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Putting public health research into practice has had major impacts worldwide, resulting in longer, healthier lives.

Ghana

Harnessing the power of research to benefit developing countries

25 Apr 2013

CEO of GAVI Alliance to give Wellcome Trust-Cambridge Centre for Global Health Research inaugural lecture

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Public Health Network launched

25 Mar 2013

Network will bring together expertise across six schools.

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Dr Sabina Wachira, a THRiVE postdoctoral fellow from icipe in Kenya, who visited her Cambridge mentor (Dr David Spring of the Department of Chemistry)'s lab in 2012

Cambridge named one of Wellcome Trust’s Centres for Global Health Research

11 Feb 2013

Centre will support researchers working in public health and tropical medicine.

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65 DAYS OF STATIC @ Cargo

Schizophrenia linked to social inequality

14 Dec 2012

Urban neighbourhoods with high deprivation, population density and inequality found to have higher rates of schizophrenia.

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Cancer

Awareness could eliminate inequalities in cancer diagnoses

13 Nov 2012

Each year 5,600 patients are diagnosed with cancer at a late stage because of inequalities. Study underlines importance of awareness campaigns.

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'Madness', James McArdell, after Robert Edge Pine 1760

Care in the community

02 Oct 2012

Historians have long recognised that the family were the chief carers of the mentally ill. A new study will investigate the emotional and economic...

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Phone

Therapy over the phone as effective as face-to-face

28 Sep 2012

Phone therapy also increases access and potentially decreases costs.

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hospital corridor

Delirium increases the risk of developing new dementia eight-fold in older patients

10 Aug 2012

Delirium also found to worsen severity in those already diagnosed with dementia and increase the pace of cognitive decline.

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Medical technology in action

Commercialising medical device innovation

13 Jul 2012

New medical devices take a long time to reach the market – and many never make it. Jon Johnson, a researcher at Cambridge’s Institute for...

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Photo-voice image from the AskAIDS project

Breaking sex education taboos in Africa to tackle AIDS

19 Jun 2012

New research focusing on educating young people about sex and HIV/AIDS in Africa is using innovative techniques – such as ‘photo-voice’ and role-play...

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Eu, Christiane F., 13 anos drogada e prostituída (published by Bertrand Brasil)

Intoxicating history

18 May 2012

In tracing the modern history of Germany’s policy on intoxicant and drug use, which favours therapy rather than punishment, Cambridge historian Dr...

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David Stuckler (left) and Sridhar Venkatapuram (right)

Ethical dilemmas and global health

15 May 2012

Sociologists David Stuckler and Sridhar Venkatapuram discuss how tensions within society are slowing down the process of combating disease worldwide...

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