Nuffield Department of Population Health explained

Department of Population Health University of Oxford
Established:2013
Head Label:Head of Department
Head:Prof. Sir Rory Collins
City:Oxford
Country:UK
Postgrad:184
Faculty:500
Website:www.ndph.ox.ac.uk

The Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH) of Oxford University is located at the Old Road Campus in Headington, Oxford, England. It is one of the largest departments within Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division.[1] The head of department is Professor Sir Rory Collins.[2]

History

The Nuffield Department of Population Health was formed from the merger of eleven research units in the Medical Sciences Division in 2013, the majority of which were in the Department of Public Health which ceased to exist.[1] These centres were the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU); Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX); Centre on Population Approaches for Non Communicable Disease Prevention (CPNP); Clinical Trial Service Unit (CTSU); the Ethox Centre; Health Economics Research Centre (HERC); Health Services Research Unit (HSRU); Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology (UHCE), Medical Careers Research Group (MCRG); Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit (MRC PHRU); and the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU). The department is named for Viscount Nuffield, a major benefactor in establishing medical sciences at the University in the 1930s.[3]

Research

Research has focused on a broad range of public health science including the benefits of reducing meat intake, the efficacy of statins, and women's health through the Million Women Study.[4] [5] [6] [7] NDPH researchers, Michael Parker and Sara Wordsworth, contributed to Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies' 2016 annual report on genomics in health care systems.[8]

There are over 500 research staff within NDPH.[9]

Buildings

The department is currently based in two buildings on the Old Road Campus in Headington, Oxford:

The Big Data Institute opened in 2017 as a collaboration between NDPH and the Nuffield Department of Medicine. The BDI hosts the NDPH research groups Ethox and the Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit.[10]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: History - Nuffield Department of Population Health . University of Oxford - Nuffield Department of Population Health . . 21 November 2018.
  2. Web site: Is Amarin's Fish-Oil-Derived Drug A Historic Breakthrough Or Not? It's Complicated . . 21 November 2018.
  3. 2013 . 95 . 10–13 . 10.1308/147363512X13311314198210 . Boulton . R. . From Motorcars to Surgery: A Historical Review of the Late Lord Nuffield . The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England . Handa . A. .
  4. Web site: How A Sausage And Bacon Tax Could Save Hundreds Of Thousands Of Lives Every Year. . 21 November 2018.
  5. News: Butter nonsense: the rise of the cholesterol deniers . . 21 November 2018. 2018-10-30 . Boseley . Sarah .
  6. Collins . R.. etal. Interpretation of the evidence for the efficacy and safety of statin therapy. . Lancet. 388. 10059. 2532–2561. . 27616593. 2016. 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31357-5. 4641278. Rory Collins. free.
  7. Web site: Million Women Study - Introduction . . 22 November 2018.
  8. Web site: Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2017, Genomics: Genome Generation . . 21 November 2018.
  9. Web site: NDPH is five . Nuffield Department of Population Health - University of Oxford . . 21 November 2018.
  10. Web site: Research - Big Data Institute . Big Data Institute . . 21 November 2018.

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