Can vegetarian and vegan diets save your health and the planet? 🌍🍽️ Read our "Big Question" on plant-based diets to understand the evidence from our research at Oxford Population Health ➡️ buff.ly/QXMQKgy

Join us on Weds 1 April for an April Fakes Day screening of 'Safe' at the @uppcinema.bsky.social. The film screening will be followed by a Q&A led by Prof Patricia Kingori from @ethoxcentre.bsky.social and Prof Caitjan Gainty of Kings College London ➡️ buff.ly/UivBxdO

A powerful feature in @thetimes.com today by one of our cancer epidemiology researchers Karl Smith-Byrne. He shares his story as a cancer survivor and a future that he believes is possible where cancer research prioritises prevention.

How can you keep your heart healthy? 🫀 Some factors, like family history and getting older are beyond our control, but others can be addressed. 📊 Read our 'Big Question' on cardiovascular disease to learn more ➡️ buff.ly/WwOOFdQ

Is there a link between cannabis use and brain health? 🧠 For Brain Awareness Week, we are highlighting a study with @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social, which found no evidence that cannabis use contributes to cognitive decline, or increases the risk of dementia. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/XWcylGm

Can vegetarian and vegan diets save the planet and our health? 🌍🍽️ Our latest Big Question delves into some of the research from OxPop that aims to understand how diet may affect risk of health conditions and the impact on the planet.🫀🥦🐄 #NutritionAndHydrationweek Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/ME3AKCJ

Today is No Smoking Day, a day to raise awareness of the risks of smoking.📢 Professor Sir Richard Doll was best known for the discovery of the link between smoking and lung cancer. His research laid the foundations for future work in the department. 📉

Professor Trey Ideker has been appointed as the new Director of the Big Data Institute. He has been recognised internationally for his contributions to biology, artificial intelligence, and cancer research. Learn more ➡https://buff.ly/YO3dCyx @medsci.ox.ac.uk

Tell us about your research in seven words or less 💬 For International Women's Day we shared some of our researchers describing their work in seven words or less. But research is collaborative and we can't forget about the men who work here too! 🦠🫀🫁🦟 ➡️ buff.ly/gRXPEE7

Today is International Women's Day! 🫱🏽‍🫲🏿 💬These women are just a snapshot of our amazing researchers, summing up their work in seven words or less 🎀🍽️🩺 The research we conduct is multidisciplinary, varied and has global impact ➡️ buff.ly/gRXPEE7

A new @who.int Collaborating Centre will contribute to the promotion of healthy and sustainable diets 🍽️🌍 The new Centre will be co-directed by our own Prof Mike Rayner and @jessicarenzella.bsky.social from the @oxprimarycare.bsky.social Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/RNhN57C

Two of our researchers will help tackle one of cancer’s toughest challenges. They are part of team ATLAS, who have been selected to receive a @cancergrand.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org award of $25m ➡️ buff.ly/dcJb8Kb #CancerGrandChallenges

Adults with excess weight are at greater risk of early death New study shows that entering adulthood with a healthy body weight is associated with a substantially lower risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease, cancer and respiratory disease. 📉 Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/l5dr3zd

Really excited to see this study by @oxpop.bsky.social published. Using pooled data from more than 1.8m people across 3 continents, the research revealed that vegetarian diets show a lower risk of 5 cancers, including breast, prostate and pancreatic. www.wcrf.org/about-us/new...

Can a vegetarian diet lower your risk of cancer? 🍽️ The largest ever study of non-meat diets and cancer risk compared the risk of 17 different cancers across five diet groups, using data from more than 1.8 million people across three continents. 📊 Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/9iQvKfu

🚨 A defining moment for global health data. The termination of the #USAID-supported Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program has wide-ranging consequences. We reflect on the collapse and argue what should come next in a new PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… 📊 9,000+ studies

We are hiring two Senior Analyst/Programmers to join our Core Programming team, which handles a wide variety of full-stack full-lifecycle projects. The team works on both Windows and linux, developing primarily in C++, Javascript and SQL. Apply now ➡️ buff.ly/GBBwNyx

The next Festival of Global Health event will be a screening of '2040' on Weds 11 Mar at @curzon.com, followed by a panel discussion📽️🍿 2040 is an award winning film about initiatives that exist to tackle planetary health issues 🌍 Register ➡️ buff.ly/TpbMXi1

NHS safety inequalities are influenced by a complex set of factors A new study, drawing on in-depth interviews highlights a complex set of factors that increase the risk of harm for people from minoritised groups when using NHS services ➡️ buff.ly/iRYU4vp

Statins – your questions answered.❓ Statins are a family of drugs that lower cholesterol. Our Big Question article shares how statins work, who they help, what the risks actually are ➡️ buff.ly/wX8edHE

We're hiring! 👀 We are seeking a Senior Teaching and Research Fellow to be the Associate Course Director for our new Master in Public Health in Public health research. 🩺 Apply now ➡️ buff.ly/qaWFoBa

This week is Children's ' Mental Health Week 2026 and we are highlighting The Online Support and Intervention (OSI) tool, an innovative child anxiety treatment, co-created by OxPop researchers Professor Mara Violato and Dr Shuye Yu. 💻 Learn more ➡️

A great interview with Jess a DPhil student in our Wearables group ⬇️ Jess is researching whether wearable sensors can enhance risk assessment before, and recovery after, major cancer surgery.

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔬 We are celebrating the work of the many amazing women in science here at Oxford Population Health by sharing what inspired some of our team members to pursue a career in science. 🎉

In an analysis of >150,000 participants, researchers found no statistically significant excess risk for most reported statin side effects, including memory loss, depression, sleep disturbance, or sexual dysfunction. 🧵(1/4) @thebhf.bsky.social @ukri.org

Statins do not cause most side effects listed in package leaflets. New research finds no significant excess risk from statin therapy for most side effects, including memory loss, depression, and sleep disturbance. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/dj2aoe9 @thebhf.bsky.social @ukri.org

This #WorldCancerDay, we're highlighting a new way to calculate risk of smoking-related health problems like cancer by looking at proteins in the blood. 🩸 Instead of self-reporting smoking, researchers developed an index based on 51 proteins in the blood to assign an impact score ➡️ buff.ly/5x3IDI7

The Shadow Scholars has been longlisted for a @bafta.org 📽️🎉 The film follows Prof. Patricia Kingori in the world of academic ghostwriting in Kenya, where highly-educated, underemployed scholars write papers for global students. Watch the trailer ➡️ buff.ly/ZA4LYBW

🎉EASi-KIDNEY has recruited 3000 randomised participants! 📉EASi-KIDNEY will investigate whether a novel treatment can help slow the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) ➡️https://buff.ly/qXd6j1S

A new report from the MBRRACE-UK collaboration has been published. The latest set of data shows that the mortality rate for women who died during or soon after pregnancy in the UK between 2022 and 2024 was 20% higher than the maternal death rate between 2009 and 2011. Learn more ⬇️

Earlier this year, we held the first in-person #RECOVERYtrial UK collaborators meeting where we spoke to some of the hospital staff who recruited and cared for patients. Thank you to everyone involved! ➡️

Hospitalisations for flu are very high for this time of year. The #RECOVERYtrial was vital in identifying treatments for COVID-19. Now, RECOVERY is investigating the effectiveness of three existing drugs against other forms of pneumonia, including influenza ➡️ buff.ly/4LElSiJ

👀In case you missed it... did you know having diabetes increases risk of six types of cancer? 📊Analysing data from 2.2 million adults, the association between diabetes and these six types of cancer can't be explained by other common risk factors for cancer and diabetes ➡️ buff.ly/yx89lfM

Can AI help protect patient privacy in healthcare data? 🩺 Researchers compared the abilities of large language models and specialised software tools to human performance in anonymising patient records 🖥️ Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/LrSyk0U

This weekend we hosted our Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Annual Meeting 30 of our public contributors joined us in person and online for a day filled with insightful discussions 🗨️ Learn more about our PPIE work ➡️https://buff.ly/dss0mjc

🧠"Ageing clocks" show a healthier brain may reduce risk of dementia and early death 🕗“Ageing clocks” are statistical models that estimate how fast a person’s organs are ageing compared to the expected ageing ➡️ buff.ly/2jW3gsS @broadinstitute.org @pku1898.bsky.social

📣Recent breakthroughs in treatment and detection of chronic kidney disease can reduce risks for many people with the disease 📉 Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/tXrDKs2

🎉RECOVERY has recruited 1000 flu participants! RECOVERY aims to compare several different treatments that may be useful for patients with pneumonia, including influenza ➡️ buff.ly/eSwTCBe

🎉Over 300 sites are now collaborating in the EASi-KIDNEY trial! 📉EASi-KIDNEY will investigate whether a novel treatment can help slow the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) ➡️ buff.ly/PXTVVeE

🤔 How accurate are your fitness trackers? Activity trackers can overestimate activity and misclassify sleep stages – but how accurate are they in real life? The Oxford Wearables Group is running a real-world study to find out. 🙌 And we need YOUR help!➡️ bit.ly/3X3tvnI

💡This #WorldDiabetesDay, did you know having diabetes increases risk of six types of cancer? 📊Analysing data from 2.2 million adults, they found the association between diabetes and these six types of cancer can't be explained by other common risk factors ➡️ buff.ly/J39Rh9z @ukbiobank.bsky.social

🔍New study finds major benefits of sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors treatment for chronic kidney disease (CKB) regardless of the type of CKB patient Leanr more ➡️ buff.ly/LXYWqgA

📣 Study led by Oxford Population Health researchers compared the growth of children who were HIV-exposed but uninfected and HIV-unexposed and uninfected found no differences in growth ➡️ buff.ly/UUyIpOK

🎥The next Festival of Global Health event will be on 26 Nov! 🌍Join us for a screening of Spillover: Planet of Viruses, followed by a panel discussion at the Curzon cinema Find out more and register ➡️ buff.ly/AAZbBCz

📣New investment into Children’s Surgery Outcome Reporting programme led by @npeu-oxford.bsky.social 📊Researchers from the Big Data Institute will contribute to the creation of a unified, England-wide dataset to support this research Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/3GEC2Tt

🧬New evidence for genetic susceptibility to breast cancer 💡A meta-analysis confirmed significant association between breast cancer risk and six genes already known to be associated and collected evidence to support the link between two other genes, BARD1 and ATRIP Read the paper ⬇️

🦠Bacteria 'barcodes' Researchers have devloped a new tool to track bacterium that commonly causes respiratory infections. They have provided the most detailed structure analysis of Moraxella catarrhalis to date ➡️ buff.ly/IaffbCH

🕖The clocks changed this weekend - but does really time exist? 🎧This episode of After the End Podcast from @ethoxcentre.bsky.social explores the physics of time and the end of the universe ➡️ buff.ly/pcvGhtA

🔍Almost 70% of bowel cancers missed at colonoscopy are avoidable This study creates the first national system for identifying post-colonoscopy colorectal cancers and understanding why they arise ➡️ buff.ly/kmsoxGh

👀Looking for your next role? Join us! 📊 Data Wrangler (closes 7 Nov)➡️ buff.ly/b5LkIpx 🖱️ IT Analyst Programmer (closes 13 Nov)➡️ buff.ly/qWcz9BX