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SUMMARY:Seminar - Introducing the Propensity to Cycle Tool and explaining the new health impact calculation methods
DESCRIPTION:All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar: \nIntroducing the Propensity to Cycle Tool and explaining the new health impact calculation methods. \nDr Anna Goodman\, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine\, and Dr Rachel Aldred\, University of Westminster\, London.\n \nWatch the seminar by Dr Aldred and Dr Goodman on our Youtube channel. \nAbout the Propensity to Cycle Tool\nThe Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT) is an open source transport planning system that was designed to assist transport planners and policy makers to prioritise investments and interventions to promote cycling. The PCT answers the question: ‘where is cycling currently common and where does cycling have the greatest potential to grow?’. \nThe PCT can be used at different scales\, either as a strategic planning tool or on a  smaller scale\, for example to use the level of commuter cycling along a particular road to estimate future mode share for cycling on that corridor under different scenarios. \n\nDownload the PCT Essentials document\n\nAbout Dr Goodman\nAnna has an epidemiology background and specialises in the field of sustainable transport\, with a particular focus on promoting walking and cycling. One of her key research interests is the potential to use primary\, secondary or register-based data to evaluate population-level transport interventions\, including through natural experimental designs. She also collaborates with CEDAR on various projects in modelling the health and environmental impacts of different transport scenarios. \nProfile on the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine website. \nAbout Dr Aldred\nRachel is Director of the Active Travel Academy and Reader in Transport at the University of Westminster. Rachel has ten years’ experience of researching active travel\, and has made contributions to the field in areas including conceptualising and calculating active travel potential\, developing methods for evaluation research\, near miss studies\, applying epidemiological methods to active travel injury risk\, and exploring cultures of active travel\, including processes of stigmatisation and marginalisation. She has published more than 25 peer-reviewed papers in these areas\, and was in 2016 awarded the ESRC Prize for Outstanding Impact in Public Policy. \n\nRachel Aldred personal website\n\nSign up for future seminars\nTo sign up for future seminars and/or other alerts please visit www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/subscribe/
URL:https://www.epi.ims.cam.ac.uk/event/seminar-introducing-the-propensity-to-cycle-tool/
LOCATION:Online\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Seminar - How does it work? Using process tracing methods to study policy processes
DESCRIPTION:All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar: \nHow does it work? Using process tracing methods to study policy processes. \nProfessor Derek Beach\, Department of Political Science\, Aarhus University\, Denmark.\n \nWatch a recording of this seminar. \nDownload the slides from Professor Beach`s presentation ad a PDF. \nAbstract\nIn recent years the process tracing method has become increasingly popular in case studies as well as in political science and political economy methodological debates. It is a method for studying causal mechanisms linking causes with outcomes. This enables the researcher to make strong inferences about how a cause (or set of causes) contributes to producing an outcome. Professor Beach will provide an introduction to using this method and explain why it is fast becoming a popular tool to study complex phenomenon such as policy processes. \nAbout Professor Beach\nDerek Beach is a professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark\, where he teaches international relations\, European integration and case study methodology. \nHe has authored articles\, chapters\, and books on research methodology\, international negotiations and European integration\, and co-authored the books Process-tracing Methods: Foundations and Guidelines (2013) and Causal Case Study Methods (2016). \nHe has taught qualitative case study methods at ECPR and IPSA summer and winter schools\, held numerous workshops and seminars on qualitative methods throughout the world\, and is the academic co-convenor of the ECPR Methods Schools. \nSign up for future seminars\nTo sign up for future seminars and/or other alerts please visit www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/subscribe/
URL:https://www.epi.ims.cam.ac.uk/event/seminar-how-does-it-work/
LOCATION:Online\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200416T123000
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SUMMARY:Seminar - Movement behaviours and parenting in the first two years of life
DESCRIPTION:All are invited to a CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar: \nMovement behaviours and parenting in the first two years of life. \nDr Alessandra Prioreschi\, Associate Director of the SAMRC Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit\, University of the Witwatersrand. \nWatch a recording of this seminar. \nDownload the slides from Dr Prioreschi`s seminar as a PDF. \nAbstract\nMany children lack the stimulation needed to support healthy growth and development. Recent international movement guidelines for physical activity\, sedentary behaviour and sleep for the early years (0-5 years) prescribe that in the first two years of life\, infants should be provided with as much stimulation and opportunity to be active as possible\, in order to improve motor and cognitive development and growth. \nInteractive play (cognitively stimulating play with a caregiver\, resulting in increased infant movement\, attachment\, relationship building\, and learning) can improve childhood growth and developmental through biological pathways linked to infant movement\, and through nurturing care. \nFrom my formative work\, I have explored and developed methodology for objectively measuring infant movement using 24-hour accelerometry. Assessment of caregiver-infant interactions using headcams (small cameras which are worn on headbands on both infants and caregivers for a period of time while interacting\, which provide a first person view of the interaction from both infant and caregiver perspective) provide naturalistic and detailed measures of parenting styles. \nI aim to ultimately combine these two novel measures of infant activity and caregiver-infant interaction to define optimal levels of interactive play. However\, the feasibility of the headcam tool in Soweto\, South Africa has not yet been explored. \nAbout Dr Prioreschi\nAllessandra is an Associate Director of the SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU). \nShe obtained her PhD in Exercise Physiology in 2014\, in the School of Physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at DPHRU\, during which time she developed an interest in maternal and child health\, specifically the effect of movement behaviours (physical activity\, sedentary behavior and sleep) on infant growth\, development and well being. \nAlessandra has developed methodology for measuring infant movement; and was instrumental in the design\, development and feasibility testing of an infant wearable band for the objective measurement of infant movement using accelerometry. Alessandra is particularly interested in how the care giving environment can influence infant movement and thus early childhood development. \nTwitter: @A_Prioreschi \nSign up for future seminars\nTo sign up for future seminars and/or other alerts please visit www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/subscribe/
URL:https://www.epi.ims.cam.ac.uk/event/seminar-dr-alessandra-prioreschi/
LOCATION:Online\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200423T110000
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SUMMARY:Seminar - The Challenges of Meta-analysing Metabolomics Data; Experiences from the Consortium Of METabolomics Studies (COMETS)
DESCRIPTION:All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar: \nThe Challenges of Meta-analysing Metabolomics Data; Experiences from the Consortium Of METabolomics Studies (COMETS). \nDr Rachel Kelly\, Channing Division of Network Medicine\, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School\, USA.\n \nWatch a recording of this seminar. \nDownload the slides from Dr Kelly`s seminar as a PDF. \nAbstract\nGenetics teaches us that for highly-dimensional omic technologies sample size is key\, and that necessary sample sizes can best be archived via meta-analyses. This poses a challenge for metabolomics due to its relative nature of measurement\, the lack of a standardized metabolite nomenclature and differences in metabolome coverage between platforms. The Consortium Of METabolomics Studies (COMETS); has developed a novel workflow to deal with these issues for the first time. I will discuss our experiences with COMETS and how we have leveraged these developments to conduct largest and most comprehensive metabolomics of BMI study to date\, including >100\,000 adults from 43 cohorts worldwide. \nAbout Dr Kelly\nRachel Kelly is an Instructor of Medicine and Associate Epidemiologist in the Channing Division of Network Medicine (CDNM) at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has been working in the field of metabolomic epidemiology for nearly ten years\, and her research focuses on chronic complex diseases\, particularly respiratory and neurodevelopmental disorders\, and on novel methods for the integration of metabolomics data with other omic data types. She completed her PhD at Imperial College London\, and undertook postdoctoral fellowships at the Harvard School of Public Health and at the CDNM before transitioning to faculty at the CDNM in 2017. \nResearchGate profile \nTwitter: @RachelSKelly4 \nSign up for future seminars\nTo sign up for future seminars and/or other alerts please visit www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/subscribe/
URL:https://www.epi.ims.cam.ac.uk/event/seminar-challenges-of-meta-analysing-metabolomics-data/
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