Public Health Lecture Series

Date: Tuesday 29 May 2012
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Location: Geography Building: Room 406
Contact: For further information regarding this event, please contact Dr Arindam Basu by sending email to arindam.basu@canterbury.ac.nz or by calling 03 345 8161
RSVP: Please RSVP for this event by contacting: arindam.basu@canterbury.ac.nz Audience: University staff and students

Speaker: Barry Borman

Title: " The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good - Perceptions v epidemiology NZ case studies on the causes of birth defects"
We invite you to attend the next public health lecture, presented by Assoc. Prof. Barry Borman, from the Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University. Barry Borman has over 20 years of experience in applied epidemiology and environmental and occupational health, and has been directly responsible for or involved in the development, operation and evaluation of numerous health surveillance systems. From 2000 to 2008 he managed Public Health Intelligence (PHI), the epidemiology group of the Ministry of Health, New Zealand, which was disestablished in 2008.
Since 1987 he has been the director of the NZ Birth Defects Monitoring Programme (NZBDMP) and a member of the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research (ICBDSR).
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