Panel Discussion
ISEP Launch Event
Offering perspectives on capacity strengthening in applied medical statistics
All welcome to the MRC International Statistics Epidemiology Partnership launch event, where speakers will debate strategies to strengthen capacity in applied medical statistics in Africa.
Event overview:
1 (Introduction) - The International Statistics & Epidemiology Partnership: Rationale, aims and achievements to date.
2 (Panel discussion) - What are the needs in capacity in medical statistics at African research institutes and how can ISEP and other initiatives contribute to this?
3 (Panel discussion) - What are the key challenges and potential solutions to increase capacity strengthening in medical statistics?
Speakers
- Prof. Helen Weiss (Professor of Epidemiology ISEP PI, LSHTM)
- Professor Saidi Kapiga (Director, Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit)
- Dr Andrew Abaasa (Head of Statistics, MRC/Uganda & LSHTM Research Unit in Uganda)
- Dr Agnes Kiragga (Research Scientist & Data Science Program Lead, APHRC, ISEP Co-I)
- Dr Andre Kengne (Director of Programs APHRC)
- Professor Misrak Gezmu (Program Official for Statistical Methods, NIAID, NIH)
- Dr Bethany Gauthier (Associate Prof of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School)
- Prof Kiros Behane (Chair of Biostatistics Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia School of Public Health)
- Prof Freedom Gumedze (Head of Dept of Statistical Science, Univ Cape Town)
- Prof Sarah Pett (Professor of Infectious Diseases, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, UCL)
- Dr Nicaise Ndembi (Chief Science Advisor, Africa CDC Director General)
- Prof Lehana Thabane (Professor of Biostatistics, McMaster University)
- Dr Nuredin Mohammed (Associate Professor, MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM)
- Dr Vicky Simms (Associate Professor, THRU-Zim and LSHTM)
Admission
Admission
Free and open to all. No registration required.
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