Using biomarkers in research on health (fully booked)
Date:
20/02/2015
Organised by:
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Presenter:
Professor Emily Grundy
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
Kavita Patel
020 7927 2053
kavita.patel@lshtm.ac.uk
Map:
View in Google Maps (WC1E 7HT)
Venue:
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street
Description:
Pathways are holding a workshop for researchers investigating biosocial influences on health to come together to discuss methods and measures.
Final programme
10:00 Registration with coffee/tea
10:15 Emily Grundy: Introduction and welcome
10:20 Olivia Fletcher: IGFBP5 as a putative biomarker for breast cancer risk
11:05 Soheila Aghlmandi: Improved risk stratification of patients with acute coronary syndromes for the combination of hsTnT, NT-proBNP or hsCRP with the GRACE score
11:50 Sarah Cook: Using biomarkers to measure alcohol use
12:35 John Hobcraft: ESRC Framework to Enable Biosocial Research
12:55 Lunch
13:40 Neil Davies: The role of common genetic variation in educational attainment and labour market outcomes: evidence from the National Child Development Study
14:25 George Ploubidis: Life course partnership status and biomarkers in mid-life: Evidence from the 1958 British birth cohort.
15:10 Sanna Read: Allostatic load: conceptualisation and measurement in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
15:55 Final discussion
Cost:
This event is FREE. Lunch will be provided. Participants will be responsible for their own travel and any accommodation costs
Region:
Greater London
Keywords:
Statistical Theory and Methods of Inference, Small Area Estimation, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Quantitative Approaches (other)
Related publications and presentations:
Statistical Theory and Methods of Inference
Small Area Estimation
Longitudinal Data Analysis
Quantitative Approaches (other)