The UK’s government’s proposal to create a new levy on the soft drinks industry, announced in April of this year, took health campaigners by surprise. Not only was it unexpected, […]
Archives for 2016
CEDAR Bulletin December 2016
The December 2016 edition of CEDAR Bulletin is out now. Read it here. This issue includes: Merry Christmas – and a year in review Farewells, greetings and congratulations GoActive is […]
Dr Sara Benjamin Neelon to lead the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion
Dr Sara Benjamin Neelon, Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at CEDAR and Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed as the Inaugural Director of the Lerner Center for Public […]
Don’t stop moving: is the digital world friend or foe in fighting a sedentary future?
This event has now passed, but you can download the slides here. Public talk with Professor Nick Wareham as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. Saturday 22 October: 3:00pm […]
Evidence Brief – Addressing seasonal variation in children’s physical activity
Understanding how physical activity changes across the year is important because it helps identify periods when children might require additional support to be active. Our work at CEDAR is describing […]
CEDAR Bulletin September 2016
The September 2016 edition of CEDAR Bulletin is out now. Read it here. This issue includes: New Evidence Brief – A child for all seasons A varied diet can prevent […]
New online tool to inform cycling investment
A new Department for Transport funded tool highlights just how much potential there is in England for people to get cycling. The Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT) – www.pct.bike – […]
Happy Mondays (and every day) – putting health at the centre of our cities
This article was originally published in Cambridge University Research Horizons Magazine. Life in towns and cities can grind you down, but putting health and wellbeing at the centre of new […]
A varied diet can prevent diabetes – but can you afford it?
By Annalijn Conklin Research Scholar in Global Health & Policy, University of California, Los Angeles (and a former PhD student at CEDAR); Nita Forouhi, programme lead, Nutritional Epidemiology, MRC Epidemiology […]
The impact of the M74 motorway extension on road traffic accidents
A new study, funded by the NIHR PHR Programme and published by the Centre for Research on Environment, society and Health (CRESH) and colleagues at CEDAR evaluated the impact of […]