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School of Health & Population Sciences (HaPS)

Health & Population Sciences (HaPS) is a vibrant and rapidly expanding School. There are over 300 members of staff, the School has a strong financial base and well established management structures in place.

The School of Health & Population Sciences is led by Professor Richard Hobbs, Head of School and Professors Sue Wilson, Deputy Head of School (Research) and David Fitzmaurice Deputy Head of School (Education).

It comprises the following units:

Latest headlines

ť Birmingham University Research Network for Complementary and Alternative Medicine29/01/2010

Dr Nicola Gale, from Primary Care, and Dr Eliot Marston, the BUPA Translational Research Manager, have set up a Birmingham University Research Network for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

ť Success for PCCRTU in their application for full NIHR Registration17/12/2009

The team had been provisionally registered 2 years ago, so this is a most significant and welcome confirmation of the considerable investments they have made in the PCCRTU structures and capacity to support or deliver safe and effective trials.

ť The 2009 John Ash Lecture25/11/2009

The 2009 John Ash Lecture, sponsored by the Arthur Thomson Trust, took place on 25 November in the Leonard Deacon Lecture Theatre of the Medical School.

ť Accredited Course: An introduction to biomedical ethics10/11/2009

A new course from Primary Care Clinical Sciences running 10th – 12th February and 25th – 26th March 2010

ť Successful research funding from the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)10/11/2009

Dr Jonathan Ives, in Primary Care Clinical Sciences, has recently been successful in obtaining a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council to research men’s experiences of making the transition into first time fatherhood.

ť New Book: Health Care in Birmingham21/10/2009

History of Medicine Unit Director, Jonathan Reinarz, has produced his long-awaited history of the Birmingham teaching hospitals, a history that spans three centuries, nine hospitals and a number of medical specialties, as well as the history of the medical school in Birmingham.

ť Statistic team successes at the 17th Cochrane Colloquium19/10/2009

Yemisi Takwoingi has won the Thomas C Chalmers Award for the best presentation at the meeting addressing methodological issues related to systematic reviews for her presentation:

“An empirical assessment of the validity of uncontrolled comparisons of the accuracy of diagnostic tests” (Yemisi Takwoingi, Jac Dinnes, Mariska Leeflang, Jon Deeks).

ť Funding for Research Team based in Public Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics11/08/2009

The Birmingham Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyle for Children Study (BEACHES) have recently been awarded funding (£2.475 million) by the HTA to do a cluster randomised controlled trial of obesity prevention in children.

ť Successful funding application to NPRI07/08/2009

Rachna Begh, in Primary Care, has recently had a successful funding application to NPRI. Rachna has also been awarded an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship.

ť New look Masters of Public Health starts soon06/08/2009

September 2009 sees the start of the newly designed MPH programme.

Upcoming events

ť Official launch of the BCRA22/02/2010 (12.30)

The Birmingham Clinical Research Academy (BCRA) will be holding their official launch on 22nd February during their Open Day in the Postgraduate Medical Centre from 12.30 onwards.

ť Conference Announcement - Call for Papers. Scratching the Surface: the history of skin, its diseases and their treatment29/10/2010

An international conference hosted by the History of Medicine Unit, University of Birmingham, and sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and the Society for the Social History of Medicine.

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