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Our research

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.

Our Institute

Our Institute is made up of five departments. Explore our wide ranging areas of research expertise.

Centres of Excellence

Case studies

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Food Policies & Disease Prevention – the IMPACT model

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.

Improving access to psychological therapies for perinatal depression

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.

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Unhealthy food advertising to children: Impacting on a watershed policy

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.

Accreditations and partnerships

Our local and global partnerships provide vital support to our research activity.

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