Miscommunication and missed communication: how silence and selling science shape menopause care
Monday, 27 April 2026, 5.30pm to 6.15pm
In this talk, Dr Boylan examines how in the absence of communication, commercial narratives can dominate, shaping expectations of menopause and its treatment without consideration of risk. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, she explores how communication operates across multiple levels, including doctor-patient interactions, community norms and commercial market forces.
Alumni retreat 2026 - AI and digital healthcare systems
Monday, 13 April 2026 to Thursday, 16 April 2026
Come to our Alumni Retreat that celebrates alumni from across the department's programmes: Applied Digital Health, Evidence-Based Health Care, Global Healthcare Leadership, Translational Health Sciences and Primary Care. This annual event provides a unique opportunity to gain insights into the latest trends in global healthcare, share experiences, and engage with industry leaders. Don't miss out on this exclusive event designed to inspire and empower healthcare professionals.
International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare, Oslo
Monday, 09 March 2026 to Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Join us at the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare in Oslo, Norway to learn more about our healthcare leadership programmes.
MGHL Webinar – Driving health equity through leadership
Tuesday, 03 March 2026 to Friday, 06 March 2026, 2pm - 3pm
Join faculty, current students, and alumni from the Oxford MSc in Global Healthcare Leadership for this online event, as they share how they are advancing health equity through roles in policy, healthcare delivery, NGOs and global organisations.
MSc in Applied Digital Health Guest Lecture: A digital approach to distress management in primary care
Monday, 26 January 2026, 11am to 12pm
NDPCHS Guest Lecture Series: Developments in Primary Care Reform in Australia 2025+
Friday, 23 January 2026, 12.15pm to 1.15pm
Next in our Guest Lecture Series, we welcome Professor Stephen Duckett for an insightful discussion on the evolving landscape of primary medical care in Australia. The session will be chaired by NDPCHS Researcher Joseph Kwon.
NDPCHS Guest Lecture Series: Synthetic Data, AI, and Regulation: Insights from the MHRA
Thursday, 11 December 2025, 12.15pm to 1.15pm
Dr Myles will provide an overview of the MHRA’s research into high-fidelity synthetic data, including its use in the development of AI Medical Devices, particularly in the context of clinical trials.
Annual GP Tutors Conference 2025
Tuesday, 02 December 2025, 9am to 5pm
On Tuesday 2nd December, we will welcome GP tutors from across the region to our Annual Primary Care Tutors Conference. This year’s theme is 'Connected Practice: flourishing, creativity and community in Primary Care Education'.
Menopause: what works, what doesn't, and what needs to change
Saturday, 29 November 2025, 11am to 1pm
Cutting through menopause confusion: free Oxford event shares evidence on what really works, South Asian women's experiences, and supplement truth. Plus Sally Wainwright on Riot Women. 29 November, Said Business School.
MSc in Applied Digital Health Guest Lecture: Developing AI to improve outcomes from infectious diseases in resource-limited settings
Monday, 24 November 2025, 2pm to 3pm
MSc in Applied Digital Health Guest Lecture: From Artificial Intelligence to Actual Improvement
Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 11am to 12pm
Career Pathways to Academic Primary Care 2025
Tuesday, 04 November 2025, 1.30pm to 8.30pm
An event for Undergraduate students to explore careers in primary care research and showcases the work of the world-leading Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences.
Guest lecture: From Vision to Action, an eye surgeon's journey from vision loss to helping people see worldwide
Tuesday, 21 October 2025, 11am to 12pm
Bad timing: what is immortal-time bias in observational research and how to prevent it?
Associate Professor Clémence Leyrat (LSHTM)
Thursday, 16 October 2025, 12pm to 1.30pm
Summary: Observational data, from electronic health records, claim databases or disease registries, are increasingly used to understand the causal effect of treatments or exposures on health outcomes. When the start of follow-up, the time of eligibility assessment and the time of treatment initiation do not coincide, standard analysis methods may lead to biased estimates of treatment effects. This bias is known as immortal-time bias. In this presentation, we will first describe situations in which this bias occurs, and then introduce a few solutions to prevent or handle this issue, with a focus on the clone-censor-weight approach. For questions contact: andrea.schaffer@phc.ox.ac.uk or william.hulme@phc.ox.ac.uk.
NDPCHS Guest Lecture Series: Professor Sir Denis Pereira Gray and the St. Leonard’s Practice team
Tuesday, 30 September 2025, 12pm to 2pm
Meeting Minds - Transformation: From Outpatient's Building to a Global Centre for Primary Care
Sunday, 21 September 2025, 10am to 11am
Delve into the history of the Radcliffe Primary Building, which used to be the Outpatients Dept of the Radcliffe Infirmary, by viewing archival photos, artifacts and documents, and hearing stories of those who used to work there. Meeting point: Radcliffe Primary Care Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG.
Meeting Minds - You Are What You Eat: Building a planet-friendly plate
Saturday, 20 September 2025, 1.30pm to 2.30pm
Discover how shifting towards healthier, more sustainable diets isn't just good for us, but essential for the planet. Leading experts will host a lively conversation on how smart research, bold policies, and practical interventions can transform our food systems.
Meeting Minds - From CD-ROM to AI: 30 years of CEBM
Saturday, 20 September 2025, 9.30am to 10.30am
Join academics from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine for a compelling look at their 30-year evolution from the early days of CD-ROMs to today’s cutting-edge era of big data and AI. Throughout this transformation, their mission has remained steadfast: to develop, teach, promote and share better evidence for better healthcare.
Oxford Summer Academy for the Social Science of Health Innovation
Monday, 18 August 2025 to Wednesday, 20 August 2025, 9am - 5pm
We are delighted to offer our first Translational Health Sciences Summer Academy. Building on the successful MSc in Translational Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, this Summer Academy takes an interdisciplinary approach to translating healthcare innovations into practice globally.
How to fight AI hype and create the future we want
Tuesday, 15 July 2025, 6.30pm to 7.30pm
Sorry, this event is now full. Join Professor Catherine Pope for an evening discussion with Dr Emily M Bender, co-author of "The AI Con", exploring the hype surrounding artificial intelligence. Dr Bender will discuss how AI technologies can devalue human creativity and replace meaningful work, particularly relevant as UK policy drives the shift to digital health and care services.
Workshop: Introduction to Carbon Modelling in Health Care Research and Practice
Monday, 23 June 2025, 10am to 12.30pm
Join us for an interactive workshop providing essential foundations in carbon modelling for health care research and practice.
BMJ International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare: Utrecht 2025
Wednesday, 21 May 2025 to Friday, 23 May 2025
Care Pathways - Effectiveness, Value & Equity
Monday, 19 May 2025, 10.30am to 12pm
Ethical Issues in the Integration of AI-Based Technology in Global Healthcare
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 1pm to 2.30pm
Health Economics and Policy Evaluation ONLINE Course 2025
Wednesday, 07 May 2025 to Friday, 09 May 2025
Beyond the Ivory Tower: A Dialogue on Decolonising Global Health
Friday, 25 April 2025, 5.30pm to 7pm
A forward-looking dialogue with scholars from the Global South, addressing issues of structural injustice with health equity front and centre. This event builds on the NDPCHS 'Decolonising Global Health' blog series and a panel at Green Templeton in September, Beyond the Ivory Tower: Healthcare Leadership in Times of Crisis. The event is co-sponsored by the Oxford Global Health Society (OGHS).
Masterclass | Using critical social science theory in qualitative health research
Jackie van Dael, Natassia Brenman and Trish Greenhalgh
Friday, 25 April 2025, 10am to 4pm
Are you a DPhil student or early career researcher who is conducting qualitative health research? Do you want to learn more about using critical social science theory in research?
Session – Keynote speaker – Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert
Wednesday, 02 April 2025, 3.30pm to 5pm
Come and listen to distinguished University of Oxford scientist Professor Gilbert speak about the pandemic and steps to prevent the next outbreak.
Society for Academic Primary Care South West Conference 2025 (SW SAPC 2025)
Monday, 31 March 2025 to Tuesday, 01 April 2025
The Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford is delighted to be hosting the South West regional meeting of the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) in Oxford in 2025 at Keble College. This annual conference brings together clinical and non-clinical academics, researchers and clinicians to share the latest primary care research findings from across the region and Wales.
Seminar: Succeeding as a female academic with Professor Katrina Turner
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 12.15pm to 1.15pm
Katrina, Professor of Primary Care Research and Head of the Centre for Academic Primary Care at the University of Bristol, is an expert in integrating qualitative studies within trials. Passionate about supporting women in academia, she is also a certified women’s coach. Balancing a successful career as a single parent, Katrina values sustainable work aligned with personal values. In this seminar, she will share her experiences as a female academic, offering insights on resilience, setting boundaries, defining success, building teams, and networking. The session concludes with Q&A and open discussion.
Annual GP Tutors Conference: Sustainable Primary Care Clinical Education
Tuesday, 03 December 2024, 9.15am to 5pm
On Tuesday 3rd December, we will welcome GP tutors from across the region to our Annual Primary Care Tutors Conference. This year’s theme, 'Sustainable Primary Care Clinical Education', will focus on how we can foster a more sustainable future in education and clinical practice.
Career Pathways to Academic Primary Care
Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 2.15pm to 8.30pm
An event for Undergraduate students to explore careers in primary care research and showcases the work of the world-leading Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences.
Evidence-Based Medicine: Why it’s important and why it's controversial
Saturday, 21 September 2024, 11am to 12pm
Open to all Alumni – This discussion will take a look at the importance and controversy surrounding evidence-based medicine, in our post-pandemic times.
Transforming healthcare in a digital age
Friday, 20 September 2024, 4pm to 5pm
Open to all Alumni – The panel of healthcare and technology experts will focus on how AI could help solve the demand for urgent care, here in the UK and globally.
8th International Meeting on Conversation Analysis and Clinical Encounters (CA&CE 2024)
Monday, 01 July 2024 to Wednesday, 03 July 2024, 9.15am - 4.30pm
The aim of the CA&CE meetings is to bring our international community together to share research findings and promote methodological excellence and innovation in the application of conversation analytic (CA) methods to communication during health care encounters; and to consider how we can best ensure that our research is meaningful to patients and their family members, health care professionals, clinical educators, and policy makers.
Inequalities in mental health: economic and policy perspectives
Friday, 19 April 2024, 1pm to 5.30pm
A workshop bringing together academics, clinicians, commissioners and policy makers to discuss the issue of inequality in mental health.
Health Economics and Policy Evaluation Course March 2024 - Online
Monday, 18 March 2024 to Tuesday, 19 March 2024
This intensive course online offers a comprehensive overview of core concepts, principles, and analytical methods in health economics and policy assessment. Optimized for PhD students, researchers, health professionals, administrators and executives, it provides crucial skills to excel in data-driven health policy roles.
Departmental Seminar (Clinical Informatics & Health Outcomes Research Group)
Thursday, 07 December 2023, 12.15pm to 1pm
Chaired by Lisa Hinton, the last seminar of the year will be given by Merri Leston from the Clinical Informatics and Health Outcomes Research Group. Merri will give a presentation entitled: 'Excess COVID-19 mortality as a novel means of subdividing the immunosuppressed: a systematic review and comparative meta-analysis'. All are welcome.
Health Economics and Policy Evaluation Course
Thursday, 26 October 2023 to Saturday, 28 October 2023
3 day course Oct 26-28, 2023 on health economics, policy evaluation, and Stata software; early booking discount before Oct 21.
Automation tools to improve the speed of evidence synthesis: Workshop
Tuesday, 12 September 2023, 9am to 4pm
Kicking the can down the road, or: how to create research impact in seven (not so easy) steps
Wednesday, 07 June 2023, 2pm to 3pm
Professor Inger Mewburn, better known as @thesiswhisperer on the internet, discusses developing research projects on top of a very full academic life, all the while building a huge following on social media.
The Mysterious Decline in Coronary Heart Disease
Thursday, 04 May 2023, 10am to 11.30am
Ca-PRI 2023: Tailoring our approach to cancer control in primary care
Thursday, 23 March 2023 to Friday, 24 March 2023
Join the 14th Annual Cancer and Primary Care Research International Network (Ca-PRI) Conference, hosted by the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at Worcester College Oxford, UK. This year's theme focuses on tailoring our approach to cancer control in primary care.
Departmental Seminars
Claire Duddy & Monserrat Guilherme Conde
Thursday, 09 March 2023, 12.15pm to 1.16pm
Can digital technologies help solve the NHS crisis?
Wednesday, 08 February 2023, 3.30pm to 4.30pm
This event is part of a seminar series from the Oxford Institute of Digital health in partnership with the NIHR: Applied Research Collaboration Oxford and Thames Valley and the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences.
Leaky Bodies at Work: Leaking bodies threaten social order. (online via Zoom)
Dr Jen Remnant, University of Strathclyde
Monday, 06 February 2023, 3.30pm to 4.30pm
In this talk Jen will draw on qualitative interview data from semi-structured and unstructured interviews with various workplace stakeholders. Showing how the leaky bodies of workers remain poorly theorised and are unrecognised in workplace environment, policy and practice.
What is the future for integrated care in the National Health Service?
Wednesday, 01 February 2023, 1pm to 2.30pm
***Call for papers*** American-European Health Economics Study Group - VII Edition
Monday, 30 January 2023, 12am to 1am
A presentation - the POETIC study
Jacob McKnight & Tamara Mulenga Willows
Tuesday, 17 January 2023, 3pm to 4pm
Tamara Mulenga Willows and Jacob McKnight will present findings from their study of the readiness of Kenyan and Tanzanian hospitals to deliver Essential Emergency and Critical Care. The Receipt, Maintenance, and Flow heuristic they develop offers a way for hospital management to identify how and where limitations in human and technical resources, or organisational planning affect the care of the critically ill.
Department Seminar
Tuesday, 13 December 2022, 12.15pm to 1.15pm
Chaired by Dr Julian Hancock, the speakers are: Cervantée Wild, Tanvi Rai and Anna Dowrick presenting on: Chronicling injustice: experiences from the Covid-19 pandemic & Jienchi Dorwood presenting on: Point-of-care testing to improve primary care HIV services in South Africa