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Interdisciplinary health research institute at the University of Bristol. We drive innovation in research to improve health for all. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/blackwell/
📢Coming up: Next in our webinar series: 📢
'Improving mental health in primary care: novel psychological and pharmacological interventions'
📆Monday 26 Jan 2026
🕛1-2pm
🌐Online
Contributors: Prof Nicola Wiles, @charlotte-archer.bsky.social & Dr Daniela Strelchuk
👉Register: tinyurl.com/3myjjyb2
🚀New £1m ‘data readiness’ funding call!
🛠️Organisations holding health and social care data in our region can apply for a share of £1m to make their data research ready through our #SDE.
👍Find out more here:
www.southwestsde.nhs.uk/new-1m-fund-...
#PoweredByNHSData #DataSavesLives #Research
Structural racism & cultural misunderstanding compound grief for Black British/Black Caribbean communities, study finds.
Authors call for widespread changes to improve bereavement experiences & access to support.
📰News: tinyurl.com/yc5tvucm
📄Paper: tinyurl.com/2eremjs4
#NationalGriefAwarenessWeek
New HPV Inform website
📰News!🎉We are delighted to announce the launch of a new HPV Inform website for families & professionals about the HPV vaccine. The website will contribute to overcoming misinformation & provide access to information which can help protect teenage children’s health. More ▶️ tinyurl.com/3ueeex3n
02.12.2025 09:57 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
⭐New Bristol Continuity of Care Calculator ⭐ helps GPs measure continuity of care - a key step towards improvement.
🔹The tool, developed by @chris-salisbury.bsky.social & colleagues, launched today.
🔹It's free, easy-to-use & works with UK GP practice systems.
👉 tinyurl.com/mvrrr34u
#GPSky
University of Bristol research team with Workshop participants at Asian University for Women
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) pose a major global public health challenge. Yet, most of these risk factors are preventable.
Learn about research exploring the prevalence of NCD risk factors in Bangladesh and the role schools can play in promoting health.
tinyurl.com/424b4zp
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/goodgrieffest/experiences-of-grief-in-ethnically-diverse-communities-panel-discussion-and-film-launch/e-xomklb
How is grief experienced in ethnically diverse communities? And how well do current services meet the needs of all bereaved people? Join us to explore these questions in a special panel discussion for #NationalGriefAwarenessWeek on 4 December at 7pm: www.ticketsource.co.uk/goodgrieffes...
20.11.2025 14:38 — 👍 4 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 3
Working with Jean Golding Institute, we've provided University of Bristol researchers with pump priming funding to pursue innovative AI in health or biomedical research.
Meet the new awardees and learn more: tinyurl.com/3d4s8eme
@jgibristol.bsky.social
#AI #Health #Biomedical #Research
📣Your voice matters in our research! Whether you're a patient, carer, young person, community member - we're looking for new members of our Public Advisory Group. You'll help shape our research. Register your interest: https://www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/PublicAdvisoryGroup/
📣Your voice matters in our research!
Whether you're a patient, carer, young person, community member - we're looking for new members of our Public Advisory Group. You'll help shape our research.
Register your interest:
www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/PublicAdviso...
A brilliant example of why our #HealthIntegrationTeams are so effective!
Bringing organisations together to help people like Howard, who are affected by stroke, go back to work.
@sironacic.bsky.social @bristolafterstroke.bsky.social
www.bristolhealthpartners.org.uk/news/helping...
GPs need training to spot perimenopause-related #MentalHealth issues - new research by Jo Burgin et al. published in @bjgp.bsky.social.
Both patients and doctors frequently miss the connection between mood changes & hormonal shifts during #perimenopause, the study found.
News: tinyurl.com/mpnv2j2d
❓ What has ARC West achieved since it formed 6 years ago?
👉 Follow #6YearsOfARCWest to find out…
In the last 6 years, we have:
👨⚕️ Carried out 202 projects
📓 Published 596 papers
👉 Read more: arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/six-years-of...
#ARCimpacts
Webinar: Evaluating impact in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE).
Join us for this FREE 90-minute session on the different approaches to evaluating PPIE in health research, led by PPIE experts.
📆Tues 21 Oct 2025, 1-2.30pm
Register: tinyurl.com/5xvmpdmw
@nihrspcr.bsky.social
@bristoluni.bsky.social Applications are open for our RDICA Funding Scheme, which supports collaborative research development between UoB and international researchers. Deadline 1st November 2025. Find out more: www.bristol.ac.uk/internationa...
23.09.2025 12:53 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🧠 Mental health literacy found to be a key factor in how CBT for depression works.
New research by @charlotte-archer.bsky.social & colleagues published in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
📰Read the news: tinyurl.com/y5kmv6jj
#MentalHealth #CBT #Depression #HealthLiteracy
@nihrspcr.bsky.social
Dr Emma Anderson visits the WHO Regional Office in Copenhagen in August to work with the Behavioural and Cultural Insights team. L-r: standing in front of pull up banners are Katrine Habersaat, Emma Anderson, Siff Nielsen and Martha Scherzer.
Find out how Dr Emma Anderson's research is improving vaccine conversations between doctors and parents in Azerbaijan. She's now working with the WHO to create online training to reach health workers across many countries.
@emma-anderson.bsky.social #vaccines
Read about it: tinyurl.com/3r5b8c9v
💈Today on the BBC: Barbers and hairdressers in Bristol are encouraging people to talk about sexually transmitted diseases.
Keep up the great work Common Ambition Bristol🙌🏿
#Sexualhealthweek #SHW25
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shipsexhealth.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Interested in exploring how climate change impacts our health? 🌍 🌡️
Don't miss this seminar on the effects of rising temperatures on the health of humans and other species on 17 September.
Open to all online, or in person for University of Bristol staff and students.
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
🎨Join our webinar 'Building ideas: Using creative and inclusive techniques in research' on 6 Nov
🖍️Discover how creative methods, from LEGO to drawing, can transform research.
🤓Researchers will share practical examples, insights and ethical reflections
www.eventbrite.com/e/1691048394...
Miltary equipment on display at an international arms fair. Text overlay: 'Harms industry'. Caption: The BMJ Series on the arms industry and health. bmj.com/collections/arms-industry-health.
Experts urge the medical profession to confront the global arms industry.
In a new @bmj.com series uncovering the role of the arms trade in health, Mark Bellis, Gene Feder & colleagues call for greater scrutiny of its health-harming activities & relationship with governments.
tinyurl.com/yc5mu9xb
🚀 The University of Bristol has been named Research University of the Year 2026!
🎓 We’ve also jumped to 8th in the overall league table! Learn more about the Daily Mail University Guide 👉 brnw.ch/21wUUUA
🧑🦰Are you a member of the public working with health researchers?
🧑🦱Or who would you like to to learn about becoming involved in health research?
Join the People in Health West of England Public Contributors' Community Gathering 👇
24 September, 11am-3pm
www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/people-in-he...
Interested in exploring how climate change impacts our health? 🌍 🌡️
Don't miss this seminar on the effects of rising temperatures on the health of humans and other species on 17 September.
Open to all online, or in person for University of Bristol staff and students.
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
🙌🏽More REACT classes coming to Bristol, North Somerset and South Glos!
REACT is the evidence-based exercise programme which helps people to keep moving as they age. Thanks to @vivensa.bsky.social for funding this new @unibirmingham.bsky.social implementation study.
bit.ly/3HqQcxQ
Globalisation is causing profound changes in the health landscape in ways which are not yet fully understood. We funded research focussing on international research partnerships to tackle global health issues.
Read about the findings:
elizabethblackwellinstitute.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/07/09/g...
A whole year of impact summarised in 90 seconds? ✅
Thank you to everyone in our partnership and beyond who has helped us to achieve all this (and much more!) in 2024-25.
For even more about the impact we're making to health and care locally, go to bristolhealthpartners.org.uk/impact
Pregnant woman
📰News!📰 New research shows worldwide scale of HCV among babies & children.
“Given the availability of effective medicine & further progress in this field, it’s vital that testing & diagnosis rates improve so more people can be treated & cured.”
➡️ bit.ly/4oh4zFI #WorldHepatitisDay @nihr.bsky.social
Hasini De Silva, University of Bristol Master’s student in Bioinformatics
Read our latest guest blog to hear what @bristoluni.bsky.social Master’s student, Hasini De Silva, learnt at our recent AI in Health workshops: tinyurl.com/ux7da59f
▶️ You can watch all the talks from our #AI in #Health workshop series on our YouTube playlists: www.youtube.com/@EBIHealthRe...
Dr Caroline Green University of Oxford's Institute of Ethics in AI Director of Research speaking at Elizabeth Blackwell Institute AI in Health workshop on 6 May 2025.
Person using a smartwatch
Team working and training in a laboratory in Zimbabwe
In our latest Bulletin:
▶️AI & Health workshops - talk recordings & blog
🤝International research partnerships
🫀Heart failure & physical activity
⌚Smartwatch technology
🌧️Flood & drought risk
🌍Research voices from Zimbabwe
🧠Cognition & industry
🤖Explainable AI in healthcare
mailchi.mp/bristol/eliz...
Read our related blog - AI to develop vaccines thanks to world-leading supercomputer:
elizabethblackwellinstitute.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/03/11/a...
