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Date: March 10, 2004 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:30 to 14:00 (Light lunch at 12:30, Seminar begins at 12:45)
Venue: Seminar Room 5, LG/F, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine
Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Abstract
There has been considerable pressure
to introduce a national screening programme into the UK for 'chlamydia
trachomatis', a sexually transmitted disease which has its highest
prevalence in young women and men. In anticipation of that policy
change there have been a number of pilot projects conducted to ascertain
prevalence, cost effectiveness and acceptability of such screening.
These studies have introduced a number of additional concerns about
setting up a screening programme for a sexually transmitted disease.
Bio-sketch
Professor Margaret Reid is currently
the Head of Public Health & Health Policy in the Division of
Community Based Sciences, the University of Glasgow. She is internationally
known for her work in women's health issues and currently coordinates
the activities of the WHO Glasgow Collaborating Centre for Women's
Health. She participates in the UK Government Gender Research Forum
and the Food Standards Agency (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries
and Food) Funding Panel, Department of Health. She has also been
a member of the UK Department of Health's Working Group on Outcome
Indicators for Pregnancy lasting at least 24 weeks, the Neonatal
Nurses Association UK Working Party, the Glasgow Healthy City Partnership:
Women's Health Working Group, the National Board for Nursing, Midwifery
and Health Visiting for Scotland: Nursing Approvals Visit Committee,
the Joint Royal Colleges Working Party on Maternity Services, the
Medical Research Council Genetic Approach to Human Health Steering
Group and the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit in Oxford. Recently
she has carried out a study of screening for genital chlamydia infection
in Scotland.
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