Forthcoming Centre for Health Information, Research and Evaluation (CHIRAL) Seminars
Swansea University

Wednesday 22 February : Professor Gareth Williams
Cardiff Institute of Society and Health

‘Intense delineations of territory, health, well-being and connecting communities’

Synopsis: The resilience of communities has never been a hotter topic, given the current backdrop of financial dire straits in Britain. Are the coalition’s policies for communities to do with a genuine empowerment, or the latest step in the state’s withdrawal of responsibility for support?’

Wednesday 29 February : Professor Marcus Longley and Amy Simpson
Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care(WIHSC)

‘How would patients regulate new medicines?’

Synopsis: A recent Citizens Jury consisting of people with serious and rare disorders spent five days considering how the risks and benefits of new medicines should be assessed. What factors were relevant, and how should they be weighed? Should regulators be more permissive? And what role should patients have in all this? Professor Marcus Longley and Amy Simpson, from WIHSC, University of Glamorgan, describe what happened when the jurors got to grips with the evidence, and discuss what it all might all mean for the future of medicines’ regulation in Europe.

Wednesday 7 March : Dr Keith Bodger
Senior Lecturer (Clinical) in Medicine, University of Liverpool
Consultant Physician & Gastroenterologist, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool

Synopsis: TBC (Dr Keith Bodger has a range of Health Services Research interests, including primary research in the areas of dyspepsia, upper gastrointestinal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease and related secondary research (cost-effectiveness analysis). Primary research includes cost-of-illness studies, outcomes research (Health State Utilities & Willingness-to-pay techniques) and analysis of practice variation
 

Tuesday 13 March: Professor David Cohen
Faculty of Health, Sport and Science, Glamorgan University

‘The WILMA study (Weight Loss Maintenance in Adults): An example of the use of economics in clinical trials.’
Synopsis: The Welsh Health Economics Support Service (WHESS) in one of the National Institute for Social Care and Health Research (NISCHR) infrastructure support groups – set up to provide health economics advice and expertise to the health and social care research communities in Wales. In this seminar, David Cohen will, through the example of the ongoing WILMA study, demonstrate how WHESS can contribute to the development of a research proposal by incorporating economic issues into a clinical trial.

For any further information please contact Sarah Wright on ext.2719 or chiralseminars@swansea.ac.uk