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The Conversation: What's behind the sudden rise in measles deaths in Europe?
17 July 2017
Anita Milicic, Samantha Vanderslott and Sarah Loving from the Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group write for The Conversation about the recent and deadly rise of the measles virus in Europe.
Oxford Vaccine Group win OxTALENT Awards
29 June 2017
OVG based at the Department of Paediatrics scoops the top prize for public engagement at this year's OxTALENT Awards.
Paediatrics takes part in Living Well Oxford
25 May 2017
Two of the Department's research groups took their research to a local Oxford audience as part of a two-day public engagement event called Living Well Oxford.
Using pain-related brain activity to improve pain relief in infants
4 May 2017
Researchers have developed a non-invasive means to measure pain-related brain activity, which could help to reduce pain in babies undergoing medical procedures.
Watch: Videos from OVG Immunisation Seminars 2017
27 April 2017
Find out the latest thinking from the Oxford Vaccine Group in this series of three videos recorded at its annual Immunisation Seminar Day held in March 2017.
The Conversation: 'How is Europe doing on immunisation coverage?'
27 April 2017
Samantha Vanderslott, from the Department of Paediatrics, argues in The Conversation that despite scepticism, Europe has high vaccination rates – but it shouldn’t be complacent.
Rebeccah Slater Nominated to World Economic Forum
6 April 2017
Dr Slater at the Department of Paediatrics is to be elected 'Young Scientist' at the World Economic Forum.
'Two-part Ebola vaccine offers long-lasting protection'
16 March 2017
Dr Matthew Snape from the Department of Paediatrics' Oxford Vaccine Group reveals promising findings from their current trial into a new Ebola vaccine.
BBC: Would you trial an Ebola vaccine?
8 March 2017
BBC's Catrin Nye visited the Oxford Vaccine Group to find out about the quest for an Ebola vaccine.
Brain Diaries: infant pain
8 March 2017
Ahead of an exhibition at Oxford's Museum of Natural History, Professor Rebeccah Slater from the Department of Paediatrics explains how she became interested in the area of pain in babies and pre-term babies.
Oxford Science Blog-Detecting Counterfeit Medicines
1 February 2017
Bernard Naughton and Dr David Brindley from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School and Medical Sciences Division discuss the problems of identifying fake, substandard and expired medicines.
University of Oxford launches Public Engagement with Research Strategic Plan
13 December 2016
The University of Oxford launched its first Public Engagement with Research Strategic Plan to an audience of over 100 staff at a reception at the Pitt Rivers Museum on 12th December 2016.
World AIDS Day 2016
1 December 2016
World Aids Day is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died.
When art and science meet
30 November 2016
Annina Grädel works together with painter-printmaker and video-artist to create an artwork that reflects T-cells in the thymus
World Pneumonia Day: Making vaccines work to prevent pneumonia
12 November 2016
Today is World Pneumonia Day!
An international consortium, which includes the Department's Oxford Vaccine Group Receives $36.9 Million Grant to Fight Typhoid
11 November 2016
Typhoid fever, a bacterial infection that causes high fever, headache and other symptoms, remains a serious health problem in the developing world. It kills almost a quarter of a million people annually, and infects about 21 million.
These children have a built-in defense against AIDS (CNN)
13 October 2016