Professor Prabhat Jha has been appointed as Nuffield Professor of Population Health and Head of the Nuffield Department of Population Health. He will succeed Professor Sir Rory Collins who has been Head of Department since its inception in 2013.
US adults have significantly worse health in midlife compared to their British peers, especially in markers of cardiovascular health, according to a new study involving researchers from Oxford\u2019s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
A new study which will help inform World Health Organization guidelines for treating children with Plasmodium vivax malaria has found that giving children higher doses of primaquine substantially reduced recurrences of malaria.
Pandemic Preparedness: Why the Humanities and Social Sciences Matter \r\nA recently published article in Frontiers in Public Health outlines the importance of insights from the humanities and social sciences for developing and maintaining preparedness for future pandemics. Here, Sally Frampton explains how this interdisciplinary and collaborative research publication came about.
Timothy Walsh, Director of Biology at the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research outlines three priorities that global leaders must consider at the UN High-Level Meeting on AMR held today.
Leading infectious disease epidemiologist Professor Adam Kucharski presented on opportunities to generate key insights into pandemic pathogens while implementing outbreak control measures, using insights from COVID-19, as part of a new series of pandemic sciences seminars.
High levels of acceptability for a point-of-care testing service to improve antibiotic distribution for in Vietnamese pharmacies have been discovered by the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU), part of the Nuffield Department of Medicine.
On the 14th of August, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared MPox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern - just a day after the Africa CDC had issued a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security, following a noticeable increase in infections and deaths on the continent. Several countries around the world began monitoring the spread of the disease. While some countries raised the alarm and started asking questions about their preparedness, others considered it a less significant threat \u2013 with some commentators noticing how the talk and concern about MPox is skewed towards the wealthy countries (Adetifa et al 2023).
Collaborators of a multi-country project aimed at better understanding the impact, origin and trade routes of falsified medical products gathered to share updates and make final year plans.
Antibiotic resistance poses one of the most urgent challenges to public health worldwide. During this process, bacteria acquire genetic mutations that help them to become resistant to antibiotics.
Research on sickle cell disease conducted by KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) at the Nuffield Department of Medicine shows significant progress in understanding how to improve survival rates and quality of life for those living with the condition.
Scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind mass spectrometry method for vaccine authenticity screening using machine learning. The method repurposes clinical mass spectrometers already present in hospitals worldwide, making the approach feasible for global supply chain monitoring. The discovery offers an effective solution to the rise in substandard and counterfeit vaccines threatening public health.
Research led by scientists at the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research at Oxford University has found that wild birds such as ducks and crows living close to humans, for example in cities, are likely to carry bacteria with antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This creates an urgent need for policy makers and health services to consider the different ways antibiotic resistant bacteria can spread outside hospital settings.
Early speculations on the global patterns of COVID-19 forecast that Africa would be deeply affected, with many global health leaders and organisations predicting high infection and death rates of the disease alongside medical, social, economic and political crises. Yet, most regions in Africa reported relatively low morbidity and mortality rates during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers have termed this phenomenon \u2018the African COVID-19 paradox\u2019 (e.g. Osayomi et al., 2021). Various explanations have been advanced, including climatic, demographic, environmental, religious, political, biomedical and cultural frameworks, alongside debates over the extent and reliability of Covid-19 testing, modelling, and data.
The complex and intricate relationship between climate change, human migration, and infectious disease transmission presents an urgent global challenge, argues Dr Prathyush Sambaturu (Department of Biology, University of Oxford).
In a new study, published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology, endocrinologists and researchers from the Nuffield Department of Women\u2019s & Reproductive Health (NDWRH) at the University of Oxford, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the William Harvey Research Institute (WHRI) at Queen Mary University of London and the National University of Singapore have emphasised the critical need for further research into the effects of heat exposure on the endocrine system.
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