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❓ How to use UK health & social care data across NHS regional secure data environments in England whilst maintaining patient privacy?

👏 Congrats to Dr Rebecca Wilson & Dr Olly Butters on newly-funded 'Federated North' project!

🛡️Will expand DataSHIELD platform for secure data science collaboration.
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❓ How to use UK health & social care data across NHS regional secure data environments in England whilst maintaining patient privacy?

👏 Congrats to Dr Rebecca Wilson & Dr Olly Butters on newly-funded 'Federated North' project!

🛡️Will expand DataSHIELD platform for secure data science collaboration.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Exciting news!

We are pleased to announce that Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded funding by the NIHR to establish a groundbreaking Secure Data Environment for NIHR’s Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC).

Read more: https://ow.ly/Nclq50XpelN
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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1/ 🚨 Publication news!

📄 "The estimated impact of mandatory front-of-pack nutrition labelling policies on adult obesity prevalence and obesity-related mortality in England: a modelling study"

👥 Joint study between PHPS colleagues &
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The estimated impact of mandatory front-of-pack nutrition labelling policies on adult obesity prevalence and obesity-related mortality in England: a modelling study
This work offers the first modelled estimation of the impact of introducing mandatory front-of-pack nutrition labels on obesity prevalence in the adult population in England. Findings suggest that man...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Meet the Scientists turned ten years old! ✨

In partnership with National Museums Liverpool, our latest event attracted 900 visitors, with family-friendly activities taking place at three venues across Liverpool

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November 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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🚨 Publication news!

📄 "Exploring the contribution of risk factors on major illness: a microsimulation study in England, 2023-2043"

👥 Joint study between PHPS colleagues & @healthfoundation.bsky.social.

🛟 Small changes in diet, exercise & smoking could reduce chronic illness over the next 20 yrs.
November 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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🚀 Do you have a world-changing AI-driven research idea? Then consider applying for our Research Fellowship programme.

Develop your vision with a 5 year fellowship, with tailored support, and a permanent post at completion.

Apply by 1 Dec 2025 👉 liverpool.ac.uk/research/fellowships
October 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Have you seen our 'What is M-RIC' animation? 👀

We created the short animation below so service users and carers, local communities, partner organisations and beyond can learn more about our groundbreaking work: https://ow.ly/Jn4F50WFlYj
October 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Professor Dan Hawcutt has been appointed as the Founding Director of the Liverpool Institute of Child Health and Wellbeing, a new initiative that will bring together world-leading expertise from across the @liverpooluni.bsky.social and other partners.

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Founding Director appointed of new Liverpool Institute of Child Health and Wellbeing - University of Liverpool News
Founding Director appointed of new Liverpool Institute of Child Health and Wellbeing
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October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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🎤 Today's PHPS forum: "Empowering Communities to Address Air Pollution Related Disease in Africa: Presenting the CLEAN-Air(Africa) Community Household Air Pollution Prevention Programme (CHAP-PP)’" #PublicHealth

🗣️ Prof Dan Pope

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Talk title: ‘Empowering Communities to Address Air Pollution Related Disease in Africa: Presenting the CLEAN-Air(Africa) Community Household Air Pollution Prevention Programme (CHAP-PP)’. Abstract: Each year in Sub-Saharan Africa 742,000 people die prematurely from exposure to household air pollution (HAP) from reliance on polluting wood, charcoal and kerosene used to provide household energy for more than 70% of the region’s population. In 2018 the Kenyan Ministry of Health asked CLEAN-Air(Africa) to develop a training module for the countries community health workers in their health promotion role to prevent 26,000 annual deaths from HAP in the country. This presentation tells the story of the resulting Community Household Air Pollution Prevention Programme (CHAP-PP) now being implemented across Kenya and in Rwanda, Uganda and Cameroon. It also highlights some of the impacts from CHAP-PP and how community mobilisation through women’s table banks is leading to primary prevention of HAP and related disease. Image produced by students from Plymouth University for CLEAN-Air(Africa) - this is the emblem for the community mobilisation of women’s table banks following CHAP-PP training Speaker bio: Dan Pope directs the NIHR CLEAN-Air(Africa) Global Health Research Unit - a partnership of public health researchers, academics and clinicians from Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Cameroon. CLEAN-Air(Africa) is funded by the UK NIHR (£10m 2018 to 2027) to conduct policy relevant research and health systems strengthening to address the burden of disease from household and institutional air pollution. CLEAN-Air(Africa) is a flagship programme under the Energy, Air Pollution and Population Health Research Theme from the Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems.
October 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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The Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Research Programme (MLW) announces Wellcome approved new seven-year core grant for MLW’s scientific strategy, training programme, and research initiatives from 2025 – 2032.

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7-year Wellcome grant awarded to advance health research and training in Africa - University of Liverpool News
7-year Wellcome grant awarded to advance health research and training in Africa
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October 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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@liverpooluni.bsky.social's prestigious five-year Fellowships, launched in 2023, are now inviting applications from early career researchers with innovative AI-focused research ideas that address one of the University’s five research frontiers.

Closes: 1 Dec 25

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University of Liverpool Research Fellowships open for applications for 2025-2026
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October 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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❓ Interested in privacy-preserving spatial data science for environment-health research?

🚨 Hiring: Research Fellow in Secure Spatial Analytics with UCL, Uni of Liverpool & NHS England!

💰 0.5FTE to 31 Aug 2026 (full time short-term possible)

📅 Deadline: 28 Oct 2025

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🚨 Hiring: Research Fellow in Secure Spatial Analytics @ UCL. Privacy-preserving spatial data science for env-health research. Strong R/Python welcome. 0.5 FTE to 31 Aug 2026; FT short-term possible. Deadline 28 Oct. Work with UCL, Liverpool & NHS England! Apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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October 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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🛟 On 04 Oct 2025, Professor Sarah Rodgers gave an inaugural lecture on "Making our towns and cities healthier: Connecting the dots between communities, systems & data"

🏙️ Research highlights include @groundswellcon.bsky.social

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📹 Inaugural lecture recording 👇
Sarah Rodgers Inaugural Lecture
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October 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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NEWS I Scientists at @liverpooluni.bsky.social have developed a new low-cost blood test that could make it easier to detect #Alzheimer’s disease at an earlier stage. Read all about it ⬇️

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October 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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BBC reporters recently visited @liverpooluni.bsky.social researchers to discuss their ongoing work on emerging infections after a rare, imported case of West Nile virus was diagnosed in a UK resident. 🦟

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October 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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1/ 🎤 Today's PHPS forum was on "Lessons from smoky kitchens: Unveiling the hidden burden from wood-fuelled cooking in sub-Saharan African schools" #PublicHealth

🗣️ Speakers: Dr Esther Kalkman & Prof Dan Pope

💨 Featured work by NIHR CLEAN-AIR (Africa) Global Health Research Unit: cleanairafrica.com
Talk title: Lessons from smoky kitchens: Unveiling the hidden burden from wood-fuelled cooking in sub-Saharan African schools Abstract: In 90% of sub-Saharan African schools, meals are prepared on polluting wood stoves, posing a major health risk to staff and learners. Our latest research from schools in Rwanda and Kenya has found dangerously high levels of air pollution from wood-fuelled cooking, highlighting serious health concerns for millions of school populace. Using clean fuels like LPG and electricity in schools, as recommended by the WHO, can protect cooks, children, and the environment. Our global health research partnership calls for urgent action to accelerate the transition to clean cooking in schools and aims to support such transitions with impact evidence (health, education and environment) that can inform policy on the most effective solutions. Speaker: Dr. Esther Kalkman is a health and environmental scientist and a postdoctoral researcher at the NIHR CLEAN-Air (Africa) Global Health Research Unit. About CLEAN-Air(Africa) The NIHR CLEAN-Air(Africa) Global Health Research Unit is a collaboration of international experts in environmental public health from the UK, Kenya, Cameroon, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda. The partnership implements research, health systems strengthening, and capacity-building activities across the five focus countries with the explicit objective to address the health burden from household and institutional air pollution from reliance on polluting solid fuels (e.g., wood, charcoal, coal, and biomass) and kerosene. CLEAN-Air(Africa) aims to provide policy-relevant evidence to raise population awareness of the issue and to support prevention through the transition to clean fuels and energy for cooking. CLEAN-Air(Africa): Main Aims To facilitate transition for vulnerable communities and public institutions to clean cooking to address health, environment, climate and gender impacts from reliance on polluting fuels. To evaluate chronic and hidden additional health burdens from household air pollution that can be addressed through clean cooking. To advocate for disease prevention from reductions in air pollution through national clinical and community health systems strengthening. Investing in the future; to develop a sub-Saharan African Air Pollution Centre of Excellence through capacity building, training and investment. Maximising impact through community and stakeholder engagement. Key activities under CLEAN-Air(Africa) The Unit builds on research, capacity and health systems strengthening initiated under the NIHR CLEAN-Air(Africa) Global Health Research Group in Cameroon, Kenya and Ghana. The Group was launched in 2018 and has achieved significant impact since this time in three key areas to address the global public health burden from reliance on polluting solid fuels and kerosene for household energy. Exposure to household air pollution: Using state of the art monitoring equipment to quantify adult and child health impacts from exposure to air pollution from cooking with polluting fuels. Transition to clean cooking: Identifying and addressing barriers to cooking with clean fuels. Informing clean energy policy in sub-Saharan Africa. Strengthening health systems: Training clinical and community health workforces in primary and secondary prevention of household air pollution.
October 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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📣 Event news: Our first PHPS Postgraduate Research presentation day was held on 16 Sep 2025!

🎤 Event had two forms of presentation: 5-minute lightning talks and 15-minute talks.

👥 Contributions from 11 PGRs

🎉 Congrats to talk prize winners Louise Allen (5 min talk) & Rosalyn Arnold (15 min talk)!
Photo of some of the participants from the University of Liverpool Public Health, Policy and Systems Postgraduate Research presentation day, held on 16 September 2025 in The Library at the Guild. The presentation day featured two forms of presentation (5-minute lightning talks and 15-minute talks), with contributions from 11 postgraduate researchers at different stages of their research to a broad audience that provided varied feedback, rich discussions and networking opportunities. Many staff were also in attendance to support our PGR community and learn about their exciting research. Prizes were awarded to the following talks: 5-min talk: Louise Allen - “A Core Outcome Set for Children with Cerebral Visual Impairment plus Profound Learning Disabilities” 15-min talk: Rosalyn Arnold - “Food insecurity in households with children”
October 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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We’re celebrating breaking into the global top 150 and rising 17 places in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026, now ranked 143rd - our highest-ever position! 🏆

What a year for us - we’re so proud of you #TeamLivUni 💙

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October 9, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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📣 Introducing some of our recent PHPS new starters! #PublicHealth

👤 Meijie Chu: PDRA with @livunihipr.bsky.social working on the project MATRIARCH (MATeRnal, InfAnt, Reproductive & Child Health in Cystic Fibrosis).

👤 Sandra Clare: PDRA on CHESS project (Civic Health Equity: from Silos to Systems).
Meijie Chu Meijie is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Health Inequalities Policy Research Group (HIP-R). Her work primarily focuses on the project MATRIARCH: MATeRnal, InfAnt, Reproductive & Child Health in Cystic Fibrosis, which investigates the impact of cystic fibrosis during pregnancy, parenthood, and in offspring, as well as the NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) project, which examines how family size influences child health outcomes and service use. Meijie earned her PhD from the School of Public Health at Xiamen University, China. Her research interests center on applying cross-sectional and longitudinal data analysis to explore health determinants and improve public health, particularly among vulnerable populations. In addition, she is deeply interested in health inequalities within the broader social science context. Meijie aims to provide evidence-based recommendations for health management and policies that shape people’s health and well-being. Sandra Clare I have come to Liverpool as a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the CHESS (Civic Health Equity: from Silos to Systems) project. I am a community educator and was a researcher as part of the Pen Green Centre for Children and Families for over 20 years, where I developed inclusive, collaborative approaches to research and adult learning. I hold a PhD in Education from the University of Manchester, where I employed a feminist standpoint to examine young student-mothering combining storytelling, secondary analysis of population data, and legal-herstorical research to illuminate intersecting structural barriers and injustices Alongside my doctoral work, I taught a lot and contributed to various research projects each with a broader focus of educational equity. Most recently, this involved an intergenerational project with neighbours of the University of Manchester to co-produce oral histories and archival research, recovering the stories of Ellen Wilkinson and other local women whose contributions to social justice have been largely erased from mainstream history. In my spare time I love urban walking, photography, travelling, and trying new places to sup cask ales.
September 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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👋 A warm welcome to the new students who are joining us in the Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems!

🎉 We look forward to working with you & hope you enjoy your time a the University of Liverpool. @liverpooluni.bsky.social

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It’s Welcome Week! 🎉

Hello to all our new and returning students - it’s fantastic to see campus so lively!

We hope you have a brilliant week of discovering #TeamLivUni and exploring Liverpool! 💙

Find everything you need to know about Welcome here 👉 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/11/e...
September 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Big week for #TeamLivUni! 🎉 We’ve climbed five places to 18th in the UK in The Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026 — our best ranking in over a decade!

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September 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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And that’s a wrap on the 194th British Science Festival! 🎉
For four days, Liverpool was alive with inspiring talks, hands-on experiences, and city-wide celebrations of science!

We were proud to help shape this year’s programme, with research from across all three Faculties showcased. 🙌
September 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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1/ 🚨 Two fully funded #PhD studentships for UK students

❓ Are you passionate about making a difference for people’s health and wellbeing? Would you like to learn cutting edge data science skills for real impact?

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Two fully funded studentships in the Department of Public Health, Policy & Systems. | Courses | University of Liverpool
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September 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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📣 Professor Sarah Rodgers Inaugural Lecture on 02 Oct 2025

🏙️ "Transforming Our Cities From the Ground Up
Connecting the dots between communities, systems & data"

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⬇️ View past @livuni-iph.bsky.social inaugural lectures
Inaugural Lectures | Institute of Population Health | University of Liverpool
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September 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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🎤 Talks by academics, inventors and writers!
🍄 Art installations!
🛼 Performances across the city!
🪨 British Science Festival X Liverpool Biennale!
👩🏽‍🔬 Meet the scientists!

Five FREE things to do at the British Science Festival this week! #BSF25 #Liverpool

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Five free things to do as British Science Festival arrives in city
The festival is running a huge programme across the city
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September 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM