Talks from 2018-2019 session

2018

10th October - Sarah Walters & Sara Benitez Majano (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) on Why is cancer survival lower in England than in other high income countries?

20th November - Fabio Rigat (GSK) & Nicky Best (Imperial College) on 'Bayesian and structural integration of background evidence in the design, analysis and interpretation of clinical trial data'. A .mp3 audio file of their talk is here.

2019

21st January - Sylvia Richardson (MRC Biostatistics at University of Cambridge) on 'Mapping Health: Why, How, Considering what...'. A .mp3 file of Sylvia's talk and ensuing discussion is here. Talk slides are here. Note: If opening up the slides comes up with an update error, just press cancel.

4th February – Sian Evans and Stephen Yeung (Public Health England) on ‘From Fingertips to RAP: getting statistics into public health policy and practice’. Pdf talk slides of Sian and Stephen's talk are here.

25th February - Nicole Janz (University of Nottingham) on 'Solving the Reproducibility Crisis'. Slides from Nicole's 2018 talk are here. A .mp3 file of Nicole's talk is is here. Nicole's 2019 talk slides may be downloaded from here and two related papers from here and here.

19th March - Graham Wheeler (Cancer Research UK and UCL Cancer Trials Centre @ University College London) on 'A Bayesian model‐free approach to combination therapy phase I trials using censored time‐to‐toxicity data'. A .mp3 file of Graham's talk and discussion is here.

30th April - Matthew Bland (Institute of Criminology) on 'The Algorithm is Going to Get You: Should We Fear the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice?'