CONNECT to Collaborate: Discipline Hopping Scheme

This pilot training placement scheme aims to foster better interdisciplinary working amongst health researchers across UCL.

Deadline: 20 May

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Coming up next week...

Join us for our next #PublicHealthVoices webinar, Intersectionality in Inclusion Health: Why Does Gender Matter?

🗓️ 8 May 2024
🕓 12:00-13:00

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Women are 40% more likely to experience depression in the perimenopause than those who aren’t experiencing any menopausal symptoms, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

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Are you a #cancer / #suicide #epidemiologist from #India , #SriLanka , #Pakistan , #Bangladesh , #Afghanistan , the #Maldives , #Nepal or #Bhutan ? Do register for our free UCL Global Engagement UCL Institute of Mental Health webinar on Wednesday 22 May 2024 1830 (UTC+5.5) to discuss analysis plans, data & code

[📢Apply now!] The UCL Therapeutic Acceleration Support (TAS) Fund – Call 11 is now open for application. Successful applicants will be awarded up to £80,000 in funding support to accelerate their translational research.

Details and application: bit.ly/4b4IEdf

Prof Sir Sir Michael Marmot has written a damning letter to party leaders & MPs across the country after a new UCL Institute of Health Equity report confirmed that UK government policies are cutting people’s lives short.

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UCL scientists will work to help thousands of people living with rare diseases get access to improved diagnostics, treatments and potentially cures, thanks to funding for four new research centres.

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The recent UK-Swiss entrepreneurship exchange programme was hugely successful for UCL and EPFL entrepreneurs.

Ten startups had the chance to learn, connect and explore new opportunities. Find out how they got on: bit.ly/4bc7Gar

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This week join UCL Health of the Public for 'Art beyond data: capitalising on opportunities for advocacy and activism.'
Dr Burgess (@thewrittenro ) & Dr Marquard Smith discuss using art to promote debate & potential advocacy/activism.
📅2 May, 10:00-12:00
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UCL has signed up to a ground-breaking new agreement aimed at making research more environmentally sustainable.

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📅 Coming up next week...

Art beyond data: capitalising on opportunities for advocacy & activism | 2 May @ 10am

Dr Rochelle Burgess (Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social) & Dr Marquard Smith will reflect on how art can be used to promote debate & potential advocacy/activism. buff.ly/43RLKim

Health concerns are still the primary motive for more than half of those who say they want to stop smoking in England, but cost is now a key factor for more than one in four, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. buff.ly/3Jw0kCR

📣 Join us for our next #PublicHealth Voices webinar, Intersectionality in Inclusion Health: Why Does Gender Matter?

🗓️ 8 May 2024
🕓 12:00-13:00

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UCL IEHC Serena Luchenski #PublicHealth #LivedExperience #MPH

📅 Coming up next month...

Art beyond data: capitalising on opportunities for advocacy & activism | 2 May @ 10am

Dr Rochelle Burgess (Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social) & Dr Marquard Smith will reflect on how art can be used to promote debate & potential advocacy/activism. buff.ly/43RLKim

Gay & bisexual men who were diagnosed with mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) during the 2022 outbreak in England, faced substantial issues related to stigma & potentially poor-quality care when accessing services, finds new study led by UCL researchers. buff.ly/3TXIZaK

🎨 UCL Health of the Public Creative Health Community is hosting an event on 'Art beyond data' with Dr. Rochelle Burgess and Dr. Marquard Smith. Let's explore the 'next step’ in creative health research!

DATE & TIME: May 2nd, 10:00-12:00
PLACE: Room C3.15, UCL Institute of Education.

Do you engage with or work on research about what influences, characterises, changes or results from people’s behaviour?

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Smoking among women under 45 from more advantaged social groups in England appears to have increased over the past decade, according to a new study by UCL researchers.

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Congratulations to Tom Witney for winning 1st place in the Early Career Researchers poster presentation at the UCL Health of the Public Symposium.

Dr Witney's poster presented research on 'Trans and gender diverse peoples' perspectives on sexual health services in the United Kingdom.'

📅 Register for the UCL-Lancet Lecture 2024: 'Under the Skin: Understanding the Toll of Race and Inequality on the Health of People' with Prof Linda Villarosa.

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