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Building Strong Primary Health Care in Nepal
New BU co-authored article ‘Building Strong Primary Health Care to Tackle the Growing Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in Nepal’ will be published soon [1]. This paper has been accepted by the...
View ArticleInnovateUK Smart Grants – Internal Deadlines
The next round of the Innovate UK Smart grant call currently has a submission deadline of 26 August 2020 at 12 pm noon. Innovate UK will officially open this round in August 2020. This early heads-up...
View ArticleNIHR stands by Black Lives Matter
The National Institute for Health Research have recently published their statement in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The NIHR recognise the problem of racism and structural barriers to...
View ArticleWessex reaches over 200,000 participants in clinical research
Over 200,000 participants have joined research studies supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) Wessex in the last five years, according to latest...
View ArticleJisc, UK institutions and SAGE agree open access deal
BU authors can now publish open access in 900+ SAGE subscription journals at no extra cost! The UK Jisc Agreement, open to all UK institutions who are members of the consortium, will run between 2020...
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Webinar on COVID-19 & GLOBAL Health
International Webinar on COVID-19 and GLOBAL Health coming Saturday 25 July. This webinar, organized by Mahatma Gandhi University, India, includes speakers from the Middle East, America, Europe and...
View ArticleHRA launch new ‘Make It Public’ strategy
The Health Research Authority have launched a new strategy to ensure information about all health and social care research – including COVID-19 research – is made publicly available to benefit...
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Interdisciplinary Public Health
Yesterday the Journal of Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences published our editorial ‘Public Health is truly interdisciplinary’ [1]. This editorial was largely written to counteract some...
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COVID-19 publications at BU
Over the past half year or so BU academics have produced a healthy crop of publications on COVID-19/ corona virus. Searching the word ‘COVID’ today Saturday 5th September, on the university’s...
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Welcome Dr. Lyle Skains, SL in Health and Science Communication
I am delighted to announce that as of this week Dr. Lyle Skains joins us in FMC, Department of Communication & Journalism, as a Senior Lecturer in Health & Science Communication. Lyle...
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FHSS PhD student’s poster at prestigious GLOW conference
Today and tomorrow Sulochana Dhakal-Rai will have her poster ‘Factors contributing to rising Caesarean Section rates in South Asia: a systematic review’ online at this year’s GLOW Conference [Global...
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New CMMPH midwifery paper
Today the European Journal of Midwifery published our paper ‘Midwives’ views towards women using mHealth and eHealth to self-monitor their pregnancy: A systematic review of the literature’. There are...
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PhD student paper out in print today
Congratulations to FHSS Social Worker Dr. Orlanda Harvey, whose Ph.D. paper ‘Support for non-prescribed anabolic androgenic steroids users: a qualitative exploration of their needs’ published this week...
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New FHSS nutrition publication
Congratulations to Dr. Jib Acharya on the publication of his latest research paper ‘Exploring Food-Related Barriers and Impact on Preschool-Aged Children in Pokhara, Nepal: A Qualitative Review’ which...
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Invitation to SAIL Webinar
SAIL (Staying Active and Independent for Longer) has been a three year EU funded project that utilised a social innovation approach to developed 10 pilots that aimed to support active aging. Four...
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New CMMPH nutrition paper published
Congratulations to FHSS authors on the publication of their paper “A Priori and a Posteriori Dietary Patterns in Women of Childbearing Age in the UK” which has been published in the scientific journal...
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Social Innovation and older people
Over the last three years the EU funded project Staying Active and Independent for Longer (SAIL) has explored how the concept of social innovation can be used to support older people. Some of this...
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Academic Targeted Research Scheme (Health & Science Communication):...
I’m the last of the Academic Targeted Research Scheme appointments; I took up my post last month (September) in Health & Science Communication. My home base is in the Faculty of Media &...
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Insensitive question?
Last week I sent a reminder email to a health journal in Nepal enquiring about the progress of our submitted manuscript, assuming it had got stuck somewhere in the peer review process. The reply threw...
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IMIV MRI Pump-Priming Research Scheme
To celebrate the launch of the Bournemouth University Institute of Medical Imaging and Visualisation, and the opening of the MRI Centre in the Bournemouth Gateway Building, we are pleased to launch an...
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