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:

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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)

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