Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
If you hadn’t noticed already, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is celebrating its 20th birthday this year. Established in 2006, it was part of the then Blair government’s plans to improve health through research. It’s actually hard to remember what we did prior to NIHR funding being available. It’s now the […]
Oksana: As a second-year PhD student new to PPIE in research, I was very excited to earn a spot in this year’s summer school. I was eager to learn about the practical steps I could take towards more engaged and collaborative research! Over the week I spent at the summer school, I not only learned […]
On 9 June 2026, in collaboration with senior academics across the University of Exeter, I had the privilege of bringing together researchers, clinicians, public health professionals and community partners for the first Rural And Remote hEalth (RARE) network event. The aim was simple: create space for interdisciplinary collaboration around rural health and begin shaping the […]
As colleagues in Exeter will know a large part of my Deputy Medical Director role within the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) was spent in leading pandemic primary care studies. As the dust settles on COVID-19, now is an appropriate time to reflect on the delivery of the […]
At the end of May 2024 I attended a symposium in New Delhi organised by the Indian Council of Medical Research and The Academy of Medical Sciences on ‘Addressing antimicrobial resistance with a One Health approach’. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is associated with or directly attributed to around 5 million of deaths a year according to […]