We conduct world leading research to address fundamental health inequalities, improve health outcomes and quality of life. Our research focuses on services and systems for health and wellbeing, operating at the community and population level.
We're seeking to understand how to improve the systems that society needs to put in place to promote, sustain and protect health, prevent disease and care for the sick.
Developing theories, models and interventions for primary healthcare that promote mental health and wellbeing.
Optimising the information available from healthcare data, with the primary goal of improving healthcare delivery processes and interventions in our community and beyond.
Tackling some of the major psychological issues facing society today such as childhood development, healthy living, perceptions and responding to critical and major incidents.
Exploring the pathways that lead to inequalities in health and access to healthcare. We strive to engage policy and practice communities to ensure policy-relevance; and support the incorporation of our evidence to directly benefit people in their day-to-day lives.
Providing 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.
Heart disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia and cancers cause over 90% of premature UK deaths; however, most are preventable. Our researchers developed computational models to quantify and compare different prevention policies, successfully advancing food policies.
Perinatal depression affects one in four women in low and middle income countries with over 90% not receiving any treatment for this condition. This has devastating consequences for the mothers and their infants.
Obesity affects a third of UK children and is a major determinant of health inequality. Our research showed that a 9pm watershed on unhealthy food advertising on television would reduce childhood obesity, improve health outcomes and deliver substantial health cost benefits.
Our local and global partnerships provide vital support to our research activity.
