Researchers from CEDAR at the MRC Epidemiology Unit have, for the third year in a row, contributed to the Food Foundation’s annual Broken Plate report. Each year the report tracks progress against 10 metrics that illustrate the health of our food system. This year’s report demonstrates that the food environment is skewed towards less healthy […]
Rare genetic variants confer largest increase in type 2 diabetes risk seen to date
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have identified rare genetic variants – carried by one in 3,000 people – that have a larger impact on the risk of developing type 2 diabetes than any previously identified genetic effect. Type 2 diabetes is thought to be driven in part by inherited genetic factors, but many of […]
Unit welcomes first intern as part of Health Data Research UK’s Black internship programme
The MRC Epidemiology Unit is participating in the Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Black internship programme, and this week we welcomed our first intern, Elizabeth Oduala, to the Unit. Elizabeth is doing a degree in Applied AI & Data Analytics at the University of Bradford, and during her internship Elizabeth will work under the supervision of Dr SM […]
New research finds that genetics plays an important role in age at first sex and parenthood
An international research team, led by Professor Melinda Mills and colleagues at the University of Oxford and MRC Epidemiology Unit scientist Dr Felix Day, has discovered hundreds of genetic markers driving two of life’s most momentous milestones – the age at when people first have sex and become parents. In an analysis of data from […]
MRC Epidemiology Unit receives Green Impact Platinum Award for 2020-21
We are delighted to have been awarded the Green Impact Platinum Award in 2020-21, the first time that the Unit has achieved this award. Congratulations to our Green Impact Group for the hard work they put in towards this award, and to all Unit members who contributed to this achievement. With the award we received […]
Ethnic diversity in research identifies more genomic regions linked to diabetes-related traits
By including multi-ethnic participants, a largescale genetic study has identified more regions of the genome linked to type 2 diabetes-related traits than if the research had been conducted in Europeans alone. The international MAGIC collaboration, made up of more than 400 global academics conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis led by the University of Exeter. In […]
Study finds almost 1 million extra deaths in 29 high income countries in 2020 during Covid-19 pandemic
An international collaboration, led by researchers at the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford, including Professor Martin White of the MRC Epidemiology Unit, has calculated that approximately one million excess deaths occurred in 2020 across 29 high income countries. The results are published today in the BMJ. Assessing the coronavirus pandemic’s […]
Seven is the magic number: new global study identifies a threshold for gender equality in cycling
In many countries, including the UK, many fewer women than men cycle. Using data from 17 countries in six continents, a new study led by researchers at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge has identified a threshold above which we start to see at least as many women cycling as men. For countries this […]
Unit goes online for inaugural Cambridge Festival
MRC Epidemiology Unit PhD students and scientists took part in the inaugural Cambridge Festival, held online due to the Covid pandemic. The Cambridge Festival spanned the humanities and sciences, and featured over 350 free virtual events from Friday 26 March to Sunday 4 April. Involving people in research during the Covid-19 pandemic On Tuesday 30 […]
Sir Paul Cosford, 1963 – 2021
We were very saddened to learn of the death of Sir Paul Cosford on April 5th. Paul was a great supporter of the MRC Epidemiology Unit and had chaired the International Scientific Advisory Group (ISAG) of the UKCRC Centre of Public Health Research Excellence in Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR) since its inception. Latterly the […]
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