The Oxford Centre for the Humanities,TORCH, Medical Humanities Research Hub (MedHum) has received the 2025 University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Award for Research Culture.
Work led by a NDM Centre for Global Health Research (CGHR) and KEMRI-Wellcome team `Engaging stakeholders to build a Kenyan learning health system\u2019 was recognised as winner of the Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Research Engagement Award.
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford will expand its work in global primary care with a new centre and professorship, thanks to a generous \u00a38.4 million gift from the Fondation Docteur Sadok Besrour.
Green Templeton College recently hosted a powerful event, building on the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences 12-part 'Decolonising Global Health' blog series. The event brought together voices from the Global South to share their experiences, challenge entrenched power dynamics and explore practical strategies for creating more equitable health systems.
Scientists from the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI) have developed a new screening method to tackle bacterial resistance to the tetracycline class of antibiotics. The results from this method provide the starting point to develop new drugs to treat drug-resistant infections. The findings have been published in Chemical Science.
The Harnessing Innovation in Global Health for Quality Care Exchange (The HIGH-Q Exchange) held a stakeholder meeting during the Kenya Paediatric Association conference between 8th and 11th April 2025, in Mombasa. The project shared key findings on how health systems can go beyond training and equipment to deliver high-quality newborn care. The meeting provided a platform for reflection on how to enhance the quality of neonatal care in Kenyan hospitals, focusing on the role of Ward Assistants in improving care delivery.
Genetic data from the largest blood-based prospective study of a Latin-American population are now available securely to academic researchers worldwide through the DNAnexus Trusted Research Environment (TRE).
Over the past 70 years, America built a research ecosystem that became the envy of the world, transforming lives and improving health through science. That legacy is now in jeopardy.
On the 25th and 26th April the MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine, IHTM, celebrated its tenth anniversary as an internationally renowned programme for future global health leaders, with over 100 alumni travelling from around the world to join colleagues, current students and guests in Oxford.
A major study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases confirms that single low-dose primaquine is safe and effective in reducing malaria transmission in young children. Analysing data from over 6,000 patients, researchers found it effective even in young children and areas with high malaria burden. The findings support expanding primaquine use to tackle drug-resistant malaria in Africa. A child-friendly formulation is urgently needed to maximise its impact on malaria elimination efforts worldwide.
The climate crisis is a health emergency which is threatening the lives and wellbeing of communities around the world in many ways \u2013 including through air pollution, rising temperatures, the spread of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance.
Results of two parallel studies show that one in four African children hospitalised with malaria and coma have an additional infection, and that giving antibiotics with antimalarials could help reduce death rates of comatose children.
Professor Christine Gerrard, Director of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and Professor of eighteenth-century literature and culture, explores interdisciplinary research as a 'magic bullet' to tackle major global challenges such as the climate crisis, democratic stability and global health inequity.
Oxford experts estimate that 1 million additional children could become infected with HIV and nearly 500,000 children could die from AIDS by 2030, while as many as 2.8 million children could become orphaned in the next five years if US President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) programmes are reduced or eliminated.
Researchers from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences are part of a major new research initiative aimed at tackling critical workforce challenges in healthcare, particularly in underserved communities.
The world is facing a shortage of 11 million health workers by 2030. World Health Worker Week calls for increased investment in all cadres of the health workforce - nurses, doctors, pharmacists, and others vital to resilient health systems. Health workers save lives, support economies, and advance development goals. Collaborative efforts, such as OUCRU\u2019s training programme in Dak Lak, Vietnam, demonstrate the benefits of investment, with increased vaccine uptake. Protecting, valuing, and training health workers strengthens global health.
The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) has officially entered into a seven-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Wellcome, a UK-based charitable foundation, and the University of Oxford. The \u00a391 million agreement was signed at the Wellcome headquarters in London, marking a significant boost for medical research and training in Kenya.
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