Population Health Sciences (Research)

Our PhD or MScR in Population Health Sciences programme offers you the opportunity to work with world-leading researchers who are active in a wide range of disciplines across public health, primary care and biomedical research, including:

• non-communicable disease epidemiology

• health informatics

• genetic epidemiology

• health promotion

• health services research

• medical statistics

• molecular epidemiology

• medical sociology

• health psychology

• science and Technology Studies (STS)

• public health policy & behavioural research

• global health

Our researchers also cover a wide range of topics, including:

• allergic and respiratory disease

• clinical trial and statistics methodology

• process evaluations

• eHealth

• ethnicity and health

• tobacco control

• prevention of vaping in children

• genetic epidemiology of complex diseases

• palliative care and cancer

• critical care

• resuscitation, including out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

• families and relationships

• lived experience of health and illness

• diabetes and cardiovascular disease

• multimorbidity

• mental health

• understanding and addressing health inequalities

• ageing/later life

Our PhD and MScR programme encourages and supports you to develop an interdisciplinary approach to your research, and to foster collaborations with researchers working across the different centres within the Usher Institute, which include the:

• Centre for Population Health Sciences

• Centre for Medical Informatics,

• Centre for Global Health

• Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society

You will be given opportunities to develop collaborations with biomedical scientists, epidemiologists, social scientists and clinical researchers and to engage with colleagues working within disciplines, such as bioinformatics and machine learning.

The Usher Institute has strong links with other centres within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, as well as many cross-college and inter-institutional collaborations. You will therefore be joining a truly multidisciplinary and collaborative community.