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On the Disability History Month theme of health and wellbeing

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1 December 20222 February 2023

There are over 1 billion disabled people in the world (WHO, 2011), making up around 15% of the global population, a community that has grown as a consequence of the…Read More >

On the Disability History Month theme of health and wellbeing

Time for the UK to say goodbye to drive-throughs: for the sake of our environment, our health – and our culture

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22 February 202223 February 2023

Drive-throughs – services that let people order and collect food and drink without needing to leave their cars – are designed with convenience in mind. Whether it’s oppressively hot, uncomfortably cold,…Read More >

Time for the UK to say goodbye to drive-throughs: for the sake of our environment, our health – and our culture

Nipah virus: could it cause the next pandemic?

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10 November 2021

The severe and devastating consequences of the coronavirus pandemic were undoubtedly made worse by a substantial lack of pandemic preparedness, with the exception of East and South East Asia, which…Read More >

What can the Black Death tell us about the global economic consequences of a pandemic?

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4 March 2020

If history is anything to go by, there will be both economic winners and losers from the current public health emergency, writes Professor Adrian Bell in a new post for…Read More >

How business misrepresented evidence: the South African sugar tax story

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7 November 2019

Professor Graham Box unpicks how soft drinks companies twisted the evidence on the harmful effects of sugar in a recent post he co-authored for The Conversation.

Spreading the word about snakebite

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29 January 20192 March 2023

While most of us were tucking into our Christmas dinners, Dr Sakthi Vaiyapuri was travelling around southern India teaching people how to avoid being bitten by venomous snakes. He talked…Read More >

Spreading the word about snakebite

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