Oxford University Medical Sciences Division
The 2024 THE World University Rankings placed UoO #1 for pre-clinical, clinical and health subjects for the eleventh consecutive year, and the World’s #1 University, for the seventh consecutive year. The Division includes 16 Departments, including the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, led by Professor Keith Channon, Director of the OAHP.
The offices of the Medical Sciences Division are in the John Radcliffe Hospital with close links established with the OUH and the other hospitals across Oxfordshire.
The Medical Sciences Division has two main sites; the pre-clinical departments are based in South Parks Road and a significant number of research and other departments are based on the Old Road Campus including the Big Data Institute, the Kennedy Institute, the Knowledge Centre, the Richard Doll Building and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. The campus is adjacent to both the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, both part of the Oxford University Hospitals. More information can be found on the Campus website.
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University is a world leading institution in 21 subjects, according to the latest global rankings published in April 2024. OBU has 2,800 staff and 18,000 students with 82% from the UK. Oxford Brookes was ranked #38 in the Guardian University Guide 2025.
In the 2024 QS World University Rankings by Subject, the University is ranked in 21 subject areas – two more than in 2023. One subject features in the top 20 globally, while another is in the top 100. The rankings are published annually, following the analysis of 1,559 institutions, covering 55 disciplines.
Oxford Brookes’ main success is Hospitality & Leisure Management, which is ranked 20th globally having moved up four places, and third in the UK. Additionally, Business & Management Studies has retained its ranking in the top 100 globally.
OxInAHR (established by OAHP in 2017) is a multidisciplinary community of applied health researchers dedicated to producing world-class research which improves service delivery, patient care and population health and wellbeing. We do this by:
- leading and collaborating on (inter)nationally funded research projects
- developing nursing, midwifery and allied health research capacity and capability
- delivering our Applied Health Research Doctoral Training Programme(s)
- supporting the integration of research into taught programmes.
The Institute stimulates research in allied health professions across the OAHP, working closely with Chief Nurses at OUH and OH and specifically it leads the OAHP work on developing clinical academic careers.
OxINMAHR research is now nationally or internationally leading in areas including cancer survivorship, child health and social care, substance abuse and addiction, and physical and occupational rehabilitation. OxINMAHR leads the work on the Clinical Academic Career Pathway for Health Care Professions.
The University’s globally recognised research centres help to define policy and thinking in a number of important areas. For example our Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD), founded in 2004, forms the largest academic research institute in the UK dedicated to research on sustainable development in the built environment. Our newest research centres include:
- Centre for Psychological Research
- Centre for Bioimaging
- Centre for Environment and Society
- Institute for Ethical Al
- Centre for Development and Emergency Practice
- Oxford Regions, Innovation and Enterprise Lab.
Significant investment in OBU’s estate has already resulted in multi award-winning facilities and this investment carries on with a £220 million investment between 2015 and 2025.
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
OH is the designated lead provider for regional specialist mental health services for eating disorders, inpatient adolescent mental health and forensic care across central southern England. It also provides community health services across Oxfordshire and the community hospitals.
OH established Oxford Healthcare Improvement (OHI) to bring the knowledge base of improvement science to bear to achieve better safety and outcomes mental health and community care settings.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- OUH at a glance (Issuu)
- OUH is one of only 5 designated Major Trauma Centres and has a significant number of tertiary services across all age groups. Examples include the Cleft Lip and Palate Service and the Motor Neurone Disease Care and Research Centre.
Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley (HIOTV)
The fifth partner is HIOTV, the new name for Oxford AHSN. After 10 years AHSNs have become Health Innovation Networks as part of the new five-year licence to 2028. The new name reflects the collective role as ‘the innovation arm of the NHS’ in the region. The remit remains unchanged – we continue to work with partners in the NHS, research and industry to identify, develop and spread innovation that will benefit patients, services, populations and economies. We have four key health and care priorities: respiratory, mental health, cardiovascular disease and maternity and neonatal care.
Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley is licensed by NHS England and the Office for Life Sciences. It is governed by its Board which is independently chaired by Peter Ellingworth, appointed in September 2024. The OAHP Director, Professor Keith Channon, sits on the Board as the Chair of the Research and Development Oversight Group.
Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley is hosted by Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH). The Trust’s Chief Executive is the deputy chair of the Board of Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley.