Funded activities

To date the PHSRN has supported over twenty workshops and courses, eleven cross-unit appointments and provided one pump-priming grant. Click on the links below for details of forthcoming events, reports of completed workshops and summaries of projects in progress. 

Forthcoming workshops

The role of self-efficacy in health behaviour change interventions October 2012

Epidemiology for Clinicians 2013

Recently awarded Cross-unit appointments

PHSRN47 Using causal analyses to add value to large RCTs

PHSRN48 Population health sciences measurements toolkit

Recent events

The Population Health Methods and Challenges conference in April 2012 was a huge success, attended by over 300 national and international delegates. For more information, please have a look at the short report or full evaluation.

FALCON-HALCyon Workshop on measuring and modelling of functional trajectories over the lifecourse

FETA FFQ EPIC Tool for Analysis

Using cohorts to study lifecourse epidemiology: PHSRN symposimum at the World Congress of Epidemiology, Edinburgh, 8 August 2011

Report

Early Career Researchers'  Workshop

Final Programme

Presentations

Introduction - Cyrus Cooper

Strategic overview - Anne Johnson

Applying for grants - Peter Craig

Influencing policy - Laurence Moore

Getting published - Bill Summerskill

Communicating with lay audiences - Pauline Mullin

Full list of workshops to date

• Epidemiology for clinicians 2006-10
• Epidemiology for clinicians 2011
• Evaluating participatory community-based sexual health interventions
• Evaluating complex interventions
• Maximising return from cohort studies: prevention of attrition and efficient analysis
• Consistency and model-checking in complex evidence networks
• Perceptions and presentations of MMR
• Scientists as advocates for public health
• Maximising the value of individual participant data in evidence synthesis research
• Clustering effects in individually randomised trials and other studies
  • Report
  • Presentations
• Diet at the extremes of life
• Using genetic and non-genetic instrumental variables to deal with confounding and bias in population science
• Scientists as advocates II
• Bias Adjustment and meta-analysis of observational studies
• Using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions
  
  • Report
  • Presentations
  • Professor Cyrus Cooper, Opening Remarks
  • Professor Sir Michael Rutter, Natural experiments – rationale and overview
  • Professor Barney Reeves, Epidemiological issues in the design and conduct of natural experiments
  • Dr David Ogilvie, Practical issues in the design and conduct of natural experiments
  • Professor Matt Sutton, Economists’ use of natural experiments
  • Ms Sally Haw, Public smoking bans
  • Professor Da vid Gunnell, Suicide prevention
  • Professor Ted Melhuish, Early years studie s
  • Mr Ken Lawson, Scotland’s Housing and Regeneration Project

Cross-unit appointments

• Changing behaviour: towards best practice in the development of complex interventions
• How to make best use of available randomised trial evidence
• Knowledge translation: supporting the dissemination and implementation of MRC research on public health and health services policy
• A toolkit for exposure measurement
• Maximising the return from cohort studies
• Communicating certainty and uncertainty in public health messages: a case study of MMR
• Help-seeking behaviour
• BAMMOS - Bias-Adjustment Meta-analysis Methods in Observational Studies
• Measurement and modelling of functional trajectories over the lifecourse
• Recruitment to and reduction of attrition from randomised controlled trials
• Making the Food Frequency Questionnaire accessible and usable for end-users
• Telling good (population health) science from bad (population health) science

Pump-priming grants

Exploring the validity of a theoretical framework for understanding behaviour change in the implementation of evidence

2007 Awayday

Agenda

Presentations:

• David Armstrong - The post-Cooksey MRC: a personal view
• John Frank - Building population and public health research and knowledge exchange capacity: lessons learned from Canada
• Paul Wilson - Knowledge translation: supporting the dissemination and implementation of MRC-funded research
• Susan Michie - Changing behaviour: towards best practice in the development of complex interventions
• Alastair Leyland - Maximising the return from cohort studies
• Alison Stephen - A toolkit for exposure measurement
• Julian Higgins - How to make best use of available randomised trial evidence