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- Researcher profile: Career and collaboration in context 28 November 2024 Dr Helen Bould is an Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Bristol, who uses epidemiology and experimental psychology - as well as more recently qualitative work - to improve our understanding of the causes of eating disorders, and thus to develop better prevention and treatment options. In 2014 Helen was awarded a Clinical Primer from Elizabeth Blackwell Institute, a scheme aimed at giving early career clinicians the opportunity to try research. We caught up with Helen ten years later to see how having this opportunity and support early-on impacted her career.
- Elizabeth Blackwell Institute/Franklin-Adams Awards 2024 21 November 2024 With support from the Franklin-Adams endowment, during 2024 we ran two funding calls to support research on children and young people's health, with a focus on global health. The awards are named after Dr Joan Franklin-Adams who was a medical doctor who specialised in paediatrics.
- Global research partnerships to address global health challenges 21 November 2024 There is a major need to understand the changing global health landscape due to the social and economic effects of globalisation. Many factors, including increases in migration, urbanisation, climate change and world-wide instability, call for an interdisciplinary approach to research and a need to develop international partnerships to tackle the many issues of human health that can only be addressed in a global context.
- Dementia and cancer connections 20 November 2024 Could there be connections between having cancer and a reduction in dementia risk? This is something various studies are currently looking into.
- Climate Change and Health PhD projects 19 November 2024 Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research and Cabot Institute for the Environment recruited a cohort of Climate Change and Health PhD students in 2023, supported by a cross-disciplinary team of academic staff who are experts in their fields. We caught up with the students a year into their projects for an update on how their research projects are going.
- Deliberations, deliveries and diagnostics - next steps in my global health fellowship 12 November 2024 After a couple of months in Zimbabwe, David Hettle, one of our Global Health Fellows, reports on how his Fellowship is growing and shares what a great opportunity it is to be involved in all different kinds of research: qualitative, quantitative, and with many different researchers.
- The new frontier - AI’s role in healthcare 25 September 2024 The University of Bristol has recently won two awards at the National AI Awards. The field of healthcare is one in which AI shows considerable promise. Learn about AI in Health projects we have recently supported which are advancing the capabilities of AI in healthcare.
- Searching the body for clues on Long COVID symptoms 25 September 2024 A team of researchers from the University of Bristol is investigating the causes behind heart and circulation problems in Long COVID.
- Climate change and the Amazonian ecosystems - towards a new understanding 19 September 2024 Researchers from the University of Bristol are spearheading new efforts to understand the impacts of climate change on the Brazilian Amazon and its Indigenous and traditional communities.
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder - the quest for a new UK database 18 September 2024 September is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Month. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), caused by prenatal exposure to alcohol, is the most common preventable cause of neurodevelopmental disability worldwide, and it’s thought to be particularly prevalent in the UK. It is associated with learning and behaviour problems, issues with physical and mental health, substance misuse and social problems, including over-representation in the criminal justice system. Despite this, there is little data and little research into FASD in the UK.
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