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« Back to NewsFuture of Oxford lactation research centre secured with £9.12 million donation
24 July 2024
Official Press release: A £9.12 million gift from the Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation has endowed an Oxford University research centre investigating the role of hormones in human milk production.
Oxford researcher to lead one of UKRI's new research networks to tackle antimicrobial resistance
23 July 2024
Awards and Appointments Partnerships
Eight new networks, combining different research specialisms, will work together to tackle one of humanity’s biggest threats, antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Department's Centre for Research Equity launches historic partnership to advance health equity in Northern Ireland
26 June 2024
Department's Centre for Research Equity partners with Northern Ireland to advance health equity. This groundbreaking collaboration aims to improve health outcomes, reduce disparities, and ensure research benefits all communities through inclusive, community-driven approaches.
Forecasting how best to control and eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases
26 April 2024
Innovation Partnerships Research
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a major cause of death, disability, and economic hardship worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. While many of these diseases are targeted for control, elimination, or eradication by 2030, achieving those targets will be challenging due to disruptions to programmes related to the COVID-19 pandemic and differences in disease transmission across regions, which requires tailoring interventions to local settings.
Interview with Diagnostics in Tropical and Infectious Diseases(DiTi) award recipient Dr Christopher Chew
17 April 2024
Awards and Appointments General Partnerships Staff and Student stories
Global Health research at the University of Oxford and its partners is broad reaching, bringing significant impact across all academic disciplines of medicine, the physical and life sciences, social sciences and humanities. The Diagnostics in Tropical and Infectious Disease (DiTi) award, run by the Translational Research Office, aims to strengthen the long-term partnership between Oxford University and Mahidol University by establishing partnerships and supporting collaborative projects to develop diagnostic devices for tropical and infectious diseases, with the goal of driving more translational research initiatives in global health. Read this interview from award winner Dr Chris Chew.
Partnership with Danaher paves way for precision medicine test for sepsis
8 November 2023
The University of Oxford today announced a partnership with Danaher Corporation to develop a new test to enable precision medicine care for sepsis, a pathological immune response to infection that accounts for one in five deaths globally each year.
Better Research for Better Health: University of Oxford and Fiocruz partner to improve health research and capacity development globally
5 August 2019
A new strategic partnership between Fiocruz and The Global Health Network will amplify the impact of Fiocruz’s health research and capacity development initiatives by promoting research capacity building across Portuguese-speaking countries, and enabling research findings from the Zika outbreak to benefit public health worldwide.
Need for better community engagement during global health emergencies
13 June 2019
Researchers from the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities joined an international group of experts in community engagement for health research to identify urgent measures to foster involvement of local communities in emergency research, such as the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo.
Successful Vaccinology in Africa course completed in The Gambia
20 May 2019
41 West African vaccine researchers participated in this year's Vaccinology in Africa Master's Level Course on 29 April - 3 May 2019, in close collaboration with the host institution, the MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
Mobile Malaria Project team begin their journey
1 April 2019
The Mobile Malaria Project team, led by Dr George Busby from University of Oxford, will travel over 6,300km across Namibia, Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya to investigate the challenges facing those on the front line of malaria control in Africa – where 90 per cent of the world’s cases occur.
Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre to research rare diseases therapies
28 February 2019
The University of Oxford and Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals have announced a new affiliation to advance therapies for rare diseases. The joint program combines capabilities to improve treatment options globally for patients with rare diseases.
£4.5 million award for clinical research consortium to tackle the global threat of epidemic infectious diseases
8 February 2019
The International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC) has been awarded £4.5 million to accelerate clinical research to prevent illness and deaths from epidemic infectious diseases.
Skin colour and neurodevelopment are not linked
31 January 2019
The latest findings from the international INTERGROWTH-21st Project, that has monitored healthy, urban children from educated families across four continents from early pregnancy to 2 years of age, show that human neurodevelopment is not influenced by the colour of an individual’s skin.
Oxford researchers help bring together research data from over a million people from Africa, Canada and Europe
24 January 2019
Researchers from the University of Oxford are collaborating in a project that will enable registered researchers from across the world to analyse population-scale genomic and biomolecular data, using the Common Infrastructure for National Cohorts in Europe, Canada and Africa (CINECA).
My Mind Our Humanity
26 October 2018
The University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry is working with partners to develop and lead The Young People’s Campaign for the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development