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
Green Impact Christmas Market
Tuesday, 06 December 2022, 2.30pm to 4.30pm
Join us for some festive fun and bargains!
Fixing Fever Screening for Our Future's Sake: Prof Graham Machin FREng, National Physical Laboratory
Prof Graham Machin FREng, National Physical Laboratory
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 12.30pm to 1.30pm
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought into the spotlight a problem well-known, namely the general unreliability of body temperature measurement as currently practiced. What are the shortcomings of the current approaches to temperature measurement? How can it be improved? How could it protect us in a future pandemic?
Health Econometrics and Policy Evaluation Course - Oct 2022
Monday, 17 October 2022 to Wednesday, 19 October 2022
The course will cover: Health policy and economic principles and the distinction between health and health care. Health care as an economic commodity.
EBMLive 2022 (as part of the EBHC Summer School)
Monday, 18 July 2022 to Wednesday, 20 July 2022, 12am - 1am
EBMLive will form part of our Evidence-Based Health Care Summer School, July 2022. Aimed at EBHC students and professionals in the field of health and social care, EBMLive focuses on three core themes: informing decisions, fostering high-quality research, and translating knowledge for better healthcare.
EBHC skills workshops (as part of the EBHC Summer School)
Monday, 11 July 2022 to Friday, 15 July 2022
We will be running a set of workshops, July 11-15 2022 as part of our 2022 Evidence-Based Health Care Summer School. The aim is to foster debate and engage with like-minded colleagues and offer additional learning relevant to studies in evidence-based health care, post-pandemic.
Introduction to qualitative systematic reviews (as part of the EBHC Summer School)
Thursday, 07 July 2022, 10am to 4pm
A one-day course introducing different approaches to qualitative synthesis.
EBHC Leadership School (as part of the EBHC Summer School)
Kamal Mahtani and Sean Heneghan
Tuesday, 05 July 2022 to Wednesday, 06 July 2022
This two day EBHC Leadership School will focus on an explanation and understanding of Leadership and how that is expressed in healthcare environments. During the two days the training will also unwrap areas such as leadership values, ethics and change as we seek answers to how healthcare Leaders will emerge and evolve to adapt to a very different post COVID-19 environment.
The History and Philosophy of Evidence-Based Health Care
Carl Heneghan and Jonathan Livingstone Banks
Monday, 04 July 2022 to Friday, 08 July 2022
Why and how did evidence-based medicine arise, and why should you accept it? These core questions are explored on our short training module, 'The History and Philosophy of Evidence-Based Health Care'. Led by Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, Carl Heneghan, and Research Fellow, Jonathan Livingstone Banks, this module is designed to engage students with epidemiologists and researchers in defining the history, philosophy and practice of evidence-based health care.
Evidence-Based Health Care Summer School
Monday, 04 July 2022 to Wednesday, 20 July 2022
The Summer School invites EBHC students, supervisors, consumers and leading evidence-based experts into the surroundings of Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Spanning three weeks this unique experience offers: EBHC modules; non-accredited short courses; a selection of workshops and EBMLive 2022.
American-European Health Economics Study Group - VI Edition
Thursday, 30 June 2022 to Friday, 01 July 2022
This study group provides a forum of two days for bringing together graduates and researchers who wish to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related health economics. Participants are expected to attend the entire meeting and take an active part as either author or discussant. The gala dinner of the workshop will take on 30th June.
VI Workshop on Immigration, Health and Wellbeing - 2022
Thursday, 16 June 2022 to Friday, 17 June 2022
Litchfield Lecture: “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Pandemic: How Medical History Helped Flatten the Curve"
Professor Howard Markel, physician and medical historian from the University of Michigan, USA
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Professor Howard Markel will be giving a Litchfield lecture at 2pm on Tuesday 24 May, St Luke's Chapel, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock road, OX2 6GG. Hosted by Professor Trish Greenhalgh.
Reporting Standards for Economic Evaluation: What’s New in CHEERS 2022?
Wednesday, 16 March 2022, 5.30pm to 6pm
This seminar will describe the new checklist of reporting items, discuss the main issues that have arisen during the update, and the initiatives being taken to support the dissemination and use of CHEERS 2022.
Obesity, Diet & Lifestyle Theme Networking Event
Wednesday, 16 March 2022, 12am to 5.15pm
The NIHR Oxford BRC 'Obesity, Diet and Lifestyle' theme welcomes researchers across Oxford who have an interest in this area of research to meet in-person and share their latest work at this free of charge event.
Introduction to interrupted time series analysis (ITSA) and segmented regression
Wednesday, 09 March 2022 to Thursday, 10 March 2022
This course will serve as an introduction to interrupted time series analysis (ITSA) including selection and setup of data sources, statistical analysis, interpretation and presentation, and identification of potential challenges.
Health Econometrics and Policy Evaluation Course
Monday, 07 March 2022 to Tuesday, 08 March 2022, 12am - 1am
[ONLINE] Aimed at PhD, MPhil and MD students, researchers, NHS professionals, GPs, managers, CEOs interested in pursuing a high-stake career in the field, this programme provides an introduction to the central issues in health economics and health policy.
Diving into Data for professional, admin and support staff
Tuesday, 15 February 2022, 2pm to 4pm
Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden.
Thursday, 18 November 2021
Save the date: With Sonia Bhalotra, of Warwick University
End Everyday Racism
Catherine Pope, Ella McPherson, Hande Güzel and Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa
Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 12pm to 1pm
Departmental Open Meeting
Thursday, 14 October 2021, 11am to 12pm
Health Econometrics and Policy Evaluation
Monday, 04 October 2021 to Wednesday, 06 October 2021
This online course will serve as an introduction to some of the concepts and principles in the economics of health and health care, and will provide an in-depth understanding of some tools usually used by health economists to study health policy issues.
Oxford China Science Lecture Series II
Thursday, 16 September 2021
Meditation - Wednesdays 12 noon
Wednesday, 21 July 2021 to Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 12pm - 1pm
Join Ushma Galal for group meditation every Wednesday at 12 noon.
Diversity in Research: Collective Conversations
Tuesday, 06 July 2021, 12.30pm to 1.30pm
V Workshop on Immigration, Health and Wellbeing, 2021
Monday, 21 June 2021 to Tuesday, 22 June 2021, 4pm - 7.30pm