Seminars & Report Launches

SPH Seminar Series 2021

Presents

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The COVID-19 Vaccine: An Overview

Presented by Dr Anne Moore

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Tuesday 12^th January 2021

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Venue: MS Teams

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Dr Anne Moore

Anne completed a PhD in HIV vaccine immunology with Professor Kingston Mills. She completed post-doctoral work on defects in immune responses in HIV-infected individuals in the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia and further work on recombinant vaccines against viruses such as HIV and Ebola virus in Dr.Gary Nabel's lab, then at the University of Michigan.

As a senior immunologist in Prof. Adrian Hill's group in the University of Oxford, she developed several T cell inducing vaccine candidates against malaria, TB and influenza and was involved in clinical trials of these and other vaccine candidates. She was a Lecturer in Pharmacology, based in the School of Pharmacy, in early 2007. In 2016 she worked for 10 months with the vaccine biotech company, Vaxart, South San Francisco while on sabbatical. Here she worked on tablet-based oral vaccines for a range of therapeutic and prophylactic vaccine. In September 2018, she took a position as Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry and Cell Biology.

Her research interests are in vaccine development, access and acceptability. She is interested in developing and clinically translating anti-viral vaccines that can be thermostabilised for easy distribution and new formats for easy administration, such as tablets, nasal sprays and skin patches. Dr. Moore and colleagues in the School of Pharmacy have published widely on vaccine confidence in Ireland.

All are welcome

Organisers: Edel Burton & Prof. Patricia Kearney

The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI) European Union March 2021

05 Mar 2021

Co-authored by Dr Janas M Harrington, School of Public Health, UCC

An assessment of EU-level policies influencing food environments and priority actions to create healthy food environments in the EU.

Overweight, obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a major public health challenge in Europe.

Suboptimal diets are key contributors to increasing the risk of these diseases and thereby affect the health and economic systems of all European Member States.

In addition, in most European countries socioeconomic inequalities in obesity and dietary patterns are evident. Population diets are influenced by food environments in European Member States.

Read more

Report Launch 2020

Food Environment Policy Index: Food-EPI Ireland Report

Launched 9th November 2020

For further information, please email Dr Janas Harrington j.harrington@ucc.ie

To download the Food Environment Policy Index: Food-EPI Ireland Report, please click on

SPH Ireland Food-EPI Report.pdf

To download Policies for Tackling Obesity and Creating Healthier Food Environments in Ireland: Food-EPI 2020, please click on

The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index-Evidence Doc

The Irish Times 9th November 2020

Irish policies to tackle obesity ‘fall behind international best practice’.

Experts call for ‘no fry zones’, school food policies and restrictions on unhealthy ads.

The first Irish Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI), conducted by University College Cork, compared the Irish food system to international standards.

Dr Janas Harrington from UCC’s School of Public Health, and lead-author of the report, said the findings highlight the need to reform Ireland’s “food environment”, which is defined as interconnected factors that characterise our food system and largely determine our dietary intakes.

To read Shauna Bowers full article in The Irish Times, please click on the following link:

h ttps://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/irish-policies-to-tackle-obesity-fall-behind-international-best-practice-report-1.4403921

Seminars 2018

Date/Venue	Title	Presented By
Wednesday 26th September, 12.30-14.00 Room G04 (Ground Floor), Brookfield Campus	‘The Role of the Media in Suicide Prevention, Suicide Clustering and Contagion’	Dr. Lay San Too, Prof. Ella Arensman, Dr. Paul Corcoran, Dr. Eve Griffin, Mr. Niall McTernan
Monday, 17th September, 13.15 - 14.00 , Room G04 , Western Gateway Building	‘Supporting women throughout the perinatal period: the collaboration between midwives and health visitors’	Dr. Ellinor Olander, Senior Lecturer in Maternal & Child Health, City University of London
19th April 2018, 1:15-2:00pm, Room 3.04, Western Gateway Building	Physiotherapy Research at UCC: What’s the plan?	Dr. Joseph McVeigh
21st March 2018, 1.15-2pm, Room 3.04, Western Gateway Building	The Mitchelstown Cohort Study: Change and stability in cardiovascular risk profile between baseline and 6 year follow up?	Dr. Janas Harrington
5th March 2018, 1:15-2:00pm, Room 3.04, Western Gateway Building	‘Preventing Child Trafficking: A Public Health Approach’	Prof. Jonathan Todres
27th February 2018, 1:15-2:00pm, Room 4.05, Western Gateway Building	Should scientists spend their valuable time on social media?	Dr. Darren Dahly
13th February 2018, 1:15-2:00pm, Room 4.05, Western Gateway Building	‘Data Collection and Data Integration Tools to Support Public Health Research’	Dr John O’Donoghue
7th February 2018, 1:15-2:00pm, Room 3.04, Western Gateway Building	‘The physical activity behaviours of older Irish adults: findings from the MCR Study’	Dr Cormac Powell

Seminars 2017

Date/Venue	Title	Presented By
1st December, 1:15-2:00pm, Room 4.02, Western Gateway Building	‘The experience of living with HIV’	Will Kennedy
28th November, 1 - 2pm, Room 4.02, Western Gateway Building	‘Using patient-reported outcome measures to improve healthcare: time for a new approach’	Prof. John Browne
4th October, 1.15-2pm, Room G16, Western Gateway Building	‘Using Community Based Participatory Research to explore social determinants of Traveller Women’s Food and Exercise Behaviours’	Anne Burke and Mary Cronin
28th September, 1:15 - 2:00pm, Room 4.05, Western Gateway Building	‘A Little Nightclub Medicine: Caring for Clubbers and other “Party Animals” in the 21st Century’	Dr. Chris Luke
14th September, 1:15-2:00pm, Room 4.05, Western Gateway Building	Self-harm and suicide in young people and those in the middle age group: Associated risk factors and evidence based interventions	Prof. Ella Arensman
25th May, 1:15-2:00pm, Room 4.05, Western Gateway Building	A social researcher developing a career in medicine and health	Dr. Sarah Meaney
23rd May, 1:15-2:00pm, Room 4.05, Western Gateway Building	With Great Science, Comes Great Responsibility	Dr. Ria O’Sullivan-Lago
18th May, 1:15-2:00pm, Room 4.05, Western Gateway Building	New evidence for the physical activity health paradox from the prospective Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study: The different roles of fitness, leisure time and occupational physical activity for cardiovascular disease incidence, progression, and mortality.	Dr. Niklas Krause
17th May, 1:15-2:00pm, Room 4.05, Western Gateway Building	Strengthening the Civic Mission of Higher Education: the role of community engaged scholarship in medicine and health	Martin Galvin
11th May, 1:15-2:00pm, Room 4.05, Western Gateway Building	A career in academic administration – my experience and thoughts	Dr. Dervla Hogan
3rd May, 12:15-1:30pm, Room 4.05, Western Gateway Building	Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization, and Public Health: a Dialogue	Dr Kieran Keohane and Prof. Ivan Perry
25th April, 1:15-2:00pm, Room 4.05, Western Gateway Building	Making steps towards gender equality at a local level	Dr. Caitríona Ní Laoire and Dr. Sarah M. Field
6th April, 12:15-1:00pm, Room 4.02, Western Gateway Building	The Institut Obert de Catalunya and the risk prevention system in Catalonia	Carme Cerdà
4th April, 1:15-2:00pm, Room 4.05, Western Gateway Building	Career pathway: my experience…so far	Maria Boyce
30th March, 12:15-1:00pm, Room 4.02, Western Gateway Building	An Alternative Research Career – Research Administration	Louise Burgoyne
21st March, 1:15 - 2:00pm, Room 4.05, Western Gateway Building	Engagement at scale - online mental health programmes	Gavin Doherty
7th March, 1:15 - 2:00pm, Room 4.02, Western Gateway Building	F.A.I.R. Data Management: principles, policy, and practice	Eoghan Ó Carragáin
23rd February, 1.15 - 2:00pm, Room 4.02, Western Gateway Building	Enforcing smoke-free universities: A descriptive analysis and phenomenology	Chris Seitz
13th February, 1:15 - 2:00pm, Room G17, Western Gateway Building	An overview of Athena SWAN at UCC	Ann King
3rd February, 1:15 - 2:00pm, Room 4.05, Western Gateway Building	Biostatistics and Epidemiology: Opportunities in Industry	Eileen Curran

Seminars 2016

Date/Venue	Title	Presented By
16th December, 12:30-13:30, Western Gateway Building Room 405	Improving Diabetes Care in Ireland: Challenges and Opportunities	Professor Sean F Dinneen
15th December, 1.15 - 2.00pm, Western Gateway Building Room 405	Information for Action. Utilising basic public health skills in a humanitarian emergency – a perspective from the Typhoon Haiyan response in the Philippines, 2014	Dr Aileen Kitching
13th December, 1.15 - 2.00pm, Western Gateway Building Room 405	Proposed Pilot for Cork City: Enhancing awareness, connectivity & transparency in the food system	Pavlos Georgiadis
29th November, 1.15 - 2.00pm, Western Gateway Building Room 402	The Process of Applying for a HRB Cochrane Fellowship - Tips for Success	Dr Sinead O Neill
24th November, 1.15 - 2.00pm, Western Gateway Building Room 405	Ethical deviance and healthcare professionals	Dr Myles Balfe
18th November, 1.15 - 2.00pm, Western Gateway Building Room 405	Mapping and categorization of published burden of disease studies in Europe	Mark O'Donovan, Bsc. Public Health
3rd November, 1.15 - 2.00pm, Western Gateway Building Room 405	Pharmacoepidemiology in Ireland: the good, the bad and the ugly	Professor Kathleen Bennett
4th October, 1.15-2.00pm, Western Gateway Building Room 304	Cyberbullying in Young People: Behaviours, Experiences, Resolutions	Rebecca Dennehy
21 September WGB 4.05 1.10-2PM	Current Status of Suicide Prevention Internationally: Enhancing Suicide Prevention in Ireland	Professor Ella Arensman
8th September WGB 4.05 1.15-2PM	Oral Presentations for Soc Soc Med 2016 and INFANT Research Day 2016	Four members from the department have been selected to present at the upcoming Society of Social Medicine in Dublin (12th-16th September 2016) and INFANT Research Day (9th September 2016)
6th September WGB 3. 04 1.15-2pm	Assessment and harmonisation of dietary intake methods for pan-European research: Challenges and Implications for Nutrition Surveillance in Ireland.	Janas Harrington
29th June WGB 4.05 1.15-2PM	The use and abuse of the P-Value	Dr Darren Dahly
17th June WGB 4.05, 1.15-2pm	An overview of Boston Scientific Therapies and the Use of Statistical Methods to Validate Them	Dr Sean Curran
14th June 4.05, 1.15-2pm	Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Workshop	Ms Shelly Chakraborty
31st May WGB 4.05, 1.15-2pm	Psychosocial stress in a nutritional public health perspective	Dr Nathalie Michels
10th May WGB 4.05, 1.15 - 2pm	Writing Research Grants	Prof Lisa Chasan Taber
6th May 4.05, 1.15-2pm	CV Outcome Trials in Type 2 Diabetes: A Review	Prof. Neil Poulter
19th April WGB 4.05, 2.15-3.15pm	The Danish National Birth Cohort history, content and examples of use	Prof. Jørn Olsen
5th April WGB 4.05, 1.15-2pm	Obstetric Mode of Delivery and Child Psychological Development	Eileen Curran
24th March WGB 4.02, 1.15-2pm	Quintile Regression	Eileen Curran
16th March WGB 3.04, 1.15 - 2pm	Research integrity	Prof. John Browne
25th February WGB 4.02	The challenges of healthcare in contemporary Africa	Ms Fatia Kiyange
23rd February WGB G02 1-3pm	SPHeRE presentations	Ms Emily Kelleher, Mr Kieran Walsh, Ms Gillian Maher, Ms Sarah Fitzgerald
22nd February WGB 3.01 1-3pm	SPHeRE presentations	Mr David O’Riordan, Ms Caragh Flannery, Ms Sharon Cadogan, Ms Christina Hansen
11th February WGB G02 12.15-1pm	A data protection briefing	Ms. Audrey Huggard and Ms. Catriona O'Sullivan
12th January 1.15 -2.15pm, Western Gateway Building Room 4.05	A structural approach to bias	Dr. Darren Dahly

Seminars 2015

Date/Venue	Title	Presented By

12th January 1.15 -2.15pm, Western Gateway Building Room 4.05	A structural approach to bias	Dr. Darren Dahly
3rd December 1.15 -2.15pm, Western Gateway Building Room 4.05	Some Reflections on Causation	Prof. Ivan Perry
3rd November 2015 1.15-2pm, Western Gateway Building Room 4.05	‘Psychometric Scaling: Modern Measurement Methods'	Prof John Browne, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health.
27-October 2015 1.15-2pm, Western Gateway Building Room G16	‘Gestational age and birth weight and the risk of childhood type 1 diabetes: a population-based cohort and sibling design study’	Dr Ali Khashan, Senior Lecturer, Epidemiology & Public Health.
27th August 2015	Oral Presentations for Soc Soc Med 2015	Six members from the department have been selected to present at the upcoming Society of Social Medicine in Dublin (2nd-4th September 2015).
12th June 2015	It’s Never too Early: Diabetes Prevention in Pregnancy	Prof Lisa Chasan-Taber, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
11th June 2015	Changes in Response to Food Associated with Weight Loss	Prof Philip J Brantley, Pennington Biomedical Research Centre, Louisiana State University
12th May 2015	How much does cancer cost? Health economics in a national cancer registry.	Dr Alison Pearce, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, National Cancer Registry Ireland
6th May 2015	Patient Level Costing: A time-driven activity based method for costing Type 2 Diabetes	Dr Gerardine Doyle, Senior Lecturer, School of Business, University College Dublin
23rd April 2015	Life course epidemiology: statistical approaches with examples from the epidemiology of child growth and cardio metabolic health	Dr Laura Howe, statistical epidemiologist at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol
17th April 2015	The realist evaluation of a palliative integrated care pathway in primary care: what works, for whom, and in what circumstances	Dr Sonia Darkin, Research Fellow, University of Leeds
18th March 2015	Familial confounding and the association between mode of delivery and neurodevelopmental disorders	Ms Eileen Curran, PhD student, Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research
19th February 2015	Epidemiology & prevention of cardio-metabolic disease: A journey from the Mediterranean region to Sub-Saharan Africa	Dr Saverio Stranges, Associate Clinical Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Division of Health Sciences,
Tuesday 17th February, 2015 1.15-2pm Venue: WGB 4.05 Western Gateway Building	Evaluating the hospital management of self-harm patients: an instrumental variable approach’	Robert Carroll, PhD student, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol.
Wednesday 28th January, 2015 1.15-2pm Venue: WGB 4.02 Western Gateway Building	‘Studying the origins of ethnic differences in cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: evidence from studies in children’	Professor Peter Whincup, Clinical Epidemiologist and Professor of Epidemiology at St George’s, University of London
Wednesday 10th December, 2014 1.15-2pm Venue: WGB 4.05 Western Gateway Building	‘An Introduction to Missing Data’	Dr Darren Daly, HRB Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement award (ICE) research fellow
Wednesday 26th November 2014 2.00 pm – 6.00 pm Venue: Brookfield G06.	Youth and Community Work Symposium	Professor Peadar Kirby, UL, (Academic Extern), and Eoin O’Neill, Director, Waterford and South Tipperary Community Youth Service (Practice Extern).
11am – 3pm Friday 7th November Aras Na MacLeinn, UCC	BSc International Development and Food Policy Placement Showcase 2014	Welcome and Opening Remarks - Dr Edward Lahiff Academic Director, BSc International Development and Food Policy.
1.15-2pm Thursday 13th November, 2014 Venue: WGB 4.05 Western Gateway Building	'Stroke Thrombolysis, Public Health and the Epidemiologist'	Presented by Dr Roger Shinton, clinical epidemiologist, former consultant physician, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and former Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham
9am-3pm Monday 15th December Venue: G05 Western Gateway Building UCC	The Hippocampus in Health and Disease	Nobel Laureate John O’Keefe
4-5pm Venue: Western Gateway Building room 4.05 UCC	“Digesting the Neurocircuitry of Appetite using Electrophysiology	Dr Harriet Schellekens and Dr Hamdy Shaban
1-2 pm Thursday 23rd October Venue Western Gate Building: Room WGB 106 UCC	The Challenge of Hidden Hunger The 2014 Global Hunger Index	Connell Foley, Director of Strategy, Advocacy & Learning, Concern Worldwide
Thursday, 23rd October @ 4pm Venue: Cavanagh Pharmacy Building LG 52	“Influenza Virus Transmission : more than coughs and sneezes”	Prof. Kim Roberts, Dept. of Microbiology, Trinity College Dublin
Thursday 23^rd October, 2014 3.15-4pm Venue: WGB 4.05Western Gateway Building	‘Methodological challenges to analyze dynamic patterns of determinants and diseases over time in longitudinal studies’	Prof Alex Burdorf, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiologist, University of Rotterdam.
Friday 3rd October 12 to 1pm Aras na Laoi G30	Diet-Heart and Nutritional Epidemiology: Lessons Not Learned	Dr Chris Sempos, Director for the Population Studies Program at the National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements
Friday October 3, 2014 1 -2pm Room 4.05 4th Floor Western Gateway Building	The Past, Present and Future of Malaria: an historical, ecological and personal perspective.	Dr Gerry F. Killeen, BSc PhD, of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and IFAKARA Health Institute, Tanzania
Monday 8th September, 2014 12-2pm, Western Gateway Building WGB 3.04	Oral presentations for SocSocMed	Several members from the department will be presenting their work in preparation for the Society for Social Medicine 98th Annual Scientific Meeting, 10th- 12th September.
Thursday 28th August, 2014 1.15-2pm, Western Gateway Building WGB 4.05	“Ask for evidence”	Síle Lane, Director of Campaigns at Sense About Science
Wednesday 6th August, 2014 1.15-2pm, Western Gateway Building WGB 4.05	“Growth Mixture Models in Epidemiology and the Impact of an Incorrectly Specified Random Structure on Model Inferences" “Effects of mode of delivery and maternal irritable bowel syndrome on childhood autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in a British cohort”	Dr Darren Dahly, HRB Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement Award (ICE) research fellow Ms Eileen Curran, PhD student with the Irish Centre for Fetal & Neonatal Translational Research
Monday 7th July, 2014 1.15-2pm, Western Gateway Building WGB 4.05	‘Resolving conflicts in the multimorbid consultation: How do GPs balance diseases, drugs and the views of other doctors?’	Dr. Carol Sinnott, Department of General Practice, UCC
Wednesday 4th June, 2014 1.15-2pm Western Gateway Building WGB 4.02	“Caesarean section and subsequent pregnancy outcome: a Danish register-based cohort study”	Ms Sinead O'Neill, HRB PhD Scholar in Health Services Research‌
Thursday 1st May, 2014, 1:15-2pm Western Gateway Building WGB 4.02	"Population-level variation in Early Childhood Development"	Ms Margaret Curtin, Epidemiology and Public Health, UCC
Thursday 10th April, 2014 1:15pm - 2.00pm Western Gateway Building WGB G04	“Sensory impairment and cognition, insights from experimental and population studies”	Dr Anna Lisa Setti, Lecturer, Applied Psychology, UCC
Wednesday 19th March, 2014 1:15pm - 2.00pm Western Gateway Building WGB 4.02	“Participation in daily activities and health related quality of life of late adolescents in contemporary Ireland"	Ms Eithne Hunt, Lecturer, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapies, UCC
Monday 3rd March, 2014 1:15pm - 2.00pm Western Gateway Building WGB 1.06	“Health Behaviour Change: Designing and Implementing Effective Interventions”	Dr Molly Byrne, HRB Research Leader & Research Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, NUI Galway

School of Public Health Scoil na Sláinte Poiblí

Seminars & Report Launches

SPH Seminar Series 2021

The COVID-19 Vaccine: An Overview

Presented by Dr Anne Moore

Tuesday 12^th January 2021

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Venue: MS Teams

______________________________________________________________________

All are welcome

Organisers: Edel Burton & Prof. Patricia Kearney

The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI) European Union March 2021

Report Launch 2020

Food Environment Policy Index: Food-EPI Ireland Report

Launched 9th November 2020

The Irish Times 9th November 2020

Seminars 2018

Seminars 2017

Seminars 2016

Seminars 2015

Contact Us

School of Public Health

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Seminars & Report Launches

SPH Seminar Series 2021

The COVID-19 Vaccine: An Overview

Presented by Dr Anne Moore

Tuesday 12th January 2021

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Venue: MS Teams

______________________________________________________________________

All are welcome

Organisers: Edel Burton & Prof. Patricia Kearney

The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI) European Union March 2021

Report Launch 2020

Food Environment Policy Index: Food-EPI Ireland Report

Launched 9th November 2020

The Irish Times 9th November 2020

Seminars 2018

Seminars 2017

Seminars 2016

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