Our speakers discuss the 'Commission on Creating Healthy Cities' report, launched over the summer, with Lord Best, Chair of the Commission on Creating Healthy Cities; Julia Thrift, Director, Healthier Place-Making, Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA); Dr Stephanie Tierney, Departmental Lecturer and Senior Researcher, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Services; and Councillor Susan Brown, Leader, Oxford City Council.
Find out how Dr Samira Barzin, Oxford Martin School and Mathematical Institute Fellow, has worked with the World Bank to use data analysis techniques to inform development interventions.
Find out how Professor Andrew Thompson, a History academic at Oxford, has worked with international NGOs to help them identify the biggest challenges in their futures, with help from the Oxford Policy Engagement Network.
J\u00fcrgen Brem and colleagues in the Department of Chemistry are collaborating with academic and industry partners to develop therapies tackling antibiotic resistance.
The Global Health Network\u2019s high-quality materials on research methods have proved immensely popular over the past decade \u2013 and not just in the poorest communities. Now, a social enterprise known as the Global Health Research Accelerator (GHRA) is helping fund the network\u2019s much-needed activities.\r\n\r\n\u2018The idea behind the GHRA,\u2019 says Professor Lang, \u2018is to generate income from the organisations that can afford to pay to access our resources. That income will ensure that our training, support and guidance is available for free to those who can\u2019t afford it \u2013 and to as many people as possible. It\u2019s a \u201cRobin Hood\u201d model of operating.\u2019
Researchers from our Nuffield Department of Medicine's Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health talk about their research ranging from health policy and systems to clinical research in LMICs, science and society, ethics and much more!
Welcome to the Voices from the Pandemic exhibition.\r\n\r\nCatch a glimpse of the pandemic journey of people from all walks of life in Indonesia, Nepal and Vietnam. The creation and compilation of these digital diary stories has taken almost two years. Although deeply rewarding, the process has been challenging, and we acknowledge the contributions of all participants in their honest and inspiring accounts of resilience during an unexpected and life changing period.
Researchers at the University of Oxford have made the case for sugar taxes to reduce obesity and boost health \u2013 influencing policy in 39 countries, including DAC list ODA recipients including India and upper middle income countries including Fiji, Ecuador and South Africa.
The University of Oxford has led a project developing mobile applications designed to advance the training and supervision of community health workers in Kenya
A new multidimensional model of poverty, developed by Oxford researchers and ATD Fourth World, is helping to define and address the hidden dimensions of poverty.
The Oxford Martin Programme on Global Epilepsy is trying to find solutions to improve diagnosis, understand and mitigate the social impact of the condition, and begin to build a better future for people with epilepsy \u2013 especially those in resource-poor settings.
Masks, social distancing, lockdowns. We\u2019ve become intimately familiar with numerous COVID-19 control measures over the past two years. Now, with most restrictions gone (at least here in England), does that mean that the pandemic is really over? In this episode, we chat to Erica Charters, Professor of the Global History of Medicine at the University of Oxford and Principal Investigator of the \u2018How Epidemics End\u2019 interdisciplinary project.
Water is vital \u2013 not just for drinking and health, but for life chances and education. Without water, how can you learn? And yet more than half a billion children around the world do not have access to basic water supplies in schools.
A right to health requires that everyone have access to good quality health care regardless of their ability to pay. Prior to the pandemic, Kenya piloted universal health care. COVID has renewed the urgency of implementing universal health care. This documentary explores Kenya\u2019s journey towards universal health care in before and during the pandemic, as well as the next steps in achieving the right to health in a post-COVID world.
After over 30 years of working in infectious disease in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Nepal, OUCRU has developed and established its foothold as a crucial regional research hub in infectious diseases, bridging the gap between research and treatments all over the world. What have we done? How did we do it? And what will OUCRU continue to focus on in the next 5 years?
Oxford\u2019s social scientists responded rapidly as the COVID-19 crisis unfolded, working with partners in policymaking, industry, and communities around the world to find solutions to some of the greatest challenges the world has ever seen. Watch our film to discover the global impact of their work, and to learn why social sciences research will be critical to our long-term social and economic recovery.
Did you know there are different types of pain? In this episode of the Big Questions Podcast, we chat to Dr Lydia Coxon, a researcher in the Nuffield Department of Women\u2019s and Reproductive Health at Oxford. Lydia is looking at the mechanisms that cause pain in patients with endometriosis \u2013 a common gynaecological condition where tissue that normally grows inside the womb is found outside the womb. Through her research she hopes to better understand the type of pain that endometriosis causes, so that it can be treated more effectively.
The Ethics in Mental Health Digital Innovations for Young People in Africa (EMDIYA) project is funded by UK Research and Innovation, it sits within the Global Initiative for Neuropsychiatric Ethics. EMDIYA puts young people at the heart of research and engagement to inform responsible and relevant digital mental health interventions for young people in African countries.
Millions of lives have been lost, and there has been disruption to daily life on a scale unseen in peacetime thanks to COVID-19. But, speaking before the identification of the new Omicon variant, Dominic Wilkinson, professor of medical ethics, explained in a matter-of-fact way that the pandemic has not been as devastating as experts feared.
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