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/on 15 OCTOBER 2007 from 10 am to 4 pm./
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*Chair: Sheila M. Bird*
*10.00 – 10.05 Welcome and background to sessions*
*Session 1: media and epidemics*
10.05 – 10.25 Professor Christl A. Donnelly, Imperial College, London
on interacting with the media on veterinary epidemics
from BSE, thro’ Foot & Mouth Disease, to Bovine TB
10.25 – 10.40 Dr Fiona E. Matthews, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
on the media and dementia
10.40 – 10.55 Dr. Azra Ghani, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
on the media and vCJD projections
10.55 – 11.15 Discussion
*Session 2: media, law and statistics*
11.15 – 11.35 Professor Colin G. G. Aitken, Edinburgh University
on Jesus’s tomb to World’s End
11.35 – 11.50 Professor Jane Hutton, Warwick University
on reform and revelation in case law
11.50 – 12.05 Professor Sir David Cox FRS, Nuffield College, Oxford
on media avoidance
12.05 – 12.25 Discussion
*Session 3: RSS media toolkit*
12.25 – 12.50 Andrew Garratt, RSS Press & Public Affairs Officer
Pre-lunch launch of RSS’s media toolkit
12.50 – 13.05 Professor Peter Diggle FRS, Lancaster University
On trial – media trail with RSS’s AG.
13.05 – 13.15 Discussion
*13.15 – 14.00 Lunch*
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*Chair: Azra Ghani*
*Session 4: media and performance monitoring*
14.00 – 14.20 Professor David J. Spiegelhalter FRS, MRC Biostatistics Unit,
Cambridge. On Panorama . . .
14.20 – 14.35 Reverend Lynda Barley, The Archbishops’ Council, Westminster
On ‘Church decline’ . . .
14.35 – 14.50 Professor Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
On military matters . . .
14.50 – 15.10 Discussion
*Session 5: media, booze and bust*
15.10 – 15.30 Dr Mary Sweetland, Information Services NHS Scotland
On Jams & Journalism
15.30 – 15.45 Ian White, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
Hazy on alcohol
15.45 – 16.00 Closing Discussion
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Professor Sheila M. Bird
MRC Biostatistics Unit
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CAMBRIDGE CB2 2SR
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