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Did we forget newborns in the global focus on maternal health? In this breakfast seminar, Dr Emma Sacks (John Hopkins University) will discuss why mistreatment of newborns is a critical issue, unpack the ethics of competing priorities in global health, and present options for policy responses.
G?ran Sundqvist is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Sundqvist is Professor at Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. He is currently working with the relationship between science and politics, and his talk will focus on how knowledge can be transformed into synthesising science, with the purpose of policy-making.
The seminar is open for everyone!
Dr. Chris Wallace, Senior Research Fellow, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge University, UK, will present her research on "Conditional false discovery rates in genetic association studies of rare diseases and disease subtypes”.
Thorleif Aas Kristiansen fra Museum for universitets- og vitenskapshistorie ved UiO kommer til Forum for Vitenskapsteori. Han skal holde et foredrag basert p? doktorgradsavhandlingen sin fra Universitetet i Bergen. Den heter "Meteorologi p? reise: Veivalg og impulser i Arnt Eliassen og Ragnar Fj?rtofts forskerkarrierer", og handler alts? om dem og om norsk meteorologisk forskning i etterkrigs?rene.
Foredraget er ?pent for alle!
ESOP Seminar
ESOP is organising a workshop on Social and Economic Development.
Heparin and Low Molecular Weight Heparins. A Century of Scientific and Clinical Progress.
Newer Oral Anticoagulant Drugs. Clinical Scope and Limitations.
Ana Delgado is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. She is Associate Professor at Centre for Techonology, Innovation and Culture at UiO. Delgado’s research is concerned with the public dimensions of science and technology. Her research combines resources from Science and Technology Studies (STS), Social Anthropology and Political Science.
The seminar is open for everyone!
ESOP Seminar. Pablo Querubin is an Assistant Professor of Politics and Economics at New York University. He will present a paper entitled "Village Social Network Structures and Electoral Competition", co-authored by Cesi Cruz and Julien Labonne.
Professor Einar Lie og forfatter Espen S?bye kommer til Forum for Vitenskapsteori for ? snakke om SSB-saken. Einar Lie er professor ved Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie ved Universitetet i Oslo. Han jobber med nyere ?konomisk og politisk historie. Med et fokus p? norsk ?konomisk politikk, bank og n?ringslivsutvikling p? 1800- og 1900-tallet. Espen S?bye, forfatter, debattant og kritiker, har med noen opphold v?rt ansatt i Statistisk sentralbyr? siden 1985. Han har gitt ut en rekke arbeider om statistikk, blant annet Tallenes fortellinger (2001) og Folkemengdens bevegelse 1735–2014(2014). Senere i ?r kommer Fakta om olje, som handler om hvordan den kvartalsvise investeringsstatistikken ble til.
Foredraget er ?pen for alle!
ESOP seminar. Gaurab Aryal is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia. He will present a paper entitled "Public Communication and Collusion in the Airline Industry", co-authored by Federico Ciliberto, and Benjamin T. Leyden.
Professor emeritus Heine Andersen kommer til Forum for Vitenskapstori. Andersen er professor emeritus ved Sociologisk Institut, K?benhavns Universitet. Hans faglige interesser er vitenskapsteori, kunnskapssosiologi, sosiologisk teori og moralfilosofi. Hans siste bok er "亚博娱乐官网_亚博pt手机客户端登录sfrihed. Ideal og virkelighed". Hans Reitzels Forlag, K?benhavn 2017.
Foredraget vil holdes p? dansk og er ?pent for alle!
ESOP seminar. Fridrik Mar Baldursson is a Professor of Economics at Reykjavik University. He will present a paper entitled "Capital Controls as a Bargaining Device: The Case of Iceland", co-authored by Richard Portes, and Eiríkur Elís Thorlaksson.
How does local exposure to organized violence impacts whether women give birth in a health facility? Gudrun ?stby, Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo PRIO, will discuss her latest findings on armed conflicts and mother health in this Global Health Unpacked breakfast seminar.
Open guest lecture presented by professor Murray Krahn, Toronto. This short talk will outline how data from various sources, especially health administrative data, can help us think us think about the cost of cancer. We will serve light refreshments.
NCMM will host a mini-symposium in Systems Medicine and Precision Medicine.
This seminar is a joint event between the Sven Furberg seminars in Bioinformatics and Statistical genomics and the Hans Prydz Guest Lectures.
Professor Anders Malthe-S?renssen from the Department of Physics is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Malthe-S?renssen is leader of the Centre of excellence in education ?Centre for Computing in Science Education? at the University of Oslo.
The lecture is open for everyone.
Ana Domingos, Principal Investigator of the Obesity Laboratory at the Gulbenkian Science Institute, Portugal, will give a lecture titled, "Sympathetic Neuroimmunity for Obesity".
Lars Jansen, Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Epigenetic Mechanisms, at the Gulbenkian Science Institute, Portugal, will give a lecture titled, "Chromatin-based epigenetic inheritance".
ESOP is organising a European Strains workshop set to take place at the University of Oslo 19-20 December.
ESOP seminar. Giulia La Mattina is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida. She will present a paper entitled "Assortative Mating, Intergenerational Transmission and Inequality: Evidence from Birth Weight using Parental Grandmother Fixed Effects", co-authored by Osea Giuntella, and Climent Quintana-Domeque.
In this lunch seminar, Morten Jerven, Professor of Development Studies (NMBU) will discuss the increasing role of indicators and statistics in Development and Global Health policies. The seminar is part of the series Global Health Unpacked.