News 2016

A selection of news from the Usher Institute in 2016 - major publications, awards, visitors and more.

News listing

Publication date

Honorary degree for Dr Judith Mackay

28 June, 2016

[1 July 2016] Dr Judith Mackay has been awarded an honorary degree at this year's graduation…

Dr Nazmy Villarroel Williams wins prize at the European Conference on Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health

28 June, 2016

[28 June 2016] Eight abstracts from the Edinburgh Migration and Ethnicity Health Research Group…

Global experts adopt new guidelines for health data analysis

28 June, 2016

[28 June 2016] Representatives from the Usher Institute contributed to the creation of the GATHER…

Holidays in the sun hold key to boosting vitamin D, study finds

19 May, 2016

People who take foreign breaks have higher levels of vitamin D in their blood, which has been…

Athena SWAN Silver Award

29 April, 2016

Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences, together with Clinical Sciences, have received…

Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit

13 April, 2016

The Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit has launched a new website.

Core Curriculum for Sociology in Undergraduate Medical Education

10 April, 2016

BeSST (Behavioural and Social Science Teaching in medicine) have published a core curriculum for…

Dr Martyn Pickersgill - Editorial Board and Medal

21 March, 2016

[17 Mar 2016] Dr Martyn Pickersgill joins the editorial board of Current Sociology journal, and…

Igor Rudan - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

14 March, 2016

[8 Mar 2016] Congratulations to Professor Igor Rudan, Joint Head of the Centre for Global Health…

Making strides in Mongolia

14 March, 2016

[14 Mar 2016] Medical colleagues travelled to Mongolia to encourage further progress in palliative…