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VIRTUAL EVENT: Introducing longitudinal biomedical studies, a social science perspective: SWS & HCS
13 July 2021, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
This webinar will introduce the Southampton Women's Survey (SWS) and Hertfordshire Cohort Study (HCS) from a social science perspective.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Jennie Blows
Presentations
Southampton Women's Survey (SWS)
Professor Janis Baird will introduce SWS – the only study in Europe in which the mothers were recruited before conception of their child. Between 1998 and 2002, 12,583 women were recruited from Southampton and surrounding areas. Subsequently, 3158 of these women were followed through pregnancy and delivered a liveborn child. These children form the child cohort in the SWS. The aim of the study is to assess the influence of maternal dietary, lifestyle, genetic and epigenetic factors on the children’s health and development, as well as on the health of the mothers.
Hertfordshire Cohort Study (HCS)
Professor Elaine Dennison will explore HCS which comprises a nationally unique study of 3,000 men and women born during the period 1931-1939 and still resident in the English county of Hertfordshire during the 1990s. The principal objective of the study is to evaluate the relationship between early growth, genetic influences, adult lifestyle and the risk of common age-related disorders such as osteoporosis, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
CLOSER webinar series
The CLOSER webinar series aims to highlight how social scientists can make the most of data collected from longitudinal biomedical studies. The series will showcase a number of biomedically-focused studies and will explore what they can offer social science research.
Over the next few months, CLOSER will host three hour-long webinars, with each one providing the opportunity to learn about two biomedical studies. Each study presentation will cover an introduction to the study, an overview of data collected, how to access the data, research case studies and a Q&A.
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About the Speakers
Professor Janis Baird
Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton
Janis's research focuses on the translation of evidence of the developmental origins of health and disease into public health policy and practice.
Professor Elaine Dennison
Professor of Musculoskeletal Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology within Medicine at the University of Southampton
Having worked as a Principal Investigator of the Hertfordshire Cohort Study for many years, Elaine's research interest centres around musculoskeletal aging. Based at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, she is particularly interested in how events early in life interact with adult lifestyle factors to determine how we age.