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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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New study estimates NHS England spends 3% of its primary and secondary care budget on the health impacts of temperature
A new University of Oxford-led study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, is the first to link daily temperature data to health-care use and costs across primary and secondary care in England. Analysis of 4.37 million patient records in England has found resources asymmetrically impacted by winter cold and summer heat, with about 64% linked to common cold days while very hot days drive sharp same-day demand surges.
Global food systems driving twin crises of obesity and global heating
A major review in Frontiers in Science warns that unsustainable food systems pose an urgent threat to both human health and the climate.
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
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
Moritz Kraemer
Professor of Epidemiology and Data Science
Marco Springmann
Professorial Research Fellow in Climate Change