Seminars
RECENT AND UPCOMING SEMINARS
- Thursday, 18 July
- "Recent findings from ecologic, cross-sectional, case-control and cohort studies on arsenic in drinking water in several counties"
- Speakers: Allan Smith (Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley)
- Time: 3.30pm - 5.00pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 26 March
- What wil the next MDGs say about health?
- Speakers: Don Matheson (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- RSVP: Please RSVP for this event to Mel 04-380-0602 m.vernall@massey.ac.nz
- Presentations: Opening Presentations
- Tuesday, 12 March
- "Fit work to people - Improving work conditions in deboning - an interactive research programme to fit work to people while taking profitability into account"
- Speakers: Kjerstin Vogel
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Presentations: Opening Presentations
- Tuesday, 5 March
- "Fit work to people - What policy instruments work in occupational health and safety?"
- Speakers: Professor Peter Hasle
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Presentations: Opening Presentations
- Friday, 22 February
- "DHB decision making in times of scarcity and its impact on services"
- Speakers: Don Matheson (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Presentations: Opening Presentations
- Tuesday, 19 February
- "Risk factors of Asthma and Allergy Related to Indoor Envrioment"
- Speakers: Gitte Juel Holst
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Presentations: Opening Presentations
- Tuesday, 12 February
- “Fit work to people - Designing and evaluating public health intervention programmes focusing on occupational health and safety”
- Speakers: Laura K. V. Kvorning (Danish National Research Centre for Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Presentations: Opening Presentations
- Tuesday, 11 December
- “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
- “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
- “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
- '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
- “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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Interaction, effect modification, confounding and synergy
- Speakers: 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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: Nancy Krieger (Harvard University) , Don Matheson (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Theatrette, Museum Building, Massey University, Wellington Campus
- RSVP: Due to limited seating please respond to Clare Scott by 1 February 2012 if you would like to attend the seminar: c.j.scott@massey.ac.nz
- Presentations: Opening Presentations
- Tuesday, 29 November
- IARC Monographs: RF-EMF, Mobile Phones and other challenging evaluations
- Speakers: Dr Robert Baan (International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Presentations: Opening Presentations
- Friday, 25 November
- Road density and allergic disease in children age eight years at high risk of developing asthma
- Speakers: Dr Anna Hansell (Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU), MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College, London)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Presentations: Opening Presentations
- Monday, 31 October
- Climate Change, Air Quality and Public Health
- Speakers: Dr Bert Scheeren (Institute for Environmental Sustainability, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 4 October
- Colonization and Indigenous Health – the case of the Sami in Sweden
- Speakers: Dr Per Axelsson (Centre for Sami Research, Umeå University, Sweden)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 13 September
- Racial discrimination & health: new methods and new findings - an ecosocial approach
- Speakers: Nancy Krieger (Harvard University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- RSVP: Due to limited seating please respond to Clare Scott by 9 September if you would like to attend the seminar: c.j.scott@massey.ac.nz
- Wednesday, 22 June
- Video Exposure Monitoring (VEM): A 21st Century Tool for Detecting and Controlling Hazardous Chemical, Physical, Radiological and, Biological Agents in the Workplace
- Speakers: Jim McGlothlin (Purdue University, School of Health Sciences, USA)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 15 February
- Investigating household fuel use as a risk factor for tuberculosis
- Speakers: Adjunct Professor Michael Bates (School of Public Health, University of California)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Monday, 17 January
- The European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE): design and first results
- Speakers: Professor Bert Brunekreef (Institute of Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 11 January
- The epidemiology of liver disease in the UK: Using routinely available data for epidemiological studies
- Speakers: Dr Kate M Fleming (Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 7 December
- The first two decades of the hygiene hypothesis for allergic disease
- Speakers: Professor David Strachan (Division of Population Health Sciences and Education, St George’s, University of London)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Friday, 19 November
- Comparing pneumonia rates in Intensive Care Units: An application of ecological methods to comparisons across >100 published studies of prevention methods
- Speakers: Associate Professor James Hurley (School of Rural Health, University of Melbourne)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 16 November
- Prenatal and postnatal risk factors for testicular cancer
- Speakers: Dr Lorenzo Richiardi (Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Turin)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Friday, 20 August
- Epilepsy epidemiology in the internet age ‐ Do you like to watch?
- Speakers: Wendyl D'Souza (The University of Melbourne, The Alfred Hospital and St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Massey University, Wellington)
- Time: 3.30pm - 4.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 25 May
- The “Policy Prescription”
- Speakers: Geoff Simmons (Economic Researcher, Morgan Family Charitable Foundation)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 4 May
- Chemoprevention: Why do we keep getting it wrong?
- Speakers: Professor John Potter (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University & Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle, USA)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Friday, 26 March
- Reproductive failures related to prenatal exposures to PFOA and PFOS: Results from the Danish National Birth Cohort
- Speakers: Professor Jørn Olsen (Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
- Time: 3.30pm - 4.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 16 March
- Ethics and public health surveillance: what should we be considering?
- Speakers: Lisa Lee (Assistant Science Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 24 November
- Eyemother - Sampi birth stories
- Speakers: Nina Hermansen (School of Social Work, Finnmark University College in Alta, Finnmark (Northern Norway))
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Friday, 20 November
- Video Exposure Monitoring: The development and application of an occupational hygiene exposure and risk assessment tool
- Speakers: Jim McGlothlin (Purdue University, School of Health Sciences, USA)
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- Tuesday, 10 November
- Innate immunity in asthma
- Speakers: Collin Brooks
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- Tuesday, 27 October
- Non-response and its effects in a National occupational exposure and health survey: 15 lessons from the Burden Study
- Speakers: Dr Andrea 't Mannetje (Centre for Public Health Research)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 13 October
- Self-reported oral health and access to dental care among pregnant women in Wellington
- Speakers: Bianca Claas (Research Fellow, CPHR)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Thursday, 8 October
- 'Prevention of allergies and asthma: Lessons from the farm environment’
- Speakers: Professor Jeroen Douwes (Centre for Public Health Research)
- Time: 6pm - 7pm
- Venue: Theatrette, Museum Building, Massey University, Wellington
- Tuesday, 22 September
- Bayesian methods in epidemiology
- Speakers: Marine Corbin
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- Tuesday, 8 September
- Investigator bias as a major problem in health research and justice in the United States
- Speakers: Sander Greenland (Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California)
- Time: 4pm - 5pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Monday, 7 September
- 'Political culture, social capital, and mortality in America’
- Speakers: Professor Stephen Kunitz (Department of Community & Preventive Medicine, Department of Community & Preventive Medicine)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Friday, 28 August
- Intervention research for the improvement of Occupational Health & Safety policy and practice
- Speakers: Associate Professor Anthony D LaMontagne (Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 25 August
- INTERNAL SEMINAR 1/3: Does screening history explain the ethnic differences in stage at diagnosis of cervical cancer?
- Speakers: Naomi Brewer
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 25 August
- INTERNAL SEMINAR 2/3: Differences in Occupational Exposure Patterns
- Speakers: Amanda Eng
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 25 August
- INTERNAL SEMINAR 3/3: Occupation and Lung Cancer: Results from a New Zealand cancer registry-based case-control study
- Speakers: Marine Corbin
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 11 August
- Self-reported oral health and access to dental care among pregnant women in Wellington
- Speakers: Bianca Claas (Research Fellow, CPHR)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 4 August
- Further findings on mortality in young adults following early life exposure to arsenic
- Speakers: Allan Smith (Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 5 May
- How to analyse a data set with many variables
- Speakers: Professor Neil Pearce (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 31 March
- Getting to grips with health information privacy
- Speakers: Sebastian Morgan-Lynch (Health Policy Advisor for the Privacy Commissioner)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Friday, 6 March
- Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival in New Zealand
- Speakers: Dr Mona Jeffreys (Lecturer in Epidemiology, University of Bristol, UK)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 3 March
- A/P Garvey and colleagues will discuss their Indigenous research program including recent initiatives in cancer and the outcomes of their research in the far north of Australia (Torres Strait) on asthma
- Speakers: Associate Professor Gail Garvey (Indigenous Health, Queensland Institute of Medical Research) , Dr Patricia Valery (Indigenous Health, Queensland Institute of Medical Research)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 10 February
- How to Adjust for Misclassification Bias Case Study: Smoking and Low Birth Weight Newborns
- Speakers: Associate Professor Steven T Fleming (Department of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Friday, 21 November
- 'Cancer incidence, care and outcomes in ethnic groups in South East England’
- Speakers: Professor Henrik Moller (King’s College London, Thames Cancer Registry)
- Time: 3.30pm - 4.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Thursday, 20 November
- The Public Health Consequences of a Disaster: the Wenchuan Earthquake
- Speakers: Dr Andrea Forde (Senior Advisor Public Health Medicine, Population Health Directorate, Ministry of Health)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 11 November
- Maori/non-Maori disparities in colon cancer treatment and survival - results from a retrospective cohort study
- Speakers: Dr Sarah Hill (Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 4 November
- Diabetes, Asthma, Cancer Screening, and “Medical Home” Attributes: Is there a Connection?
- Speakers: Associate Professor Steven T Fleming (Department of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 2 September
- 'Cancer survival analysis: concepts and caveats’
- Speakers: Associate Professor Steven T Fleming (Department of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 19 August
- Epidemiological studies of cervical cancer in New Zealand
- Speakers: Naomi Brewer
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- Tuesday, 19 August
- Innate immunity and asthma
- Speakers: Collin Brooks
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- Tuesday, 22 July
- 'Fitness and fatness: ethnic or economic?’
- Speakers: Geoff Kira (Auckland University of Technology)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 8 July
- 'Occupational Injury Research at the IPRU’
- Speakers: Associate Professor Colin Cryer (Injury Prevention Research Unit (IPRU), Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Wednesday, 11 June
- Breast cancer survival in New Zealand
- Speakers: Fiona McKenzie
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- Wednesday, 11 June
- Epidemiological studies of occupational exposures and health effects in the New Zealand workforce
- Speakers: Amanda Eng
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- Tuesday, 3 June
- ‘Occupational cancer in adult New Zealanders (OCANZ): case-control studies of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, leukemia and bladder cancer’
- Speakers: Dr Andrea 't Mannetje (Centre for Public Health Research) , Dave McLean (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington) , Professor Neil Pearce (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 27 May
- ‘Health outcomes in former New Zealand timber workers exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP)’
- Speakers: Dave McLean (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 6 May
- 'The New Zealand Job-Exposure-Matrix (NZJEM)’
- Speakers: Dr Andrea 't Mannetje (Centre for Public Health Research)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 22 April
- 'Coughs and sneezes spread diseases : how we'll know when you've got bird flu. Influenza Sentinel Syndromic Surveillance in the Ministry of Health’
- Speakers: Dr Paul White (Public Health Intelligence, Ministry of Health)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Friday, 14 March
- ‘Fungi, MVOC and mycotoxins in indoor air’
- Speakers: Professor Neil Pearce (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Public Health Seminar Room, Level J, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington
- Tuesday, 11 March
- ‘Ethical Guidelines for Risk Assessment’
- Speakers: Raymond Neutra (MD, Dr. PH; Retired Chief, Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control, California Department of Public Health)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Monday, 10 March
- ‘Fungi, MVOC and mycotoxins in indoor air’
- Speakers: Dr Wijnand Eduard (National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 31 July
- ‘Spirometric testing for airflow obstruction in young adult asthmatics'
- Speakers: Dr Christine van Dalen (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Thursday, 12 July
- Cervical cancer survival in New Zealand
- Speakers: Naomi Brewer
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- Tuesday, 5 June
- ‘The analysis of variance and the analysis of causes: Genetics, race, ethnicity, obesity, exercise, energy intake, and why you shouldn’t use stepwise regression’
- Speakers: Professor Neil Pearce (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 8 May
- ‘Developing the U.S. Dietary Guidelines: Science and Politics’
- Speakers: Professor Carlos Camargo (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Friday, 30 March
- 'Dioxin'
- Speakers: Professor Neil Pearce (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Public Health Seminar Room, Level J, University of Otago Wellington
- Tuesday, 13 March
- ‘Why we should all be Bayesians (and often are without realising it)’
- Speakers: Professor Neil Pearce (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Tuesday, 6 March
- ‘Body Mass Index (BMI) and asthma’
- Speakers: Professor Carlos Camargo (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA)
- Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Level 1, 102 Adelaide Road, Wellington
- Friday, 23 February
- What causes asthma?”
- Speakers: Professor Neil Pearce (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University)
- Time: 1pm - 2pm
- Venue: Seminar Room, Malaghan Institute, Central Services Building, Victoria University, Kelburn
