19 Nov, 2024
\n \n \n \nProfessor 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\u2019s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
\n \n\n \n \n21 Oct, 2024
\n \n \n \nWe 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.
\n \n\n \n \n4 Oct, 2024
\n \n \n \nWe\u2019re 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.
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\n \n \n \nProfessor Sir Aziz Sheikh takes over the role of Head of Department from Professor Richard Hobbs CBE from 1 October 2024
\n \n\n \n \n10 Jul, 2024
\n \n \n \nCongratulations 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 Elepa\u00f1o's team took second-place.
\n \n\n \n \n1 Jul, 2024
\n \n \n \nCongratulations 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.
\n \n\n \n \n24 Jun, 2024
\n \n \n \nOn 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\u2019s 13-year tenure at the helm.
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\n \n \n \nThe 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.
\n \n\n \n \n28 Feb, 2024
\n \n \n \nVirginia Zarama is the recipient of this year's Kellogg College Gillian Nicholls Prize for her MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care dissertation.
\n \n\n \n \n13 Nov, 2023
\n \n \n \nNDPCHS wins NIHR award for new HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) to explore innovative Health Technology to enhance community and primary care.
\n \n\n \n \n31 Jul, 2023
\n \n \n \nProfessor 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.
\n \n\n \n \n16 Jun, 2023
\n \n \n \nThrough 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.
\n \n\n \n \n3 Apr, 2023
\n \n \n \nYoung people will help create an \u2018online museum\u2019 as a way of improving their mental health, as part of a new and ground-breaking \u00a32.61m research project.
\n \n\n \n \n17 Mar, 2023
\n \n \n \nWe are absolutely delighted to receive the Gold Athena Swan Award for the first time. The award reflects the department\u2019s 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.
\n \n\n \n \n23 Feb, 2023
\n \n \n \nWe 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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\n \n \n \nThe Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) and the RCGP Scientific Foundation Board (SFB) award two departmental members for their contribution: Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Dr. Oliver van Hecke, receives SAPC/RCGP award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher 2022, and undergraduate medical student, Hettie Davies, receives the SAPC Medical Student Essay Prize 2022.
\n \n\n \n \n22 Apr, 2022
\n \n \n \nFinal 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.
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