Conference 28 nov 2019 : Communicating health risks and scientific uncertainty – Prof. David Spiegelhalter, Cambridge University
RetourThis event is been organised by Public Health Department, Bordeaux Population Health – UMR 1219 and ISPED – School of Public Health organised as a « Research and practice in public health » conference.
28 november 2019
Amphi Pierre-Alexandre Louis – 5:30pm to 6h30pm Campus Carreire
Free entrance, conference in English
« Communicating health risks and scientific uncertainty »
It is claimed we live in a ‘post-truth’ society in which emotional responses dominate balanced consideration of evidence. This presents a strong challenge to those who value quantitative and scientific evidence: how can we communicate risks and unavoidable scientific uncertainty in a transparent and trustworthy way?
I shall talk about formats for communicating quantifiable health risks using ‘expected frequencies’, and demonstrate user-friendly interfaces for predictions of the potential benefits and harms of treatments for breast or prostate cancer. But can we communicate deeper uncertainty about facts, numbers, or scientific hypotheses without losing trust and credibility? Randomised experiments suggest this may be possible, but there is still a challenge to adequately communicate the limitations in the underlying data.
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter
Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication
Centre for Mathematical Sciences
University of Cambridge, UK