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Two new Associate Professorships demonstrate PSI’s impact in research, teaching and practice
20 May 2025
The title recognises the researchers’ “significant and sustained academic contribution” to the University.
The new Pandemic Agreement offers a glimmer of hope that no country will face future pandemic threats alone
20 May 2025
Professor Alice Norton reflects on what the new Pandemic Agreement means for global health security.
Prioritising research to better address high-consequence outbreaks
19 March 2025
A new paper published in BMC Medicine analyses research prioritisation approaches for high-consequence pathogens.
New paper outlines ethical issues in clinical metagenomics
7 March 2025
This week, University of Oxford researchers published the first paper mapping clinical ethics questions raised by new metagenomic techniques for diagnosing disease in clinical practice.
Advances in AI can help prepare the world for the next pandemic
19 February 2025
- Epidemiology & data
- Ethics, social science & humanities
- Pathogen biology & new threats
- Research news
- Vaccines, treatments, diagnostics & trials
In the first study of this kind, PSI and Oxford researchers partner with global colleagues to outline how Artificial Intelligence can transform infectious disease research and save more lives.
Pandemic policy roadmap for funders commended in prestigious Vice-Chancellor’s Awards
9 May 2024
A team from PSI’s Policy and Practice Research Group are finalists in the University of Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor Awards for outstanding research engagement.
New ethical framework for coercive antimicrobial stewardship policies
29 April 2024
Published in the journal Public Health Ethics, the research introduces an ethical framework for assessing the use of coercive antimicrobial stewardship policies to address the ‘silent pandemic’ of antimicrobial resistance.
New Pandemic PACT research programme launched
21 March 2024
The Pandemic Sciences Institute, in collaboration with the global coalition of health research funders GloPID-R and UKCDR, has launched a new research programme including an interactive platform to track and analyse over $7 billion in global pandemic research funding.
Students explore 'wicked problem' of pandemics
12 February 2024
Students on the MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine programme discussed pandemics, during a day exploring some of the major challenges in global health, hosted by PSI's Dr Alice Norton.
Nipah virus: How a neglected disease raises new ethical questions
18 December 2023
New University of Oxford research brings to light important ethical considerations in Nipah virus outbreak control, its treatment, and research into vaccines.
Funders Roadmap is supporting better clinical trials
14 December 2023
New framework helps funders to support coordinated, effective and equitable clinical trials in response to epidemics and pandemics.