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Good Health and Well Being
Our work and activity in relation to 'Good Health and Well Being', one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
The University of Dundee’s work in support of human health and wellbeing spans life sciences discovery research to a wide range of clinical applications. Researchers across several of our Schools, including Dentistry, Health Sciences and Medicine aim to act locally and have impact globally by improving human health and wellbeing through teaching and research.
Health and wellbeing is one of our interdisciplinary research themes and our researchers collaborate with a range of national and global health institutions to improve outcomes from the local to the global. Read more about some of these projects below.
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A previously undiscovered stress signal can kick-start a human cell’s ‘recycling centre’, University of Dundee scientists have revealed.

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Dundee Institute for Healthcare Simulation (DIHS) has taken delivery of a leading-edge surgical robot
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University of Dundee researchers have been awarded £700,000 to investigate whether bacteria and other natural products found in the Amazon hold the key to developing new drugs for neglected tropical diseases
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Ronald Harden, Emeritus Professor of Medical Education at the University of Dundee, has been awarded a prestigious international prize recognising his contribution to healthcare.
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A University of Dundee scientist has been named as the inaugural winner of a new award recognising the UK’s best young researchers in the field of parasitology

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A plaque recognising the achievements of Dr Deborah Wake, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Dundee, has been installed at her former school, Forfar Academy, as part of a UK-wide initiative celebrating female innovators.

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Researchers at the University of Dundee have provided important new insights into the regulation of cell division, which may ultimately lead to a better understanding of cancer progression

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The University of Dundee is one of the international partners in a major new research project examining how technologists can learn from people with disabilities – and support them in the future

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Football manager Craig Levein has become the 250,000th volunteer to join a Scotland-wide effort to help shape the medicines of the future

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Targets to eliminate pain after surgery are a major cause of the opioid crisis in several countries, according to a new report co-authored by Professor Lesley Colvin of the University of Dundee.
Our health and wellbeing related policies
Policy
The University of Dundee recognises the importance of health in the workplace. This policy details how the Occupational Health Service is committed to preventing and minimising work-related ill health.
Policy
How the University fulfils the requirements of the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 and The Prohibition of Smoking in Certain Premises (Scotland) Regulations 2006, and minimises exposure to second hand smoke.
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How the University of Dundee complies with its legal and moral obligations relating to the health and safety of its staff, students and any other person who may be affected by its undertakings.