Dear all

The 2015 Epidemiology Winter School in Wengen, Switzerland is now open for registration.

The Winter School will take place during the week of 19^th to 24^th January, 2015.

We are offering 8 courses in 2015. All courses run for 3 days, either from Monday to Wednesday or from Thursday to Saturday  (two of them begin on Sunday afternoon). Each course is worth 1.5 ECTS. The list of courses and key faculty is as follows:

Flexible parametric survival models 
Professor Paul Lambert, University of Leicester and Karolinska Institutet
(Mon 19.1 – Wed 21.1.)

Causal Inference in Observational Epidemiology 
Prof. Miguel Hernan, MD, Harvard University
Prof. Marcel Zwahlen, University of Bern
(Mon 19.1 – Wed 21.1.)

Indirect Comparisons and Network Meta-Analysis: Evidence Synthesis with Multiple Treatments 
Prof. Julian Higgins, PhD, University of Bristol
(Sun 18.1 – Wed 21.1.)

Sequence Analysis in Molecular Epidemiology of Pathogens 
Dr. Iñaki Comas, Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research of Valencian Region
Leonor Sánchez-Busó, Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research of Valencian Region
(Sun 18.1 – Wed 21.1.)

Statistical Analysis with Missing Data Using Multiple Imputation and Inverse Probability Weighting
Prof. James Carpenter, University of London
Dr. Manuel Koller, University of Bern
Dr. Kurt Schmidlin, University of Bern
(Thu 22.1 – Sat 24.1.)

Epigenetic Epidemiology for Epidemiologists
Prof. Caroline Relton, University of Bristol
Prof. George Davey Smith, University of Bristol
(Thu 22.1 – Sat 24.1.)

Writing a Journal Article – and Getting it Published
Dr. Kali Tal, University of Bern
(Thu 22.1 – Sat 24.1.)

Applied Bayesian Statistics in Medical Research
Prof. Marcel Zwahlen, University of Bern
Dr. Sandro Gsteiger, University of Bern
Dr. Beat Neuenschwander, Novartis Oncology, Basel
(Thu 22.1 – Sat 24.1.)

See www.epi-winterschool.org for further details.

Please advertise the school among your colleagues and students. Many thanks.

With best wishes, and see you in Wengen!

Matthias

Matthias Egger, MD MSc FFPH DTM&H
University of Bern
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)
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