clustered Randomized Trial in Rural Ghana
  Professor Ray Duch (Nuffield College)

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 13:00 - Using wearables & AI to transform our understanding of health
  Professor Aiden Doherty (Big Data Institute)

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 13:00 - Risk factors for oesophageal cancer: recent findings from the Million Women Study
  Professor Gill Reeves (Oxford Population Health)

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 13:00 - The Neonatology Canon Project: Examining the Research Endeavor Through Comprehensive Aggregation of Randomized Aggregation of Randomized Trials
  TBA

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 13:00 - Opium as a carcinogen: new insights from the Golestan Cohort Study
  TBA

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  TBA

Tuesday 11 June 2024

• 13:00 - Add to my calendar Prevention of Chronic Kidney Disease Progression
  TBA

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 13:00 - Amounts, patterns, and micropatterns of physical activity for health: transitioning to wearables data-based guidelines & interventions
  Dr Emmanuel Stamatakis (University of Sydney)

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 13:00 - HIV and mpox: where are we in 2024?
  Professor Chloe Orkin (Queen Mary University of London)

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 13:00 - Changing the face of trials of medical procedures
  Dr Rasha Al-Lamee (Imperial)

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 13:00 - Epidemiology and Our Future Health
  Professor David Hunter (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 13:00 - Risk factors for dementia in the Million Women Study
  Dr Sarah Floud (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 December 2024

• 13:00 - TwinsUK diverging destinies: how longitudinal twin studies can bring insights for ageing and health
  Professor Claire Steves (King's College London)