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In every area of medical and nursing practice it is important that procedures are evidence‐based. For that reason the role of academic research is as vital in occupational health as in clinical medicine, as the Black Report stressed. Unfortunately, the number of institutions engaging in OH research has declined in recent years. University departments have closed. The Health and Work Development Unit (HWDU), a partnership between the Royal College of Physicians and the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, was closed in 2014 when funding was withdrawn after seven years. The Unit, led by Dr Sian Williams, was responsible for the creation of several important clinical guidelines relevant to health and work. In 2019 the Society of Occupational Medicine published a report: The Value of Occupational Health Research: history, evolution and the way forward, co‐authored by Professor Ewan MacDonald of the University of Glasgow. It called for the creation of a national Centre for Work and Health to coordinate UK occupational health research and best practice.