EPI & BIOSTAT Research Seminar "Use and utility of natural experiments"

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Title: "The use and utility of natural experiments in population health research: insights from four studies on the built environment and health" featuring speaker: Steven Cummins, BSc MSc PhD

Series title: Research Seminar Series Sponsored by Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Title of talk: "The use and utility of natural experiments in population health research: insights from four studies on the built environment and health"

Speaker: Steven Cummins BSc MSc PhD, Professor of Population Health & NIHR Senior Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM, England)

Bio: Steven Cummins is a geographer (University of Gloucestershire) who trained in epidemiology (LSHTM) and public health (University of Glasgow).  He has held appointments at the MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit and Queen Mary University of London and is currently Professor of Population Health at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.  He is particularly interested in the contextual and socio-environmental determinants of health (particularly diet, physical activity and psychological wellbeing); the evaluation of ‘natural’ community social and policy interventions to improve population health; the consumer consequences of food retail restructuring; and the public policy implications of geographical and other social and population health research.

Bio weblink: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/cummins.steven

Contact Information

Nancy Colon-Anderson
267.359.6204
nc96@drexel.edu