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« Back to NewsDr Joanna Crocker appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to help tackle health inequalities in Oxfordshire
28 November 2025
Senior Researcher Dr Joanna Crocker appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to lead community-engaged research tackling health inequalities in Oxfordshire.
OpenSAFELY team awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further Education
26 November 2025
Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.
Oxford medical students awarded joint George Lewith Prize 2025
4 August 2025
Milou Ottolini (left) and Dhanush Ammineni (right), both fifth-year medical students at the University of Oxford, have been named joint winners of the 2025 George Lewith Prize by the NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR).
Department’s generous £8.4m gift featured in local press and That’s TV
28 May 2025
A significant new donation to support global primary care research in our department has received media coverage in the Oxford Mail, Oxford Times, This is Oxfordshire and on That’s TV Oxfordshire.
Celebrating excellence in early career research: Jienchi Doward and Kelly Birtwell recognised for their contributions to primary care
9 May 2025
Two researchers connected to the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences have received national recognition for their outstanding contributions to primary care research.
Design for the Oxford Institute of Digital Health wins gold at international architecture award
9 April 2025
Architects’ plans for the proposed future home of the Oxford Institute of Digital Health (OIDH) – part of the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences – have won a World Architecture News (WAN) Gold Award in the Adaptive Reuse category.
Professor Michael Kidd appointed as Australia's next Chief Medical Officer
21 March 2025
Professor Michael Kidd AO, MBBS, MD, FAHMS, FRACGP has been appointed as Australia’s new Chief Medical Officer from 1 June 2025.
New senior academic appointments in Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
16 January 2025
Koen Pouwels and Cicely Marston join NDPCHS in senior academic roles with Kellogg College and Brian Nicholson is appointed to a senior academic post with St Hugh’s College.
Professor Anthony Harnden appointed as the new Chair of the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
19 November 2024
Professor Anthony Harnden, of Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, and former Deputy Chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), has been appointed Chair of the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh, Head of Department, elected to prestigious U.S. National Academy of Medicine
21 October 2024
We are delighted to share that Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh OBE, NDPCHS Head of Department and Nuffield Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, has been elected to the esteemed National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in the United States.
IRIHS team wins prestigious RCGP Health Services Research Paper of the Year award
4 October 2024
We’re proud to congratulate our Interdisciplinary Research in Health Sciences (IRIHS) group for winning the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Health Services Research Paper of the Year award. The team was honoured for their innovative study titled Patient safety in remote primary care encounters: multimethod qualitative study combining Safety I and Safety II analysis, published in BMJ Quality and Safety.
Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh OBE starts as new Head of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
1 October 2024
Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh takes over the role of Head of Department from Professor Richard Hobbs CBE from 1 October 2024
Congratulations to Hackathon Prize winners: Highlights from Centre for Digital Transformation of Health workshop
10 July 2024
Congratulations to our students who participated in the Hackathon Prize competition as part of a workshop for the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health. DPhil student Gina Wren's team came in first-place and MSc in Applied Digital Health student Anton Elepaño's team took second-place.
Junaid Hameed and Clare Hornby win Best Student Presentation Award at the British Journal of General Practice (BJGP) Research and Publishing Conference
1 July 2024
Congratulations to students Junaid Hameed and Clare Hornby on their Best Student Presentation Award! Junaid and Clare are final-year medical students (now about to graduate) in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. They were taking part in a project supervised by Dr Sharon Dixon. Read Junaid and Clare's reflections on their experience attending the conference and receiving the award below.
A toast to Primary Care: Celebrating growth and Professor Richard Hobbs' leadership at NDPCHS summer party
24 June 2024
On Friday 21 June, more than 200 members of our department gathered for our summer party, held this year in honour of Professor Richard Hobbs, our outgoing Head of Department. The party was a perfect blend of celebration and reflection, marking the end of Richard’s 13-year tenure at the helm.
PRINCIPLE and PANORAMIC teams honoured with prestigious Prix Galien Award
3 June 2024
The teams behind the PRINCIPLE and PANORAMIC clinical trials, run in the Clinical Trials Unit at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, have been awarded the prestigious Prix Galien Best Public Sector Innovation Award 2024 for their work in conducting innovative, large-scale clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Virginia Zarama awarded this year’s Gillian Nicholls Prize
28 February 2024
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Virginia Zarama is the recipient of this year's Kellogg College Gillian Nicholls Prize for her MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care dissertation.
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