The Policy Research Unit in Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care (PRU-MNHC) began a programme of work in January 2019 with funding from the Policy Research Programme at the Department of Health and Social Care (England) via the National Institute for Health Research.
The NPEU Clinical Trials Unit (NPEU CTU) is a fully registered UKCRC Clinical Trials Unit and typically runs a number of large multi-centre Randomised Controlled Trials.
The NPEU also conducts Social Sciences, Health Economics and Epidemiological Research (SHEER) which includes on-going influential studies.
Researchers at Oxford Population Health's National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit have called for urgent policy action to address ethnic inequities in England's routine childhood vaccination programme. The research, published in eClinicalMedicine, has found that inequities in vaccination coverage between ethnic groups are stark and have widened over time for all vaccines on the childhood vaccination schedule.
