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PPIE Summer School, by Oksana Kryshevich and Louie Johnson

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 […]


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Rural And Remote hEalth RARE Research Network by Dr Samuel Trethewey

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 […]


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Primary care studies in the COVID-19 pandemic : my PRINCIPLE and PANORAMIC experience by Professor Phil Evans

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 […]


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Antimicrobial resistance – what should we focus on? Associate Professor Emma Pitchforth

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 […]


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