13 October 2022
\n \n \n \nA knowledge exchange event, organised by the Oxford Social Prescribing Research Network (OSPRN), brought together social prescribing link workers and cultural sector staff. \r\n\r\nOSPRN is comprised of staff from the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM) and Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM), as well as other internal and external contributors.
\n \n\n \n \n5 August 2022
\n \n \n \nLed by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, and jointly run by the Department for Continuing Education, we recently hosted a summer school, inviting EBHC students, supervisors, consumers, and leading evidence-based experts into the surroundings of Kellogg College, University of Oxford. 4-20 July 2022. This unique experience offered a variety of events, including EBHC modules; non-accredited short courses; a selection of workshops and EBMLive 2022.
\n \n\n \n \n5 August 2022
\n \n \n \nMSc in EBHC Course Director, Annette Pl\u00fcddemann, has been shortlisted for this year's Vice-Chancellor's Education Awards for her project submission, showcasing digital education innovation in the form of 'The EBM Primer', created in 2018 by former EBHC DPhil student, Marcy McCall MacBain.
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\n \n \n \n\n \n \n31 May 2022
\n \n \n \nToday, Tuesday 31 May, is World No Tobacco Day \u2013 an annual event aimed to raise awareness of the harms caused by tobacco products to people, public health, communities and the environment; claiming the lives of over 8 million people every year. This years\u2019 theme is 'Protect the environment'.
\n \n\n \n \n22 April 2022
\n \n \n \nFinal Honours student, from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Science and the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Harrison France, has recently been awarded first place in the IUPHAR ( International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology) Student Research Poster Competition 2022 by the British Pharmacological Society for his research on preventable deaths involving medicines.
\n \n\n \n \n21 February 2022
\n \n \n \nWe are delighted to congratulate three of our MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care students, Stella Vieth, Andrew Dagens, and Sean Godfrey, having been awarded this year's EBHC Dissertation Prize for outstanding dissertations.
\n \n\n \n \n16 February 2022
\n \n \n \nWe are delighted to announce that with over 20 years experience in healthcare, having worked in service delivery, consultancy and as a clinician, Dr Roberts has been appointed the new Chief Executive of NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) as of 1 February 2022.
\n \n\n \n \n14 February 2022
\n \n \n \nA new clinical review, co-authored by Associate Professor Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Dr Jonathan Livingstone-Banks of the University of Oxford, provides guidance to physicians and the public about the most effective tobacco cessation treatments.
\n \n\n \n \n1 November 2021
\n \n \n \nAn international team of researchers, led from the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine based in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, and funded by the World Health Organization and the National Institute for Health Research School for Primary Care Research, have today announced the findings from the most complete analysis of high-quality covid transmission studies in asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic people to date.
\n \n\n \n \n19 October 2021
\n \n \n \nDirector of Medical Statistics, Rafael, is one of over 30 Oxford academics from across the university to be awarded the 2021/22 fellowship from the Alan Turing Institute, the UK\u2019s national institute for data science and AI.
\n \n\n \n \n16 September 2021
\n \n \n \nPublished this week is the fourth update of the Cochrane review of \u2018Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation\u2019, and the second since it switched to a living review format in October 2020. This review brings together the most up to date research findings on the effect and safety of using electronic cigarettes to help people to stop smoking.
\n \n\n \n \n13 September 2021
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Michael Tringale, who recently completed the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care, and Claire Duddy, who recently completed the MSc in EBHC Systematic Reviews, as they are both awarded this year's EBHC Dissertation Prize for outstanding dissertation.
\n \n\n \n \n20 July 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Gillian Nicholls Prize is awarded by Kellogg College, to MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care student, Wei Loong Lim, for his dissertation \"The effectiveness of positive psychology interventions for promoting well-being of adults experiencing depression compared to other active psychological treatments: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials\".
\n \n\n \n \n20 June 2021
\n \n \n \nClinical Prediction Rules is a new accredited short course that will run in May 2022, and will soon be available for students who join the MSc in EBHC Medical Statistics from 2022/23.
\n \n\n \n \n20 June 2021
\n \n \n \nClinical Prediction Rules is a new accredited short course that will run in May 2022, and will soon be available for students who join the MSc in EBHC Medical Statistics from 2022/23.
\n \n\n \n \n20 April 2021
\n \n \n \nResearch led by Professor Carl Heneghan and Epidemiologist, Tom Jefferson, provides a rapid summary and evaluation of relevant data around the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, reporting on important policy implications and highlighting areas of urgently needed research.
\n \n\n \n \n12 March 2021
\n \n \n \nResearch led by one of our Primary Care DPhil students, Kome Gbinigie, makes number one most-read open research article of 2020 by the BJGP Open, whilst research led by Oxford researchers, including EBHC Dphil student, Georgette Eaton, makes the third most-read research article of 2020 in the BJGP.
\n \n\n \n \n16 February 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Social Prescribing Research Network from the University of Oxford have today launched a new website, bringing together world-class evidence-based research and expertise from the cultural and heritage sector to support people's health and well-being through social prescribing.
\n \n\n \n \n14 October 2020
\n \n \n \nNewly updated Cochrane evidence published today in the Cochrane Library finds that electronic cigarettes containing nicotine could increase the number of people who stop smoking compared to nicotine replacement therapy \u2013 such as chewing gum and patches \u2013 and compared to no treatment, or electronic cigarettes without nicotine. More information is needed on harms.
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