Type 2 diabetes affects almost 500 million people around the world. MRC Epidemiology Unit Director Professor Nick Wareham talks about how efforts to prevent it need to reflect this. About this Event Type 2 diabetes is a major cause of ill health and mortality. The latest estimate for 2019 is that 463 million people have […]

There is a long tradition of disease prevention in primary care” but “over-stretched primary care teams are struggling to meet the needs of patients with existing disease. In this lecture Professor Simon Griffin, the Unit's Programme Leader for Prevention of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders in High Risk Groups, will share some thoughts on how […]

The only way is upstream: the NCD emergency, intergenerational inequality and the urgent need for system change. A free public lecture by Professor Martin White, Programme Leader for Population Health Interventions at the MRC Epidemiology Unit. FREE registration at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transforming-health-care-through-prevention-the-ncd-emergency-tickets-90624019883 This event is part of the Wolfson Explores Transformation lecture series.