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New horizons for medical statistics and epidemiology in global health

The MRC International Statistics & Epidemiology Group (MRC ISEG) 50th anniversary symposium and celebration 

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of MRC ISEG we are hosting a symposium to be held virtually on June 28-30, 2022.  The Symposium is hosted by LSHTM and our six partner institutes in Colombia (CIDIEM), The Gambia (MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM), Tanzania (Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit), Uganda (MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit), Zambia (Zambart) and Zimbabwe (The Health Research Institute - THRU Zim).  

The symposium will reflect on the contribution of medical statistics and epidemiology to global health over the past 50 years and look to the future with discussion and debate on strategies to transform capacity in medical statistics and epidemiology globally.  Sessions will include a conversation with Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist at WHO discussing capacity strengthening, advice to early-career researchers, and shaping epidemiological research in global health. The event will also include epidemiologists, medical statisticans, scientists and physicians who will discuss challenges and solutions in advancing research in both infectious and non communicable diseases. 

The symposium is open to anyone who has an interest in epidemiology or medical statistics. 

Programme and recording links 

Day 1: Tuesday 28 June 2022 

  • 12:00-13:00: Welcome and introduction

    • 12:00-12:05: Welcome remarks 
    • 12.05–12.55: The development of the MRC International Statistics and Epidemiology Group (ISEG) and contributions to global health in the past 50 years 
    • 12.55-13.00: Break  

  • 13:00-14:40: Session 1 - Emerging & Neglected Tropical Diseases. This session was hosted by the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit 

    • 13:00-13:05: Welcome  
    • 13.05-13.20: Controlled human infection model for testing schistosomiasis vaccines 
    • 13:20-13:35:  Rift valley fever: development and evaluation of a One Health vaccine 
      • Speaker: Zac Anywaine, MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit 
    • 13:35-13:50: Africa CDC COVID-19 seroprevalence surveys 
    • 13:50-14:05: SARS-CoV2 and COVID-19 surveillance in a general population in Uganda 
      • Speaker: Joseph Mugisha, MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit 
    • 14:05-14:20 Discussion 
      • Chair: Pontiano Kaleebu, MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit 
    • 14:20-14:40: Break  
Day 2: Wednesday 29 June 2022  

  • 12:00-13:00: Session 1 – Stakeholder survey results. This session was by MRC ISEG, LSHTM 

    • 12:00-12:50: Capacity in medical statistics and epidemiology in global health research: What is the problem? What are the solutions? 
  • 12:50-13:00: Break 

  • 13:00-14:40: Session 2 – Tuberculosis. This session was hosted by Zambart, Zambia 

    • 13:00-13:05: Welcome 
    • 13:05-13:20: What can we learn from a combined TB screening and HIV testing door-to-door community-wide strategy, in settings with a high prevalence of TB/HIV? 
    • 13:20-13:35: TB and COVID – what are the links? 
      • Speaker: Kwame Shanaube, Zambart, Zambia 
    • 13:35-13:50: Digital adherence technologies to support tuberculosis care in Ethiopia 
    • 13:50-14:05: TB-Practecal: results from a non-inferiority treatment trial for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis 
    • 14:05-14:20: Discussion 
      • Chair: Helen Ayles, LSHTM
    • 14:20-14:40: Break 

  • 14:40-16:00: Session 3 – Methodology. This session was hosted by CIDEIM, Colombia  

    • 14:40-14:45: Welcome 
    • 14:45-15:00 Developing and validating the Social Ecology of Occupational Zoonoses (SEOZ) psychometric instrument for the prevention of infections in agricultural settings 
    • 15:00-15:15: Simulated trials: Assessment of treatment effect in the era of widespread use of active controls 
    • 15:15-15:30: Gender and intersectionality: Impacts of Artificial Intelligence/digital systems on marginalized groups 
      • Speaker: Sylvia Muyingo, Africa Population & Health Research Center, Kenya 
    • 15:30-15:45: Data science in outbreak response 
      • Speaker: Chris Grundy, MRC ISEG, LSHTM 
    • 15:45-16:00: Discussion 
      • Chair: Neal Alexander 
Day 3: Thursday 30 June 2022 
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Admission

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Contact

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Kate Greenaway and Kathy Thomas

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Where and when

Date
Tuesday 28 June 2022 - Thursday 30 June 2022
Time
12:00 - 17:00
Date and time zone is UK

Admission

Admission
Registration required. Free and open to all.

Contact

Contact

Kate Greenaway and Kathy Thomas

Registration required
Add to Calendar 2022-06-28 12:00:00 2022-06-30 17:00:00 New horizons for medical statistics and epidemiology in global health The MRC International Statistics & Epidemiology Group (MRC ISEG) 50th anniversary symposium and celebration  To celebrate the 50th anniversary of MRC ISEG we are hosting a symposium to be held virtually on June 28-30, 2022.  The Symposium is hosted by LSHTM and our six partner institutes in Colombia (CIDIEM), The Gambia (MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM), Tanzania (Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit), Uganda (MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit), Zambia (Zambart) and Zimbabwe (The Health Research Institute - THRU Zim).   The symposium will reflect on the contribution of medical statistics and epidemiology to global health over the past 50 years and look to the future with discussion and debate on strategies to transform capacity in medical statistics and epidemiology globally.  Sessions will include a conversation with Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist at WHO discussing capacity strengthening, advice to early-career researchers, and shaping epidemiological research in global health. The event will also include epidemiologists, medical statisticans, scientists and physicians who will discuss challenges and solutions in advancing research in both infectious and non communicable diseases.  The symposium is open to anyone who has an interest in epidemiology or medical statistics.  Programme and recording links  Day 1: Tuesday 28 June 2022  12:00-13:00: Welcome and introduction 12:00-12:05: Welcome remarks  Speaker: Liam Smeeth, LSHTM  12.05–12.55: The development of the MRC International Statistics and Epidemiology Group (ISEG) and contributions to global health in the past 50 years  Speaker: Peter Smith, MRC ISEG, LSHTM  12.55-13.00: Break   13:00-14:40: Session 1 - Emerging & Neglected Tropical Diseases. This session was hosted by the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit  13:00-13:05: Welcome   Chair: Pontiano Kaleebu, MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit  13.05-13.20: Controlled human infection model for testing schistosomiasis vaccines  Speaker: Emmanuella Driciru, MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit  13:20-13:35:  Rift valley fever: development and evaluation of a One Health vaccine  Speaker: Zac Anywaine, MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit  13:35-13:50: Africa CDC COVID-19 seroprevalence surveys  Speaker: Festo Mazuguni, Africa CDC and MRC ISEG  13:50-14:05: SARS-CoV2 and COVID-19 surveillance in a general population in Uganda  Speaker: Joseph Mugisha, MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit  14:05-14:20 Discussion  Chair: Pontiano Kaleebu, MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit  14:20-14:40: Break   14:00-16:15: Session 2 – Malaria. This session was hosted by the MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM 14:40-14:45: Welcome  Chair: Umberto D’Alessandro,  MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM 14:45-15:05: New approaches to mass drug administration to eliminate malaria  Speaker: Edgard Dabira, MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM  15:05-15:25: Seasonal interventions for malaria control  Speaker: Matt Cairns, MRC ISEG LSHTM  15:25-15:45: Effectiveness of dual active ingredient treated nets against malaria in Tanzania  Speaker: Jackie Mosha, NIMR Tanzania  15:45-16:00: Discussion  Chair: Umberto D’Alessandro,  MRC Unit The Gambia  at LSHTM 16:00-16:15: Break  16:15-17:00: Session 3 – In conversation with. This session was hosted by the MRC ISEG, LSHTM  16:15-17:00: In conversation with Dr Soumya Swaminathan, WHO: Expanding capacity and shaping epidemiological research to advance global health  Day 2: Wednesday 29 June 2022   12:00-13:00: Session 1 – Stakeholder survey results. This session was by MRC ISEG, LSHTM  12:00-12:50: Capacity in medical statistics and epidemiology in global health research: What is the problem? What are the solutions?  Chair: Elizabeth Allen, LSHTM 12:50-13:00: Break  13:00-14:40: Session 2 – Tuberculosis. This session was hosted by Zambart, Zambia  13:00-13:05: Welcome  Chair: Helen Ayles, LSHTM 13:05-13:20: What can we learn from a combined TB screening and HIV testing door-to-door community-wide strategy, in settings with a high prevalence of TB/HIV?  Speaker: Thomas Gachie, Zambart, Zambia  13:20-13:35: TB and COVID – what are the links?  Speaker: Kwame Shanaube, Zambart, Zambia  13:35-13:50: Digital adherence technologies to support tuberculosis care in Ethiopia  Speaker: Amare Tadesse, MRC ISEG, LSHTM  13:50-14:05: TB-Practecal: results from a non-inferiority treatment trial for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis  Speaker: Katherine Fielding, MRC ISEG, LSHTM  14:05-14:20: Discussion  Chair: Helen Ayles, LSHTM 14:20-14:40: Break  14:40-16:00: Session 3 – Methodology. This session was hosted by CIDEIM, Colombia   14:40-14:45: Welcome  Chair: Neal Alexander, LSHTM 14:45-15:00 Developing and validating the Social Ecology of Occupational Zoonoses (SEOZ) psychometric instrument for the prevention of infections in agricultural settings  Speaker: Jairo Palomares, CIDEIM, Colombia  15:00-15:15: Simulated trials: Assessment of treatment effect in the era of widespread use of active controls  Speaker: Andrew Abaasa, MRC/UVRI & LSHTM, Uganda  15:15-15:30: Gender and intersectionality: Impacts of Artificial Intelligence/digital systems on marginalized groups  Speaker: Sylvia Muyingo, Africa Population & Health Research Center, Kenya  15:30-15:45: Data science in outbreak response  Speaker: Chris Grundy, MRC ISEG, LSHTM  15:45-16:00: Discussion  Chair: Neal Alexander  Day 3: Thursday 30 June 2022  12:00-13:00: Session 1 – Discussion. This session was hosted by MRC ISEG, LSHTM 12:00-12:50: Increasing capacity in medical statistics and epidemiology in LMICs: What works  Chair: Helen Weiss, LSHTM Speakers from: MRC ISEG, Zambart, DREAMS, THRU, MRC Units  12:50-13:00: Break  13:00-14:40: Session 2: Chronic Diseases. This session was hosted by Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, Tanzania   13:00-13:05: Welcome  Chair: Saidi Kapiga, MITU, Tanzania and LSHTM 13.05-13.20: Hypertension in HIV infected adults: a complex and important problem  Speaker: Robert Peck, MITU, Tanzania  13.20-13.35: From epidemiology to the integration of care: 10 years of research on the response to chronic diseases in East Africa,   Speaker: Bazil Kavishe, MITU, Tanzania  13.35-13.50: Accuracy of blood pressure measurement in Kenya: Implications for controlling the epidemic of cardiovascular disease  Speaker: Anthony Etyang, KEMRI, Kenya  13:50-14:05: Leveraging the HIV care platform to improve hypertension care using the PRECEDE model: a cluster randomised trial from Uganda  Speaker: Jane Kabami, Infectious Disease Research Collaboration, Uganda  14:05-14:20: Discussion  Chair: Saidi Kapiga, MITU and LSHTM  14:20-14:40: Break  14:40-16:15: Session 3 – HIV. This session was hosted by THRU Zim 14:40-14:45: Welcome  Chair: Agnes Mahomva  14:45-15:00: Universal test & treat: What have we learnt about ending the HIV epidemic? Speaker: Richard Hayes, MRC ISEG, LSHTM  15:00-15:20: Beyond HIV: Broadening access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in southern and eastern Africa  Speakers: Maryam Shahmanesh, AHRI and UCL and Catherine Kansiime, MRC/UVRI, Uganda  15:20-15:45: Innovation and Integration for HIV/SRH interventions for young people  Speakers:   Chido Dziva Chikwari, THRU & MRC ISEG  Tinashe Mwaturura, THRU, Zimbabwe  Bernadette Hensen, LSHTM  Mwelwa Phiri, Zambart, Zambia  15:45-16:00: Discussion  Chair: Agnes Mahomva  16:00-16:15: Break  16:16-17:00: Closing session. This session was hosted by MRC ISEG, LSHTM  New horizons in medical statistics and epidemiology: Reflections from researchers and funders on how to meaningfully increase capacity  Chair: Rashida Ferrand, THRU & LSHTM  Speakers: Representatives from EDCTP, MRC and other funders  Other MRC-ISEG events  Pre-symposium training course 1 - Thursday 26 May 2022 Pre-symposium training course 2 - Monday 20 June 2022 Pre-symposium training course 3 - Thursday 23 June 2022 Registration disclaimer  By entering your contact details, you are agreeing to receive follow up communication specific to this event organised by LSHTM MRC ISEG. Communications will include details on how to join the event.   For more information on how your data is used, please see our LSHTM's events privacy notice and Airmeet's privacy policy.  Please note that the recording link will be listed on this page when available     https://www.airmeet.com/e/1d4fce70-880b-11ec-bad0-cbf5ab227a0c Kate Greenaway and Kathy Thomas Europe/London public

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