Friday 30 January 2026 | 12:00 – 16:30
Richard Doll Building Lecture Theatre | In person only | Register | Lunch and refreshments
Professor Ly-Mee Yu (Professor of Clinical Trials and Biostatistics, Primary Care Clinical Trials Unit)
Title – Challenges in undertaking decentralized clinical trials using health systems data in primary care settings
Associate Professor Marion Mafham (Associate Professor, Oxford Population Health)
Title – Supporting large simple trials with healthcare systems data: lessons learned
Panel discussion: Unlocking Health Systems Data for Clinical Trials: Challenges and Opportunities
Professor Ly-Mee Yu, Associate Professor Marion Mafham, Dr Charlie Harper, Ms Lucy Cureton
Moderated by Professor David Preiss
Hands on workshop: Incorporating health systems data when planning a trial (Relevant to all clinical trials roles particularly DPhils and early-stage researchers)
Please note: the Hands-on session will now be a waitlist option only, spaces will be allocated subject to any cancellations. Main registrations will close on Monday 26th January 2026 at 12:00 or until capacity reached.
Session 4: Regulatory Statistician Perspective: Considerations for Dose Optimization
Tuesday 13 Jan, 14:00 – 15:00 (Online)
Speaker: Dr Joyce Cheng, FDA, USA
2. Health Research from Home (HRfH) webinar: Advancing cardiovascular monitoring: from radar sensing to wearable emergency detection
Wednesday 14 Jan, 15:00 – 16:00 (Online)
Speakers:
3. HDR Cambridge: SurvivEHR: a competing risks, time-to-event foundation model for multiple outcomes
Thursday 15 Jan, 10:00 – 11:00 (Hybrid, In-person venue: Heart and Lung Research Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus)
Speaker: Professor Christopher Yau, University of Oxford
Zoom Link (ID and password in link above)
4. Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School (OUCAGS) forum:
Wednesday 21 Jan, 12:30 – 17:00 (In-person: Old Road Campus, University of Oxford)
Plenary session: Professor Dominic Wilkinson – ‘AI, medical ethics and the future of paediatric decision-making’
Please note: This event is open to OUCAGS trainees and alumni, Oxford University staff and students and Healthcare Professionals within NHSE Thames Valley and Wessex. It is not open to the general public.
5. CHILI (Child and adolescent Health Impacts of Learning Indoor environments) Hub Seminar series:
Friday 23 Jan, 13:00 – 14:30 (Online)
CHILI stands for Child and adolescent Health Impacts of Learning Indoor environments under net zero. Join the team for the launch of the CHILI Seminar Series, bringing together experts exploring children’s learning environments and their health!
Professors Pia Hardelid and Dejan Mumovic will begin with an overview of the CHILI project vision, followed by various presentations.
This event is aimed at Researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and anyone interested in child health, education and the environment.
6. Oxford BRC, Oxford Health BRC in collaboration with 4 NIHR BRCs: Ethnicity Inclusion in Health and Care Research
Tuesday 27 Jan, 10:30 – 12:00 (Online)
Speakers:
Please note: These sessions are for research staff affiliated with the following Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs): Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health.
Tuesday 03 Feb, 12:30 – 13:30 (Online)
Speaker: Dr Tim van Hasselt, University of Leicester
2. Oxford BRC, Oxford Health BRC in collaboration with 4 NIHR BRCs: Socio-economic disadvantage inclusion training
Tuesday 03 Feb, 13:30 – 15:00 (Online)
Speakers:
Please note: These sessions are for research staff affiliated with the following Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs): Barts, Birmingham, Cambridge, Moorfields, Oxford and Oxford Health.
3. Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care (HESAPC) Data workshop – Using HESAPC data for research
Wednesday 4 Feb, 11:00 – 13:30 (In-person: Big Data Institute, University of Oxford)
Led by:
Objectives: how is HESAPC data collected, the purpose behind this effort, information in HESAPC datasets, how it can be used effectively in research projects, challenges and limitations of working with large-scale data
Intended Audience: Research staff and DPhil students interested in using healthcare systems data for research.
Please note: This is intended for University of Oxford staff and students only
4. Data Engineers Meeting
Thursday 5 Feb, 11:00 – 12:00 (Hybrid, In-person: Big Data Institute, University of Oxford)
Speakers:
Please note: This is intended for University of Oxford staff and students only
5. CADIO webinar: An Introduction to and Application of the Micro-Randomized Trial
Friday 6 Feb, 18:00 – 19:00 (Online)
Speaker: Dr Devin Tomlinson
In this session, Dr Tomlinson will begin with an introduction to the micro-randomized trial (MRT) and review the results of a MRT embedded in a digital contingency management intervention for smoking cessation.
Other details TBC
6. HDRUK Wales lunchtime webinar: Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Wednesday 11 Feb, 12:30 – 13:00 (Online)
Speakers:
7. HDR Cambridge: Links between cardiovascular disease and viral infections: lessons from electronic health record research
Thursday 12 Feb, 13:30 – 14:30 (Hybrid)
Speaker: Professor Amitava Banerjee, University College London
8. HDRUK Wales: Connecting Expertise Webinar Series: Cardiovascular Research
Thursday 26 Feb, 12:00 – 13:00 (Online)
Speakers:
21 April 2026, 09:30 – 17:00 (In-person, The Wellocme Trust, London)
Abstract submission deadline: 18 Jan
18 – 20 May 2026 (Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center Rockville, Maryland)x
Posted on 14/01/2026
