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Public Seminars

Society and Health Public Seminar Series

public seminar series - chaired by Professor Sir Michael Marmot - are usually held Tuesday, 5 – 6pm, Basement LT, 1 - 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB outside term time.

Global Disability Research Group Seminar Series

focusing on cross-disciplinary global disability research.
To join the mailing list for this seminar series please e-mail your details to Ellie Cole.

Global Health (IGH) Symposia

Members of the department contribute to IGH public meetings which bring together expertise on global health issues from all faculties within UCL.
Contact: Sarah Ball, Tel: (internal x82 72 2352)

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Seminar Series 2012

All welcome. Friday 1 - 2 pm. Venue: G37 & G38.
Visitors from outside the department are requested to notify the seminar co-ordinator if they wish to attend. * denotes a day other than Friday

13 Jan
 Jemima Stockton ‘An investigation into the associations between mental health and the physical environment’
*26 Jan
 Silvia Pastorino 'The role of life course BMI, waist circumference and adult dietary patterns in the incidence of type 2 diabetes'
27 Jan
 Sadie Boniface 'Finding the missing units: Identifying under-reporting of alcohol consumption in England’
24 Feb
 Bidyut Kanti Sarkar 'A cluster randomised trial of a brief tobacco cessation intervention in low income communities in India'
2 Mar
 Huda Yusuf 'Preventing obesity in young people attending primary dental care settings: an exploratory RCT'
*15 Mar
 Peijue Hang Fu 'Dietary Patterns and Metabolic Syndrome in the HAPIEE Study’
16 Mar
 Patrick Rouxel 'Social Capital and Oral Health in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ELSA'
23 Mar
 Emma Low ‘Identifying factors involved in a longer time to help-seeking for gynaecological cancer symptoms'
30 Mar
 Gyuri Kim 'CASP, a measure of positive Quality of Life in old age: Evaluation of its use and association with mortality. The HAPIEE Study’
13 Apr
 Prof Peter Davis, University of Auckland, 'Developing a policy tool for the early life course’
27 Apr
 Sophie Bostock ‘Is happiness good for the heart? An investigation into the psychobiological mechanisms linking well-being and cardiovascular disease’
* 9 May
 Tuba Mazhari 'An investigation of the association between marital history and cardiovascular disease'
11 May
 Dr Jason Strelitz 'From Brief Interventions to the "Good Society" Challenges in implementing policy to combat health inequalities’
25 May

Prof Goya Wannamethee

'Risk factors for CVD: 3 decades  of findings from the British Regional Heart Study'


2011
  
16 Dec
 Dr Ngaire Coombs 'Compression of Morbidity and Socioeconomic Deprivation in New Zealand: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Analyses of Hospital Utilisation and Mortality'
9 Dec
 Linda Ng Fat 'Understanding the behaviours, attitudes and lifestyles of non-drinkers'
2 Dec
 Carolina Perez Ferrer 'Socioeconomic inequalities in obesity: the case of Mexico'
11 Nov
 Pia Horvat  'Life course socioeconomic circumstances and cognitive function in later life: The HAPIEE (Health, Alcohol and Psychosocial factors in Eastern Europe) Study'
4 Nov
 Adrian Baker 'The processes of dissemination and implementation of NICE workplace health and wellbeing guidance in three NHS acute Trusts'
21 Oct
 Helen Barrat 'Approaches to improving the standard of decision-making about the organisation and delivery of acute care in the absence of ‘gold standard’ evidence'
7 Oct
 Susanne Meisel 'Genetic Test Feedback for Susceptibility to Weight Gain – Emotional and Motivational Effects’
16 Sept
 Dr R Wright, University of Windsor, Ontario Canada, 'Tamil Nadu Child  Health Study Phase I & II Examining the Social Determinants of Early Child Development and their Relationship to Child Health'
1 July
 Leanne Küpers, Melissa De Neve,Susanne Tielemans, Wageningen University (Netherlands)
24 June
Amina Aitsi-Selmi ‘Does education have a protective role against the obesogenic effects of increased wealth among women in transition settings? A case study from Egypt’
10 June
 Prof Jennifer Dowd, City University of New York, 'Are health inequalities infectious?
20 May
Dr Andrew Wills, MRC Unit, ‘Life course trajectories of systolic blood pressure using data from several UK cohorts’
*17 May
 Vanessa Gordon-Dseagu 'Investigating the associations between diabetes and cancer (incidence and mortality): Does linked data from the Health Survey for England and Scottish Health Survey with Cancer Registry and mortality data support a relationship between the two diseases?'
13 May
Dr Nicola Shelton and Dr James Kneale 'Alcohol in the UK: a geographical perspective'
*9 May
 Jennie Brown 'Understanding the link between positive wellbeing and health'
6 May
Professor Goya Wannamethee, MRC Unit, 'Gamma-glutamyl transferase as a risk marker for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: new horizons'
15 Apr
 Marta Jackowska ‘The relationship between sleep, well-being, and health-related biological function’
8 Apr
 Prof Jorge Erusalimsky, University of Wales Institute 'Endothelial cell senescence: evidence, mechanisms and the ageing connection'
18 Mar
 Lydia Poole 'Psychological and biological determinants of emotional adaptation and recovery after cardiac surgery'
11 Mar
 Dr Manu Mathur 'Status, Gradients and Determinants of Oral Health of Adolescents Living in the City of New Delhi'
25 Feb
 Dr Kim Bouillon 'Measurement and Adult Life Course Predictors of Frailty: the Whitehall II study'
18 Feb
 Edward Kendall 'Economic analysis of the contribution of health care to health inequalities'
4 Feb
 Ayako Hiyoshi 'Health inequalities in Japan between 1986 and 2007'
28 Jan
 Dorina Cadar 'The role of health related behaviours on cognitive decline'
14 Jan
 David Bann ‘Life course predictors of adult body composition’


List of previous seminars: 2005-2010

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