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« Back to NewsLaunching a new academic collaboration to advance evidence-based healthcare in Egypt
13 March 2026
Oxford’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM), University of Oxford and New Giza University Hospital (NGUH) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish the Oxford-Egypt Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) Alliance, a new academic collaboration dedicated to strengthening evidence-based healthcare education, research, and practice in Egypt.
Smoking remains stubbornly higher among disadvantaged groups, new research confirms
11 February 2026
New research finds people experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage are more likely to smoke, more addicted, and less likely to attempt to quit – a pattern that holds across different types of disadvantage.
Department sessions at the Alumni Meeting Minds weekend
9 October 2025
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences bring two sessions for alumni at Oxford Meeting Minds 2025, with talks on CEBM’s review of 30 years of evidence-based medicine spanning CD-ROMs to AI and big data, and a panel on sustainable food, health and nature chaired by Professor Susan Jebb.
NDPCHS postgraduate programmes now open to applications for 2026 entry
10 September 2025
- DPhil Programmes
- Evidence-Based Health Care
- MSc in Applied Digital Health
- MSc in Translational Health Sciences
- Postgraduate Programmes in Evidence-Based Health Care
- Students
We’re now open for applications to most of our 2026 postgraduate courses, including DPhils, MScs, PGCerts and PGDips.
Dr Daniel Adegoke wins 2025 NDPCHS alumni survey prize
8 August 2025
After winning the inaugural Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences (NDPCHS) alumni survey prize, Dr Daniel Adegoke, MSc Evidence-Based Health Care (2020), reflects on his time at Oxford and shares his journey from postgraduate study to pioneering trauma research.
New study identifies text messaging and varenicline as promising approaches for vaping cessation
8 January 2025
With 5.1 million people in Great Britain using vapes, what support is there to help people quit? New research explores the best interventions currently available.
New toolkit supports paramedics in primary care
6 November 2024
A new online toolkit, Paramedics in Primary Care, has been launched to help patients, paramedics and General Practitioners (GPs) support the evolving role of paramedics within primary care settings.
Shedding light on menopause products on BBC Panorama
1 October 2024
Dr. Anne-Marie Boylan, Senior Researcher in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, featured in a BBC Panorama investigation examining menopause products and their scientific backing.
Three top strategies for quitting smoking
5 September 2024
Top three strategies for quitting smoking: e-cigarettes, varenicline, and cytisine. New review summarises data from fourteen Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Reviews of over 150,000 participants, providing evidence-based guidance for smokers seeking to quit.
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.
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.
World Diabetes Day, 14 November 2022: 'Education to protect tomorrow'
14 November 2022
World Diabetes Day gives us an opportunity to reflect on, and recognise, all the great research being done across the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM), to review the evidence on COVID-19 and diabetes.
Congratulations to FHS student, Harrison France, on receiving 1st place in IUPHAR Student Research Poster Competition 2022
22 April 2022
- Awards & appointments
- COVID-19
- Evidence-Based Health Care
- FHS
- Medical Students
- Research methods & EBM
- Students
Final Honours student, Harrison France, from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Science and the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, has recently been awarded 1st place in the the IUPHAR (International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology) Student Research Poster Competition 2022 by the British Pharmacological Society, for his research on preventable deaths involving medicines.
First-ever Evidence-Based Health Care Summer School to take place this summer
5 April 2022
- Evidence-Based Health Care
- Postgraduate Programmes in Evidence-Based Health Care
- Research methods & EBM
- Students
- Teaching
Led by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, and jointly run by the Department for Continuing Education, this summer school invites EBHC students, supervisors, consumers, and leading evidence-based experts into the surroundings of Kellogg College, University of Oxford. 4-20 July. Spanning three weeks this unique experience offers: EBHC modules; non-accredited short courses; a selection of workshops and EBMLive 2022.
Oxford launches new Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science and Ben Goldacre announced as the first Bennett Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine
23 March 2022
- Awards & appointments
- Bennett Institute
- Evidence-Based Health Care
- Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care
The use of data, evidence and digital tools in healthcare and policy takes a major stride forward with the official launch of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science and appointment of Ben Goldacre as Bennett Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine
PCR cycle threshold may be key to predicting infectiousness of people with asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic COVID-19, suggests new review.
1 November 2021
An international team of researchers, led from Centre for Evidence-based Medicine based in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, and funded by the World Health Organization and the National Institute for Health Research School for Primary Care Research, have today announced the findings from the most complete analysis of high-quality covid transmission studies in asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic people to date.
MSc EBHC students awarded EBHC Dissertation Prize for outstanding Dissertation
16 September 2021
- Awards & appointments
- Evidence-Based Health Care
- Postgraduate Programmes in Evidence-Based Health Care
- Research methods & EBM
- Students
Congratulations to Michael Tringale, who recently completed the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care, and Claire Duddy, who recently completed the MSc in EBHC Systematic Reviews, as they are both awarded this year's EBHC Dissertation Prize for outstanding dissertation.
Oxford Social Prescribing Research Network launches website
16 February 2021
The Oxford Social Prescribing Research Network from the University of Oxford have today launched a new website, bringing together world-class evidence-based research and expertise from the cultural and heritage sector to support people's health and well-being through social prescribing.
New Editor-in-Chief for BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
21 June 2017
BMJ, a leading healthcare knowledge provider, is pleased to announce Carl Heneghan as the new Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine.
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