Congratulations to Oliver Van Hecke and Hettie Davies on receiving 2022 SAPC/RCGP awards

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.

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The PRINCIPLE Trial

The world's largest clinical trial of COVID-19 treatments for recovery at home, focusing on those most at risk of serious illness from COVID-19.
Oxford Institute for Digital Health

Our multidisciplinary, cross-department initiative to develop patient-level applications and diagnostics and to curate and analyse routine clinical data.
Learning from diverse experiences of COVID-19

We aim to understand how people from diverse backgrounds have experienced COVID-19.
SuMMiT-D

Developing a text message-based system to help people with type 2 diabetes to manage their condition.
Face masks and exercise study

A streamlined crossover trial to assess the effects of wearing a face mask whilst exercising among healthy young adults
Understanding experiences of urogynaecological conditions and health services
OpenSAFELY analytics platform

OpenSAFELY delivers urgent results during the global COVID-19 emergency and demonstrates the power of modern, open computational data science techniques for healthcare