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SEMINARS
2012
7 February - Nancy Krieger; Don Matheson. Report back on the WHO World Conference on Social Determinants of Health (19-21 October, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): critical reflections and next steps.
2011
11 January - Kate M Fleming. The epidemiology of liver disease in the UK: Using routinely available data
for epidemiological studies.
17 January - Bert Brunekreef. The European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE): design and first results.
15 February - Michael Bates. Investigating household fuel use as a risk factor for tuberculosis.
2010
16 March - Lisa Lee. Ethics and public health surveillance: what should we be considering?
26 March - Jorn Olsen. Reproductive failures related to prenatal exposures to PFOA and PFOS: Results from the Danish National Birth Cohort.
04 May - John Potter. Chemoprevention: Why do we keep getting it wrong?
25 May - Geoff Simmons. The “Policy Prescription”.
(NEW DATE)
20 August - Wendyl D'Souza. Epilepsy epidemiology in the internet age - Do you like to watch?
16 November - Lorenzo Richiardi. Prenatal and postnatal risk factors for testicular cancer.
19 November - James Hurley. Comparing pneumonia rates in Intensive Care Units: An application of ecological methods to comparisons across >100 published studies of prevention methods.
7 December - David Strachan. The first two decades of the hygiene hypothesis for allergic disease.
2009
10 February - Steven T. Fleming. How to Adjust for Misclassification Bias
Case Study: Smoking and Low Birth Weight Newborns.
03 March - Gail Garvey, Patricia Valery. Indigenous research program including recent initiatives in cancer and the outcomes of their research in the far north of Australia (Torres Strait) on asthma.
06 March - Mona Jeffreys. Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival in New Zealand.
31 March - Sebastian Morgan-Lynch. Getting to grips with health information privacy.
5 May - Neil Pearce. How to analyse a data set with many variables.
4 August - Allan Smith. Further findings on mortality in young adults following early life exposure to arsenic.
11 August - Bianca Claas. Self-reported oral health and access to dental care among pregnant women in Wellington.
25 August - Naomi Brewer. Does screening history explain the ethnic differences in stage at diagnosis of cervical cancer?
- Amanda Eng. Differences in Occupational Exposure Patterns;
- Marine Corbin. Occupation and Lung Cancer: Results from a New Zealand cancer registry-based case-control study.
28 August - Anthony D LaMontagne. Intervention research for the improvement of
Occupational Health & Safety policy and practice
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7 September - Stephen Kunitz. Political culture, social capital, and mortality in America.
8 September - Sander Greenland. Investigator bias as a major problem in health research and justice in the United States.
22 September - Marine Corbin. Bayesian methods in epidemiology.
8 October – Jeroen Douwes. Prevention of allergies and asthma : lessons from the farm environment.
13 October - Bianca Claas. Self-reported oral health and access to dental care among pregnant women in Wellington.
27 October - Andrea t’Mannetje. Non-response and its effects in a National occupational exposure and health survey: 15 lessons from the Burden Study.
10 November - Collin Brooks. Innate immunity in asthma.
20 November - James McGlothlin. Video Exposure Monitoring: The development and application of an occupational hygiene exposure and risk assessment tool.
24 November - Nina Hermansen. Eyemother - Sampi birth stories.
2008
10 March - Wijnand Eduard. Fungi, MVOC and mycotoxins in indoor air.
11 March - Raymond Neutra. Ethical Guidelines for Risk Assessment.
14 March - Neil Pearce. Corporate influences on epidemiology.
22 April - Paul White. Coughs and sneezes spread diseases: how we'll know when you've got bird flu.
06 May - Andrea 't Mannetje. The New Zealand Job-Exposure-Matrix (NZJEM).
27 May - Dave McLean. Health outcomes in former New Zealand timber
workers exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP).
03 June - Andrea 't Mannetje, Dave McLean, Neil Pearce. Occupational cancer in adult New Zealanders:
Case-control studies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, leukemia and bladder cancer.
11 June - Fiona McKenzie. Breast cancer survival in New Zealand.
- Amanda Eng. Epidemiological studies of occupational exposures and health effects in the New Zealand workforce.
21 July - Colin Cryer. Occupational Injury Research at the IPRU.
22 July - Geoff Kira. Fitness and fatness: ethnic or economic?.
19 August - Naomi Brewer. Epidemiological studies of cervical cancer in New Zealand.
- Collin Brooks. Innate immunity and asthma.
2 September - Steven T. Fleming. Cancer survival analysis:
concepts and caveats.
4 November - Steven T. Fleming. Diabetes, Asthma, Cancer Screening, and "Medical Home" Attributes: Is there a Connection?
11 November - Sarah Hill. Maori/non-Maori disparities in colon cancer treatment and survival - results from a retrospective cohort study.
20 November - Andrea Forde. The Public Health Consequences of a Disaster: the Wenchuan Earthquake.
21 November - Henrik Moller. Cancer incidence, care and outcomes
in ethnic groups in South East England.
2007
23 February - Neil Pearce. What causes asthma?
06 March - Carlos Camargo. Body Mass Index (BMI) and asthma.
13 March - Neil Pearce. Why we should all be Bayesians
(and often are without realising it).
30 March - Neil Pearce. Dioxin.
08 May - Carlos Carmargo. Developing the U.S. Dietary Guidelines:
Science and politics.
05 June - Neil Pearce. The analysis of variance and the analysis of causes:
Genetics, race, ethnicity, obesity, exercise, energy intake,
and why you shouldn't use stepwise regression.
12 July - Naomi Brewer. Cervical cancer survival in New Zealand.
31 July - Christine van Dalen. Spirometric testing for airflow obstruction in young
adult asthmatics.
21 August - Michelle Gray. What works for interviewing Maori;
- Amanda Eng. Childhood socioeconomic status and mortality from stroke and schaemic heart disease in New Zealand.
31 August - Mauricio Barreto. Social Change Asthma and Allergies in Latin America: An overview and preliminary results of a research programme in Brazil and Ecuador.
13 November - Nathaniel Marshall. Severe sleep apnea as an independent risk factor for all cause mortality: The Busselton Health Study Cohort
2006
24
January - Stuart Harrad. How clean is your
home? The significance of indoor environments as a source of exposure
to persistent organic pollutants. 28
February - Sunia Foliaki and Neil Pearce.
The Tonga asthma self-management project.
22
March - Wendyl D'Souza. Epilepsy epidemiology:
The Tasmanian Epilepsy Study ?a unique population-based cohort.
04
April - Allan Smith. Recent findings from
the natural arsenic experiment in Chile.
11
April - Milena Maule. A Bayesian approach
to spatial and temporal analyses of cancer incidence and mortality data.
30
May - Dave McLean. High dust and bacterial
endotoxin exposures in poultry processing -a respiratory health risk?
13
June - Stefano Rosso. Case-control study on
cutaneous malignant melanoma and melanins: a Bayesian approach.
25
July - Jeroen Douwes. Farm exposure in utero
may protect against asthma, hay fever and eczema: A cross sectional
study in New Zealand farmers' children and rural controls.
09
August - Neil Pearce. What causes asthma?
24
October - Neil Pearce. Using Directed Acyclic
Graphs (DAGs) to consider issues of confounding.
07
November - Karen Blakey. WHO Long Form reliability,
validity and norms for New Zealand.
2005
22
February - Ate Moala. Tuberculosis among Pacific
People.
08
March - Sara Arber. Negotiating sleep among
couples across the life course. s
23
March - Mona Jeffreys. Weight patterns, diabetes
and mortality.
12
April - Jeroen Douwes. How useful are measures
of airway inflammation in epidemiological studies?
26
April - Paul White. A strategy for analysing
population health impacts arising from the Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry's airborne spray eradication programme.
10
May - Stan Abbott. Roof-collected rainwater
consumption and health.
07
June - Mona Jeffreys. The influence of recall
errors in anthropometry on interpreting associations with cancer.
28
June - Sylvia Rumball. Research Ethics at
Massey University.
12
July - Christine van Dalen. Does spirometry
accurately assess asthma severity-control in adolescent asthmatics?
09
August - Rod Lea. Population genetics meets
public health: Relevance to smoking and Maori.
30
August - Dave McLean. Formaldehyde exposure
and respiratory symptoms in New Zealand plywood mill workers.
27
September - Mona Jeffreys. The
burden of undiagnosed diabetes in New Zealand;
- Naomi Brewer. New Zealand linkage study examining the association
between HbA1c concentration, mortality and hospital discharges;
- Noemie Travier. Association between glycosylated haemoglobin and cancer
risk: a New Zealand linkage study.
11
October - Sarah-Jane Paine. Early Birds and
Night Owls: a survey of morningness/eveningness in the general population.
25
October - Neil Pearce. Worldwide trends in
the prevalence of asthma symptoms: Phase III of the International Study
of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC).
08
November - Andrea 't Mannetje. Bladder cancer
risk in sales workers: artefact or cause for concern? A systematic review.
25
November - Dave Kennaway. Chronobiology -
It is about time!
29
November - Philippa Gander. Sleep, safety
and health: challenges for aviation.
13
December - Wijnand Eduard. A criteria document
on fungal spores in the work environment.
2004
10
February - Jeroen Douwes. Asthma in farmers'
children and their parents
02
March - Sunia Foliaki. Asthma in the Pacific
08
March - Iain Martin. Upper gastrointestinal
cancer in Maori
29
March - Nancy Krieger. Geocoding and monitoring
US socioeconomic
inequalities in health: does choice of area-based measure & geographic
level matter? The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project
31 March -
Alex Scott-Samuel. Health inequalities and health politics
06
April - Rowena
Cave. An overview of the development and implementation of evidence-based
guidelines
20
April - Tom Jeavons. The effect of reduction
of indoor moulds on asthma outcomes: a pilot Australian study
27
April - Andrea 't Mannetje. Dioxin and cancer:
A cohort study in New Zealand workers
25
May - Diana Martin. New Zealand's meningococcal
epidemic - the
science behind vaccine control
08
June - Christine van Dalen. Development of
biomarkers in Asthma
15
June - Anouk Niesink. The influence of farming
on asthma in children: initial results
20
July - Mona Jeffreys. Ethnic differences
in cancer survival in New Zealand
27
July - Jeff Fowles, Rod Lea, David Phillips.
Exploring mechanisms of addiction to and toxicity of tobacco
03
August - Neil Pearce. Socio-economic factors,
income inequality, social capital and health
07
September - Allanah Ryan. Competing Models
of Social Justice for Reducing Health Inequalities: A Matter of Redistribution
and/or Recognition
21
September - Debbie Ryan, Karen Blakey. The
Pacific Health Chartbook 2004
07 October - Heather Purnell. Safety implications
of work patterns among junior doctors; Nat Marshall. Continuous positive
airway pressure reduces sleepiness in mild-moderate obstructive sleep
apnea: Meta analysis
08 October - Harvey Checkoway. Occupational
Exposures and Cancer Risks among Women Textile Workers in Shanghai
18
October - Hans Kromhout. Quantitative estimation
of exposure to welding fumes in an international general population
study on asthma; Wijnand Eduard. Respiratory diseases and work-related
symptoms in Norwegian farmers and associations with bioaerosol exposure
17
November - Bengt Bjorksten. Microbial
exposure and infections early in life as modifiers of allergy/asthma
development
23
November - Neil Pearce, Andrea 't Mannetje.
The burden of occupational disease and injury in New Zealand
2003
18
March - Leigh Signal, Philippa Gander. Is
your pilot awake? Auckland to London non-stop
25
March - Neil Pearce. Don't kill the cat! Why
asthma is more complicated than you think
04
April - Neil Pearce, Dave McLean. Cancer in
agricultural workers
08
April - Nat Marshall. Sleep and the reaper:
connections between abnormal sleep and death
13 June
- Catherine Cohet. Polymorphisms in the AGT gene and lung cancer risk
in non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke
02
July - Evan Dryson. The OSH Occupational Cancer
Project
08
July - Ian Laird. Occupational health research
at Massey University
15
July - Mona Jeffreys. Life-course epidemiology
and breast cancer
22
July - Dave McLean. Cancer in meatworkers
19 August- Andrea 't Mannetje. Exposure to
metal compounds and lung cancer: Results from an IARC case-control study
in Central and Eastern Europe
26
August- Sarah-Jane Paine. Insomnia: a problem
of poverty? An epidemiological study of insomnia in New Zealand
16
September - Allan Smith. Lung cancer and chronic
respiratory disease from drinking arsenic in water
30
September - Christine Stephens. Social capital:
does social connectedness work to benefit all?
07
October - Elana Curtis and Craig Wright.
The epidemiology of breast cancer in Maori women: implications for screening
14
October - Chin Moi Chow. Exercise and sleep
in poor sleepers
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