Pioneering Medicine Quality & Public Health Conference coming to Oxford
Oxford University is hosting the first-ever dedicated academic conference on Medicine Quality & Public Health that will bring together people from a diversity of sectors working in this field. The MQPH 2018 Conference will take place in Oxford, United Kingdom, from 23 – 28 September 2018. This international event will bring together people from public […]
Best drug for treating talaromycosis in HIV patients identified
Researchers from Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam have shown that amphotericin B is more effective than itraconazole for the initial treatment of talaromycosis in HIV patients. The principal investigator, Dr Thuy Le stated: “These results offer strong support to the call for more health policy and advocacy to improve access to amphotericin B […]
Stephen Baker awarded Fleming Prize
***Update*** You can now view Stephen’s Fleming Prize Lecture on the Microbiology Society website: Microbiology Society Fleming Prize Lecture 2017: Professor Stephen Baker Professor Stephen Baker, head of OUCRU’s Enteric Infections group, has been awarded the prestigious 2017 Fleming Prize by the Microbiology Society. The Prize is named after Sir Alexander Fleming, founder and first […]
Pearl Gan honored in Swiss Malaria Photo contest.
We are delighted to be able to share that photographer Pearl Gan was awarded the 3rd Prize yesterday in the Care Together category for the Swiss Malaria Group’s #EndMalaria Photo and Video Contest. The winning photograph is shown above. Pearl Gan has been working with the Eijkman-Oxford Clinical Research Unit in Jakarta, Indonesia on the […]
OUCRU collaborates with BBC World Service Evidence Series
OUCRU researchers and Public Engagement department coordinated the BBC World Service radio recording of ‘Preventing Pandemics’ for The Evidence series on ‘Humans and Animals’. Recorded on location with farmers in the Mekong Delta and with an invited metropolitan audience at The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in Ho Chi Minh City, presenters Claudia Hammond and Ha Mi […]
Monitoring the emergence of infectious diseases
In the below article, Professor Stephen Baker explains the importance of monitoring the emergence of infectious diseases in Asia. Zoonotic diseases that pass from animal to human are an international public health problem regardless of location – being infected with Campylobacter from eating undercooked chicken in the UK is not uncommon, for example – but […]
Art in Global Health
‘Art in Global Health’ was a Wellcome Trust initiative to set up artist residencies in the Wellcome Trust-funded research centres as a way of teasing out some of the more personal, philosophical, cultural and political dimensions of health research. – Lena Bui, an artist based in Ho Chi Minh City, did her residency with OUCRU-HCMC […]