The Department of Health Sciences is very much a research-led department with established strengths across epidemiology, medical statistics, public health, primary care, health services research, and psychiatry. Structured to support innovative multidisciplinary and multi-method solutions to research questions, its mission is to conduct high quality scientific research that can inform policies and practices aimed at securing people's health and well-being.

 Our key objectives are:

• to conduct methodological research that can underpin robust research design and data analysis

• to produce evidence that can improve understanding of the aetiology, management and prevention of disease, including complex chronic physical and mental disorders

• to produce evidence that can improve health service organisation and delivery

• to disseminate our research outputs to the international scientific community, to practitioners, to policy-makers, and to health service users

The Department of Health Sciences administers and manages the Leicester Clinical Trials Unit on behalf of the College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology. 

The following links provide further information on our research:

Study of Health in Populations and Society

• Biostatistics

• Genetic Epidemiology

• SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied to Healthcare Improvement REsearch)

• The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies Group

Primary Care

• Cardiovascular/Diabetes

• Quality and Service Delivery (incorporating the NIHR CLAHRC for LNR project)
• Health and Disability

Social and Epidemiological Psychiatry

• Adult Psychiatry
• Psychiatry for the Elderly
• Forensic Psychiatry
• Child Mental Health

NIHR Research Design Service

• NIHR Research Design Service for the East Midlands

Hospital Disciplines

• Anaesthesia and Pain Mangement
• Orthopaedic Surgery