Research Groups
Explore the School's many research groups, across all faculties and departments.
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PAVE - The Politics and Anthropology of Violence and Epidemics
The PAVE team are an anthropological led team including social scientists, political theorists, epidemiologists, and modellers. Working in an innovative cross-disciplinary approach we address two public health problems: violence and epidemics and the intersections between them.
Policy Innovation and Evaluation Research Unit (PIRU)
The Policy Innovation and Evaluation Research Unit (PIRU) brings together leading health and social care expertise to improve evidence-based policy-making and its implementation across the National Health Service, social care and public health.
Political Economy of Health and Health Policy (PEHHP)
Researching health at the interface of economics and politics
Population Health Innovation Lab
PHI-Lab uses insights from epidemiology, economics, sociology and geography to understand and change the social, economic and environmental system drivers of population health.
Population Studies Group
The Population Studies Group (PSG) is engaged in the measurement and explanation of population trends and in the evaluation of attempts to modify them.
Power and Protection
Power and Protection is home to original films, archival material, and resources about the history of the Court of Protection in England and Wales, and the evaluation of ‘mental capacity’.
Primary Health Care Interest Group
Brings together researchers, providers and policymakers working on PHC in all settings; to identify opportunities to build collaborations, support shared learning and strengthen knowledge in this area.
Private Sector Healthcare
Studying private healthcare provision – how it works, how to improve it and where it fits in universal health care
PRUComm
The Policy Research Unit in Commissioning and the Healthcare System (PRUComm) provides evidence to the Department of Health to inform the development of policy in the National Health Service. We focus on maximising outcomes for patients.
Public Health Research Consortium
The Public Health Research Consortium (PHRC) brings together senior researchers from 11 UK institutions in a new integrated programme of research, with the aim of strengthening the evidence base for interventions to improve health, with a strong emphasis on tackling socioeconomic inequalities in health.