In this episode of The Confidence Interval, Dr Cara Ruggiero shares her journey from Nutritionist to an Early Career Researcher.

She discusses the importance of knowing "your why" and lays out her personal map for working to solve the issues of poor nutrition.

Find out more about the MRC Epidemiology Unit and Cara's work.

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In this episode of The Confidence Interval, Dr Thomas Burgoine shares how creating healthy neighbourhoods can help people make healthy choices.

NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) funded researchers have developed a toolkit, which helps local authorities implement takeaway management zones, particularly near schools

Dr Thomas Burgoine is one of the researchers involved developing the toolkit.

MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
Takeaway Management Zone toolkit

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Dr David Ogilvie, Programme Leader and MRC Investigator in the Population Health Interventions group, talks to Unit Head of Communications Oliver Francis.

They discuss how we evaluate complex interventions and phenomena; how we put together the findings of multiple studies in a meaningful way; and what we do with all this evidence if we want to improve public health.

David reflects on his career studying physical activity, health and the built environment, and what we can learn from the Covid pandemic… and Sherlock Holmes

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