Hosted by the MRC Intergrative Epidemiology Unit
Summary: The talk briefly traces an epidemiolgist’s search to be useful - as inspired by the writings of Jerry Morris and Mervyn Susser. It runs from health inequalities and the foetal origins hypothesis, to lifecourse epidemiology and focuses on trying to use epidemiology to better articulate a public health approach to child maltreatment.
Biography: John Lynch leads the BetterStart Health and Development research group at the University of Adelaide, Australia. https://health.adelaide.edu.au/betterstart/
His research interests include social and health inequality, child maltreatment, pragmatic RCTs and quasi-experiments of early life interventions, whole population linked data systems to enhance evidence-based public health, and producing epidemiological research that is useful for improving policy, practice and service delivery that actually improves people’s lives.
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