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Seminar – Community engagement to prevent and control diabetes in Bangladesh

Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC) Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar: Community engagement to prevent and control diabetes in Bangladesh. Dr Ed Fottrell, Director, UCL Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases. Meeting Rooms 1&2, Level 4, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Abstract Learning from experience of community mobilisation to improve maternal and child health, we developed two […]

Seminar – Assessing the impacts of the introduction of South Africa’s tax on sugar-sweetened beverages

MRC Epidemiology meeting rooms 1&2, Level 3 IMS Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

All are invited to the CEDAR/MRC Epidemiology Seminar: Assessing the impacts of the introduction of South Africa’s tax on sugar-sweetened beverages. Nicholas Stacey, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science & SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand. MRC Epidemiology Unit meeting […]

Transforming Healthcare: Prevention of type 2 Diabetes – Professor Nick Wareham

Lee Hall, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, Barton Road, Cambridge, CB3 9BB Wolfson College, Cambridge

Type 2 diabetes affects almost 500 million people around the world. MRC Epidemiology Unit Director Professor Nick Wareham talks about how efforts to prevent it need to reflect this. About this Event Type 2 diabetes is a major cause of ill health and mortality. The latest estimate for 2019 is that 463 million people have […]

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Transforming Health Care Through Prevention – Primary Care at the Forefront

Lee Hall, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, Barton Road, Cambridge, CB3 9BB Wolfson College, Cambridge

There is a long tradition of disease prevention in primary care” but “over-stretched primary care teams are struggling to meet the needs of patients with existing disease. In this lecture Professor Simon Griffin, the Unit's Programme Leader for Prevention of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders in High Risk Groups, will share some thoughts on how […]