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 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.

We are exploring the upstream determinants that cause diseases. Around a third of early deaths are caused by adverse social circumstances. As a civic university it's our duty to intervene and deliver actionable insights.

Professor Sally Sheard, Dean

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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

Accreditations and partnerships

We're proud to hold the Athena SWAN Silver Award, recognising our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. We work with the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to drive the Civic Data Co-Operative