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Why do policymakers seem to ignore your evidence?

Professor Paul Cairney

Department of History and Politics, University of Stirling

21 February 2018

MRC Epidemiology Unit
MRC Epidemiology Unit Seminars

Open Cambridge 2021 – What does the UK eat? The national diet down through the decades
Toward a universal body composition assessment using 3D body scan
Precision approaches to improving obesity prevention in Queensland, Australia
Diabetes No More: lessons from the DiRECT trial and beyond
Air pollution and health in the 21st Century
Road User Charging: what does existing evidence tell us?
Realising the health potential through sustainable built environment designs
Physical Activity research: strengthening ties between Brazil and the United Kingdom
Ultra-processed foods: a need for clarification to enhance public health policies
Agent based Modelling for Urban Health Impact Assessment
Obesity Prevention: The role of evidence in the policy cycle
Using time use and trajectory data to unpack the interrelated geographies of food, care, and household labor
Moving beyond one-size-fits-all: Exploring patterns of physical activity and sedentary behaviour across the lifespan
Historical and contemporary perspectives of the nutrition transition
Using administrative data linkage to create electronic birth cohorts: opportunities and challenges
Cambridge Festival 2021 – Involving people in telehealth research during the COVID-19 pandemic
Do boutique cohort studies have a role in diabetes epidemiology?
Policymaking: why it matters to us, how it works, what to do
Is ‘place’ the key to better and more equal population health?
Learning from Covid-19: Why elimination should be the default strategy for future pandemics
Integrating diverse data sets to improve causal inference
Global surveillance of young people’s physical activity
Complexity-Informed Methods and Evaluation of Population Health Interventions
Independent and Joint Effects of Multiple Pollutants and their Interactions with Meteorological Variables on Stroke Hospitalization
Why do policymakers seem to ignore your evidence?
Walking on sunshine: What is the evidence for the effects of walking on mental health?
The Economics of Infectious Disease
Healthy Cities from the Bottom Up: A Human-centred Approach to Urban and Transport Planning
Introducing the Propensity to Cycle Tool and explaining the new health impact calculation methods
How does it work? Using process tracing methods to study policy processes
Movement behaviours and parenting in the first two years of life
The Challenges of Meta-analysing Metabolomics Data; Experiences from the Consortium Of METabolomics Studies (COMETS)
Systems approaches to obesity: The lived experience of young people
Movement behaviours and cognitive development in early childhood: Evidence, insights and interventions from South Africa
The Greek National Survey on Health and Nutrition (the HYDRIA Project)
Gestational Diabetes: a nutritional disorder?
INDDEX24: A Digital Solution for Streamlining Dietary Assessment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Need for standardization in the global surveillance of physical activity of children and youth
Health as an asset

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