The Confidence Interval
The Confidence Interval podcast talks science, people, and population health.
We explore the research happening at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge and meet some of our researchers to find out what makes them tick.
Podcasting since 2024 • 5 episodes
The Confidence Interval
Latest Episodes
The Confidence Interval - taking away the takeaways for healthy neighbourhoods
In this episode of The Confidence Interval, Dr Thomas Burgoine shares how creating healthy neighbourhoods can help people make healthy choices. NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) funded researchers have developed a t...
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Episode 2
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The Confidence Interval - David Ogilvie talks research and impact
Dr David Ogilvie, Programme Leader and MRC Investigator in the Population Health Interventions group, talks to Unit Head of Communications Oliver Francis. They discuss how we evaluate complex interventions and phenomena; how we put...
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Episode 3
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The Confidence Interval - Dr Jean Adams talks improving the nation's diet
June 2019. Dr Jean Adams, Programme Leader and MRC Investigator in the Population Health Interventions group talks to Unit Head of Communications Oliver Francis about how we might improve the nation’s diet, the politics of what we ...
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The Confidence Interval - Dr Felix Day talks genetics and puberty
Dr Felix Day, Senior Research Associate in the Early Life Aetiology and Mechanisms of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders group talks to Unit Head of Communications Oliver Francis about genetics, puberty and unusual career trajectories.&nb...
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Episode 1
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The Confidence Interval - Dr Yanaina Chavez-Ugalde talks UPFs
New research from the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol has found that adolescents consume around two-thirds of their daily calories from ultra-processed foods – UPFs.The study’s first author, Dr Yanaina Chavez-Ugalde from the MRC Ep...
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Season 2
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