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Posted on : 13 Oct 2017

11-22-2017 / 12h-13h — Exposure misclassification in environmental epigenetic studies: is DNA-methylation a mediator or a biomarker?

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Invited by Hélène Jacqmin-Gadda – BIOSTATISTICS TEAM Assessing whether epigenetic alterations mediate associations between environmental exposures and health outcomes is increasingly popular. We investigate the impact of exposure misclassification in such investigations.We quantify bias and false positive rates due to exposure misclassification in mediation analysis and assess the performance of SIMEX correction approach. Further, we […]

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Posted on : 10 Oct 2017

HIV: the benefits of prophylaxis of tuberculosis are confirmed by the ANRS TEMPRANO trial

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ANRS TEMPRANO was coordinated by Dr Xavier Anglaret, research supervisor and IDLIC team leader at the Bordeaux population health research center (U1219, University of Bordeaux), and Professor Serge Eholie from the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department of the Treichville University Hospital, and conducted by researchers from the Ivory Coast ANRS site, which comprises 8 other […]

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Posted on : 22 Sep 2017

11-03-2017 / 12h00-13h00 — Biobanks and registries for epidemiological research on cancer in the Nordic countries

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Invited by Simone Mathoulin-Pélissier – EPICENE team Elisabete Weiderpass was trained in medicine (1992) and epidemiology (M.Sc., 1994) in Brazil, and in cancer epidemiology at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (Ph.D., 1999; post doc 1999-2000). She serves as Head of the Department of Research at the Cancer Registry of Norway – Institute of Population Based […]

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Posted on : 18 Sep 2017

TB-Speed project against childhood tuberculosis

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Coordinated by the IDLIC team of the Bordeaux Population Health Research Centre, the TB-Speed project of University of Bordeaux intends to reduce childhood tuberculosis (TB) in Africa and Asia by enhancing case finding and facilitating access to treatment. The project is supported by Unitaid for an amount of 14,670,470 USD and by the 5% Initiative […]

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Posted on : 13 Sep 2017

09-27-2017 / 17h-18h00 — “Spin” in reporting biomedical research

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Pr Patrick M. BossuytProfessor of clinical epidemiology, Dept Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics, BioinformaticsAcademic Medical center, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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Posted on : 28 Aug 2017

09-14-2017 / 13h00-14h00 — The causal effect of educational attainment on alzheimer’s disease, a two-sample mendelian randomization study

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Dr Emma Anderson, BSc, PhDReasearch fellow / Integrative epidemiology unit, School of social and community medicine, University of Bristol, UK.

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Posted on : 21 Jul 2017

Study from IETO and SISTM teams – Road Safety: Increased risk of highway accident in pedestrians using some drugs

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A scientific article published in the journal PLOS Medicine shows for the first time that some drugs increase the risk of accidents for pedestrians. This study, carried out by the Injury epidemiology transport, occupation  team, in collaboration with the Statistics in systems biology and for translational medicine team at the INSERM U1219 center, was made […]

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Posted on : 14 Jun 2017

The International Summer School of Bordeaux school of public health July 3-11, 2017

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The International Summer School of Bordeaux school of public health provides short courses covering topics around population health studies. The program will be held from July 3rd  to July 11th  2017 in Bordeaux, France. It covers important and innovative methodological aspects of population health studies and their communication, through formal lectures and practical demonstrations. The […]

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Posted on : 07 Jun 2017

The Christophe Mérieux 2017 Prize was awarded jointly to Serge Eholie and Xavier Anglaret U1219

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This prize has been awarded annually since 2005 by a scientific jury composed of members of the Académie des Sciences as part of the “Grands Prix des Fondations de l’Institut de France”. He is promoted by the Christophe and Rodolphe Mérieux Foundation, and rewards scientists who have distinguished themselves in research on infectious diseases in […]

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Posted on : 30 May 2017

Bordeaux Population Health will receive Prof. Paul Matthews, Imperial College London 13.06.2017, ISPED

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Bordeaux Population Health Center invites Prof. Paul Matthews, Imperial College London who will present “Large Scale Population Imaging: Lessons from the UK Biobank Experience” on June 13, 14:30, ISPED Public Health School in Bordeaux. Paul Matthews, OBE, MD, DPhil, FRCP, FMedSci is Head of the Division of Brain Sciences in the Department of Medicine of […]

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Posted on : 19 May 2017

Vitamin D, a New Avenue in the Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease?

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Known to be a possible cause of several chronic diseases, vitamin D deficiency is also suspected to lead to a high risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, especially where the diet is also poor in ‘good fats’ and antioxidant carotenoids. This is what two studies led by Catherine Féart and Cécilia Samieri, researchers at Inserm unit […]

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Posted on : 10 May 2017

Expert opinion on the evolution of public discourse on alcohol consumption in France

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Catherine Feart, research scientist U1219 Bordeaux Population Health of the LEHA team is one of the 8 experts, mandated by Santé Public France and the Institut national du cancer (Inca) Which issued a notice published on May 4, 2017 advocating to scale the references of alcohol consumption down in France. The working group was led […]

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Posted on : 26 Apr 2017

Rodolphe Thiébaut, U1219 Deputy Director has been appointed to the Inserm Scientific Board

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Prof. Rodolphe Thiébaut, Deputy Director of the Bordeaux Population Health U1219 research center, has been appointed to the Inserm Scientific Board and will contribute to the Institute’s policy and to the development of medical research and life sciences and health.

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Posted on : 22 Apr 2017

05-05-2017 / 11h30-12h30 — Global Health and the Sustainable Development Goals

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Pr Andrea Sylvia WINKLERProfessor, Institute of Health and Society Helsam Common scientific activities (HELSAMCSA) – University of Oslo

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Posted on : 14 Apr 2017

Camille Ouvrard, U1219, 3rd place in the “My thesis in 180 seconds” regional final

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Member of the U1219 team “Psychoepidemiology of Aging and Chronic Diseases”, the PhD candidate received the 3rd Prize of the Jury in the final of the Aquitaine Region of the competition “My thesis in 180 seconds” with the subject: “Precariousness, Cognitive aging and frailty: an epidemiological approach “. Camille Ouvrard was a competitor among the […]

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