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Emeritus Professor Carol Brayne has been made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to medicine, medical research and public health.Carol played a leading role in establishing Cambridge Public Health in 2020 and served as our first Co-Director until 2024. She held the Professorship in Public Health Medicine at the Univers…

Colleagues from Cambridge Public Health attended the 79th World Health Assembly in Geneva, contributing to high-level discussions at the intersection of global health policy, primary care, public health, and health equity.Representing Cambridge Public Health were Dr Shobhana Nagraj (Department of Public Health & Primary Care), Dr Tom Bashford (Depa…

We are recruiting a part-time Coordinator to support the coordination and delivery of Cambridge Public Health’s activities. The role will help build and maintain relationships across the University and beyond, and create opportunities for collaboration, networking and knowledge exchange.The Coordinator will also contribute to the implementation of …

Cambridge Public Health brought together colleagues from Cambridgeshire County Council, Peterborough City Council, the NHS and the University of Cambridge for a workshop on strengthening collaboration between local authorities and public health researchers.Held on Wednesday 29 April, the workshop explored how academic expertise can support local pu…

Yesterday, Cambridge Public Health welcomed audiences to the Cambridge Festival event “The Lonely Planet: Are We Experiencing a New Global Health Crisis?” Bringing together researchers from across disciplines, the discussion explored the causes, experiences and wider impacts of loneliness, and why it is becoming an increasingly important issue acro…

A recording of the recent Cambridge Public Health seminar on Creative Public Health is now available to watch online.Held in March 2026, the seminar introduced Creative Public Health as an emerging cross-disciplinary field at the intersection of participatory arts, museums, hospital arts, critical practice and research in action.Drawing on examples…

Cambridge Public Health is delighted to welcome Professor Nick Wareham as our new Co-Director.Professor Wareham is Director of the MRC Epidemiology Unit and Co-Director of the Institute of Metabolic Science. He also leads Population Health Improvement UK, a national research network established to develop innovative and inclusive ways to improve th…

Share your vision for the future of global healthUniversity of Cambridge students are invited to apply for a Flash Talk Competition, offering the opportunity to deliver a three-minute talk at the Wolfson Annual Global Health Research Conference: Global Health in a Changing World.The competition invites students to share their vision for the future …

Cambridge Public Health Co-Director Professor Gordon Harold has provided key evidence to the House of Lords Home-based Working Committee, whose new report, Is Working from Home Working?, was published today. The Committee is investigating the long-term implications of home and hybrid working for employment, productivity and public health.Professor …

Cambridge Public Health has launched a new Global Health Bites feature — a short video format designed to share examples of global health research, training and collaboration across Cambridge and with international partners.The first video, Building Research Capacity in Tanzania, features Dr Shobhana Nagraj (Cambridge Public Health), who joined Pro…

Mortality after emergency abdominal surgery is more than three times higher in the least developed countries compared to the most developed, according to a major new international study led by the University of Cambridge.Published in The Lancet Global Health, the research analysed outcomes for 1,769 patients treated in 187 hospitals across 51 count…

Study synthesises global data from 32 population-based studies.A new open-access study in JAMA Neurology, co-authored by Professor Carol Brayne, Cambridge Public Health, provides the most comprehensive pooled estimates to date of the incidence and prevalence of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and its clinical variants.Drawing on 32 population-based s…

Shobhana Nagraj, co-leader of Cambridge Public Health’s Global Health priority area, is featured in the latest CHW Data Dialogues podcast, hosted by the Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC). The episode explores how co-design can strengthen data collection, analysis, and use in community health programs.Joining Dr Karen Finnegan (Harvard Medica…

We’re excited to announce a new seminar series from Cambridge Public Health that takes a wide-angle view on public health, drawing on insights from medicine, epidemiology, engineering, social science, arts, and more.The series will showcase the breadth of public health research across the University of Cambridge, highlighting how different discipli…

Insights from the PHREsH symposium in March 2025 highlight priorities for action across the region’s health systems.Cambridge Public Health is pleased to share a newly published report from a regional health symposium hosted by East of England Population Health Research Hub (PHResH) in March 2025.The event brought together public health leaders, ac…