Wednesday 9 September

12.15–13.45	Lunch available to purchase (King’s Walk Bistro)
12.45–13.45	Invited reception for invited speakers, new members, students, SSM Committee and Local Organising Committee (Bamburgh Room, King’s Walk)
12.45–13.45	Posters and exhibits (King’s Hall)
14.00–14.10	Welcome (Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building)
14.10–15.00	Cochrane Lecture (Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building)
	Professor Sally Macintyre “Good intentions and received wisdom are not good enough”
15.00–15.30	Refreshments and poster viewing (King’s Hall)
Parallel session A	Bedson 1.46	Bedson LG.38	Bedson 1.48	Bedson G.35	Bedson G.34	Bedson G.37
	Lifecourse CVD	Maternal health	Physical activity	Inequalities I	Mental health	Cancer I
15.30–15.50	*Is accelerated postnatal growth associated with blood pressure in childhood?K Tilling et al A1	Social and biological determinants of reproductive success in Swedish males and females born 1915–1929I Koupil et al A5	Tracking of physical activity behaviours during childhood, adolescence and young adulthood: A systematic review.JMM Evans et al A9	Ethnicity and cancer treatment in New Zealand: do Maori patients get a worse deal?S Hill et al A13	Early menarche is associated with an increased risk for depressive symptoms in adolescent girls in a UK cohortC Joinson et al A17	Seasonal variation in birth and diagnosis of cancer in children and young people in Northern England, 1968–2005NO Basta et al A21
15.55–16.15	*Elevated blood pressure in early adulthood as a predictor of later coronary heart disease mortality: up to 83 years’ follow-up in the Harvard alumni health studyL Gray et al A2	Trends in maternal obesity and health inequalities in a nationally representative sample of 619,323 births in England, UK, 1989–2007N Heslehurst et al A6	The multiple scales of area effects on health: from evidence to implications for public health practice and policyM Riva A10	Socioeconomic differences in statin use after deregulation of simvastatin in the UK: the Whitehall II prospective cohort studyI Forde et al A14	Regulatory guidance on prescribing selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants to young people: ecological study of effects on international suicide trends.B Wheeler et al A18	The epidemiology of bone cancer diagnosed in 0–49 year olds in northern England, 1981–2002RJQ McNally et al A22
16.20–16.40	Working characteristics and cardiovascular disease: are associations confounded by early life risk factors?C Thomas et al A3	Inherited risk of pre-eclampsia: using two approaches for analysisEA Raja et al A7	The 2008 Great North Run as public health intervention: participant characteristics and changes in physical activity and body mass index from 20 weeks before to 20 weeks after the event	Socio-demographic predictors of uptake of MMR immunisation in the Lifeways cohort studyL Jessop et al A15	Social class differences in anxiety and depression across the life-course: evidence from three cohorts in the west of ScotlandMJ Green et al A19	Incidence of central nervous system tumours with the use of hormone replacement therapyV Benson et al A23
			J Adams et al A11
16.45–17.05	Lifecourse predictors of adult fibrinogen concentrations: the Newcastle thousand families birth cohort	Breastfeeding is associated with improved child cognitive development: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study	Healthy eating and physical activity choices in socio-economically disadvantaged women: the role of health literacy	Food poverty and dietary quality: is there a relationship?	Suicide in England and Wales 1861–2005: A time trends analysis	International trends in prostate cancer incidence and mortality in 20 countries from 1980 to 2002
	MS Pearce et al A4	MA Quigley et al A8	J Edwards et al A12	J Harrington et al A16	K Thomas et al A20	AE Carsin et al A24
17.10–18.10	SSM Annual General Meeting (Bedson 1.46)
19.15–20.45	Conference reception (Riverside Suite, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts)