Policy choices matter, the case of the two child limit. In 2013-14, 34% per cent of children in larger families were in poverty but that's set to rise to 51% in 2028-29. Already larger families are more than twice as likely as others to be struggling to afford food

I am taking part in an open talk for the Science Museum (London), this thursday 29 march 7.30pm GMT on 'How to fix racial bias in genetic databases' and will discuss genesandhealth.org Sign up free here: sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/our-work/open-… Regards, David van Heel. ^DVH

The EXCEED team are now away for the Easter break but we will be back soon with the final instalments of our podcast series. Don’t forget, you can listen back to all of our podcasts here: citizen.le.ac.uk/podcasts/excee…

Our 9th podcast is now available on Citizen Sounds: Dr Cathryn Lewis discusses research looking into treatment resistant depression. Leicester's Research University of Leicester NIHR Evidence #CitizensOfChange #NIHRLeicesterBRC UoL Press Office citizen.le.ac.uk/podcast/unders…

Our new Global Researcher Access Fund is in ResearchProfessionalNews today! Speaking to UK Biobank’s Dr Lauren Carson, Linda Nordling highlights how this fund aims to triple the number of researchers accessing UK Biobank data from less wealthy countries. Read it here shorturl.at/dfMO9

Mendelian Randomisation (MR) is going to hell in a handcart, with an exponential weekly increase of papers with Mendelian Randomisation in the title, most of them nonsense. 25th April 4.30pm online or in person UCL I'll talk about what should be done forms.office.com/pages/response…

Our final podcast in our 10th anniversary celebrations is now available. Kayesha Coley discusses research into understanding cough as a side-effect of blood pressure treatments: citizen.le.ac.uk/podcast/unders…

🚨New findings from Genes & Health Queen Mary University of London, announced tomorrow at #DUKPC24, reveal that 10,000s of South Asian people in the UK maybe receiving falsely lowered HbA1c test results, leading to delays in diagnoses of #Type2Diabetes #HealthInequalities #Diabetes diabetes.org.uk/about-us/news-…

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We have reached the end of our podcast series. We’d like to thank everyone that contributed. We look forward to sharing what’s next for EXCEED in the coming months. All the podcasts are available to listen to on the Citizen Sounds page: citizen.le.ac.uk/podcasts/excee…

Now there's a regression line to be proud of.

Applications are now open for this new course at Biostatistics: Uni of Leicester. A complementary course to our long-established MSc in Medical Statistics, with extra emphasis on key data science skills, whilst retaining the robustness offered by statistical thought processes.

Come work with our group. Awesome place to work and learn from a great mentor Michael Cho

📺Professor Sanjay Agrawal (Sanjay Agrawal) gives evidence to the Committee for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill: "It feels to me that this bill is a momentous occasion, where once and for all we can do something, for people along their whole life course."

New The Michael Marmot Institute of Health Equity UCL analysis confirms since 2010 central government spending cuts to local authorities were highest in areas with lower life expectancy and more health inequalities, further harming health in these places @MichaeMarmot @UCL bit.ly/LEGAP

“If we shouldn’t use Impact Factors, what should we use instead?” Today, DORA is releasing new guidance on research indicators, including Journal Impact Factor, citations, h-index, altmetrics, and more. 🧵1/3 bit.ly/DORAindicators

Today, RGC has published an important paper in nature today, describing an analysis of close to a million human exomes (n=983,578) as a single variant call set (!). This is the largest and most diverse rare variant database created so far. This impressive feat is accomplished by

Big news: after lots of campaigning, the new RSV vaccines are set to be rolled out from September. These will protect thousands of babies and older vulnerable adults from this dangerous respiratory virus gov.uk/government/pub…

#Jobs Join our vibrant #GeneticEpidemiologyGroup University of Leicester as #ResearchManager! Research portfolio to advance #drugdiscovery & #precisionmedicine & #CareerDevelopment, incl. £8.8M, 8-year Wellcome Discovery Award & EXCEED Study. Closes 27 Aug. jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/1043…