About us
The Institute of Population Health is dedicated to globally important and locally impactful population health scholarship, through scientific programmes and civic partnerships infused with education, learning and research.
Our institute is exploring the upstream determinants that cause many diseases. Approximately a third of early deaths are attributable to adverse social circumstances. It's our duty as a civic university to intervene and deliver actionable insights.
Our departments assemble a critical mass of population health scholarship to understand how biology, behaviours, environments, policies and technologies interact to determine physical and mental health, well-being and life chances – thereby improving care for individuals and populations.
We foster an inclusive culture that values diverse disciplines, methodologies, and perspectives. Collaboration across departments is seamless, with active involvement from the public and civic partners, incorporating varied lived experiences to enhance our education, research, and learning.
Our departments
Public Health, Policy and Systems
At the forefront of research into public health and policy, and in particular addressing health inequalities through action on the social determinants of health, both locally and globally. Underpinning our research, teaching and service work is the social model of health and how that can be applied to address health inequalities and inequalities within health and social care systems.
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Health Data Science
Statistics is a powerful tool in everything we do: from enhancing our understanding of disease mechanisms to testing novel interventions, and from identifying risk factors of diseases to the development and validation of diagnostic and prognostic tools.
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Psychology
Provides a dynamic research-based learning environment with an innovative curriculum and a solid foundation of psychological knowledge. Teaching is underpinned by world-leading discovery and translational research across five areas of excellence in Addiction, Appetite and Obesity, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Forensic, Investigative and Conflict Psychology and Language Development.
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School of Allied Health Professions and Nursing
Provides professional healthcare education and training to people at all stages of their careers in diagnostic radiography, nursing, occupational therapy, orthoptics, physiotherapy and therapeutic radiography and oncology. Our clinicians and students produce leading research that is innovative and impactful for patients and clinical services.
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Primary Care and Mental Health
Focusing on theories, models and interventions relating to primary health care and support for mental health and wellbeing. Our research and teaching activities are directed towards enhancing excellence in primary, community, mental health and social care at both a local and global level.
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Vision, mission and aims
- Drive research excellence to understand how biology, behaviours, environments, policies and technologies interact to determine physical and mental health, wellbeing and life chances – thereby improving care for individuals and populations
- Consolidate excellence in methodology for quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches to understanding, evaluating and running trials in health & care systems
- Drive research-connected education into our excellence in professional training and well-prepared graduates
- Embed our research and education in a world-leading civic learning system to improve the health and life chances of our local population.
- Reward team research - working across departments and disciplines by default.
- Embrace diversity, recognising that we're employed by society to think big, to think together, to cast our different lenses on the world.
Our leadership team
Professor Sally Sheard
Executive Dean, Institute of Population Health
Dr Rebecca Rylance-Graham,
Dean of the School of Allied Health Professions and Nursing
Professor Jo Harrold
Head of Department, Psychology
Professor Martin O'Flaherty
Head of Department, Public Health Policy and Systems
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Professor Marta Garcia-Finana
Head of Department, Health Data Science
Dr Eduard Shantsila
Head of Department, Primary Care and Mental Health
Tom West
Head of Operations, Institute of Population Health
Accreditations and partnerships
Athena SWAN Silver Award
We're proud to hold the Athena SWAN Silver Award, recognising our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
Driving the Liverpool City Region Civic Data Co-operative.