Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Self-help and psychology
  Dr Michael Finn (Leeds)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 17:15 - INAUGURAL LECTURE: We are not good at translating lab science into new medicines for patients
  Chas Bountra (Professor of Translational Medicine; Pro-Vice Chancellor for Innovation, Oxford)
  Translating Illness
• 17:30 - Conflicts of Interest in Medicine: Why it's time for a UK Sunshine Act
  Prof Carl Heneghan (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine)
  Evidence-Based Health Care Programme

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 08:45 - Regulation and ethics for MedTech Innovators and Start-ups
  Azad Hussain, Rita Hendricusdottir, Jessica Morley
• 09:30 - Antidepressant effectiveness and clinical importance
  Professor Glyn Lewis (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Twenty-five year risks of breast cancer mortality in 500,000 women
  TBA
  Population Health Seminars
• 16:00 - Bearing the burdens we (don’t) bare: A theological reflection on carrying the weight of ageing
  Dr Ashley Moyse (McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life, University of Oxford)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 16:30 - Introduction, brief history of placebos (in clinical practice) and a note on method
  Dr Jeremy Howick
  Placebos: what, why, and how: an interdisciplinary graduate seminar

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - What does it mean to engage research in policy: A case study of Brexit & Healthcare
  Dr Nicholas Fahy (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Seminars & Workshops
• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Suffering prioritisation, or prioritising suffering? A critique of arguments for and against NHS funded fertility services
  Dr Jonathan Ives (University of Bristol)
  Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
• 13:00 - An Introduction to Patient and Public Involvement (PPI)
  Polly Kerr (Programme Manager, Partnerships for Health, Wealth and Innovation (PHWI) theme of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre)
• 18:00 - McGovern Lecture on the History of Medicine: A Medical Commander In Rwanda 1994
  Major General Professor Alan Hawley CBE

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Lincoln Leads 2020: Should Antivaxxing be Illegal?
  Professor Jordan Raff (University of Oxford), Dr Sabine Jaccaud (Director of Cambridge Communications, AstraZeneca), Flurin Caviezel (University of Oxford)
  Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020
• 18:00 - 'Women's Health in Protracted Refugee Setting; the Good, the Bad and the Ugly' and 'FIGO projects and Global Women’s Health'
  Various Speakers
  Oxford University Global Surgery Group Seminars

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Top tips on careers & fellowship applications for early career researchers
  Dr Candace Hassall, Head of Researcher Affairs (Wellcome Trust)
  Special Seminar

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Proving violence: forensics and war crimes during the First World War
  Dr Taline Garibian (Oxford)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Multi-omics studies in depression
  Dr Najaf Amin (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 12:15 - Depression (and anxiety) in Paediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
  Dr Maria Loades (University of Bath)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Series
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Trans fatty acid biomarkers and incident type 2 diabetes: pooled analysis from 11 prospective cohort studies
  Dr Heidi Lai (Imperial College London)
  Population Health Seminars
• 13:00 - Insight into Academia: Funding & Fellowships for Early Career Researchers
  Dr Rebecca Ehata (Oxford University Careers Service)
• 16:30 - What is a placebo (in a clinical trial)?
  Dr Jeremy Howick
  Placebos: what, why, and how: an interdisciplinary graduate seminar

Wednesday 29 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Bodleian iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Catherine Scutt (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Integrating Gender Planning in Research Development and Praxis
  TBC
  The SOAS-Oxford Research For Development (R4D) Lunchtime Series
• 17:15 - Lincoln Leads 2020: Are We Entitled to Choose How We Die?
  Dr. Maria Stamatopoulou (University of Oxford), Dr Amy Proffitt (Medical Director in Palliative Medecine at St Christopher's), Selina Abächerli (University of Oxford)
  Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020
• 18:00 - An Oxford Conversation: the impact of fake news on our lives
  Simon Stevens (NHS England), Damian Collins MP, Sarah Montague (BBC Radio 4)
  Population Health Seminars

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Some aspects of patient-doctor relationships in the Middle Ages: Consilia and Regimina sanitatis, a kind of individualised medicine
  Professor Marilyn Nicoud (Avignon)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Overcoming the Black Dog: Ketamine and esketamine for resistant depression
  Professor Phil Cowen (University of Oxford), Dr Rupert McShane (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: The genetics of stroke
  Associate Professor Jemma Hopewell (University of Oxford)
  Population Health Seminars
• 13:30 - Big Data Ethics Forum: Fake news? Epistemic and ethical challenges for synthetic datasets
  Ben Cairns (University of Oxford), Angeliki Kerasidou (University of Oxford)
  Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Artificial Intelligence: Some Likely Developments and Foreseeable Challenges
  Professor Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford))
  Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Medicine, Law, and the Lash: Militarized Medicine and Corporal Punishment in the Australian Colonies 1788-1850
  Dr Catherine Kelly (University of Bristol)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - The application of mindfulness based interventions in healthcare: their possible value for patients and doctors
  Professor Anne Speckens (Radboud University Medical Centre, Netherlands)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 09:30 - TropMed webinar: Vaccine evaluation and transfer to policy
  The seminar will be shared via Zoom. Contact Claire-Lise Kessler if you want to join
  Conall Watson (University of Oxford), Ifedayo Adetifa (KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya)
  Tropical Medicine Seminars
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Movement posology for a digitally-enabled world
  Professor Dylan Thompson (University of Bath)
  Population Health Seminars

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar - Addressing vulnerability in and through research: Highlights from the REACH study
  Dr Maureen Kelley (Associate Professor in Bioethics, The Ethox Centre)
  Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "Teaching computers to understand clinical language: tapping into untapped opportunities of UK-CRIS'' & ''Predicting Outcomes in Prodromal and Manifest Parkinson’s Disease''
  Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford), Johannes Klein (University of Oxford), Professor Clare Mackay (Professor of Imaging Neuroscience, Oxford Department of Psychiatry)
  Psychiatry Seminars

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective
  Dr Neil Armstrong (University of Oxford)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Monday 17 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Astronomical instrumentation as a medium for the transmission of knowledge in the Islamic world
  Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Using evidence to transform policy and practice – can it be done?
  Professor Mary Renfrew (University of Dundee)
  Population Health Seminars

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: The Role of Autonomy in Medical Consent
  Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Yale University)
  Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Debating Forced Medical Feeding: a Critical Examination of Israeli Responses to Hunger Strikes
  Professor Noam Zohar (Bar Ilan University)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - No lone heroes: is there a place for life stories in the history of science?
  Georgina Ferry (Author)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Towards prevention of dementia: opportunities and challenges
  Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Negligence and abortion - doctors' duty of care challenges and potentials in light of Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board
  Caterina Milo (Durham Law School)
  Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "Early Career Researcher Workshop:Overcoming Imposter Syndrome Workshop for Researchers (Why even successful researchers feel like frauds and what you can do about it)”
  Dr Rebecca Murphy (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Historical and anthropological reflections on collapse and seizures among KhoeSan of southern Africa
  Dr Chris Low (Oxford)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Transitional care for young adults with ADHD – results from the CATChuS study
  Professor Tamsin Ford (University of Cambridge)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: The Risk of Everything – using linked electronic health records to develop and validate risk prediction tools for use in clinical care
  Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox (University of Oxford)
  Population Health Seminars

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Stars, Time, and Birth: The Temple and Astral Science in Graeco-Roman Egypt
  Dr Andreas Winkler (Oxford)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Neurocognitive predictors of depression relapse
  Dr Quentin Huys (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Trials to assess potential preventive, neuroprotective or symptom-alleviating treatments for Alzheimer’s disease
  Professor Richard Gray (University of Oxford)
  Population Health Seminars

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "The impact of childhood adversity on adult outcomes and public policy''
  Dr Sarah Bauermeister (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars

Wednesday 18 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "Disordered affective learning in depression -TBC''
  Wanjun Lin (University of Oxford ), Joost Haarsma (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars

Tuesday 31 March 2020 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Oxford Workshop: Ageing without living longer
  Various Speakers
  Population Health Seminars

Wednesday 27 May 2020 (19th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Big Data Ethics Forum: Discussing the ethical considerations around public, policy and research partner engagement in the formation of global pathogen molecular surveillance systems
  Dr George Busby (Nuffield Department of Medicine)
  Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities