A new course from Primary Care Clinical Sciences running 10th – 12th February and 25th – 26th March 2010
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.
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.
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).
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.
Rachna Begh, in Primary Care, has recently had a successful funding application to NPRI. Rachna has also been awarded an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship.
September 2009 sees the start of the newly designed MPH programme.
Steven Sadhra recently received a National Distinguished Service Award from The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) for Occupational Health
The amount of money spent in delivering maternity care in Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) does not have a significant impact on rates of infant or perinatal mortality, researchers at the University of Birmingham have found.
New Research Group in the School of HaPS - Early Career Research and Academic Group (ECRAG)