📢 The Government urgently needs a plan to fix our broken food system 🛠️🍽️ and end the public health emergency 🚨 of unhealthy diets and obesity.
This is the key conclusion of our new report, out today. 📝
Read it here: https://t.co/fOTuckhDy7
Applications are open for an @ESRC funded PhD, focusing on mental wellbeing & Type 2 Diabetes self-management behaviours.
SUPERVISORS
Dr Julia Mueller @Julia_Namanka @Cambridge_Uni
Dr @amy_ahern@Cambridge_Uni
Prof. @FelixNaughton @uniofeastanglia
INFO - https://t.co/ONw3QSxP8C
Please to be able to share the new website for Population Health Improvement UK (PHI UK) https://t.co/DS4ccsa7VY We're bringing together a range of organisations from across the UK to boost research into sustainable and equitable population health improvement.
What are takeaway management zones? Do they work? And how might you successfully adopt and implement them in your LA? Fear not, we have you covered with a practical toolkit based on 3+ years of @NIHRresearch funded research @MRC_Epid https://t.co/qKwfvdZ07k
It is official: My lab and I are moving to @YaleCancer Center in December! Very excited to be joining the Center of Molecular and Cellular Oncology and @YalePathology
Want to be part of @aitken_lab 2.0? We are hiring at all levels - so get in touch!
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We’re recruiting members for MRC boards and panels✍️
You’ll provide expert advice and guidance to help us continue to fund the best health research.
We especially welcome researchers from groups underrepresented in UK research to apply. More: https://t.co/gRPOMM2OkK
(1/6) 🚸London’s ULEZ is changing school commutes!
Our new study shows kids aged 6-9 in ULEZ areas are 3x more likely to shift behaviours to walk, bike or take public transport to school than in non-ULEZ zones. 🚶♂️🚲
Discover how in our @IJBNPA paper
https://t.co/aYob5JHFzG
In this episode of The Confidence Interval, Dr @YanainaChU talks #UPFs
Yanaina, from @MRC_Epid, shares how research from @Cambridge_Uni & @BristolUni found adolescents consume around two-thirds of their daily calories from ultra-processed foods
Listen - https://t.co/y8C8mLohpU
📣 2 jobs in our team @Cambridge_Uni for people who want to improve the lives of people living with obesity & have the skills and experience to help lead our @NIHRresearch funded research programme to further develop and evaluate our SWiM intervention. https://t.co/HY33g07sJT
Up to two thirds of a young person’s diet is #ultraprocessedfoods (UPFs)
@Cambridge_Uni and @BristolUni scientists found consumption was highest among younger teens especially from deprived backgrounds & of white ethnicity
Read more – https://t.co/acNJtZbcMs
Dr @Matt_Hoare20 is looking for a Postdoc to join his research group to invstigate epigenetics in chronic liver disease and #HCC development.
https://t.co/p8VD1y0Poa
📅 Closing Date: 26th July
Wow @BBCNews, the mother is generally very positive in the article & yet you have concentrated on the word 'overwhelmed'! She said it was incredible & they are delighted. Get the headline right!!
BBC News - Mum overwhelmed after rare birth of quadruplets
https://t.co/xL2cO0PT9P
We are hiring! Last days to apply for 2 Postdoc positions in our laboratory 👇
https://t.co/Jq4lCbJ1NV
We are looking for motivated postdocs to perform a research project in senescence, cancer reprogramming and ageing. Come join us!!!
🚨Paper Alert🚨 ~ 2 years after the UK Soft drinks Industry Levy (sugar tax) was enforced we find a 21% reduction in incidence rates of NHS hospital admissions for asthma in children, aged 5-18y.
Read in full: https://t.co/UHz2gpQxpw