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We lead multidisciplinary applied research and training to rethink the way health care is delivered in general practice and across the community.
Does being overweight increase the risk of severe kidney disease?
Cardiovascular & metabolic Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care
For World Kidney Day 2017, Dan Richards-Doran reports on new research that links being overweight with the development of advanced chronic kidney disease.
Who are the 'New Old'?
Digital health & innovation Health Services Research
Part-time DPhil Student Gemma Hughes writes about conceptual technologies developed to support the next generation of older people.
Unpleasant complications of gastroenteritis - unravelling the link
Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care
Is there a link between antibiotic use in gastrointestinal illness and complications such as arthritis and irritable bowel syndrome? DPhil student Seun Esan investigates.
The NHS is not in crisis - here's why
Health Services Research Research methods & EBM
Professor Carl Heneghan writes in The Conversation.
Can real inter-sectoral working address deep-seated inequalities?
Digital health & innovation Global perspective
Nick Fahy is a senior researcher and consultant in health policy and systems at the University of Oxford. He also blogs about health and Brexit at www.nickfahy.org
What I learned from running PPI seminars
Public engagement & involvement
Lynne Maddocks shares her experience of piloting a series of seminars for our Patient and Public Involvement contributors, to help them be ready to shape the design, delivery and dissemination of our research.
Talking about infertility
Patient experience
Lisa Hinton blogs about her research on experiences of infertility and collecting women’s and men’s stories for the www.healthtalk.org website.
Why doing good can do you good
Health behaviours
Jeremy Howick explores the health benefits of doing kind deeds.
Big data in healthcare: problems and potential
Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care Research methods & EBM
What does “big data” look like when it comes to healthcare, what are the problems for researchers and what are the potential benefits to patients?
ALL for public consumption
Health behaviours Public engagement & involvement
The public can take many roles in research - particularly in projects where the aim is to co-create. Dr Lindson-Hawley describes her experience of engaging the public in their many forms in a project aiming to set new priorities for tobacco addiction researchers.
Text reminders – a low-cost strategy for type 2 diabetes?
Cardiovascular & metabolic Digital health & innovation Global perspective
By Dr Nacho Ricci Cabello. Can text messages help people with type 2 diabetes to achieve a healthier lifestyle?
Catching it early: netting the costs of earlier cancer diagnosis
Health Services Research Policy & health systems Research methods & EBM
Lucy Abel looks at the hidden costs of cancer diagnosis from a health economics perspective.
Evidence-based practice in the Calais refugee camp
Global perspective Research methods & EBM
DPhil student Jack O’Sullivan shares his reflections on providing first aid care to the 6000 refugees of Calais, France with other Oxford students, medical volunteers and in collaboration with charity Care4Calais.
Trials, tobacco and talking points
Clinical trials Health behaviours
Ben Cranfield gives us a flavour of some of the projects he has been working on in the department.
Remembering medicine’s female pioneers on International Women’s Day
General
CEBM Administrative Assistant Alice Rollinson writes about medicine's influential women through the ages.
The latest on tobacco research, courtesy of the Oxford Returning Carers’ Fund
Health behaviours
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, who has recently returned to the department following maternity leave, writes about her experiences of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) conference in Chicago.
Why we should measure our own blood pressure
Cardiovascular & metabolic
Dr James Sheppard writes about how seeing a doctor could affect your blood pressure results.
Virtues and vices in evidence based clinical practice
Digital health & innovation Health Services Research Research methods & EBM
Professor Trish Greenhalgh explains how Aristotle can help explain how, why and to what extent clinical practice is evidence-based.