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We're helping the UK create world-leading health research using smartphones and wearables.
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⏰ With Connect taking place on Friday, this is your final reminder to grab your online ticket before it's too late.
#healthresearch #digitalhealth #innovation #healthdatascience #smartphones #wearables #healthtech #populationhealth
February 11, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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⏰ The countdown for Connect, our annual event is on. With just a week to go, this is your reminder to grab your online ticket before it's too late.
Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hrfh-conne...
#healthresearch #digitalhealth #healthdatascience #smartphones #wearables #healthtech #populationhealth
February 6, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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🎤 We are pleased to revealmore details of our keynote speakers. Read in the images below. Don't forget, while in-person tickets are sold out, there is still time to book your online ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hrfh-conne...
Fiona Bull is Head of Unit, Lead Physical Activity at the World Health Organization (WHO), with over 30 years of experience spanning academia, government, and global health organisations in the UK, USA, Australia. She has led the global agenda on physical activity, working to strengthen national policies, global guidance, and surveillance systems. She is particularly known for building impactful multisectoral partnerships - bridging health with sectors such as transport, exercise and sport, and urban planning - to embed physical activity into broader sustainable development goals. Drawing on four WHO expert meetings and country experience, Dr Bull's talk "Wearables at Scale: Technical progress and practical barriers for measuring physical activity in national population health surveillance" will discuss the technical, operational and policy choices required to move from research-grade measurement to scalable national systems, including how wearable data may complement or replace self-report measures and what this implies for policy and global guidance. Dr. Josh Denny is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program, a nationwide health research program that has already enrolled more than 860,000 participants. All of Us has created one of the world’s largest biomedical data sets that more than 18,000 researchers use to improve medical care through personalized insights and scientific discovery. His talk, titled "Beyond steps: unlocking multimodal health discovery with the world’s largest wearable dataset", will share how integrating continuous wearable data with multimodal health data enables new approaches to population health, digital phenotyping, and precision medicine. It will review how All of Us built the infrastructure to support and collect wearable data at scale, what researchers are already learning from this unprecedented resource, and how multimodal integration is shaping the future of health discovery.
February 3, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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🦵 Your fitness data can inform #kneereplacement recovery research. If you had UK surgery (2017–2023) and used an #Apple Watch, #iPhone, #Fitbit, or #Oura Ring before and after, you may be eligible. Join the study: bit.ly/3K8AEQJ
#arthritis #kneereplacement #kneeoa #kneepain
January 29, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Did you know we have a newsletter? Every month, you can receive the latest news about health research using smartphones and wearables straight to your inbox.
You may even get a sneak peek of our upcoming events.
Subscribe now: emarketing.manchester.ac.uk/l/166/hrfhsu...
January 27, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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🎫With less than a month until Connect, there’s still time to grab your online ticket. Whether you want to join the full event or just watch individual sessions, online access makes it easy to participate from anywhere - perfect for busy schedules. Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hrfh-conne...
January 23, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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Our most recent webinar recording, Advancing cardiovascular monitoring: from radar sensing to wearable emergency detection, is now available to watch on our YouTube.
Watch now: youtu.be/dZ12oX-e_kY
January 21, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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📢 New funding call from Population Research UK! Over £900K available to establish a policy exchange connecting policymakers & LPS researchers. Join our webinar on 28 January to learn more about the scope, expected deliverables and how to apply. Register: shorturl.at/Bf07f
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January 14, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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📢 AI Workshops alert!

We’re bringing together researchers from the LPS community to co-design a new AI training platform. Join one of our workshops:

✅ Beginners – 26 January 2:00 – 3:15pm
✅ Experts – 23 February 2:00 – 3:15pm

👉 Complete the quick form to find your fit: shorturl.at/cE4uX
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January 15, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Have you had a #kneereplacement? The University of Manchester is running a study to better understand recovery. If you used an #iPhone, Apple Watch, Fitbit or Oura ring before and after their surgery, you may be eligible. Join the study: bit.ly/3K8AEQJ
#arthritis #kneeoa
January 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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Taking place this Wednesday. Book your ticket now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5b9baf...
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Webinar: Advancing cardiovascular monitoring: from radar sensing to wearable emergency detection
Wednesday 14 January, 2026 | 3pm-4pm, GMT | Book now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5b9baf...
January 12, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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Webinar: Advancing cardiovascular monitoring: from radar sensing to wearable emergency detection
Wednesday 14 January, 2026 | 3pm-4pm, GMT | Book now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5b9baf...
December 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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🤔 Thinking of booking your online ticket for Connect but not sure what to expect? Take a look at our programme of events below. Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hrfh-conne...
January 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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🎫 Connect - online tickets now available. Join us for the full event or simply tune in to the sessions that interest you most. Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hrfh-conne...
January 9, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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📰 Article - Making step counts count: how donating data can transform our understanding of knee replacement surgery
Our PAPrKA study is now open, researching how to better understand how people actually recover after knee replacement surgery. Read the article: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/m...
Making step counts count: how donating data can transform our understanding of knee replacement surgery
University of Manchester researchers are to trial the groundbreaking linkage of historical step counts from patients’ smart devices to their healthcare data in a bid to transform our understanding of ...
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January 8, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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Reminder - Webinar: Advancing cardiovascular monitoring: from radar sensing to wearable emergency detection
Our next webinar is taking place soon on Wednesday 14 January, 2026 3pm-4pm, GMT. Book now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5b9baf...
January 5, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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📜 Are you getting your to-do list ready for 2026?
Why not add our next webinar to it? Taking place on Wednesday 14 January, 2026 at 3pm-4pm GMT, this talk features speakers Ela Gruzewska and Jake Sunshine. Book now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5b9baf...
December 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Already decided your 2026 resolution is to keep learning? With our bimonthly webinar series, you can do just that. Join us for our next one on Wednesday 14 January, 2026, 3pm-4pm GMT exploring different methods of cardiovascular monitoring. Book now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5b9baf...
Jake Sunshine is a physician and research scientist at the University of Washington and Google. His research is focused on technology-based translational research, usually at the intersection of computer science and public health. It currently involves finding ways to use commodity smart devices to help lessen the burden of public health challenges. Current project areas include early detection of acute opioid overdose, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and incipient respiratory infections. The common thread running through this work is detection and anticipation of aberrant physiologic signatures for which there are evidence-based, time-sensitive interventions. Ela Gruzewska is a Senior Software Engineer at Google Research holding an MSc in Computer Science. She brings over 15 years of software engineering experience to her work, recently specializing in Machine Learning. Her recent research focuses on the application of ML within the health domain, including longitudinal electronic health records, medical imaging, and the use of mobile sensors for physiological monitoring.
December 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Webinar: Advancing cardiovascular monitoring: from radar sensing to wearable emergency detection
Wednesday 14 January, 2026 | 3pm-4pm, GMT | Book now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5b9baf...
December 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Due to high demand, we are pleased to announce that online tickets for Connect, Health Research from Home’s annual event, are now available.

Once you have signed up, the events team will contact you with details of how to join online.

Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hrfh-conne...
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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🚨 Applications for the Research Showcase close this Sunday and with it, the chance to win the Ken Rothman Award, awarded for outstanding research. Apply now: forms.office.com/e/49iBeBhQSN
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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📢Are you a researcher who works in longitudinal population studies and wants to help shape an AI training platform? Join us on 9 December for an online workshop where we’ll discuss pain points, learning needs, and the training journey.

Register today: shorturl.at/HblI4
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November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Have you had a #kneereplacement in the UK between 2017 and 2023? Did you use an iPhone, Apple Watch, Fitbit or Oura ring for 6 months before, and 12 months after, your knee replacement?  Join our study to advance knee #arthritis research and improve future care: bit.ly/3K8AEQJ
November 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Health Research from Home are inviting attendees to showcase their research at Connect – our annual event on Friday 13 February 2026, 9.30am–5.30pm at Google HQ - and compete for the Ken Rothman Award, awarded for outstanding research. Apply now: forms.office.com/e/49iBeBhQSN
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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In our latest webinar, Matt Jones and Lorna Caddick shared valuable insights into their co-produced approaches to examining sleep in children and young people.

🎥 Watch the recording of the webinar now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxsx...
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM