Dear doctoral trainees in Health and Bioscience. 

You will find below (and attached) the program of courses and seminars for the Training in Study design, Data processing and Epidemiology. 

The lectures are open to all including more senior researchers. 

With best regards
Sylvain 







Course program

Monday 19.11.18 – Joint program with the Biobank course

ROOM NUMBERS

 
 
 

 

Theme 1 - Longitudinal birth cohort studies in Europe – tools for open sciences - Session I

 

Time

Title

Who

Room number

14:00

The European Birth Cohort Network  

Vincent Jaddoe

F202

 

 

Friday 23.11.18

 

Theme 1 - Longitudinal birth cohort studies in Europe – tools for open sciences - Session II

 

Time

Title

Who

Room number

10:00 - 10:45

Welcome and introduction

Sylvain Sebert

P117

11:00 – 11:45

Study designs in Epidemiology - Why does it matter?

Marjo-Riitta Järvelin

P117

 

 

Theme 1 - Longitudinal birth cohort studies in Europe – tools for open sciences - Session III

 

Time

Title

Who

Room number

13:00 - 13:45

The FinnGedi project 

Eero Kajantie

P117

14:00 - 14: 45

The Generation NFBC studies a tool-box to study the molecular and environment determinants of life-long health

Marjo-Riitta Järvelin and Sylvain Sebert

P117

 

 

Monday 26.11.18

 

Theme 1 - Longitudinal birth cohort studies in Europe – tools for open sciences - Session IV

 

Time

Title

Who

Room number

11:00 - 11:45 

Finnish health data - opportunity and challenges

Johannes Kettunen

F101

13:00 - 13:45

The ALSPAC study

Nicholas Timpson

F101

 

 

Theme 2 - Planning, managing, optimising, combining your data - Session I

 

Time

Title

Who

Room number

14:00 - 14:45

From confounding to causality basic principle and assumption

Nicholas Timpson

F101

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 27.11.18

 

 

Theme 2 - Planning, managing, optimising, combining your data - Session II

 

Time

Title

Who

Room number

10:00 - 10:45

Introduction to causation and causal models

Sylvain Sebert

101A

11:00 - 11:45

Power and Attrition analysis 

Marianne Haapea

101A

13:00 - 13:45

Building your structural equation models – The do(s) and don’t(s)

Mimmi Tolvanen

101A

Time

Title

Who

Room number

14:00 - 14:45

Meta-analysis

Jouko Miettunen

F202

 

 

Theme 3 - Practical - Session I

 

Time

Title

Who

Room number

15:00 - 15:45

Tutorial and recommendation

Sylvain Sebert,

Jouko Miettunen,

Nina Rautio,

Mimmi Tolvanen

F202

 
 
 
 

Thursday and Friday 29.11.18 – 30.11.18

 

 

The practical will consist of a 10 + 10 min presentation of one of your research project, targeted to a scientific audience with a broad range of expertise including:

·       The aim and hypothesis of your research;
·       The source of data;
·       Data management according to the FAIR principle; 
·       A flowchart of the study identifying the design of your study and the source of attrition;
·       A graphical representation of the associations to be tested;
·       The model(s) to be tested;
·       The strengths of your approach;
·       The opportunities to complement your prospect. 
 

 

 

Theme 3 – Practical – Session II

 

Time

Title

Who

Room number

9:00

 

Student 1

F101

9:20

 

Student 2

 

9:40

 

Student 3

 

10:00

 

Student 4

 

10:20

 

Student 5

 

10:40

 

Student 6

 

Break

 
 
 

11:20

 

Student 7

 

11:40

 

Student 8

 

Lunch break

 
 
 

13:00

 

Student 9

 

13:20

 

Student 10

 

13:40

 

Student 11

 

14:00

 

Student 12

 
 
 
 
 

Friday 30.11.18

 

 

 

 
 
 

9:00

 

Student 13

Place: P117

9:20

 

Student 14

 

9:40

 

Student 15

 

10:00

 

Student 16

 

10:20

 

Student 17

 

10:40

 

Student 18

 

Break

 
 
 

11:20

 

Student 19

 

11:40

 

Student 20

 

Lunch break

 
 
 

13:00

 

Student 21

 

13:20

 

Student 22

 

13:40

 

Student 23

 

14:00

 

Student 24