Events Archive
Biostatistics for Clinical Researchers Short Course
This course is designed to be a fun introduction to the appropriate application and interpretation of biostatistical concepts for people working in clinical research with no formal statistical training.
The focus of this course will not be on carrying out analyses, but rather on understanding the appropriate use of statistical methods, the implications when underlying assumptions are not met, and how to interpret statistical results. Course material will be presented through examples and all statistical analyses will be performed by the course instructors.
Understanding the effect of patient choice: designing a randomised trial to estimate treatment, selection and preference (choice) effects - Quantitative Research Methods Seminar
Randomised trials provide an unbiased estimate of the effect of one treatment compared to another. However, participant preferences for treatment can play an important role in how participants respond to particular treatments, their motivation to take the treatment as prescribed and can influence the reporting of side effects.
UNSW Paediatric Research Week - Young Investigator Seminar Series
The Young Investigators Seminar Series is a regular event held by the Discipline of Paediatrics, School of Women's & Children's Health, UNSW Medicine.
During UNSW Paediatric Research Week we have two PhD candidates presenting, both of whom are also clinicians:
UNSW Alliance Against Ebola: Join the fight to stop Ebola - Day of action and fundraising campaign
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the largest and most devastating in history. In October 2014, the World Health Organization reported that there are now 8376 cases and 4025 deaths from the disease in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since the first case report in March 2014. The spiralling epidemic in West Africa is a global health catastrophe in which we are all stakeholders. Controlling the epidemic at the source is the highest priority.
UNSW Alliance Against Ebola: Join the fight to stop Ebola: Day of action and fundraising campaign
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the largest and most devastating in history. In October 2014, the World Health Organization reported that there are now 8376 cases and 4025 deaths from the disease in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since the first case report in March 2014. The spiralling epidemic in West Africa is a global health catastrophe in which we are all stakeholders. Controlling the epidemic at the source is the highest priority.
Cervical Screening in low resource Settings
This presentation will focus on the recent history of prevention and management of cervical cancer and will provide a perspective on the direction that future cervical cancer prevention programs will take, particularly for low-resource settings, in coming years.
Hereditary Cancer Clinic event | 20th Anniversary Symposium
The Hereditary Cancer Clinic (“HCC”) at Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick celebrate their 20th anniversary this year by hosting a symposium ‘Cancer Predisposition Genes – What Clinicians need to Know’ Saturday 25 October.
The Translational Cancer Research Network are working with the HCC to facilitate and promote this event aimed at general practitioners (“GP”s) and trainees in medicine and surgery.
Modelling HPV prevention and cervical screening: Quantitative Research Methods Seminar
We provide a short overview of a comprehensive HPV and cervical cancer model platform (POLICY1) that has been used to perform multiple evaluations of HPV and cervical screening, including evaluations for national reviews of cervical screening in Australia, England and New Zealand. We will provide three short case studies to illustrate some different applications of the platform. Megan Smith will discuss the impact of heterogeneity on estimates of the effect of male HPV vaccination. Kate Simms will discuss an evaluation of the optimal age of ceasing cervical screening.