Vagina Dialogues: Challenging Stigmas around Menstruation, Menopause and...
Communication taboos surround many aspects of women’s health and wellbeing, from menstruation to menopause to sexual pleasure. This presentation will briefly discuss the historical and socio-cultural...
View ArticleThe shifting evidence paradigm – from literature to data
Carol Lefebvre gives a talk for the Evidence based healthcare seminar series. Carol Lefebvre will address the shift in focus over the last 20 years away from purely ‘literature searching’, i.e. only...
View ArticleFake surgeries and dummy pills – control for bias and study design in trials...
In this talk Karolina presented various types of study design she has used in trials of treatments for chronic pain. Karolina also discussed why blinding is important and why a placebo control may be...
View ArticleThe jugglers and the black cat
There has never been such a high demand for our personal data, such that it is often said that individuals are the product, not just the client. Using the donation of general personal data and health...
View ArticleEvidence-Based Manifesto for better healthcare
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. Patients are being let down by serious flaws in the creation, dissemination, and implementation of medical research. Too...
View ArticleHistory of evidence synthesis
Professor Mike Clarke gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.
View ArticleCan antibiotics make you pregnant?
Dr Jeffrey Aronson gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.
View ArticleAdults' experiences of trying to lose weight on their own: findings from...
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is a Senior Researcher in Health Behaviours, based at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Her work focusses on obesity and tobacco...
View ArticleHow imperfect can a study be?
Professor Alan Silman is an epidemiologist and a rheumatologist and is the co-author of 'Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide', which is the recommended textbook for the module 'Introduction to...
View ArticleThe application of realist approaches at the research/policy/practice...
Professor Mike Kelly, Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare...
View ArticleSelection bias in cluster randomised controlled trials
Professor David Torgerson, Director of the York Trials Unit, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare podcast series. He has published widely with over 250 peer reviewed papers many of them on...
View ArticleWhy poor diagnostic reasoning is failing patients, the public and health...
Carl Heneghan asks the question, "What is driving the increase in diagnostic testing in healthcare?" and discusses why expectations, technology and the media are contributing to the problems of too...
View ArticleThe role of network meta-analysis in the evaluation of antidepressants for...
Andrea Cipriani is NIHR Research Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the NHS Foundation Trust in Oxford. His main interest in...
View ArticleSize matters a tous les temps, a tous les peuples
Dr. Martyn Sene is Deputy CEO of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), here, he gives an introduction to the importance of measurement and metrology (the science of measurement). NPL is the UK's...
View ArticleAre we really advancing qualitative methods in health research?
For many good reasons, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis, and realist tales have become key tools within the qualitative researcher's methodological toolkit. In this...
View ArticleUsing evidence to overcome fake news about healthcare
Professor Carl Heneghan has extensive experience of working with the media. In this talk he will discuss some recent case examples, working with the BBC amongst others. This talk will discuss how using...
View ArticleThe BMJ's open data campaign
Fiona Godlee, Editor in Chief of The BMJ, gives a talk for the EBHC podcast series Fiona Godlee is the Editor in Chief of The BMJ. She qualified as a doctor in 1985, trained as a general physician in...
View ArticleBehavioural Interventions to Improve the Quality of the Grocery Shopping
This evening lecture is given in conjunction with the Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods accredited short course, part of the Evidence-Based Healthcare programme at the University of...
View ArticleBig data in heart failure - opportunities and realities
The global health burden of heart failure is high, both as the common end-point for many cardiovascular diseases (e.g. hypertension and heart attacks) and a common point on the trajectory of...
View ArticleThe secret diary of a health ethnographer - what's it *really* like doing...
This guest lecture draws on nearly thirty years' experience of doing qualitative research in a variety of health settings that contain people, blood, injury, disease, emotions, and technologies. Prof...
View ArticleDiabetes, blood sugar, and red wine: a personal study
This talk was delivered by Martin Bland. Martin Bland joined the University of York as Professor of Health Statistics in 2003, retiring and becoming Emeritus Professor in 2015. Earlier posts were at...
View ArticleSafe and effective drugs: The need to use all the available evidence to...
Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, employs evidence-based methods to research diagnostic reasoning, test accuracy and communicating diagnostic results to a wider audience. Professor...
View ArticleEverything is a poison
Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, gives a talk on dose-response curves for the EBHC podcast series.
View ArticleOperationalising the potential of Applied Digital Health research
The increased reliance of health systems on the digital record as the primary mechanism for storing data on consultations and other health interactions has opened new opportunities for research,...
View ArticleEvidence isn't enough: The politics and practicalities of communicating...
The logic and principles behind the drive for evidence-based health care are so compelling that often the limitations of evidence go unacknowledged. Despite a strong evidence base demonstrating the...
View ArticleRealist research in practice - informing a new TB policy in Georgia
Professor Bruno Marchal gives a talk illustrating the principles of realist evaluation using the case of the development of a new Tuberculosis control policy in Georgia. The talk focuses specifically...
View ArticleHealth Policy Evaluation
Professor Karla Hemming discusses using evidence-based policy in the evaluation of policy interventions and answers the question 'how useful is the stepped-wedge study as an evaluation design?...
View ArticleConflicts of Interest in Medicine: Why it’s time for a UK Sunshine Act
Should doctors with commercial interests lead research on their products? Should we forget ‘conflicts’ and discuss ‘declarations of interest’ instead? Who should hold and maintain conflicts of interest...
View ArticleWhen meta-analyses of the same question find different things
Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce discusses a case study of systematic reviews of electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation, looking across meta-analyses in this area. Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is Senior...
View ArticleOverdiagnosis and Lung Cancer Screening
Recent results of the NELSON Lung Cancer Screening Trial reports reductions in lung-cancer survival but not overall survival - The desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the...
View ArticleHow do species postpone or even escape from senescence?
Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez, Associate Professor in Ecology, Department of Zoology, gives a talk on lessons for a longer, better human life for the EBHC podcast series.
View ArticleExploring the fundamentals of leadership with Professor Carl Heneghan - Part...
Professor Kamal Mahtani interviews Professor Carl Heneghan, exploring his leadership; how it all started, the challenges he has faced, emotional intelligence, the importance of clear communication and...
View ArticleExploring the fundamentals of leadership with Professor Carl Heneghan - Part...
Professor Kamal Mahtani continues his interview with Professor Carl Heneghan, discussing where your motivation as a leader comes from, succession planning, seeking mentoring, how leaders can engage...
View ArticleLeading and teaching Evidence-Based Health Care
Professor Kamal Mahtani and David Nunan interview Professor Paul Glasziou, Director of the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Bond University, about his experience of leadership and his work in...
View ArticleThe messy realities of qualitative health research
Dr Anne-Marie Boylan and Dr Laura Griffith, explore the value of qualitative health research and discuss what it's really like to undertake qualitative research. Qualitative research is a naturalistic...
View ArticleHow do you carry out a realist synthesis of an intervention when there's 'no...
Joanne Greenhalgh, Professor of Applied Social Research Methodology (University of Leeds) on the experiences of conducting a realist synthesis of the feedback of aggregated patient reported outcome...
View ArticleHow should we teach evidence-based medicine in the 21st century?
Dr Gordon Guyatt provides a guest talk on how we should teach evidence-based medicine in the 21st century This free guest lecture is part of the Teaching Evidence-Based Practice module, part of the...
View ArticleSporadic, late-onset, and multi-stage diseases
Dr Anthony Webster, University of Oxford gives a talk on combining mathematical modelling with big data statistics to distinguish between sporadic, late-onset, and multi-stage diseases. Dr Anthony...
View ArticleEvidence in Women's Health: Are there higher mortality rates in women who...
In 2022 a Canadian population based retrospective cohort study hit the headlines in the U.K. by claiming that women were 32% more likely to die if operated on by a male surgeon. The study was led by...
View ArticleHeart Failure in Primary Care: Lessons from Big Data
Dr Clare J Taylor, Academic GP, explores how we can use large, anonymised GP datasets to improve our understanding of heart failure management in primary care. Nearly all UK residents are registered...
View ArticleEvidence in Women's Health: Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) -...
EBHC DPhil Director, Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Dr. Anne Marie Boylan discuss menopause and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) In this episode EBHC DPhil Director, Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Dr. Anne Marie...
View ArticleEvidence in Women's Health: Why is endometriosis difficult to diagnose?
We discuss evidence around delays in diagnosis of endometriosis and speak with Dr Annalise Weckesser and Dr Sharon Dixon, who have both researched endometriosis from the perspective of women as...
View ArticleEvidence in Women's Health: Evaluating a community singing intervention for...
Dr Alexandra Burton reports on the SHAPER-PND study exploring singing's effect on postnatal depression in new mothers Singing has shown positive effects on maternal mood and mother–child bonding. The...
View ArticleThe medical occupational outcomes of military mental health patients. A...
Surgeon Commander Charlotte Evans is Royal Navy Hudson Visiting Fellow at St. Anthony's College and gave a talk about her dissertation work in relation to military mental health patients.
View ArticleEvidence in Women's Health: Coil contraceptive - what is it and what are the...
In this episode EBHC DPhil Director, Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Dr. Anne Marie Boylan discuss intrauterine contraception commonly known as the coil. Given the uncertainty around who feels pain, they...
View ArticleAlcohol and cardiovascular disease: Is moderate drinking really beneficial...
Dr Derrick Bennett, University of Oxford gives a talk on the epidemiological evidence of alcohol and cardiovascular disease. Dr Derrick Bennett, Associate Professor at the Nuffield Department of...
View ArticleTesting usability and impact of the OxRisk prediction models
Professor Seena Fazel, University of Oxford gives a talk on recent advances in prognostic modelling in psychiatry. Professor Seena Fazel, a Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Oxford...
View ArticleRealist inquiry in global health practice: trials, tribulations (& triumphs?)
Dr Sara Van Belle, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp gives a talk on the practice of realist inquiry in global health. Dr Sara Van Belle, Researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp...
View ArticleSpeedy or sloppy?: The opportunities and challenges of rapid qualitative...
Using a variety of examples of fast and slow qualitative research this talk explores the affordances of rapid methods, and help researchers decide if and where to use them in their own work....
View ArticleEvidence-based dentistry: The building of the Dental Fact Box repository – OHA!
An introduction to OHA!, a tool currently being developed which aims to assist dentists in accessing the most reliable evidence regarding the effectiveness of common dental treatments. The OHA!...
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