Nuffield Department of Population Health

Not to be confused with Nuffield Institute for Medical Research.

The Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH) of Oxford University is located at the Old Road Campus in Headington, Oxford, England. It is one of the largest departments within Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division.^[1] The head of department is Professor Sir Rory Collins.^[2]

Department of Population Health University of Oxford

Established	2013
Head of Department	Prof. Sir Rory Collins
Academic staff	500
Postgraduates	184
Location	Oxford , UK
Website	www.ndph.ox.ac.uk

History

Richard Doll Building, which hosts the NDPH main offices and research teams including the Clinical Trial Service Unit

The Nuffield Department of Population Health was formed from the merger of eleven research units in the Medical Sciences Division in 2013, the majority of which were in the Department of Public Health which ceased to exist.^[1] These centres were the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU); Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX); Centre on Population Approaches for Non Communicable Disease Prevention (CPNP); Clinical Trial Service Unit (CTSU); the Ethox Centre; Health Economics Research Centre (HERC); Health Services Research Unit (HSRU); Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology (UHCE), Medical Careers Research Group (MCRG); Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit (MRC PHRU); and the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU). The department is named for Viscount Nuffield, a major benefactor in establishing medical sciences at the University in the 1930s.^[3]

Research

Research has focused on a broad range of public health science including the benefits of reducing meat intake, the efficacy of statins, and women's health through the Million Women Study.^[4][5][6][7] NDPH researchers, Michael Parker and Sara Wordsworth, contributed to Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies' 2016 annual report on genomics in health care systems.^[8]

There are over 500 research staff within NDPH.^[9]

Buildings

The department is currently^[when?] based in two buildings on the Old Road Campus in Headington, Oxford:

• The Richard Doll Building (main building)
• The Big Data Institute (BDI)

The Big Data Institute opened in 2017 as a collaboration between NDPH and the Nuffield Department of Medicine. The BDI hosts the NDPH research groups Ethox and the Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit.^[10]

References

1. "History - Nuffield Department of Population Health". University of Oxford - Nuffield Department of Population Health. University of Oxford. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
2. "Is Amarin's Fish-Oil-Derived Drug A Historic Breakthrough Or Not? It's Complicated". Forbes. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
3. Boulton, R.; Handa, A. (2013). "From Motorcars to Surgery: A Historical Review of the Late Lord Nuffield". The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 95: 10–13. doi:10.1308/147363512X13311314198210.
4. "How A Sausage And Bacon Tax Could Save Hundreds Of Thousands Of Lives Every Year". The Independent. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
5. Boseley, Sarah (30 October 2018). "Butter nonsense: the rise of the cholesterol deniers". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
6. Collins, R.; et al. (2016). "Interpretation of the evidence for the efficacy and safety of statin therapy" (PDF). Lancet. 388 (10059). The Lancet: 2532–2561. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31357-5. PMID 27616593. S2CID 4641278.
7. "Million Women Study - Introduction". University of Oxford. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
8. "Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2017, Genomics: Genome Generation" (PDF). Department of Health and Social Care. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
9. "NDPH is five". Nuffield Department of Population Health - University of Oxford. University of Oxford. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
10. "Research - Big Data Institute". Big Data Institute. University of Oxford. Retrieved 21 November 2018.

External links

• Nuffield Department of Population Health website
• Medical Sciences Division website
• University of Oxford website