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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.
MSc in Applied Digital Health welcomes first cohort of students
Digital health & innovation Students
6 October 2022
New study shows higher rate of fractures in people with intellectual disability
30 September 2022
In the most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers at the University of Oxford and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust found a substantially higher rate of fractures in people with intellectual disability compared with people of the same age and gender without an intellectual disability
PANORAMIC wins big at the Thames Valley Health Research Awards 2022
Awards & appointments COVID-19 Clinical trials
29 September 2022
Night-time blood pressure assessment is important in diagnosing hypertension and preventing cardiovascular disease, study reveals
Cardiovascular & metabolic Health Services Research
22 September 2022
Around 15% of people aged 40-75 may have a form of undiagnosed high blood pressure (hypertension) that occurs only at night-time. Because they do not know about this, and therefore are not being treated for it, they are at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease such as stroke, heart failure, and even death, suggests new research from the University of Oxford.
Bakita Kasadha interviewed about HIV research on BBC Podcast ‘A Positive Life: HIV from Terrence Higgins to Today’
Health experiences
8 September 2022
Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Science-based researcher, Bakita Kasadha, was interviewed on a recent BBC Sounds series about people’s lived experiences of HIV in the UK over the last 40 years.
LEAP wins Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation and Engagement Award 2022 for Meat Your Persona and Meat the Future
Awards & appointments Health behaviours
6 September 2022
Largest Hindu temple in Europe opens new health hub whilst providing continued support for PANORAMIC and PRINCIPLE trials
10 August 2022
Europe’s BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, with the Neasden Temple, one of the largest Hindu temples outside of India, has opened a new community health hub in west London. Following their continued support of the PANORAMIC and PRINCIPLE trials, the temple’s interactive health hub will engage visitors around health awareness and wellbeing.
Study reveals environmental impact of 57,000 multi-ingredient processed foods for first time
Health behaviours
9 August 2022
New research, led by researchers at the universities of Oxford and Aberdeen, highlights a new way of assessing the environmental impacts of supermarket food. It finds that plant-based foods have the lowest environmental impacts and that more nutritious foods are often more sustainable.
Study reveals environmental impact of 57,000 multi-ingredient processed foods for the first time
Diet, Data and Interventions
8 August 2022
Research from Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences contributes to new guidelines on faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) in patients with signs or symptoms of suspected colorectal cancer
Cancer Health behaviours
4 August 2022
The joint guideline from the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI) and the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) provides a clear strategy for the use of FIT in the colorectal cancer diagnostic pathway.
Measured weight loss associates with an increased risk of a cancer diagnosis
Cancer Health behaviours
4 August 2022
Weight loss is a sign of undiagnosed cancer regardless of the interval over which it occurs.
New project to investigate how food subsidies and taxes could help improve diets
Diet, Data and Interventions
27 July 2022
More children aged 8-17 trying to lose weight than a decade ago, including children of a healthy weight
DPhil Health behaviours
19 July 2022
New research from Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences researchers, including DPhil student Melissa Little, has found that the number of children aged 8-17 reporting weight loss attempts has increased over the last decade. The researchers also identified key characteristics linked to an increased likelihood of weight loss attempts.
COVID-19 vaccine protects people of all body weights from hospitalisation and death, a study of 9 million adults in England finds
COVID-19 Health behaviours QResearch
1 July 2022
Two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are effective against severe disease for people who are underweight, overweight, or who have obesity, finds new research published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, led by researchers at the University of Oxford.
Time-varying nature of clinical risk factors for pancreatic cancer may aid earlier diagnosis, finds new study
Cancer QResearch
29 June 2022
Body mass index, blood tests, comorbidities and medication use are temporally associated with cancer risk in the three years before a pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
Congratulations to Dr. Charlotte Albury on winning the 2022 SAPC Principal Investigator of the Year Prize
Awards & appointments Health behaviours
28 June 2022
Congratulations to Oliver Van Hecke and Hettie Davies on receiving 2022 SAPC/RCGP awards
Awards & appointments Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care Patient experience
24 June 2022
The Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) and the RCGP Scientific Foundation Board (SFB) award two departmental members for their contribution: Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Dr. Oliver van Hecke, receives SAPC/RCGP award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher 2022, and undergraduate medical student, Hettie Davies, receives the SAPC Medical Student Essay Prize 2022.
New health visiting study seeks to learn lessons from pandemic
1 June 2022
A new £265,000 study by researchers at the Universities of Stirling, Kent and Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, is seeking to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected health visiting services across the UK, with a view to improving them in the future.
World No Tobacco Day 2022, 'Protect the environment'
Research methods & EBM
31 May 2022
Today, Tuesday 31 May, is World No Tobacco Day – an annual event aimed to raise awareness of the harms caused by tobacco products to people, public health, communities and the environment; claiming the lives of over 8 million people every year. This years’ theme is 'Protect the environment'.