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Congratulations to @Ben_Bowers__ on being awarded a Fellowship of the Queen's Nursing Institute! This prestigious honour recognises his exceptional leadership and impactful work in advancing end-of-life care research and community nursing practice. @TheQNI #EndOfLifeCare
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New @MarieCurieUK report reveals 1 in 3 people suffer severe pain in their final week of life. Researchers including Prof Stephen Barclay @DPHPC uncovered the significant challenges bereaved families face in accessing home support. 👉bit.ly/4eau0m7
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Our Green Genies attended the Sustainability Showcase 2024 which celebrated innovative solutions for a more sustainable future.
Congratulations again to our amazing Green Genies for achieving the Platinum Award in this year's Green Impact programme!💚@CambridgeSust
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We are delighted to announce that Elias Allara & Genevieve Cezard have been awarded Fellowships through the HDR UK Big Data for Complex Disease Driver Programme!
📢Full announcement here: tinyurl.com/4yf9u3vt
#CambridgeResearch #BigData #ComplexDiseases #Fellowship #HDR_UK
ALT Photo of Elias Allara
ALT Photo of Genevieve Cezard
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Read @CAMBRIDGE_CEU PhD student Henry Taylor's large genetic study as joint first author highlighting the shared biological pathways that lead to type 2 diabetes and related comorbidities published in Nature.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
ALT Illustration by Stacie Leigh Bumgarner, PhD - A 3D scatter plot, used in this study to discover heterogeneity in pathophysiological processes of Type-2 diabetes from genome-wide associations across diverse ancestries, cascades down with sugar crystals from the spoon. Sugar piles below represent the eight different clusters identified).
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Congratulations to Dr @ShobhanaNagraj who has been appointed as Assistant Professor to head a new health research hub. The Unit will help improve patient care in primary and community healthcare services.
@Cambridge_Uni @NHS_ELFT @THIS_Institute @PCU_Cambridge
ALT Picture of Dr Shobi Nagraj
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Get ready for Wear It Green Day on Thursday 16 May – join us and let’s turn the world green for good mental health!💚
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #Movement x.com/DPHPC/status/179069109…
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Dancing can improve your stamina, strength, mental well-being and general fitness levels. Share with us your favourite playlist or song in the comments ⬇️
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #Movement x.com/DPHPC/status/179037400…
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Today is the first day of #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek! Did you know that gardening and spending time in nature is just one of the ways we can start moving more for our mental health? 🌷🌳
Get more tips from @mentalhealth - visit mentalhealth.org.uk/movement… x.com/DPHPC/status/178998141…
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Prospective Population Health Sciences students should look at the the Lucy Cavendish-Trinity Global Health Studentship, a £30,000 scholarship to support PHS Mphil students!
Check out more funding options:
student-funding.cam.ac.uk/
The PHS Mphil:
phs.masters.cam.ac.uk/
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The MPhil in Population Health Sciences is now an eligible course for the Commonwealth Shared Cambridge Scholarship!
Details here:
cambridgetrust.org/scholarsh…
Applications open until the 31st March
Course website: phs.masters.cam.ac.uk
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Interested in Public Health? Check out the types of roles our MPhils graduate to:
Academic Clinical Fellow
Research Fellow
Statistician
Lecturer
Research Nurse
Statistician
Research Associate
Clinical Studies Officer
NHS Registrar
PhD Co-ordinator
phs.masters.cam.ac.uk
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Congratulations to all of our winners and nominees in the first annual DPHPC Awards, celebrating the successes and contributions of our colleagues in 2020! Thank you to the over 175 people who joined us for the Awards Ceremony! #recognition #letscelebrate
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"Cambridge will always remind of what I am able to achieve with perseverance and endurance"
Read what our other Alumni have to say about our masters course:
phs.masters.cam.ac.uk/alumni…
#Masters #Education #CambridgePostgrad
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Check out our new Mphil in Population Health Sciences, jointly run with @MRC_Epid and @MRC_BSU with contributions from colleagues across the University of Cambridge!
Find out more here: phs.masters.cam.ac.uk/
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This week the University of Cambridge launched the #StaySafeCambridgeUni initiative aimed at giving all of our colleagues advice on staying safe as the new academic year begins. Take a look at the various resources available: cam.ac.uk/coronavirus/stay-s…
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Join our Professional Services Team and help to monitor biodiversity by taking part in the RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch! @CambridgeSust @InstPubHealth #BigGardenBirdWatch2020
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Wishing all our staff, students, visitors and collaborators a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thanks to our wonderful Strangeways Choir for singing so beautifully on Wednesday at our festive celebration!
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Congratulations to @DrZoeFritz on her new book "Look Inside a Hospital" receiving a Bronze for the best designed/illustrated book in the Junior Design Awards 2019!
The Annual GP Tutor Conference 2019 is taking place on the 3rd May at the DoubleTree by Hilton Belfry Hotel in Cambourne! Topics include developments in the Clinical Course as well as some of the work occurring within @GPEG_Cambridge.
Make sure to check out this @camscience session on the myths surrounding the many microorganisms that can infect humans!
Fantastic beasts and what not to catch from them:
Sun 24 March
14:15 - 15:00
sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk/
#CamSciFest #pathology
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Congratulations to Dr Angela Wood for being named a @turinginst Fellow in the recent round of applications to the national Alan Turing Institute for Data Science. Angela is a key investigator in the Cambridge component of Health Data Research UK.
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In case you missed it - Well done Dr Anna Spathis and Dr Stephen Barclay for winning one of the VC’s Public Engagement awards! #fatigueisreal #Cancer #understanding @PCU_Cambridge
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Women who have more than one or two children increase their risk of a major heart attack in future by as much as 40 per cent, UK researchers have found. @COliverWilliam1 @CAMBRIDGE_CEU
#WomensHealth
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Raising awareness this week and doing our part to protect the environment. @CambridgeSust @InstPubHealth #Recycle #SaveTheEnvironment
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Have an interest in the inequalities in human health?
Join us for a one day interdisciplinary conference: Comparative perspectives on social inequalities in life and death.
bit.ly/2s2V7u1
@NMKriznik @GuySkinner27
@PCU_Cambridge @InstPubHealth
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Have an interest in the inequalities in human health?
Join us for a one day interdisciplinary conference: Comparative perspectives on social inequalities in life and death.
bit.ly/2s2V7u1
@NMKriznik @GuySkinner27
@PCU_Cambridge @InstPubHealth
#health
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Want to be healthier? Let us change your environment…
Researchers at @InstPubHealth @dphpc discuss nudging environmental interventions to improve a healthy lifestyle.
@camscience
Book now:
bit.ly/2CfflbE
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Professor Dame @MarteauTM @BHRUCambridge discusses her life as a scientist with medical student @ChloeGamlin for #InternationalWomansDay
phpc.cam.ac.uk/blog/professo…
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From Heart to Emotion -Dr. Philippe Gilchrist @DonorHealthBTRU @CAMBRIDGE_CEU will discuss some of the relations between day-to-day cardiovascular functioning and thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.
@CambSciFest
Book here donorhealth-btru.nihr.ac.uk/…
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Making sense of our unhealthy behaviour. A @CambSciFest talk by @BHRUCambridge @MarteauTM
Book here sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk/ev…
Micro movie - the inner life of the human cell: youtube.com/watch?v=wJyUtbn0…
Broken batteries - inherited mitochondrial disease and why should you care: youtube.com/watch?v=Sr7Jnr9q…