Monday 22 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Transmission, asymptomatic shedding, and airborne spread of Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococci) in schoolchildren
  Professor Shiranee Sriskandan (Imperial College London)
  Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Lessons from responding to pandemics and studying bat viruses/immunity
  Professor Linfa Wang (Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore)
  Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series
• 14:00 - Psilocybin treatment of tobacco addiction
  Prof Matt Johnson (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 16:00 - Inaugural Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - “Archives of Loss and Wonder”: Writing a History of Fossil Heritage in South Asia
  Please note change of venue for this seminar - Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History
  Dr Amelia Bonea (Manchester)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - The role of psychiatry in the care of older acute medical inpatients: findings of The Home Study.
  Dr Jane Walker, Professor Michael Sharpe
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Invisible Children: The importance of identification and support for children with a parent in prison'
  Sarah Burrows (Children Heard and Seen Charity)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Moving towards individualized epilepsy treatment: possibilities in whole brain modelling
  Dr Karmele Olaciregui Dague (Center for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Wednesday 24 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Healthcare within a humanitarian crisis: experiences from Gaza
  Guests can attend in person or online.
  Mr Khaled Dawas (University College London), Dr Jane Crawley (University of Oxford)
  Translational Health Sciences
• 17:30 - Creating Thriving Communities: How do we build socially productive places?
  Dr Ani Raiden (Nottingham Trent University), Dr Liane Hartley (Mend), Simon Grove-White (Oxford City Council), Nigel Carter (Oxford Community Action)
  GCHU Public Seminar series

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Patient cost-sharing and redistribution in health insurance with Tobias Klein, Suraj Upadhyay
  Martin Salm (Tilburg University)
  Health Economics Seminar

Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Mental Capacity: Why it doesn't and shouldn't matter much in medical law and ethics
  Jonathan Herring (University of Oxford)
  Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Applying precision public health concepts to HIV services: using routine health data to explore patterns of patient engagement with HIV care in South Africa
  Dr Claire Keene (Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)
  Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Your wild and precious life
  Liz Jensen
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 16:00 - Intercolonial Health Cooperation in the Pacific Islands and the British Empire
  Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Gambling Disorder: what is it, and how should it be treated?
  Professor Sam Chamberlain (University of Southampton)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'My public education experience: publishing my book 'A Guide to the Mental Health of Children and Young People: Q and A for Parents, Caregivers and Teachers'
  Dr Meinou Simmons (Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 14:00 - The Early Reception of the Sun Machine
  Nicholas Royle
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 17:00 - Climate Change News Audiences: Analysis of News Use and Attitudes
  Dr Waqas Ejaz (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Jane Harris (University of Oxford), Katherine Noren Curtis (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Effects of a multi-component menstrual health intervention on mental health symptoms and educational performance in Ugandan schools (MENISCUS): a cluster-randomised controlled trial'
  Professor Helen Weiss (London School of Hygiene and Trpical Medicine), Dr Kate Nelson (London School of Hygiene and Trpical Medicine)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Medical Ethics, Law, and Humanities
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 17:00 - Islam and Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge and Common Sense
  Dr Mazhar Ali Bari (Ghulam Bari Foundation and Cognovation), Dr Biliana Popova (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Red Squirrels, Big Data, and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology
  Please note this seminar is on Thursday instead of Monday, which is a Bank Holiday, and will be held in the Lecture Theatre at the History Faculty, George Street
  Professor Erika L Milam (Princeton)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Waiting Time Prioritisation in the Health Sector: Evidence from Hip Replacement Surgery
  Peter Sivey (University of York)
  Health Economics Seminar

Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:20 - Workshop: Eugenics in the Academy
  Various Speakers
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Add to my calendar The effects of BCG on non-specific resistance to respiratory infection
  Professor Alan Sher (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease)
  Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Austerity, Experimentation and Opposition: The Global and Local Politics of Biomedical Contraception in Uganda
  Dr Doreen Kembabazi (Warwick)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - SSRIs: A Pharmacological Cul-de-Sac?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Phil Cowen (Professor of Psychopharmacology, University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'A year of the Thames Valley LINK Programme. Working with children, young people and professionals in complex situations: strategic and practical considerations'
  Dr Nick Hindley (Oxford Health NHS)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Prof Leor Roseman (Exeter University)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Communication, Narratives and Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Azim Ansari (University of Oxford)
  Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL): a “République des lettres” in the twentieth century
  Professor Agustí Nieto-Galan (Barcelona/Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Brain vulnerability for psychosis: from mechanisms to real-world outcomes
  Dr Gemma Modinos (Kings College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar – The Ethics of Transformative Experience and Psychotherapy (provisional title)
  Dr Farbod Akhlaghi (University of Cambridge)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Genetics and a family-based approach in psychiatry'
  TBA
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Computational Neurotherapeutics for Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Neurology and Psychiatry
  Prof Giulio Ruffini (Neuroelectrics)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 17:00 - Air Pollution in the 21st Century – Time for a New Approach
  Dr Gary Fuller (Imperial College, London)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Substance and Identity: Histoires Petites et Grandes
  John R R Christie (Oxford), Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Paris)
  Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Emmanouil Mentzakis, (City of London University)
  Health Economics Seminar

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries
  Professor Noam Angrist (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Meissen Coloration and Pacific Chemical Medicine
  Nicholas Zumbulyadis (Delaware), Mariana Sanchez (Paris)
  Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Exploiting electronic health records to improve infection management
  Professor Sarah Walker (Experimental Medicine Division, NDM)
  Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The Soundscapes of Herb Women: Mapping Community Healthcare in Early Modern London
  Professor Kat Lecky (LUC)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Placebo Studies & the Replication Crisis
  Dr Charlotte Blease (Uppsala University)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Findings & Learning from the national STADIA (Standardised Diagnostic Assessments in CAMHS) study – a multi-Centre Randomised Controlled Trial'
  Professor Kapil Sayal (University of Nottingham)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Medical Ethics, Law, and Humanities
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 14:00 - On the perception of ‘now’: intriguing evidence from confabulating patients
  Prof Armin Schnider (University Hospital Geneve)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
• 14:30 - Ethox Seminar - Neuroethics of lumbar punctures (aka ‘spinal taps’) for psychiatric indications (provisional title)
  Dr Matthew Baum (Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Acquiring science in early 19th century York: the diary of Jane Ewbank
  Rachel Feldberg (York), Matthew Eddy (Durham)
  Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Tools for early, rapid and accurate diagnosis of acute bacterial meningitis that could improve case ascertainment in resource limited settings
  Dr Brenda Kwambana-Adams (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme)
  Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Victorian Women and Algology: The Case of Margaret Scott Gatty (1809–1873)
  Professor Laurence Talairach (University of Toulouse/CAK/MFO)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Nancy Zucker (Duke University, Durham, USA)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 12:15 - Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: 'Case Presentation: Treating ARFID isn’t scary. We can all do it!
  This talk is for clinical staff only. Please email shona.oleary@psych.ox.ac.uk to request to attend.
  Dr Kate Stein (South Oxfordshire CAMHS), Sally Burne (CAMHS Eating Disorders), Sarah Wilcock (Clinical Lead & Specialist Occupational Therapist PEACE Pathway)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series

Monday 17 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The physiology and pathophysiology of respiratory infections and inflammation from an ecological perspective
  Professor Debby Bogaert (University of Edinburgh)
  Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Prof Eus van Someren (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Friday 21 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The musicality of mental time travel
  Prof Nicola Clayton (University of Cambridge), Mark Baldwin (University of Cambridge)
  Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing

Tuesday 25 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Ethox Seminar - The everyday ethics in sterilization camps in India
  Dr Eva Fiks (Keele University)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Monday 1 July 2024 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - International Pandemic Sciences Conference 2024 - Collaboration Beyond Boundaries
  Various Speakers
  Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series

Tuesday 2 July 2024 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Ethox Seminar – The place of health in the justification of protest
  Dr Ryan Essex (University of Greenwich)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Thursday 17 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Biotechnologies, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Identity
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities