Rachel Aldred (University of Westminster), Anna Goodman (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), James Woodcock (CEDAR / MRC Epidemiology Unit) and Robin Lovelace (University of Leeds) from the Propensity to Cycle – www.pct.bike – team write about we can get more children cycling to school. This post was originally published in The Conversation.Only 2% […]

Rebecca Love, PhD student at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, writes in The Conversation about the lack of success in efforts to help children be more active at school.A third of children in the UK are overweight or obese by the time they reach primary school. Many other countries are facing the same issue, with a […]

The Confidence Interval is a new, occasional podcast from the MRC Epidemiology Unit, which leads CEDAR – talking science, people and public health.The lates episode features a recording of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas event “Improving our Diets – More Freedom or More Control?” which CEDAR organised with The Bennett Institute for Public Policy Governments […]

This article by Sonja Klingberg, a PhD student in the Unit’s Behavioural Epidemiology programme, was shortlisted for the 2018 Max Perutz Science Writing Award. You can read all the shortlisted and winning articles here.“Our daughter doesn’t usually eat this for breakfast,” said the woman across the table from me. We were having breakfast together at […]