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’.
25th February - Nicole Janz (University of Nottingham) on 'Solving the Reproducibility Crisis'.
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'.
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?'