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Professor Susan Brooks will take you on a personal journey beginning in breast cancer research and leading to a passionate commitment to supporting and developing the next generation of researchers. Susan discovered that a chemical[...]
Kailash: A Participant Media and Concordia Studio Screening As a young man Kailash Satyarthi promised himself that he would end child slavery in his lifetime. In the decades since, he has rescued more than eighty[...]
Sir Muir Gray and Lucy Abel debate: Is value-based health care nothing more than health econimics re-packaged or is health economics nothing more than only one of the six contributors to value-based healthcare? Health economics[...]
Adult stem cells are a rare population of undifferentiated cells found throughout our bodies which are able to divide infinitely and give rise to the different types of cells that maintain the body’s tissues and[...]
There is mounting evidence that the planet’s capacity to sustain a growing human population, expected to be over 8 billion by 2030, is declining. The degradation of the planet’s air, water and land, combined with[...]
The NHS is one of the best healthcare systems in the world, but it is under significant pressure. Given the complexity of the issues facing the NHS, including underfunding, an ageing population and privatisation, it’s[...]
André Tomlin is the man behind the Mental Elf (https://www.nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/). His talk will focus on the difficulties that we all face in keeping up-to-date with reliable research and new ways that we can all adopt[...]
In this talk Karolina will present various types of study design she has used in trials of treatments for chronic pain. Karolina will also discuss why blinding is important and why a placebo control may[...]
Patients are being let down by serious flaws in the creation, dissemination, and implementation of medical research. Too much of the resulting research evidence is withheld or disseminated only piecemeal. As the volume of clinical[...]
Join us as part of Black History Month at Oxford Brookes to hear from Dr Cecilia Akrisie Anim President of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Cecilia shares her experiences as the first BME President[...]
Though the vast majority of people trying to lose weight do so on their own, without support from healthcare professionals or formal weight loss programmes, most research into weight loss focusses on more intensive programmes.[...]
There will be a drinks reception after the talk. All welcome. Abstract: This talk will cover the intersection between the provision of different elements of immunisation programmes in the UK and the political environments in[...]
Prof. Chris Fairburn has two research interests: the nature and treatment of eating disorders, and the development and evaluation of psychological interventions. The result has been the development of specific psychological treatments for the eating[...]
Professor Alan Silman is an epidemiologist and a rheumatologist and is the co-author of “Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide”, which is the recommended textbook for the module ‘Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods’ Alan[...]
‘Making decisions and choices about health and social care need access to high-quality evidence from research. Systematic reviews provide this by both highlighting the quality of existing studies and by themselves providing a high-quality summary’.-[...]
Dr Katherine Wheelhouse did her MChem at Jesus College, Oxford, working in the chemistry department with Prof Tim Donohoe before joining GSK as a process chemist in 2008. Since 2011 Katherine has specialised in application[...]
Join us for a new season of Science on Your Doorstep, where we shine a spotlight on fascinating people living and working in Headington around the site of our new Science Oxford Centre opening later[...]
Newspapers often feature studies that sound too good to be true and often they aren’t – they are myths. Some myths may be harmless but the phenomenon affects most kinds of research within evidence-based science.[...]
“Why do we spend so little on preventing ill-health and so much on treating it?” with Prof Chris Dye
“Prevention is better than cure”, and yet only 3% of health expenditure in OECD countries is spent on prevention and public health while more than 90% is spent on curative, rehabilitative and long-term care. How[...]
The 2019 Dementia Awareness Day will be held at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on the morning of Saturday March 2nd. The Oxford ARUK Network Centre organise this event to discuss current dementia research[...]
This is a joint lecture with The Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health at the Oxford Martin School Cooling is critical for many of the sustainable development goals, including those relating to health, shelter,[...]
Currently limited tools exist to accurately forecast the complex nature of disease spread across the globe. Dr Moritz Kraemer will talk about the dynamic global maps being built, at 5km resolution, to predict the invasion[...]
This book talk is co-organised with the Oxford Martin Programme on Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease Vaccination raises ethical issues about the responsibilities of individuals, communities, and states in preventing serious and potentially life-threatening infectious[...]
Ever wondered how cancer works, what treatments are out there, how to spot reliable medical information, or just want an opportunity to ask questions? Join us for a (very) informal afternoon with oncologists from Oxford[...]
Professor Bill (KWM) Fulford, Fellow of St Catherine’s College and Member of the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick, Director of the Collaborating Centre for Values-based[...]
We’d like to invite you to join our Oxford group to share some food and hear a thought-provoking talk by Leah Maclean on Intuitive Eating. INTUITIVE EATING: freedom from diet mentality Intuitive Eating is a[...]
For many good reasons, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis, and realist tales have become key tools within the qualitative researcher’s methodological toolkit. In this presentation, Dr Cassandra Phoenix invites the audience to consider the[...]
Professor Carl Heneghan has extensive experience of working with the media. In this talk he will discuss some recent case examples, working with the BBC amongst others. This talk will discuss how using an evidence-based[...]
Writer and campaigner Nicci Gerrard will be in conversation with doctor and author, Rachel Clarke on her latest book, which examines dementia and how it effects both those who live with it and those who[...]
Past Times, Blackwell’s series of free history talks, continues with Mark Honigsbaum discussing his new book The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists[...]
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