Previous seminars

2023

• 20^th of April: The genetics of obesity: From genes to biology and precision medicine
  Professor and Vice Executive Director Ruth Loos, Novo Nordisk Foundation for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR), University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• 25_th of May: The development of eating disorders in adolescence: Disentangling risk factors
  Nadia Micali - Professor and Head of Research in Eating Disorders, Psychiatric Center Ballerup, Mental Health Services of the Capital Region of Denmark

2021

• 18^th of March: Postponed until later this year
  The Danish Blood Donor Study – possibilities and challenges for epidemiologic Research
  Professor Henrik Ullum, Klinisk Immunologisk Afdeling, Rigshospitalet.
  
  
• 20^th of May: Alcohol research – from an epidemiological and interventional point of view
  Professor Janne Tolstrup, National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark

2020

• 6^th of February: Methodological issues related to sibling and twin designs in epidemiology
  Professor Thorkild IA Sørensen, Section of Epidemiology and Associate Professor Theis Lange, Section of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen
  
  
• 22^nd of October: Challenges in emulating target trials (lunch seminar)
  Professor Bianca de Stavola, Institute of Child Health, UCL, London, UK

• 3^rd of December: Working with Non-Traditional Data Sources
  Professor Sune Lehmann Jørgensen, DTU Compute, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.

2019

• 28^th of February: Complex system models in public health
  Professor Harry Rutter, University of Bath, UK

• 21^st of March:  How to evaluate potential non-specific effects of vaccines: the quest for randomized trials or time for triangulation?
  Professor Christine Stabell Benn, Bandim Health Group, Statens Serum Institute, DK

• 11^th of April: Data Fusion, Computational Epidemiology, and Causal Inference. 
  Professor Onyebuchi Arah, University of California, Los Angeles, US

• 9^th of May: (Note: two hour seminar from 3 to 5 pm) : Global studies of anthropometrics: geographical distributions, trends, and genetic and environmental influences Professor Bin Zhou, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London and Professor Karri Silventoinen, Population Research Unit, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki

• 20^th of June: New approaches to the spatial mapping of disease
  Associate Professor Samir Bhatt, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK

• 10^th of October: Social inequalities in children's mental health: novel methodological approaches
  Professor Maria Melchior, INSERM, France

• 28^th of November: Predicting the personalized need of care in an ageing society
  Dr. Marvin N Wright, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research & Epidemiology, Germany
  Dr. Sasmita Kusumastuti, Section of Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

• 12^th of December: Methodological issues related to sibling and twin designs in epidemiology
  Professor Thorkild IA Sørensen, Section of Epidemiology and Associate Professor Theis Lange, Section of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen

2018

• 22^nd of February: Viewpoints in Epidemiology Senior Faculty at Section of Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen (Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, Katrine Strandberg-Larsen, Rudi Westendorp, Thorkild IA Sørensen, Mads Kamper-Jørgensen, and Naja Hulvej Rod)
• 22^nd of March: How to handle confounding – an ongoing discussion in epidemiology Professor Thomas Gerds, Section of Biostatistics & Associate Professor Mads Kamper-Jørgensen, Section of Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen.
  
  
• 26^th of April: Translation of evidence to action in Public Health Professor Rudi Westendorp and Professor Thorkild IA Sørensen, Section of Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen
  
  
• 27^th of September: Breastfeeding Duration and T Lymphocyte Levels in Early Childhood , Postdoc Jordyn Tinka Wallenborn, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley
  
  
• 25^th of October: Title to be announced Professor of Medical Statistics Kate Tilling, University of Bristol
  
  
• 22^nd of November: Does mediation analysis inform public health? Methodological and data-related challenges and perspectives
  Associate Professor Theis Lange, Section of Biostatistics & Professor Naja Hulvej Rod, Section of Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen
  
  
• 20^th of December: Selection and collider bias in cohort studies, Associate Professor Lorenzo Richiardi, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Turin