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Commentary and plain-language explainers, written for readers outside the field.

Public writing

Explaining without distorting

Writing about science for a general audience involves a genuine tension. Simplify too little and nobody outside the field can follow; simplify too much and the account becomes misleading. Health reporting fails most often at the second, usually by presenting a preliminary finding as a settled conclusion.

Our articles aim to be readable without overstating. That means being explicit about uncertainty, describing what a study actually measured, and resisting the temptation to convert an interesting early result into a headline it cannot support.

What we write about

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Explaining our research

What a study found, in plain terms, and what it does and does not establish.

Health explainers

Accessible accounts of conditions, tests and treatments relevant to our work.

How science works

Why evidence is weighed the way it is, and how to read a health claim critically.

Commentary

Considered comment on health and research policy where we have relevant expertise.

Correcting misinformation

Addressing widespread health misinformation, carefully and without amplifying it.

From the Center

Updates on programmes, facilities and the people doing the work.

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Announcements, events, workshops and seminars are posted on our News & Events page.

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