Professor Dame Angela McLean will be the MOD’s next Chief Scientific Adviser

Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt has announced that Professor Dame Angela McLean will be the MOD’s next Chief Scientific Adviser.

Funding applications open for technological solutions to major global challenges

The Oxford Martin School has opened its latest round of research funding, inviting expressions of interest for research into technologies that create solutions for the major challenges of the 21st century.

How was typhoid eliminated in the past?

Oxford Martin School launches new programmes focused on plastics, cooling, cross-border resource sharing and informal cities

Changing what we eat could prevent one in five deaths globally, review of dietary risks shows

Enabling targeted interventions to reduce the burden of mosquito-borne diseases

Reinventing the antimicrobial pipeline in response to the global crisis of antimicrobial-resistant infections

The World Economic Forum and future-proofing global food systems

New scientific targets bring together healthy diets with a healthy planet

Alternative proteins can cut deaths by 5% and food-related greenhouse gas emissions by 25%

COP24: ‘Planetary health’ helps connect the dots on agriculture

Plant-based diets could save millions of lives and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions

A global switch to diets that rely less on meat and more on fruit and vegetables could save up to 8 million lives by 2050, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by two thirds, and lead to healthcare-related savings and avoided climate damages of $1.5 trillion (US) , Oxford Martin School researchers have found.