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« Back to NewsDesign 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
- Awards & appointments
- Evidence-Based Health Care
- Postgraduate Programmes in Evidence-Based Health Care
- Students
Virginia Zarama is the recipient of this year's Kellogg College Gillian Nicholls Prize for her MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care dissertation.
University of Oxford awarded £3 million to establish HealthTech Research Centre
13 November 2023
NDPCHS wins NIHR award for new HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) to explore innovative Health Technology to enhance community and primary care.
Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh OBE appointed as next Nuffield Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Head of Department, NDPCHS, University of Oxford
31 July 2023
Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh has been appointed to succeed Professor Richard Hobbs CBE as Nuffield Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Head of Department from August 2024.
Professor Michael Kidd, AO, to start a new role at NDPCHS from July 2023
16 June 2023
Through a strategic partnership with UNSW and the University of Oxford, Prof Michael Kidd, will start in a new joint position in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences (NDPCHS), focusing upon Global Primary Care and Future Health Systems.
Online arts and culture for young people’s mental health – new research programme announced
3 April 2023
Young people will help create an ‘online museum’ as a way of improving their mental health, as part of a new and ground-breaking £2.61m research project.
Athena Swan Gold Award Success for NDPCHS
17 March 2023
We are absolutely delighted to receive the Gold Athena Swan Award for the first time. The award reflects the department’s commitment to representation, progression and success for all. It acknowledges the innovative policies and practices developed across the department and the detailed action plans for improvement.
Congratulations to our 2023 MSc EBHC prize winners for outstanding dissertations
23 February 2023
- Awards & appointments
- Evidence-Based Health Care
- Postgraduate Programmes in Evidence-Based Health Care
- Research methods & EBM
- Students
We are delighted to congratulate three of our MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care students, Ho-ming Lee, Kasper Pihl and Skanda Rajasundaram, on receiving the 2023 EBHC Dissertation Prize for outstanding dissertations.
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