• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 9 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 16 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 27 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Streamlining clinical research
  TBA

Tuesday 3 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 26 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 7 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 26 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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