Seminars
SEMINARS 2012
- Tuesday, 11 December 2012
- “Fit work to people – How can national occupational health regulation work in practice?”
- Speakers:
Professor Per Langaa Jensen (Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 30 October 2012
- “Circadian Rhythms, Sleep and Human Health”
- Speakers:
Professor Jeanne Duffy (Harvard Medical School)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 23 October 2012
- “Bridging the Valley of Death: Research to Inform ACC Policy and Operational Decision-making: Our Context and Possible Interests”
- Speakers:
Dr John Wren (Principal Research Advisor, ACC Research)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 2 October 2012
- 'What has the Environmental Protection Authority got to do with Public Health?'
- Speakers:
Rob Forlong (New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority (EPA))
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 11 September 2012
- “The epidemiology, evolution and control of bacterial foodborne pathogens in New Zealand”
- Speakers:
Professor Nigel French (Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Wednesday, 15 August 2012
- From Moscow to New York: a journey in Global Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Control
- Speakers:
Dr Ashley Bloomfield (Ministry of Health)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 10 July 2012
- Application of Epidemiology to Horse Health
- Speakers:
Dr Naomi Cogger (EpiCentre, Massey University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Presentations: Opening Presentations


- Tuesday, 26 June 2012
- The New Zealand Burden of Disease Study
- Speakers:
Dr Martin Tobias (Ministry of Health)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Presentations: Opening Presentations


- Tuesday, 19 June 2012
- 2008/09 New Zealand Adult Nutrition Survey - key results
- Speakers:
Dr Niki Stefanogiannis (Ministry of Health)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Presentations: Opening Presentations


- Tuesday, 29 May 2012
- Estimating Meningococcal B Vaccine Effectiveness and New Zealand Election Night Forecasting
- Speakers:
Dr Richard Arnold (School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research at Victoria University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 8 May 2012
- New Zealand National Health Data Collections
- Speakers:
Simon Ross (National Health Board)
,
Christine Fowler (National Health Board)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Presentations: Opening Presentations


- Tuesday, 24 April 2012
- Are variations in health associated with variations in the local built environment?
- Speakers:
Professor Donald Schopflocher (Ministry of Health)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 17 April 2012
- Bovine Tuberculosis, a history and pathway to eradication in
- Speakers:
Dr Stuart Hutchings (Animal Health Board)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Wednesday, 11 April 2012
- Nutrition, environment, development, and cancer: casting a wider net
- Speakers:
Professor John Potter (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University & Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle, USA)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Friday, 30 March 2012
- Interaction, effect modification, confounding and synergy
- Speakers:
Professor Allan Smith (Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 20 March 2012
- Psychology of estimating one's extent of cellphone use and implications for epidemiology
- Speakers:
Mary Redmayne (School of Geography, Environment and Earth Science, Victoria University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 13 March 2012
- Could breast cancer be caused by a virus?
- Speakers:
Professor Ann Richardson (University of Canterbury)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 14 February 2012
- Latent class analysis, Bayesian statistics and the hidden perils of test validation studies
- Speakers:
Dr Lesley Stringer (EpiCentre, Massey University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Presentations: Opening Presentations


- Tuesday, 7 February 2012
- Report back on the WHO World Conference on Social Determinants of Health (19-21 October, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): critical reflections and next steps.
- Speakers:
Professor Nancy Krieger (Harvard University)
,
Professor Don Matheson (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Theatrette, Museum Building, Massey University, Wellington Campus
- Presentations: Opening Presentations

