Bristol Science Film Festival awarded the Professional Science Fact Film Prize to \"The Adventures of Alice in Typhoidland\" co-created by the Oxford Vaccine Group.
A new exhibition tells the story of Oxford\u2019s role in the fight against typhoid, from pioneering efforts to eliminate typhoid in the era of Lewis Carroll\u2019s Alice in Wonderland to game-changing present-day vaccine trials.
Following the publication of figures showing UK childhood vaccination rates have fallen for the fifth year in a row, researchers from OVG and the Oxford Martin Programme on Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease discuss possible responses.
Drs Samantha Vanderslott and Claas Kirchhelle introduce their typhoid history research and 'Alice in Typhoidland' public engagement project. This work delves into the history of typhoid in Oxford and highlights why typhoid is still a major global health problem needing both water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions alongside vaccines.
From the Town Hall, through pubs, up to shopping centres \u2013 throughout October, teams from Paediatrics have been showcasing their work all over Oxford as part of the Ideas Festival.
What does it mean to be poor in the UK and around the world? Could we eliminate this kind of inequality or is it an unavoidable part of society? This needs a lot more thought...
The National Health Service named Oxford Vaccine Group\u2019s Meningitis B vaccination programme one of the 70 most transformative discoveries over the past 70 years.
Researchers are working with schools around the county to find 24,000 volunteers aged 16 to 18 years to take part in the Be on the TEAM (Teenagers Against Meningitis) trial, led by the Oxford Vaccine Group at the Oxford University's Paediatrics Department with funding and support from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
The Oxford Vaccine Group are inviting students in school year 12 to take part in a research project to understand whether immunising teenagers with vaccines against \u2018Meningitis B\u2019 could protect them and the rest of the community against these potentially deadly bacteria. This is a national study involving 24 000 year 12 students across the United Kingdom. Teenagers at participating schools are being asked to take part by local research teams involved.
Researchers from NDORMS, the Department of Oncology and Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics attend the Big Bang Fair 2018 to inspire the next generation of scientists.
Hannah Robinson and Sarah Loving from the Department of Paediatrics were recognised in the annual awards hosted by the Thames Valley Clinical Research Network
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is one of the most common reasons for young infants to be admitted to hospital, and globally is second only to malaria as a cause of death in infants between 1 and 12 months of age. In the UK it mostly occurs from October to February, causing a wave of infections that stretch the capacity of children\u2019s wards to their limits.
The 12 winners of the inaugural University of Oxford's Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Awards for Public Engagement with Research were announced on Friday 1 July by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson, in a ceremony at Merton College.
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