Courses and Workshops

Future courses

No courses are currently scheduled. For enquiries, and to register to receive details of future courses, please contact Jane Lane.

Past Courses and Workshops

HuGENet Short Course 2006: Integrating the Evidence on Gene-Disease Associations: Methods and applications of HuGE systematic reviews

A short course on how to undertake a HuGE systematic review was run in November 2006 at Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge. The course took participants through the contents of the HuGENet Handbook.

• Dr Julian Higgins
• Dr Georgia Salanti
• Dr Simon Sanderson
• Prof Julian Little
• Dr John Ioannidis
• Prof John Danesh

• Systematic reviews
• Summary data vs individual participant data
• Searching the literature
• Extracting data
• Assessing risk of bias
• Meta-analysis
• Dealing with reporting biases
• Interpreting results

  Related websites: Main HuGENet site | Greece Coordinating Centre | Canada Coordinating Centre