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The winners of its inaugural Early Career Researcher (ECR) competition were announced at the Cambridge Public Health annual Showcase, centred this year on the topic of "Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Adversity." Benjamin Woolf, a genetic epidemiologist from the Biostatistics Unit, emerged as the overall winner of the ECR competition.His pr…

Summary report from joint Cambridge Public Health and Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) workshop now available.Intergenerational adversity refers to the ripple effect of challenges, such as mental ill health and poverty, passed down through families and communities with impacts on the wellbeing, opportunities, and outcomes of future generations.…

Professor Carol Brayne, CPH's co-director, and Professor Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, have written an opinion article in the BMJ arguing that public health is facing a "Spartacus moment" in the face of divisive government policies."The evidence of the harm that is being done by current policies and systems is ov…

In a recent policy statement, the UK Academy of Medical Sciences has called on the government to take bold action to enhance public health by investing in building a robust, evidence-based and integrated public health system.The Academy emphasises that there has never been a more important time to invest in building a public health system that can …

John Clarkson, Professor of Engineering Design and co-director of Cambridge Public Health, has been awarded the President's Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Shadrack Frimpong, a PhD student in Public Health & Primary Care and a Gates Scholar, has been awarded an Honorary doctorate from Royal Holloway, University of London.The is based on his career focus on researching and developing innovative approaches to putting communities at the centre of development and global health. This has defined his time a…

Empowering Early Career Researchers to communicate research through the media.

This video is from a Cambridge Public Health event organised for early career researchers in April 2023, providing insights and advice on how to successfully apply for research funding.  In the video, Dr Erica Cook, a Public Health Specialist from NIHR Research Design Services, provides an overview of the key public health funding channels for earl…

Cambridge Public Health member Eolene Boyd-MacMillan discusses refugee and asylum seekers’ mental health on BJPsych Open podcast.

A new publication by Cambridge Public Health researchers and others highlights the urgent need to develop a consensus on useful and sensitive tools for care homes, measuring what matters most and in the most efficient and least burdensome way.

The Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, is seeking a Research Assistant or Research Associate to support delivery of the Population Evidence and Data Science theme of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) in the East of England. The role involves contributing to the development, conduct, analysis and evaluation of applied pop…

Existing systematic reviews of dementia primary prevention include almost exclusively evidence concerning individual-level interventions, and almost no evidence concerning population-level interventions.This is the finding of a new rapid review written by Cambridge Public Health researchers and published in The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's …

More must be done to ensure that the needs of older people are at the heart of research and innovation concerned with ageing.

CPH's recent event on technology & systems in public health, part of the 2023 Cambridge Festival, drew wide attention to the increasing importance of innovation in healthcare. Our speakers, which ranged from academics to healthcare professionals and startup CEOs, describes how, across the public health sphere, technological tools and systems thinki…

Professor Sir Michael Marmot and several other health and planning experts, including from Cambridge Public Health, have written to the Housing Secretary calling on him not to ignore health inequality in the Levelling Up Bill. The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill must include specific objectives that require authorities to put health and wellbein…