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Characterising the Exposome: A holistic approach to help understand the impact of the environment on health

In this talk, Charlotte will cover how epidemiology and exposure science underpin the concept of the exposome, why exposomic research is necessary to investigate the non-genetic burden of disease,…

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Use of Thomson's data in studies of cognative ageing and cognative epidemiology by Ian Deary

Presentation by Ian Deary for Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology 2014.University of Edinburgh.

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EGS - Epidemiology

Equine Grass Sickness (EGS) Prof. Bruce McGorum Subtitles corrected

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UK-APASI in Mathematical Sciences: Alberto d'Onofrio

Subtitles will be added soon. Alberto d'Onofrio Behavioral Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: its recent past and its future

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Research During a Pandemic - The ISARIC study

Dr Annemarie Docherty, Wellcome fellow and Consultant in Critical Care discusses the ISARIC study. This observational study has recruited approximately two thirds of patients of all ages admitted to…

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Moray House Online Conversations - Mark Woolhouse, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Mark Woolhouse, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology presents some data around the current Covid-19 situation to senior leaders from the South East Scotland Improvement Collaborative.

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Lukas Engelmann on biomedical evidence, digital bio markers, and visualising epidemics

Lukas Englemann is Chancellors Fellow in History and Sociology of Biomedicine at the University of Edinburgh.

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Resilience and Depression: the STRADL project

What makes people resilient to depression? Depression is a very common psychiatric disorder but also one of the least studied. Past research tried to pin down the reasons that led people to…

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Critical Thinking in Global Challenges - Infectious diseases - Part 1

This project was created by the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.

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Critical Thinking in Global Challenges - Infectious diseases - Part 2

This project was created by the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.

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Dr Mike Gillies & Mr Ewen Harrison: The effect of day of the week on short- and long-term mortality for emergency general surgery.

The effect of day of the week on short- and long-term mortality for emergency general surgery: a population based cohort study. The effect of day of the week on outcome after surgery is the subject…

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Losing our minds: Can we stop our brains from ageing?

Wednesday 7th December 2016Join Dr Susan Shenkin Dr Iva Čukic to learn about our recent research on the causes of cognitive ageing, its effects on people’s lives, and whether there’s…

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Dr Mike Gillies: large epidemiological study

Researchers from Departments of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Surgery at the University of Edinburgh undertook a large epidemiological study looking at data from all patients having emergency…

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Cross sectional study - calculating measure of association

How to calculate the prevalence ratio, a measure of association between disease occurrence and risk factor, for cross sectional study data.

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Cohort studies - calculating measure of association

How to calculate the relative risk, measure of association between disease occurrence and risk factor, from cohort study data.

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The biology of the skin barrier: the eczema connection.

A description of basic keratinocyte biology, with an emphasis on the formation of the stratum corneum. I explain how the bricks and mortar model works, and how external agents can attack this barrier…

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