Funded activities

To date the PHSRN has supported sixteen workshops, nine 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

Workshops to date

• Epidemiology for clinicians 2006
• Epidemiology for clinicians 2007
• Epidemiology for Clinicians 2008
• 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

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