In this article for The Conversation, Dr Richard Patterson from the MRC Epidemiology Unit and Dr Anthony Laverty from Imperial College London discuss research highlighting the health benefits of active commuting. As many countries ease their lockdowns and more people return to work, there’s an effort to limit the use of public transport to avoid […]

Amy Yau, Jean Adams & Martin White Headlines on ‘Food Bank Britain’ have featured increasingly in our newspapers since the global financial crash in 2008, documenting the struggle of many people who rely on emergency food aid to feed themselves and their families. The use of food banks is a last resort for people facing […]

Dr Oliver Mytton was selected as a finalist for the 2019/2020 The Bennett Prospect Prize for Public Policy  for this essay on how a Healthy Food Act could improve the health of the UK. The Bennett Prospect Prize for Public Policy is awarded by the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and […]

Today’s post comes from Dr Paddy Dempsey and colleagues, describing their new paper “Effects of sedentary behaviour interventions on biomarkers of cardiometabolic risk in adults: systematic review with meta-analyses”, which is available open access. You can find more about the authors at the bottom of this post. In recent years, interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour in […]

CEDAR Ph.D. student Dolly Theis writes about how labelling menus may help us to eat more healthily. This post was originally published in The Conversation. Would you eat a burger if you knew it contained almost 6,000 calories? Some would gladly tuck in while others would recoil in horror. But if you have calories on […]

The Confidence Interval is an occasional podcast from the MRC Epidemiology Unit – talking science, people and public health. In the latest edition, Oliver Francis talks to Dr Jean Adams from the dietary public health team at the Unit and Centre for Diet and Activity Research about how we might improve the nation’s diet, the […]

Rachel Aldred (University of Westminster), Anna Goodman (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), James Woodcock (MRC Epidemiology Unit) and Robin Lovelace (University of Leeds) from the Propensity to Cycle – www.pct.bike – team write about we can get more children cycling to school. This post was originally published in The Conversation. Only 2% of […]

Rebecca Love, PhD student at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, writes in The Conversation about the lack of success in efforts to help children be more active at school. A third of children in the UK are overweight or obese by the time they reach primary school. Many other countries are facing the same issue, with […]

The Confidence Interval is a new, occasional podcast from the MRC Epidemiology Unit – talking science, people and public health. Listen on the University of Cambridge streaming service. Subscribe on iTunes Episode 1 – Dr Felix Day Unit Head of Communications Oliver Francis talks to Dr Felix Day in the Growth and Development programme at […]

The Confidence Interval is a new, occasional podcast from the MRC Epidemiology Unit – talking science, people and public health. Listen on the University of Cambridge streaming service. Subscribe on iTunes Episode 1 – Dr Felix Day Unit Head of Communications Oliver Francis talks to Dr Felix Day in the Growth and Development programme at […]