22 April 2008

3rd Mackenzie Lecture - Midday, Wednesday April 23rd, 2008

Lecture Theatre 2, Level 7
Ninewells Hospital & Medical School

Professor Sheila Bird, of the MRC Biostatistics Unit at Cambridge, will deliver the third Mackenzie Lecture, an annual event hosted by the Health Informatics Centre.

Professor Bird’s lecture is titled ‘Best laid plans: record linkage illuminates public health, and other jurisdictions’ and will examine the impact analysis of records and statistics is having across the health service and into other areas.

Professor John Frank, Director of the new Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research Policy, will respond. The Lecture will be followed by a Q&A panel session, and the event will be chaired by Mr Sandy Watson, Chairman of NHS Tayside.

For further information contact: Yvonne Gormley, HIC External Relations Officer, 01382 420029 or events@chs.dundee.ac.uk.

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