Our Research

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 following links provide further information on our research:

• Biostatistics

• Genetic Epidemiology
• Primary Care incorporating Cardiovascular/Diabetes, Quality and Services Delivery (including the NIHR CLAHRC for LNR project)

• SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied to Healthcare Improvement REsearch)

• Social and Epidemiological Psychiatry

• The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies Group

• NIHR Research Design Service for the East Midlands

• Our Hospital Disciplines include Anaesthesia and Pain Mangement and Orthopaedic Surgery