3 April 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 March 2023
\n \n \n \nWe are absolutely delighted to receive the Gold Athena Swan Award for the first time.\r\n\r\nThe 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 February 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.
\n \n\n \n \n29 September 2022
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n6 September 2022
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n28 June 2022
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n24 June 2022
\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 April 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.
\n \n\n \n \n22 April 2022
\n \n \n \nBakita Kasadha is a qualitative researcher within the department's MS&HERG (Medical Sociology and Health Experiences Research Group), and has recently been awarded the Young Investigator Award at an International workshop on HIV and Women.
\n \n\n \n \n13 April 2022
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to the amazing team of research nurses working in the Primary Care Clinical Trials Unit who have been shortlisted as finalists in the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Staff Recognition Awards 2021.
\n \n\n \n \n23 March 2022
\n \n \n \nThe 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
\n \n\n \n \n15 February 2022
\n \n \n \nFour articles, led or co-authored by Oxford researchers in the department, make the BMJ's top 10 list for the most read and published articles of 2021.
\n \n\n \n \n26 October 2021
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, have today announced that they have been awarded funding through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to work with several UK universities and carry out a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, testing novel antiviral COVID-19 treatments for use early on in the illness by people in the community with COVID-19 who are at higher risk of complications.
\n \n\n \n \n21 October 2021
\n \n \n \nOn Monday, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced the election of 90 regular members and 10 international members during its annual meeting, including our department's very own Trish Greenhalgh. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.
\n \n\n \n \n11 October 2021
\n \n \n \nA collaboration which used anonymised GP records to identify 1.5m people most at risk from Covid-19 and prioritise them for vaccination has won the prestigious John Perry Prize for computing innovation in primary care.
\n \n\n \n \n23 September 2021
\n \n \n \nWe are delighted to announce that Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, James Sheppard and Sarah Tonkin-Crine have been awarded the title of Associate Professor, in recognition of their research achievements, contribution to teaching, and contribution to the general work of the department and the wider Medical Sciences Division.
\n \n\n \n \n16 September 2021
\n \n \n \nCongratulations 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.
\n \n\n \n \n16 September 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford has been established to pioneer the better use of data, evidence and digital tools in healthcare and policy, optimizing the impact of interventions to achieve improved outcomes. The Institute has been made possible due to a generous donation from The Peter Bennett Foundation
\n \n\n \n \n19 July 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences is delighted to announce that it has been awarded \u00a3557,674 to investigate how families are managing to cope with \u2018long covid\u2019 and to understand how best they can be supported.
\n \n\n \n \n28 June 2021
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