The School of Public Health is delighted to announce that it will host the fifth in a series of biannual lectures in memory of one of the most influential epidemiologists of the twentieth century.
Lecture title: Sick individuals and sick populations in the molecular genomics era
Speaker: Professor George Davey Smith from the University of Bristol
Time: 16:30h Tea and arrivals. 17.00 – 18.00h Lecture. 18:00h drinks reception
Venue: Anthony de Rothschild Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Medicine Building, Imperial College London, St Mary’s Campus
Epidemiology is being transformed by the ability to incorporate molecular genetic markers into large-scale population studies. Given the intuitive link between genomics and personalised medicine, this might be expected to steer the epidemiological enterprise away from population health thinking epitomised by Geoffrey Rose. This presentation will propose that, far from this being the logic of the union of epidemiology and genomics, such developments simultaneously strengthen our ability to identify population-level intervention targets and to construct a rigorous theory of how group and individual influences on health act together.
The series of Geoffrey Rose Memorial Distinguished Guest Lectures are held in memory of Professor Geoffrey Rose, CBE (1926-1993), who was a highly influential epidemiologist whose seminal publications included “Sick Individuals and Sick Populations” (1985) and The Strategy of Preventive Medicine (1992), which had an impact that went well beyond the field of epidemiology and into that of public health. Previous guest speakers at these popular lectures have included Professor Albert Hofman (2017), Professor Sir Richard Peto (2015), Professor Sir Michael Marmot (2013) and Professor Jeremiah Stamler (2011).