Teaching, Capacity Building and Future Leaders

Applied Digital Health

In addition, in 2022 the Institute launched a new Master’s programme in Applied Digital Health to build a competent and skilled workforce that can bridge the knowledge gap between healthcare and digital technologies.

Translational Health Sciences

The social science of innovation: taking an interdisciplinary and applied approach to the challenges of implementing innovations and research discoveries in a healthcare setting.  Turning innovations into practical solutions for healthcare needs is an imperative – and one that can only become more urgent as demands on health systems increase. Our key focus in this Master's programme will be the ‘downstream’ phases of translational health sciences – the human, organisational and societal issues that impact on the adoption, dissemination and mainstreaming of research discoveries. We will address these issues using robust, interdisciplinary and practice-based approaches in this highly applied course.

Evidence-Based Health Care

Our world-class programme of part-time graduate courses and professional short courses is designed to meet the interests and professional requirements of clinicians, scientists and researchers, working in a wide range of disciplines.

 Global Healthcare Leadership

This part-time MSc in Global Healthcare Leadership is an intellectually rigorous and highly practical programme, designed to develop experienced leaders with the skills to deliver affordable, effective and efficient healthcare in complex global systems.  Designed for experienced healthcare managers and leaders with over five years' relevant professional experience, this multi-disciplinary Master’s degree is led by the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences in partnership with Saïd Business School, creating an innovative and integrated programme that harnesses the University’s world-leading expertise in healthcare, business and policy.

Annika Theodoulou

Investigating and addressing socioeconomic inequalities in smoking cessation behaviours and outcomes

Supervisors: Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce; Dr Nicola Lindson

Supporting the implementation of self-monitoring of blood pressure - focus on complex pre-eclampsia screening intervention

Supervisors: Dr James Sheppard; Professor Richard McManus; Dr Rebecca Barnes

Understanding the early presenting features and long-term complications of childhood and adolescent cancer

Supervisors: Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox; Professor Anthony Harnden

Implement a standard program within primary care settings to target the physical activity discussion practices of primary care physicians

Supervisors: Dr David Nunan; Professor Kamal Mahtani

Using Behavioural Insights to Improve Effectiveness of Digital Weight Loss Interventions

Supervisors: Professor Susan Jebb; Dr Dimitrios Koutoukidis; Dr Jadine Scragg

Supporting the implementation of self-monitoring of blood pressure

Supervisors: Professor Richard McManus; Dr James Sheppard; Dr Rebecca Barnes

Diabetes mellitus type 2 and secondary lower extremity amputations in Western Cape, South Africa

Supervisors: Professor Andrew Farmer

Preventing infection-related cardiovascular disease in primary care

Supervisors: Dr James Sheppard; Dr Constantinos Koshiaris; Professor Richard Hobbs

Improving GPs' knowledge of benefits and harms of treatments to support decision making in multimorbidity: qualitative research and co-design of a novel electronic information resource

Supervisors: Professor Trish Greenhalgh; Professor Kamal Mahtani; Dr Jo Crocker; Dr Sietse Weiringa

Digital Health/Patient Experience: Utilization of eHealth for fertility monitoring: Investigating the perceived value of patient-generated health data

Supervisors: Professor John Powell; Professor Sue Ziebland

Scaling up the use of remote video consultations for COVID-19: addressing barriers of equity and patient acceptance

Supervisors: Professor Trish Greenhalgh; Dr Joseph Wherton; Dr Chrysanthi Papoutsi; Dr Teresa Finlay

Hypertension Self-Management in Pregnancy

Supervisors: Professor Richard McManus; Dr Kath Tucker; Dr Nerys Astbury

The use of a digital application to treat overweight and obesity in children: A feasibility study

Supervisors: Professor Susan Jebb; Professor Paul Aveyard; Dr Tanisha Spratt

Disrupting dermatology: exploring practitioner and minority ethnic patients' perceptions of barriers and facilitators to reducing racial bias in an AI-driven tool for self-screening of skin cancer in the UK

Supervisors: Dr Abigail McNiven; Professor John Powell; Professor Catherine Pope

Reducing stroke risk for patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation in primary care

Supervisors: Professor Richard Hobbs; Dr Clare Taylor; Dr Yaling Yang; Dr Margaret Smith

Realist Evaluation of a digital self-care intervention to improve the long-term management and outcomes of people affected by coeliac disease

Supervisors: Professor Geoff Wong

Human-Centred AI Design to Develop Digital Health Artificial Intelligence for Multiple Long-Term Conditions (Multimorbidity)

Supervisors: Professor Rafael Perera; Dr Clare Bankhead

Stratifying medicines for prevention of cardiovascular disease in Primary Care

Supervisors: Dr James Sheppard; Professor Richard Hobbs; Dr Constantinos Koshiaris; Dr Jennifer Hirst

The epidemiology of UTI and antibiotic resistant uropathogens

Supervisors: Dr Gail Hayward; Professor Chris Butler