Events

British Academy Conference: Modelling for Policy

Modelling for Policy Conference addresses the timely questions of how computational techniques help generate evidence to predict and govern infectious risks. Using models as evidence for policies is of increasing importance. When vaccination strategies are reformed or predictive scenarios of a pandemic outbreak are needed, modelling and simulation techniques are in use. This conference discusses what kind of tools computational models are and how they are used in governance of risk from infectious diseases.

The conference invites contributions from climate policy, risk governance and public health history to provide insights about how computational techniques have proven useful in other fields and what kinds of restrictions they have encountered. A special focus will be on how best to communicate the nature of model-based evidence across expert communities and between experts and their audiences in government, the media and the wider public.

Dates: 17th - 18th May 2012
Convenors: Professor Tony Barnett and Dr Erika Mansnerus, LSE Health
Venue: The British Academy, Carlton House Terrace 10-11, London
More information and registration|

Keynote address: Professor Mary Morgan, FBA, London School of Economics and Political Science

Speakers: Dr Kari Auranen and Dr Tuija Leino (The Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland), Professor Virginia Berridge (London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Professor Robert Dingwall (Dingwall Enterprises/Nottingham Trent University), Professor Nigel Gibbens (DEFRA), Dr Gabriele Gramelsberger (Free University Berlin), Dr Helen Lambert (University of Bristol), Professor Melissa Leach (Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex), Professor Angela McLean (University of Oxford), Professor Angus Nicoll (European Centre for Disease Control), Professor Sabine Roeser (Technical University of Delft), Professor Charlotte Watts (London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Experts' seminar on reforms and efficiency in European health systems

Date: Friday 8th June 2012
Time: 9am - 5pm
Location: New Academic Building, LSE

This one-day seminar aims to review ways of strengthening efficiency in national health systems and measuring health system efficiency, both within and across countries. An introductory session will outline key conceptual and measurement issues and provide an international overview. This will be followed by analysis of national attempts to enhance efficiency in health care, drawing on the experience of individual countries.

The seminar is free but requires registration. To register, please email Claire Coleman (C.Coleman1@lse.ac.uk|). For further information or any queries email Sotiris Vandoros (S.Vandoros@lse.ac.uk|).

To view the full programme, please click here| (PDF).

Forthcoming seminar information will be posted here in due course.

Past

• Summer Term Formal Seminar Programme 2010
• Lent Term Formal Seminar Programme 2010
• Michaelmas Term Formal Seminar Programme 2009
• Summer Term Formal Seminar Programme 2009
• Lent Term Formal Seminar Programme 2009
• Michaelmas Term Formal Seminar Programme 2008
• Summer Term Formal Seminar Programme 2008
• Lent Term Formal Seminar Programme 2008
• Michaelmas Term Formal Seminar Programme 2007
• Summer Term Formal Seminar Programme 2007
• Lent Term Formal Seminar Programme 2007
• Michaelmas Term Formal Seminar Programme 2006

 

• QORU Seminar: How Can We Make The Best Use Of Information On Outcomes?
  Date: 2nd April 2012, 1pm - 4:30pm
  Location: London School of Economics
  Speakers: Professor Angela Coulter (University of Oxford), Professor Crispin Jenkinson (University of Oxford), Professor Julien Forder (LSE/University of Kent), Juliette Malley (LSE/University of Kent)
  Abstract:
  Health and social care policy currently puts considerable emphasis on 'outcomes'. The new outcomes frameworks for health and social care have at their core patient reported outcome measures (PROMS) and measures of social care-related quality of life. But to what extent do these measures really reflect 'outcomes' for people with long-term conditions? How can we make best use of these outcome indicators? What other information do we need to interpret them?
  The Department of Health funded policy Research Unit in Quality and Outcomes of person-centred care (QORU) held a seminar on 2 April 2012 at LSE to discuss these issues.  The aim of the seminar was to bring together interested parties to discuss how we can improve the quality of services through use of 'outcome' data that is increasingly becoming available, but has yet to be integrated into health and social care. 
  Click here to view the full programme. (PDF)
• "Evidence on the long shadow of poor mental health across three generations"
  Date: Wednesday 21st March, 12:30 - 13:45
  Speaker: Professor Michael Shields, Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne 
  Abstract
  Individuals suffering from mental health problems are often severely limited in their social and economic functioning. Mental health problems can develop early in life, are frequently chronic in nature, and have an established hereditary component. The extent to which mental illness runs in families could therefore help explain the widely discussed intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic disadvantage. Using data from three generations contained in the 1970 British Cohort Study, we estimate the intergenerational correlation of mental health between mothers, their children, and their grandchildren. We find that the  intergenerational correlation in mental health is about 0.2, and that the probability of feeling depressed is 63 percent higher for children whose mothers reported the same symptom 20 years earlier. Moreover, grandmother and grandchild mental health are strongly correlated, but this relationship appears to work fully through the mental health of the parent. Using grandmother mental health as an instrument for maternal mental health in a model of grandchild mental health confirms the strong intergenerational correlation. We also find that maternal and own mental health are strong predictors of adulthood socioeconomic outcomes. Even after controlling for parental socioeconomic status, own educational attainment, and own mental health (captured in childhood and adulthood), our results suggest that a one standard deviation reduction in maternal mental health reduces household income for their adult offspring by around 2 percent.
• SSCR Workshop on Research Ethics for Adult Social Care
  Date: 9th March 2012
  Time: 10:30 - 15:00
  Venue: Guy's Campus, King's College London
  This workshop aimd to provide an overview on research ethics in adult social care that encourages a reflexive approach to ethics throughout the timeline of a research study.
• Seminar LSE Literary Festival: The Medicine Chest of the Soul: Arts and Health
  Date: Wednesday 29th February
  Time: 16:30 - 18:00
  Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
  Speakers: Jane Davies, David McDaid, Margaret Perkins, Jeanette Winterson
  Chair: Tim Joss
  This session explored the substantial role that arts can play in improving health and wellbeing. A number of studies have demonstrated the positive benefits from, for example, reading for people with dementia. Speakers within this session have been working to demonstrate the benefits of arts on health and to develop integral services within health and social care practices. This session discussed the healing power of literature and hear what is cutting edge today.
• The Birthplace Cohort Study
  Date: 15th February 2012, 12.30-13.45
  Speaker: Professor Peter Brocklehurst (Professor of Women's Health and Director of the Institute for Women's Health, UCL)
  Abstract: The Birthplace cohort study compared the safety of births planned in four settings: home, freestanding midwifery units (FMUs), alongside midwifery units (AMUs) and obstetric units (OUs). The main findings relate to healthy women with straightforward pregnancies who meet the NICE intrapartum care guideline criteria for a 'low risk' birth.
• LSE Health and Social Care Lunch Seminar - A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
  Date: Tuesday 7th February 2012, 13.00-14.30
  Speaker: Dr Titus Galama, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica (California, USA)
  Summary: Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a sufficiently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that incorporates multiple mechanisms explaining (jointly) a large part of the observed disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a subsequent narrowing with age of the gradient in health by SES. The full paper can be found at:
  http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2010/RAND_WR773.pdf 
• Economics and human biology: a quarter century of research
  Date: 15th December 2011, 12:45-13:45
  Speaker: Professor John Komlos, Professor Emeritus of Economics (University of Munich), Visiting Professor (Duke University), Founding Editor of Economics and Human Biology
  Venue: CLEM 2.02, LSE
  *Special joint seminar, LSE Health and the European Institute*This seminar explores the extent to which economic processes affect biological processes.
• National Institute of Health Research Open Day
  Date: Tuesday 22nd November 2011
  Location: Goodenough College, London
  Hosted by LSE Health and Social Care, LSE Research Division and NIHR Research Design Service London, this one-day event showcased the funding opportunities available through the National Institute for Health Research to undertake and lead health and social care research to improve health and wellbeing in England.
• LSE Health and Social Care Annual Lecture 2011: 'Fairer Care Funding'
  Speaker: Mr Andrew Dilnot (Chair, Commission on Funding of Care and Support)
  Chair: Professor Martin Knapp (Director, LSE Health and Social Care)
  Date:  Tuesday 22nd November 2011, 6pm followed by reception
  Venue:  Old Theatre, LSE Old Building
• Migration in social care work 
  Date: 16th November 2011, 12.30-13.45
  Venue: NAB 2.14, LSE
  Speaker: Professor Jill Manthorpe (Director, Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London)
• The role of mental health services in improving care for long-term conditions
  Date: 22nd September 2011
  Venue: The King's Fund, London
  One-day conference
• Issues on rationing in health care
  Conference on Health Care Rationing
  Date: 19th - 20th September 2011
  Venue: London School of Economics
• Quality in Health and Social Care
  Hosted by LSE Health and Social Care
  Date: Tuesday 5 July 2011, 3-5pm
  The event is supported by HEIF4 Bid Fund
  
  
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