Are plant-based meat alternatives a nutritionally sound alternative to meat? 🥩🍔🫘 Dr Daniel Borch Ibsen, Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge University examines the evidence on #WorldPulsesDay2023 Read his thoughts here: bit.ly/3JYEYj8

New paper on using systems thinking to guide evaluation of SSB taxes. Miriam shows how systems thinking helps us ask research questions that enable a deeper understanding of how systems & interventions adapt to each other. gh.bmj.com/content/8/Supp…

The ActivePregnancyFoundation #COVID19 lockdown survey of 722 #pregnant & #postnatal women found low levels of physical activity compared to pre-lockdown. The report by Dr Kathryn Hesketh & colleagues found reduced opportunities and ability to be active. activepregnancyfoundation.org/post/overlooke… 🧵(1/n)

Report makes nine key recommendations to adopt a whole systems approach to better support #physicalactivity in pregnant and postnatal women, upskill more fitness professionals, and ⬆️provision of high quality pregnant & postnatal classes. Read: activepregnancyfoundation.org/_files/ugd/4c6… (5/n)

Did you know it’s #InternationalOpenAccessWeek? To start the week off #icymi in July, we wrote about our commitment to Open Science and how we’ve been able to support innovative research in practice through the Omicscience webserver. 🌐 Read more: mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/blog/2023/07/0…

It’s day two of #InternationalOpenAccessWeek and we’re highlighting our range of freely accessible scientific resources and tools today! ✅ mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/publi…

🚲The Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT) for England and Wales provides an evidence base to inform cycling investment, designed to assist transport planners and policy makers to promote cycling. pct.bike

Join us this Friday, 10 November, 2pm GMT to discuss with PhD Georgina Dowsett "Are anti-obesity drugs really the answer to the problem of our food system?" Cambridge Metabolism Cambridge University Email [email protected] for the Zoom link

There's lots of talk about 'systems thinking' in public health research, but it's not always clear what it might mean for doing things differently. In this paper Miriam discusses how systems thinking could help generate novel research questions. gh-bmj-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/content/8/Supp…

UK soft drinks industry levy introduced in 2018 may have reduced the number of under 18s having a tooth removed due to tooth decay by 12%, with the largest reductions were in children aged up to nine years old. Read our news article👉 mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/blog/2023/11/1… #SugarTax (1/2)

Read the paper 'Estimated impact of the UK soft drinks industry levy on childhood hospital admissions for carious tooth extractions: interrupted time series analysis' by Dr Nina Rogers and colleagues in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health doi.org/10.1136/bmjnph… (2/2)

Are you looking for a #PhD in #Epidemiology or #PublicHealth research? Application is now open for our 2024/2025 #PhDstudentships ⏰Closing date: 4 January 2024 More info & application details: mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/blog/2023/11/1…

Heard of participatory systems mapping and not sure where to start? A new guidance and framework developed by researchers Improving Health & Cambridge University will help you select the method that’s right for you and think about how to design your project doi.org/10.36399/gla.p…

Researchers interacting with the food industry can be subject to conflicts of interest and reputational risks. New guidance published in The BMJ can help researchers navigate this tricky territory... mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/01/2… 🧵

New preprint explores gender-specific associations of early adulthood life transitions with diet trajectories medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Leaving full-time education had negative associations and starting full-time employment positive associations with diet quality for both sexes.

It’s now four years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Research from the Fenland COVID-19 study and the main Fenland Study is helping us discover more about the impact of the pandemic and its long term effects on health behaviours. mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/03/0…

We’ll be checking in before & after Mandala research projects through a series of short films. Here's a taster of the first film profiling our research with Change Kitchen, a social enterprise in Balsall Health, Birmingham... #foodsystems #healthy #sustainable

Yinhua Tao MRC Epidemiology Unit CEDAR will be speaking this Wednesday about his current research (with me, Laura Howe Jane Maddock) exploring how socioeconomic exposures during early adulthood are related to adult diet much later in life. ✏️sign-up to join online

New paper from Matt Keeble exploring public acceptability of local planning restrictions on new takeaways around schools. 51% of adults support, 37% neutral, 9% opposed. Thus new proposals are unlikely to be met with substantial public disapproval tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…