Seminar - 11 May 2016 - Professor Terence Dwyer
2016-05-11 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar:
The contribution of physical activity to increased life expectancy

by Professor Terence Dwyer of the George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford.

Meeting Rooms 1,2 &3, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus

Abstract
Recently, Terry Dwyer and his team reported their findings on the association of pedometer measured steps and mortality from a fifteen year follow up of these cohorts (Dwyer, T., et al. (2015). “Objectively Measured Daily Steps and Subsequent Long Term All-Cause Mortality: The Tasped Prospective Cohort Study.” PloS one 10(11): e0141274).
In a combined cohort of almost 3,000 subjects among whom 220 deaths occurred, a 40% reduction in mortality for those taking the highest number of steps compared to the lowest was observed. This was the first evidence from a population based cohort that PA measured objectively was inversely associated with mortality.
In this talk he will review the evidence on the relationship between PA, predominantly measured by questionnaire, and major health outcomes and put into context what this new data using an objective measure of PA adds to the overall picture. In describing how the complex puzzle of PA and health is developing he will identify what deficiencies in the evidence need to be addressed before greater certainty about the causal nature of the association can be reached.

About Professor Dwyer
Professor Terence Dwyer is a non-communicable disease epidemiologist with extensive experience in the conduct of cohort and case control studies with a focus on infant and child health.
Professor Dwyer’s research on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and sleeping position was recognised by the NHMRC, Australia, as one of the thirteen most important contributions to medical research by Australia in the 20th century. This work was mainly conducted in the Tasmanian Infant Health Survey which enrolled 11,000 infants between 1988 and 1995.
Professor Dwyer currently leads two large global cohort collaborations. The first follows around 40,000 subjects who were first measured at school age, now moving into their 5th and 6th decades, to estimate separate effects of childhood physical and lifestyle characteristics on risk of major adult diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The second is the International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium (14C), a collaboration of birth cohorts in more than ten countries. It aims to obtain prospective evidence on the causes of childhood cancer by assembling data on 1 million mothers and babies who will be followed through childhood.

Fenland Study Public Meeting - Ely
2016-06-14 18:30 - 20:00 UTC | The Maltings, Ship Lane, ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4BB, United Kingdom
This event is fully booked, but tickets are still available for the Fenland Study Public Meeting in Wisbech on Wednesday 6 July.
We would like to invite you to attend our Fenland Study Public Meeting at The Maltings in Ely on Tuesday 14 June 2016.
The first phase of the Fenland Study finished in 2015, with more than 12,000 volunteers from across Cambridgeshire taking part. Phase 2 is now underway, and over the next 4 years we are sending invitations to participants who attended an initial Fenland Study visit between 2005 and 2015, and who agreed to be re-contacted, to return for a 2nd visit.
To mark these milestones we are holding a series of public meetings. This is your chance to hear about progress so far, key scientific findings and our plans for future research, as well as to meet study staff and researchers.
The event will comprise of a short presentation, followed by a panel discussion where you will have the opportunity to ask the Principal Investigators questions about the study.
If you have a question that you’d like to ask the Fenland researchers, please submit it when you register, or email it to: Fenland-meetings@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Light refreshments will be provided from 6:30pm, with presentation and panel discussion will start at 7pm.
This event is free to attend, although you will need to register for tickets in advance as places are limited. To register please choose one of the following options:

Register on Eventbrite, using the link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fenland-study-public-meeting-tickets-24489451609

Contact us via email (Fenland-meetings@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk) stating your name, preferred date and how many places you would need for the meeting.

Call the Fenland Study Free phone number on 0800 085 618

If you have any special requirements, please let us know when you register your tickets.

Fenland Study Public Meeting - Cambridge
2016-06-21 18:30 - 20:00 UTC | Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0DS, United Kingdom
This event is fully booked, but tickets are still available for the Fenland Study Public Meeting in Wisbech on Wednesday 6 July.
We would like to invite you to attend our Fenland Study Public Meeting at Churchill College in Cambridge on Tuesday 21 June 2016.
The first phase of the Fenland Study finished in 2015, with more than 12,000 volunteers from across Cambridgeshire taking part. Phase 2 is now underway, and over the next 4 years we are sending invitations to participants who attended an initial Fenland Study visit between 2005 and 2015, and who agreed to be re-contacted, to return for a 2nd visit.
To mark these milestones we are holding a series of public meetings. This is your chance to hear about progress so far, key scientific findings and our plans for future research, as well as to meet study staff and researchers.
The event will comprise of a short presentation, followed by a panel discussion where you will have the opportunity to ask the Principal Investigators questions about the study.
If you have a question that you’d like to ask the Fenland researchers, please submit it when you register, or email it to: Fenland-meetings@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Light refreshments will be provided from 6:30pm, with presentation and panel discussion will start at 7pm.
There is ample, free parking at the College either along Churchill Road (the College’s private road) or in the main car park at the end of that road. Permits are not required. https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/our-location/find-us/
This event is free to attend, although you will need to register for tickets in advance as places are limited. To register please choose one of the following options:

Register on Eventbrite, using the link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fenland-study-public-meeting-tickets-24490599041

Contact us via email (Fenland-meetings@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk) stating your name, preferred date and how many places you would need for the meeting.

Call the Fenland Study Free phone number on 0800 085 618

If you have any special requirements, please let us know when you register your tickets.

MRC Festival of Medical Research - Are you in a healthy place?
2016-06-22 17:30 - 19:30 UTC | University Centre, Granta Place, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 1RU, United Kingdom
Are you in a healthy place? Travel, food and our neighbourhoods
Wednesday 22 June 2016 5.30pm – 7.30pm. University Centre, Granta Place, Cambridge CB2 1RU
This event has finished, please check our events pages and twitter feed to find out about upcoming events.
The places where we live, study and work shape our behaviours and health. But how healthy are our neighbourhoods? Join science writer and broadcaster Kat Arney, and explore the latest research from the MRC Epidemiology Unit about how our neighbourhoods influence how we get around and what we eat, and what this is doing to our bodies
Bring your smartphones, opinions and questions – and take away a new perspective on where you live.
5.30 – 6.15pm: Meet the scientists
Come and grab a drink, talk with scientists about their research at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, and have some fun on interactive activities.
Learn how we gather data and how it can be used to improve health and wellbeing.
Find out how far you have to pedal to burn off a single sugar lump, and what it does to your heart rate.
Take the sugar taste test – how sweet is too sweet, and how do your taste buds compare to other people’s?
6.15 – 7.30pm: Interactive presentations
Hear about how our research is shedding light on how the places we live and work affect our health. Test your knowledge and perceptions in an interactive Q&A. The main topics will be:
What does Medical Research have to do with my commute? Cambridge is famous for being the city in the UK with the highest levels of cycling. But what is it about the environment that influences how we get around? And is enough being done to encourage everyone to be a bit more active on the commute? Researchers have been studying the health impacts of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway and other transport projects around the country to try to answer these and other questions.

Are takeaways adding pounds? Are supermarkets slimming? We might like to think that the food we eat is all a matter of personal choice, but where we live and work can affect our choices. Research is shedding light on how food outlets near our home, work and travel routes influence what we eat, and ultimately our weight and health. But how full of takeaways, supermarkets and other food shops is your neighbourhood? Do you think it affects what you eat? And what, if anything, should be done about it?

Find out about other events that took place in Cambridge during the MRC Festival of Medical Research (18 – 26 June 2016) at:
www.mrc.ac.uk/about/events/mrc-festival-of-medical-research/mrc-festival-of-medical-research-2016-cambridge/

Fenland Study Public Meeting - Wisbech
2016-07-06 18:30 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | ACT Theatre, Thomas Clarkson Academy, Corporation Road, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE13 2SE, United Kingdom
We would like to invite you to attend our Fenland Study Public Meeting at the Thomas Clarkson Academy in Wisbech on Wednesday 6 July 2016.
The first phase of the Fenland Study finished in 2015, with more than 12,000 volunteers from across Cambridgeshire taking part. Phase 2 is now underway, and over the next 4 years we are sending invitations to participants who attended an initial Fenland Study visit between 2005 and 2015, and who agreed to be re-contacted, to return for a 2nd visit.
To mark these milestones we are holding a series of public meetings. This is your chance to hear about progress so far, key scientific findings and our plans for future research, as well as to meet study staff and researchers.
The event will comprise of a short presentation, followed by a panel discussion where you will have the opportunity to ask the Principal Investigators questions about the study.
If you have a question that you’d like to ask the Fenland researchers, please submit it when you register, or email it to: Fenland-meetings@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Light refreshments will be provided from 6:30pm, with presentation and panel discussion will start at 7pm.
There is ample, free parking in the Thomas Clarkson Academy car park.
This event is free to attend, although you will need to register for tickets in advance as places are limited. To register please choose one of the following options:

Register on Eventbrite, using the link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fenland-study-public-meeting-tickets-24491071454

Contact us via email (Fenland-meetings@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk) stating your name, preferred date and how many places you would need for the meeting.

Call the Fenland Study Free phone number on 0800 085 618

If you have any special requirements, please let us know when you register your tickets.

Physical Activity Measurement Seminar 2016
2016-09-05 08:00 - 2016-09-09 17:00 UTC | Møller Centre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DE, United Kingdom
APPLICATIONS TO THIS EVENT ARE NOW CLOSED.
On behalf of the Organising Committee of the 8th Physical Activity Measurement Seminar, we would like to invite you to join us at The Møller Centre in Cambridge, UK, for what promises to be an exciting event.
From the 5th September –9th September 2016, the MRC Epidemiology Unit will be holding its 8th seminar encouraging those who are interested or involved in the measurement of physical activity in the epidemiological setting to learn about the science and practical aspects of current techniques used in this field of research.
The primary objective of the seminar is to promote high quality field work in epidemiological studies through understanding of the underlying measurement principles and methods of data analysis.
For further information please see course pages.

Seminar – 19 September 2016 – Dr Francesca Cesari
2016-09-19 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar:
Science publishing – behind the scenes at Nature

Dr Francesca Cesari, Chief Biological Sciences Editor at Nature.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
About Dr Francesca Cesari
Francesca Cesari is Chief Biological Sciences Editor at Nature, overseeing editorial content and management of the biological science section of Nature. She has a Master with honours in Molecular Biology from University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy, and obtained her Ph.D. from the Institute of Cell Biology in Tübingen, Germany, where she also began her post-doctoral work. She completed her post-doctoral work at The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, UK. Prior to joining Nature she was a Senior Editor of Nature Reviews Molecular Biology and briefly worked at Nature Cell Biology as a Senior Editor. She was the Stem Cell and Development Editor at Nature for some years before her appointment to Chief Biological Sciences Editor in 2014.
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Seminar – 19 October 2016 – Dr Ben Richardson
2016-10-19 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar:
A Capital Appetite: The Political Economy of UK Sugar Consumption
Dr Ben Richardson, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Abstract
The consumption of sugar is about more than its intrinsic sweetness. To explain why it is ingested in dangerously high quantities, we need to appreciate its appeal to the businesses that supply and shape our collective diets. Whether suspending shelf-life, modifying meal times or encouraging over-eating, the properties of sucrose have been extremely useful in helping industrial food manufacturers subvert the natural and cultural rules governing what can be eaten, when, and in what quantities. This has been underpinned by supportive state policy governing sugar production and trade, and light-touch consumer protection. However, as the proposed soft drinks levy and post-Brexit agricultural reforms suggest, this political settlement is not beyond challenge.
About Dr Richardson
Dr Richardson is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His research is focused on the political economy of food and agriculture. He is the author of Sugar (2015, Polity) which examines the global politics of this commodity, as well as articles on hunger, farming, and international trade policy.
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Don’t stop moving: is the digital world friend or foe in fighting a sedentary future?
2016-10-22 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ, United Kingdom
This talk is finished, but you can download the slides from Professor Wareham’s presentation.
Public talk with Professor Nick Wareham as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas.
Saturday 22 October: 3:00pm – 4:00pm. Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, CB3 9DZ
Physical inactivity is a 21st Century epidemic. We have created a world where we move less and we sit more – from our drive to work, to our office desks, to our evening spent on the sofa. Technology has had a clear role in this: fostering a shift away from manual work, creating countless labour saving devices, and building a world of the omnipresent display screen. Many of these changes have brought great benefits, but they also create significant health risks that are spreading throughout the world. As well as the role of physical inactivity in weight gain, a recently published MRC Epidemiology Unit-led analysis of data from the Europe-wide EPIC study estimated that lack of exercise may be independently responsible for twice as many deaths as obesity.

But could the technology that threatens us also come to our rescue? Recent years have seen digital innovations that are aimed at getting us moving again, whether it’s a simple text message to prompt behaviour change, or wearables technologies that measure and feed back on the user’s every movements and vital sign. Indeed, we are witnessing the growth of a new movement, “the quantified self” that seeks personal knowledge and self-improvement through tracking with technology.
In this Cambridge Festival of Ideas talk Prof Nick Wareham, the Director of the MRC Epidemiology Unit and Centre for Diet and Activity Research, will examine what this technological change means for the individual, and the implications all this data has for a quantified society. How do we capture, process and make use of this data on a global scale? Can policymakers use this technology to nudge us back to a more active way of living? And what ethical implications does this create?
Registration is required to attend this talk, and booking information is available on the Cambridge Festival of Ideas website.

Can the UK cook its way to better health? - Martin White
2016-10-28 17:00 - 18:30 UTC | Old Library, Pembroke College, Trumpington Street , Cambridge, CB2 1RF, United Kingdom
Martin White, Programme Lead for food behaviours and public health interventions at the Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), will deliver the sixth Worshipful Cooks’ Company Lecture, ‘Can the UK cook its way to better health?’ on Friday 28 October 2016.
Martin is a clinical academic, trained in both medicine and public health, with broad experience of public health research and practice, and a national and international reputation for his research and leadership. He has an interest in developing research on the influence of the food industry, the impact of social and policy interventions on diet, and the population impact of individual level interventions.
The lecture is sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Cooks of London. The smallest of the livery companies, it traces its origins back to the 12th century founded from two guilds of cooks in medieval London – the Cooks of Eastcheap and the Cooks of Bread Street. Today the Company’s present membership continues to include craft tradesmen, and it engages actively with a broad range of organisations and charities associated with cooking.
To book a place at this lecture, please visit: https://cookscompany2016.eventbrite.co.uk

Seminar – 02 November 2016 – Dr Greg Welk
2016-11-02 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar:
Youth Fitness Assessment and Promotion: Insights from the Evaluation and Dissemination of FITNESSGRAM Programming.

Dr Greg Welk, Barbara E Forker Professor of Kinesiology at Iowa State University.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Abstract
The FITNESSGRAM youth fitness program has provided schools with powerful tools to evaluate and promote physical fitness in youth. The evaluation of state and national data from FITNESSGRAM has also provided unique insights about health related fitness surveillance and school based physical activity programming. The presentation will summarize approaches and methods used to refine the criterion referenced fitness standards in Fitnessgram and the application of these standards to advance public health research on youth fitness. The presentation will also summarize insights on school physical activity programming gained through the evaluation of the NFL PLAY 60 FITNESSGRAM Partnership Project, a large participatory research network of over 1000 schools
About Dr Welk
Dr Welk is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Iowa State University. His research interests focus on the assessment and promotion of physical activity and fitness in different populations. He has conducted numerous studies on the validity and utility of different physical activity assessment tools and has also advanced youth fitness assessment and promotion through his role as the Scientific Director of the Fitnessgram youth fitness program. Dr. Welk is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the Society of Health and Physical Education (SHAPE) and an inducted member of the National Academy of Kinesiology (NAK).
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Cambridge SciBar - Dr Nita Forouhi - Tuesday 8 November
2016-11-08 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Novi Cambridge, 12 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DB, United Kingdom
Join us at 7pm on Tuesday, 8 November at Novi Espresso and Cocktail Bar on Cambridge’s Regent Street for a special SciBar event hosted by Cambridge British Science Association and Cambridge University Health Partners in anticipation of World Diabetes Day (14 November). SciBar brings interesting, topical areas of science to the general public with scientific talks followed by lively discussion.
More than 3.5 million people in the UK have diabetes, and treating the condition and its complications accounts for about 10% of NHS spending. As fears of the human and financial cost of diabetes grow, a special event is taking place in Cambridge to reveal how advances in science may both relieve the pressure on health services and improve the lives of people with diabetes.
The free SciBar event on Tuesday 8 November from 7pm at the Novi Espresso and Cocktail Bar on Regent Street is hosted jointly by Cambridge British Science Association, Cambridge University Health Partners and the University of Cambridge, to mark World Diabetes Day.
The event will involve two talks from experts in their fields:

Dr Frank Waldron-Lynch will discuss how type 1 diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in children, whose treatment usually requires the injection of insulin several times a day to replace what the body cannot produce itself. Dr Waldron-Lynch will reveal how his research is aiming to develop innovative therapies that could one day eradicate the need for regular insulin injections or insulin pumps.
Dr Nita Forouhi leads a programme of research at the MRC Epidemiology Unit that aims to understand the association between diet and the risk of, obesity, type 2 diabetes and related disorders. Dr Forouhi will speak about how her research is helping to cut through the confusing messages about diet and nutrition and to focus on the dietary priorities for preventing diabetes.

Baroness Helene Hayman, Chair of Cambridge University Health Partners, said:
In recent weeks, reports have been published predicting one in 10 adults in the UK will be at risk of developing diabetes by 2035 and the number of people with the disease could top five million if obesity rates continue to increase. The impact of this ‘diabetes epidemic’ on our Health Services could be substantial, with experts forecasting it could consume up to 17 per cent of the NHS budget. This is a serious issue which needs to be met head on through the collaboration of healthcare, scientists and industry.
At our special diabetes event, Dr Frank Waldron-Lynch and Dr Nita Forouhi will explain how new technology and knowledge can help reduce the number of new diabetes cases, and help those with diabetes manage their conditions more successfully. Join us as we bring the science and research out of the labs and databases for a lively conversation in a relaxed environment.”
Entry is FREE and refreshments are available to purchase at the bar downstairs. Pre-book your place on Eventbrite – limited tickets available on the door.

Seminar – 09 November 2016 - Adrian Bauman
2016-11-09 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar:
Is it too early to stand up? Has the epidemiological evidence for sitting and health changed?

Dr Adrian Bauman, Sesquicentenary Professor of Public Health and Director of the Prevention Research Collaboration at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Abstract
For the past 8 years, increasing interest in the epidemiology of sedentary behaviour (SB) has fuelled academic efforts. Initial evidence seemed to suggest that SB was a new risk factor for chronic disease, independent of physical activity. Clear physiological mechanisms, supported by experimental evidence, were proposed to define the metabolic risks of prolonged uninterrupted sitting. As epidemiological evidence has accumulated, nuanced changes in the evidence base have appeared, such that sitting risk does not appear to be independent of physical activity. However, some researchers and policymakers seem resistant to apparent changes in the evidence base.
About Dr Bauman
Adrian Bauman is the Sesquicentenary Professor of Public Health and Director of the Prevention Research Collaboration at the University of Sydney, Australia. He also leads the Physical Activity and Exercise theme in the Charles Perkins Centre, a 900 person Institute at Sydney University. He has a special focus on physical activity and public health. He co-directs the WHO Collaborating Centre on Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity. He is well-published in the scientific literature (and was named in the 2015 Thompson Reuter list of the most cited researchers). He works extensively in public health research translation and scaling up research, as well as in the areas of complex program evaluation and systems approaches to prevention.
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Seminar – 17 November 2016 – Dr Clare Llewellyn
2016-11-17 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | MRC Epidemiology meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 IMS, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar:
Greedy genes: the role of appetite in genetic susceptibility to obesity

Dr Clare Llewellyn, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Abstract
There is considerable variation in early weight gain, despite the ubiquity of the ‘obesogenic’ food environment; some children gain excessive weight, while others do not. Genetic susceptibility to the environment is thought to explain some of the variation in early weight gain, with differences in appetite being implicated as the mediating mechanism, so-called ‘Behavioural Susceptibility Theory’ (BST). BST hypothesises that children who inherit a more avid appetite, and lower sensitivity to satiety, are more likely to overeat in response to the modern food environment and to gain excessive weight. This talk summarises the role of appetite in early weight gain and eating behaviour, using data from Gemini – the largest twin birth cohort ever set up to study genetic and environmental influences on early growth.
About Dr Llewellyn
Dr Clare Llewellyn is a Lecturer in Behavioural Obesity Research at UCL’s Health Behaviour Research Centre, and leads the Obesity Research Group. She is also an honorary Research Fellow at Liverpool University. After an initial career in the pharmaceutical industry, Clare retrained as a Psychologist, undertaking an MSc and PhD at UCL, and post-doctoral training at UCL and King’s College London. Her research interest is understanding how genes and the environment interact to promote excessive weight gain in early life, with a focus on eating behaviour. In 2007, with Professor Jane Wardle she helped establish Gemini, the largest population-based birth cohort of twins ever set up to study genetic and environmental contributions to early life growth. Clare currently leads the Gemini study. She is also a Trustee for the UK Association for the Study of Obesity, and recently established their first London Regional Group.
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Seminar – Modelling cardiovascular and metabolic disease using transgenic zebrafish – Dr Marcel den Hoed
2016-12-14 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar:
Modelling cardiovascular and metabolic disease using transgenic zebrafish

Dr Marcel den Hoed, Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and SciLifeLab, Uppsala University.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies identified hundreds of loci that are associated with cardiometabolic diseases and risk factors. For most loci the causal genes remain unknown. My group developed experimental pipelines that facilitate image-based genetic screens in zebrafish larvae by using: 1) the zebrafish’ well-annotated genome; 2) CRISPR-Cas9 based mutagenesis; 3) fluorescent transgenes and dyes; 4) automated positioning and imaging technologies; 5) custom-written image quantification pipelines. Results from dietary, drug and genetic screens confirm that zebrafish larvae represent an opportunity to identify causal genes for cardiometabolic diseases and risk factors, and increase our understanding of disease aetiology.
About Dr den Hoed
Marcel den Hoed completed his PhD on genetic and physiological aspects of physical activity and food intake regulation at Maastricht University (Netherlands) in 2009. He was then awarded a three-year Career Development Fellowship at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, where he initiated and coordinated genome-wide association studies for heart rate and physical activity, supervised by Ruth Loos. In 2012 he started a second post-doc at the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), before initiating his own group at Uppsala University (Sweden) in 2013. His current research aims to translate GWAS findings into clinically relevant results using high-throughput genes in live transgenic zebrafish model systems.
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Seminar – A life-course investigation of influences on physical inactivity stability and change: findings from the 1958 British Birth Cohort - Dr Snehal Pinto Pereira
2017-02-22 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar:
A life-course investigation of influences on physical inactivity stability and change: findings from the 1958 British Birth Cohort
Dr Snehal Pinto Pereira, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Abstract
The seminar will focus on findings about influences on physical inactivity patterns in mid-adulthood using data from the 1958 British Birth Cohort. In this cohort, leisure time activity frequency was measured with the same questions at 33y, 42y and 50y. The talk will describe the stability and change in inactivity in mid-adulthood and then examine life-course influences on these inactivity patterns. Influences considered will be from early life and adulthood. The work highlights the importance of assessing activity within individuals as they age and allows for identification of vulnerable groups for whom action is needed to avoid future leisure-time inactivity.
About Dr Snehal Pinto Pereira
Dr Snehal Pinto Pereira is a Research Associate at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. Her research interests include how events over a lifetime affect an individual’s risk of health and disease in mid-adulthood. She has a particular interest in physical activity research in a life-course context, including both the determinants and consequences of physical activity and sedentary behaviour.
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Seminar - Food marketing regulation and childhood obesity prevention - Professor Amandine Garde
2017-03-22 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | MRC Epidemiology meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 IMS, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar:
Food marketing regulation and childhood obesity prevention

Professor Amandine Garde, Law & Non-Communicable Diseases, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool.

MRC Epidemiology Unit Meeting Rooms 1&2, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Abstract
Over the last twenty years, a range of studies have established that food marketing affects children’s consumption preferences and purchase requests. However, in stark contrast with what has happened for tobacco products, public authorities in the UK, in Europe and beyond have been extremely reluctant to restrict the marketing of food high in fat, sugar and salt, preferring to rely instead on the self-regulatory commitments or ‘pledges’ of food industry operators. This reluctance to impose legally binding restrictions on food marketing, particularly to children, raises a range of questions which this talk proposes to focus on.
About Professor Amandine Garde
Amandine Garde is Professor of Law and founding director of the new Law & NCD Research Unit at the University of Liverpool. Her expertise lies in the role that legal instruments can play in preventing obesity and other non-communicable diseases. She regularly advises international organisations, NGOs and governments worldwide, and was a member of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Science and Evidence to the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity.
Before moving to Liverpool in 2013, she lectured at King’s College London (where she obtained her PhD), at the Faculty of Law in Cambridge (where she was also a Fellow of Selwyn College), at the University of Exeter and at Durham University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence in 2005-2006 and is also a qualified solicitor.
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Seminar - Effects of Macronutrient Distribution on Weight Change and Related Cardiometabolic Profiles in Healthy Non-Obese Chinese: A Randomized, Clinical Trial
2017-03-31 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar:
Effects of Macronutrient Distribution on Weight Change and Related Cardiometabolic Profiles in Healthy Non-Obese Chinese: A Randomized, Clinical Trial
Professor Duo Li, Professor of Nutrition, Department of Food Science & Nutrition, Zhejiang University, China

Meeting Rooms 1&2, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Abstract
This 6 month randomized controlled-feeding trial was conducted to determine whether the traditional low fat, high carbohydrate diet is more effective than the higher fat, lower carbohydrate diet at preventing obesity among a non-obese healthy population in China. The trial included 307 young adults aged 18-35 years with a body mass index of less than 28. It showed that the low fat, high carbohydrate diet reduced body weight to a greater extent than a higher fat, lower carbohydrate intake.
About Professor Duo Li
Dr Duo Li is a Professor of nutrition in the Department of Food Science & Nutrition, Zhejiang University, China. He was a research fellow at Deakin University, and a senior research fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, associate editor of the Journal of Nutrigenetics & Nutrigenomics, associate editor of the Food & Function, and has also served on numerous editorial boards. He is an expert consultant of FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Human Nutrition, and WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Nutrition. He is a president of Asia Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society. One of his main research interests is to explore the role of dietary fat/fatty acids on human health.
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Seminar - Risk scores, risk communication and public health
2017-05-25 17:30 - 19:00 UTC | Harrods Room, Eammanuel College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 3AP, United Kingdom
All are invited to the Statistics Meets Public Health Seminar:
Risk scores, risk communication and public health
Professor Simon Griffin, MRC Epidemiology Unit.
Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

This talk by Professor Simon Griffin will continue the new and unique seminar series on statistics and public health aimed for all audiences. Drinks, nibbles and networking will follow the seminar.
Free registration at: https://prof-simon-griffin.eventbrite.co.uk
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Seminar - Evidence and policy in public health: reflections from Public Health England
2017-06-21 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar by:

Dr Felix Greaves, Deputy Director, Science and Strategic Information, Public Health England.
Evidence and policy in public health: reflections from Public Health England
Meeting Rooms 1&2, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
About Dr Felix Greaves

Felix is Deputy Director, Science and Strategic Information at Public Health England and an honorary clinical senior lecturer in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College.
He was previously clinical adviser to the Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health, where he worked on developing national quality and safety policy. He also worked for the World Health Organization’s Patient Safety Programme, where he managed their project on improving patient safety education in medical schools and technology for patient safety.
Felix trained at Oxford University (BA, BM BCh), Harvard University (MPH) and Imperial College (MBA, PhD). He was awarded a Knox Fellowship by Harvard University, the Sir John Brotherston Prize by the Faculty of Public Health in the UK, an Academic Clinical Fellowship by the NIHR, and a Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy and Practice by the Commonwealth Fund.
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Seminar - Early Life Undernutrition Alters Cardiac Muscle Development Resulting in Reduced Physical Activity Engagement and Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Disease.
2017-08-02 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar by:
David P. Ferguson PhD, RCEP, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Michigan State University.
Early Life Undernutrition Alters Cardiac Muscle Development Resulting in Reduced Physical Activity Engagement and Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Disease.
Meeting Rooms 1&2, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Abtract
Adults who were born with low birth weight are at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease in adulthood. However, little is known about the contribution of cardiac mechanisms to this increased disease risk. Using a mouse model we evaluated cardiovascular function at the whole animal, organ, and cell level to determine the effect of a short episode of nutritionally-induced growth retardation on adult functional capacity following nutritional rehabilitation. Interestingly, mice that were undernourished development presented with reduced physical activity level engagement, impaired exercise capacity, and impairment in contraction mechanics of the heart. This phenotype is hypothesized to be due to alterations in the calcium kinetics of the contracting cardiomyocytes.
About Dr David P. Ferguson

David P. Ferguson has two distinct research interests. The first is how early life nutrition influences cardiovascular development as it relates to functional capacity in adulthood. It has been shown that children who are malnourished at birth have a higher incidence of cardiovascular disease in adulthood. The goal of his laboratory is to investigate the mechanistic changes that occur due to poor diet and propose therapeutic countermeasures to increase cardiovascular function and decrease mortality rates. The second area of research focuses on the physiological stress placed on automotive race car drivers and pit crews. He is working with NASCAR, Indycar, and Formula 1 teams to increase performance and safety of drivers and crew members.
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Seminar - Global trade in food and agriculture and the risk of non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countries
2017-10-18 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar:

Dr Anne Marie Thow, Senior Lecturer in Health Policy, University of Sydney.

Global trade in food and agriculture and the risk of non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countries

Meeting Rooms 1&2, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Abstract
Trade and investment liberalization has had far-reaching implications for food systems and nutrition. This seminar will examine the pathways through which trade impacts on nutrition, with a particular focus on low and middle income countries, and explore opportunities to improve policy coherence in an era in which public health policy space is increasingly constrained by international trade and investment agreements.
About Dr Thow

Dr Anne Marie Thow is Senior Lecturer in Health Policy at the University of Sydney. Her research uses theories of public policy making to explore facilitators and barriers to best practice public health nutrition policy globally, with a particular focus on the interface between economic policy and nutrition. Anne Marie currently collaborates on research in Asia, Africa and the Pacific, and regularly consults with international agencies regarding nutrition policy. Prior to her PhD, Anne Marie worked for the Governments of Australia and Fiji on nutrition policy issues. She trained in nutrition and has a Masters in Public Policy.
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Building your best day: combining compositional analysis and optimisation theory
2017-11-08 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | MRC Epidemiology meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 IMS, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar:
Professor Tim Olds, School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia
Building your best day: combining compositional analysis and optimisation theory
MRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1 and 2, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Abstract
The foundational principle of behavioural epidemiology is that the way we use our time— physical activity, sleep, sitting, social interactions — affects our health, everything from asthma to eczema. Typically these studies have been done by regressing a health outcome (say depression) against a behavioural domain, such as physical activity. However, because time use data are co-dependent, any change in time allocated to one domain must be matched by an equal and opposite allocation to the other domains collectively. This presentation will show some examples of the application of compositional data analysis (CoDA) as a new approach to time-use data. By combining CoDA with optimisation theory, we can move towards specifying the best possible 24-hour day for any given health outcome or set of outcomes.
About Prof Olds
Tim Olds is a professor of behavioural epidemiology at the University of South Australia. After completing a PhD in French Studies at the University of Sydney, Tim went on to study exercise science, receiving a second PhD in 1997. His research interests have been in mathematical modelling of cycling performance; population and sports anthropometry; secular trends in the sleep, fitness, fatness, physical activity and food intake of children and adolescents; and the relationship between how people use their time and health. Tim has $27m in grants and 292 publications. http://people.unisa.edu.au/timothy.olds

Seminar - The supermarket food environment and the promotion of healthier purchasing behaviour
2018-01-04 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | MRC Epidemiology meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 IMS, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar by:

Dr Adrian Cameron, Senior Research Fellow at the Deakin University Global Obesity Centre (GLOBE).

The supermarket food environment and the promotion of healthier purchasing behaviour

MRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1 and 2, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Abstract
The retail food environment is increasingly recognized as a key determinant of purchasing and eating behaviours. Large supermarkets are the major source of food for the majority of households and enjoy market domination in food/grocery retail expenditure in most high income countries. Here, I will discuss several international audit studies of the supermarket food environment we have undertaken over the past five years as well as a number of controlled trials that we have conducted in Australia to use marketing techniques (involving product, placement and promotion) to promote healthier purchasing behaviour in the supermarket setting.
About Dr Cameron

Dr Adrian Cameron’s research is focused on improving the food environment to encourage healthy eating and obesity prevention. Together with colleagues at Deakin University’s Global Obesity Centre, he is conducting supermarket-based trials to generate the evidence required to influence retailers, advocates and policy makers. He has received several research awards for his work including the 2016 VicHealth Award for Healthy Eating and is a section editor for BMC Obesity. He is currently supported by grants and fellowships from VicHealth, NHMRC and ARC.
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Seminar - Implications of Brexit on the effectiveness of the UK soft drinks industry levy upon coronary heart disease in England: a modelling study
2018-01-18 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | MRC Epidemiology meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 IMS, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar by:

Evi Seferidi, Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London.

Implications of Brexit on the effectiveness of the UK soft drinks industry levy upon coronary heart disease in England: a modelling study

MRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1 and 2, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Abstract
Approximately a year after the implementation of the soft drinks industry levy, the UK plans to leave the European Union. The trade arrangements that the UK will adopt after Brexit are likely to influence the price of food and food ingredients including sugar, which currently follows European regulations under the Common Agricultural Policy. This could potentially interfere with the effectiveness of the planned soft drinks industry levy. We used the IMPACT Food Policy model to estimate the implications of Brexit on the price of sugar and the impact of the proposed soft drinks industry levy on cardiovascular mortality and inequalities in England.
About Evi Seferidi

Evi is a PhD student in the Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London. She has a background in nutrition with a particular focus on epidemiology and public health. Currently, her research involves the evaluation of fiscal and trade policies to assess their impacts on diet and health outcomes using modelling techniques.
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Seminar - Pathways to healthy urban living
2018-01-23 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | MRC Epidemiology meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 IMS, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar by:

Professor Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, ISGlobal, The Barcelona Institute for Global Health.
Pathways to healthy urban living

MRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1 and 2, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Abstract
Over 50% of the world´s population is living in cities and this is expected to rise to 70% over the next few decades. Cities are society’s predominant engine of innovation and wealth creation, but also main sources of crime, pollution, and disease. Partly due to poor urban and transport planning, or the lack thereof, we have cities that are too car dominated. All the urban planning in the world seems for cars; People do not matter. This has led to high air pollution and noise levels, heat island effects and lack of green space and physical activity that are all detrimental to health. For example, a recent health impact assessment in Barcelona estimated that 20% of premature mortality was due to urban and transport related exposures. Electric cars and/or autonomous vehicles have been mentioned as possible solutions, but they are unlikely to be, and solutions need to be sought elsewhere.
A new long term visioning of healthy urban future is needed that bring health, sustainability and livable at the forefront of urban and transport planning. Systemic approaches to the current problems and e.g. a shift away from our grey car centric cities towards cities with more public and active transportation and green space are urgently needed. Collaboration between e.g. urban and transport planners, environmentalists and public health professionals is essential to create healthy sustainable and livable cities.
About Professor Nieuwenhuijsen

Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen PhD is a world leading expert in environmental exposure assessment, epidemiology, and health risk/impact assessment with a strong focus and interest on healthy urban living. He has experience and expertise in areas of all cause mortality, respiratory and cardiovascular disease, mental health and cognitive function, cancer and reproductive health, and exposure measurement and modelling of indoor and outdoor air pollution, green space, UV exposure, noise, temperature and physical activity, using new technology such as GIS, smartphones, personal sensors and remote sensing. He is currently PI on the EC funded HELIX, that examines the early life exposome and childhood diseases, EC funded EXPOsOMICs that examines the air pollution and water exposome and health, the EC funded PASTA study, which promotes active transportation through sustainable transport, and the EC funded BlueHealth project evaluating the relationship between blue space and Health. He worked at the University of California, Davis, USA and Imperial College London, UK, and is now professor at ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain. He edited 3 textbooks on exposure assessment and environmental epidemiology and has coauthored more than 350 peer reviewed papers.
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Seminar - Dr Alison Tedstone
2018-01-31 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar by:

Dr Alison Tedstone, Chief Nutritionist Public Health England (PHE).

Tackling obesity in England: a policy journey

Meeting Rooms 1&2, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus

Abstract
In the seminar I will reflect on the key steps in developing current policy on obesity, with a focus on evidence to action including how evidence from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition and Public Health England (PHE) was used. The importance of NGO’s, academics, media and other stakeholders as well as public opinion will be considered. The implementation policies that PHE is responsible for will be reviewed and what might be impactful in the future.
About Dr Tedstone

Dr Alison Tedstone is Deputy Director with responsibility for diet, nutrition and obesity in the Health Improvement Directorate of Public Health England (PHE). Her teams work areas include the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, nutrient composition of foods, scientific advice on nutrition (including the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition), and advice on nutrition and actions to improve diet, including work underpinning the government’s Childhood Obesity Plan with the food industry to reduce the sugar, salt and calorie content of everyday foods. The division also coordinates, across PHE, a programme of work aimed at tackling the nation’s obesity problem which supports national and local level delivery, including actions aimed at improving systems leadership and addressing the environmental causes of obesity.
Alison transferred with other nutrition colleagues from the Department of Health in 2013 and before that from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in 2010. Before joining the FSA, in 2001, Alison was an academic at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Alison completed post doctorate research in Oxford and is a registered public health nutritionist.

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Seminar - The Cambridge Sustainable Food Hub
2018-02-07 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar by:

Duncan Catchpole, founding committee member of Cambridge Sustainable Food.

The Cambridge Sustainable Food Hub

Meeting Rooms 1&2, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus

Abstract
This talk will be an overview of the project to create a sustainable food hub for the Cambridge area and the impacts it will bring about. As well as being a food distribution centre, the Food Hub is being created with the intention of being a ‘working laboratory’ for testing new innovations and for studying the impacts of a Food Hub on the health of the local populace. The talk will include a report on the outcomes of the ‘Good Food for All’ workshop; a scheme designed to address food poverty and health inequality locally. The talk may help identify opportunities for research collaborations.

About Duncan Catchpole

Duncan Catchpole is the founder and owner of the Cambridge Organic Food Co., and a founding committee member of Cambridge Sustainable Food; the organisation responsible for Cambridge’s inclusion in the Sustainable Food Cities network.
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Seminar - Why do policymakers seem to ignore your evidence?
2018-02-21 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar by:

Professor Paul Cairney, Department of History and Politics, University of Stirling.

Why do policymakers seem to ignore your evidence?

Meeting Rooms 1&2, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus

Watch Professor Cairney’s presentation on our YouTube channel.
Abstract
The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making challenges scientists to understand the policy process before they describe it as pathological and politicians as biased or ineffective. Policy studies are at the heart of such endeavours, identifying the mechanisms of individual choice in a complex policymaking environment, to explain the ‘evidence-policy gap’. Yet, we cannot expect scientists trained in one discipline to retrain in policy studies. Instead, we need to find a way to explain key insights in a way that captures their imagination, identifies the payoffs to studying policymaking from a political science perspective, and encourages them to learn more. I identify a three step plan. First, show how policy theories explain the policy process and the role of evidence in it. Second, identify the conditions under which evidence ‘wins the day’ in policymaking, Third, identify the profound dilemmas that arise when we seek to maximise the use of scientific evidence in policy.
About Professor Cairney

Paul Cairney is Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling. His research interests are in comparative public policy, including: policy theories (Understanding Public Policy, 2012), methods to study complexity (Handbook of Complexity and Public Policy, 2015, co-edited with Robert Geyer); the use of evidence (The Politics of Evidence Based Policymaking, 2016); and public health policy outcomes in different countries (Global Tobacco Control, 2012, with Donley Studlar and Hadii Mamudu). He has been funded by the ESRC and Horizon2020 to research devolved policymaking processes, focusing on areas such as preventive spending.
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Seminar – Gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, mothers, and fathers
2018-03-14 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SL, United Kingdom
All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar by:

Associate Professor Kaberi Dasgupta, McGill University and Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.
Gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, mothers, and fathers

IMS level 4 meeting room 1 and 2
Abstract
Gestational diabetes (GDM) is an established risk indicator for type 2 diabetes in mothers that provides a window of opportunity for diabetes prevention. We will discuss its associations with diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease, both alone and in combination with gestational hypertension. We will review recent studies demonstrating its association with diabetes in fathers and diabetes in offspring. We will examine recent intervention studies in family-based diabetes prevention in the context of a maternal GDM history
About Dr Dasgupta

Dr Kaberi Dasgupta is a physician scientist based in Montreal, Canada. She holds operating grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Diabetes Canada, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and the Lawson and Medavie Foundations. She and her team focus on self-management support in type 2 diabetes, GDM, and type 1 diabetes, with an emphasis on health behaviour change and patient engagement. Her epidemiological studies in diabetes have informed the interventions that she has developed.
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