Health
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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Drought linked to 46% increase in sexual violence among adolescents in Southern Africa
Study reveals climate change is increasing risks to child safety.
The age of cascading crises: Why the world keeps being surprised
From the Gulf to Ukraine to the Sahel, today’s conflicts are not isolated events but cascading shocks in a hyper-connected world, yet our institutions remain built to react to yesterday’s wars.
Strait of Hormuz disruption exposes the UK’s fertiliser vulnerability
When geopolitical shocks hit households, we tend to notice energy prices first. But another shock often follows quickly: fertiliser price spikes that raise farm costs, then food prices.
Decentralising disease surveillance and modelling approaches will support equitable infectious disease responses
By sharing data analytics instead of raw data, federated approaches enable surveillance and modelling while respecting ethical and legal boundaries.
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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View allSarah Harper
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