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We support research on subjects as diverse as the relationship between diet, human health and the environment, avoiding future pandemics, and developing more efficient models of drug discovery. Whether working with machine learning experts to understand vast, complex biomedical datasets or ethicists to develop a new understanding of collective moral responsibility in the face of infectious disease, our approach is to bring together researchers from different disciplines to advance human health and improve quality of life.
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Reforming the UK food system isn’t just an imperative, it’s an opportunity
Speaking at a first-of-its-kind National Emergency Briefing on climate change, Professor Paul Behrens outlines the urgent need to reform the UK food system – and the diverse benefits this would bring for farmers, the public and nature.
What we told UK leaders about climate and nature at a national emergency briefing
Climate policy models are missing the human cost, says new Lancet review
A Lancet Planetary Health Review, co-authored by Professor Paul Behrens from our Future of Food programme, finds that widely used climate policy models overlook major impacts on people’s lives. The result is that prevention can be undervalued.
Global move towards plant-based diets could reshape farming jobs and reduce labour costs worldwide, Oxford study finds
A global shift towards healthier, more sustainable eating patterns could reshape agricultural employment across the world, according to new research from the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute (ECI).
Featured Video: Improving medical treatment and combatting antimicrobial resistance
The Oxford Martin Programme on Antimicrobial Resistance Testing is developing a new type of medical test powered by AI that is portable and accessible anywhere, from a hospital to a pharmacy to a field tent serving victims of a natural disaster. The aim is to be able to determine the cause of an infection and how best to treat it, all within 30 minutes.
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Director, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
Angela McLean
Professor of Mathematical Biology
Arjune Sen
Professor of Global Epilepsy
Oliver Pybus
Professor of Evolution & Infectious Disease
Achillefs Kapanidis
Professor of Biological Physics
Derrick Crook
Professor of Microbiology
Zoltán Molnár
Professor of Developmental Neuroscience
Moritz Kraemer
Professor of Epidemiology and Data Science
Marco Springmann
Senior Researcher on Environment and Health