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Dr Helen Bould Dr Helen Bould is an Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Bristol, who uses epidemiology and experimental psychology – as well as more recently qualitative work – to improve our understanding of the causes of eating disorders, and thus to develop better prevention and treatment options. In…

Dr Joan Franklin-Adams MBE With support from the Franklin-Adams endowment, during 2024 we ran two funding calls to support research on children and young people’s health, with a focus on global health. The awards are named after Dr Joan Franklin-Adams who was a medical doctor who specialised in paediatrics. Who was Joan Franklin-Adams? Joan Franklin-Adams…

There is a major need to understand the changing global health landscape due to the social and economic effects of globalisation. Many factors, including increases in migration, urbanisation, climate change and world-wide instability, call for an interdisciplinary approach to research and a need to develop international partnerships to tackle the many issues of human health…

Could there be connections between having cancer and a reduction in dementia risk? This is something various studies are currently looking into. There is growing interest, from studying patterns of disease in the population, in the potential connection between the development of cancer and a reduced risk of dementia, with several studies exploring this idea.…

Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research and Cabot Institute for the Environment recruited a cohort of Climate Change and Health PhD students in 2023, supported by a cross-disciplinary team of academic staff who are experts in their fields. We caught up with the students a year into their projects for an update on how their…

Gram stain training at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital Laboratory. Image credit: Tinashe Mwaturura, co-investigator and CREATE PhD Fellow at The Health Reearch Unit Zimbabwe (THRU-ZIM). After a couple of months in Zimbabwe, David Hettle, one of our Global Health Fellows, reports on how his Fellowship is growing and shares what a great opportunity it is…

The University of Bristol has recently won two awards at the National AI Awards. The field of healthcare is one in which AI shows considerable promise. Learn about AI in Health projects we have recently supported which are advancing the capabilities of AI in healthcare. In September 2024, University of Bristol was crowned ‘AI University…

A team of researchers from the University of Bristol is investigating the causes behind heart and circulation problems in Long COVID. It goes without saying that the COVID-19 pandemic had profound effects on society and health across the globe. Between April 2020 and February 2022, around 4 million individuals had tested positive for Covid-19. Up…

Image: Group of Brazilian and UK researchers in a field day in a traditional Amazonian community (Quilombola) during the workshop led by Dr Penfield and Dr Nobrega, funded by the British Council (July 2024). Other researchers from Bristol in the photo are Dr Jaskiran Kochan, Dr Shirley Famelli, and Dr Rayane Pacheco. A team of…