STAGE ISSS: George Davey-Smith

Join us for the next instalment of the STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) with

George Davey-Smith

Director, Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and their Children
Director, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Bristol

Talk Title:

How Can Genetic Epidemiology Help Identify Modifiable Causes of Disease

Abstract:

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Speaker Profile:

George Davey Smith is professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Bristol, honorary professor of public health at the University of Glasgow and visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is Scientific Director of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) and Director of the MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology. His major research interest relate to the use of genetic epidemiology for informing understanding of the causal influence of environmentally modifiable risk factors and how social inequalities in health are generated by exposures acting over the entire lifecourse. Prof. Davey Smith has also worked on HIV/ AIDS prevention in Nicaragua and India and on issues around the history of epidemiology, meta-analysis, lay epidemiology and epidemiological methodology. His H index is 100, and he is a foreign associate of the Institute of Medicine, US National Academy of Sciences. He is coeditor of the International Journal of Epidemiology

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