UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE ROBINSON WAY
- INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY FORVIE SITE, ROBINSON WAY
CB2 0SR CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE
www.phpc.cam.ac.uk
Short profile:
The Department of Public Health and Primary Care is one of Europe’s leading academic departments of population health sciences, top-ranked in Epidemiology and Public Health among 21 universities in the UK Research Assessment Exercise 2001-2008. It has been headed by Professor John Danesh since 2001. DPHPC comprises 300 staff and graduate students, including 8 professors and about a dozen other senior academic staff. Groups in the Department are underpinned by major programme grants, such as those from the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), the Wellcome Trust, the British Heart Foundation (BHF), Cancer Research UK (CRUK), the UK National Institute of Health Research, the European Union, the US National Institutes of Health, industrial partnerships and several other sources.
Detailed description:
The Department’s overall research objective is to generate scientific evidence that will inform the prevention of premature death and disability, the promotion of health, and provide evidence-based health policy. There is a particular focus on common chronic conditions such as common cancers, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, osteoporosis, and metabolic diseases. Key strategies involve establishing large-scale population resources to enable investigation of the separate and combined influences of genetic and lifestyle factors in chronic diseases. The goal is to translate this evidence into the development and evaluation of preventative interventions.
Keywords:
Primary Care, behavioural change research, Centre for Diet, Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology, nutrition research, common cancers research, cardiovascular diseases research, neuroepidemiology research, course in Public Health, population health science, Research Laboratory, Centre for Activity Research, hospital, Public Health, Clinical Medicine, Centre for Genetic Epidemiology, metabolic diseases research, diseases of ageing research