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Published today in Nature Genetics, researchers from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford outline how Our Future Health — one of the UK’s new flagship health research programmes — can achieve its full potential by tackling bias in medical research, harnessing genetic data, and the potential for collaborating across international biobanks.

A new study published by Édith Darin, Ridhi Kashyap and Douglas Leasure from LCDS in Population, Space and Place delivers the clearest assessment yet of how satellite-derived settlement maps can estimate populations where recent censuses are missing or incomplete.

The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science is delighted to launch a new series of Short Courses, offering in-depth training across key areas of demographic research.

Nuffield College intends to appoint with effect from 1 September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter, two Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows (PPRFs) in sociology, demography, criminology, social and medical statistics, public policy, and social policy. The College particularly welcomes applications from candidates who work or plan to work in the field of one or more of the College’s Sociology, Demography and Social Policy Fellows, but this is not a requirement.

Researchers from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) at the University of Oxford and Harvard University have unveiled a pioneering statistical method that addresses one of the most persistent and overlooked challenges in genetic research: participation bias.

We are delighted to announce that Francesco Rampazzo has received the Teaching Excellence Award. These annual awards celebrate exceptional contributions to education and teaching practices by colleagues across the division at all career stages.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Melinda Mills, Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, has been awarded a prestigious Honorary Doctorate from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.

Dr Vahé Nafilyan OBE is a health statistician and the head of the Health Division at the Office for National Statistics. He will be giving a talk titled "Understanding the effect of health on labour market outcomes using new linked data" on Tuesday 17th June,1:30-3:00pm in Classroom 1 at the Saïd Business School, Park End Street, OX1 1HP.

Douglas Leasure and Nicholas Irons will be speaking for a panel discussion on epidemic preparedness and healthcare for migrants and refugees that has been organised by Migration Oxford.