The CIPH research conference on October 8th 2015 was focused on the translation and impact of our public health research here at CIPH. The day culminated in our annual Public Health lecture which this year was delivered by Dr Julio Frenk, President at the University of Miami. Film of Dr Frenk’s Cambridge Public Health […]
Archives for December 2016
Cambridge to play major role in €400m EU food innovation project
The project, called EIT Food, has ambitious aims to cut by half the amount of food waste in Europe within a decade, and reduce ill health caused by diet by 2030. It has received €400 million (£340m) of EU research funding, matched by 1.2 billion euros (£1 billion) of funding from industry and other sources over […]
Cutting welfare to protect the economy ignores lessons of history, researchers claim
Amid ongoing welfare cuts, Cambridge researchers argue that investment in health and social care have been integral to British economic success since 1600. They warn that cutting welfare and social care budgets during times of economic hardship is a “historically obsolete” strategy that ignores […]