Social Medicine Seminar Programme

Everybody is very welcome to the seminars.

4.00p.m. - 5.00 p.m. in room LG.08, Canynge Hall, 39 Whatley Road unless otherwise stated.

Jan 14

Dr. Jane Meyrick: School of Life Sciences, University of the West of England.

Can evidence change the world: discuss?

Jan 21

Dr. Angela Raffle: NHS Partner to Bristol City Council.

Health, Climate Change and Peak Oil .

Jan 28

Professor David Coleman: Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford.

The future of reproduction.

Feb 04

Professor Jonathan Sterne: Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol.

Causal inference meets international health policy: when should HIV-infected patients start antiretroviral therapy?

Feb 11

Dr. Richard Chin: Institute of Child Health, University College London.

It's the quality that counts - epidemiology and childhood epilepsy

Feb 18

No seminar - half term

Feb 25

Dr. Miguel Constancia: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge.

Dynamic epigenetic regulation by early diet and aging of the type 2 diabetes susceptibility gene Hnf4a in pancreatic islets.

Mar 04

Dr. Helen Jamison: Science Media Centre, London.

Science and the Media: Experience from the front line

Mar 11

Professor Lyndal Bond: MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow.

Rethinking health promotion in schools: lessons from the Gatehouse Project

Mar 18

Dr. Jonathan Cook: Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen.

Surgical trial: a case for the defence?.

Mar 25

Dr. Paul Franks: Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Sweden.

Environmental and genetic influences on obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus.