Epidemiology

Our PhD/MPhil Epidemiology programme enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Epidemiology.

Our main research themes within epidemiology investigate autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, neurological, psychiatric and cognitive genetic epidemiology, male infertility and cancer at a population and family level.

In particular, our research covers:

- the distribution of disease and related health-behaviours and their relationship with the complex interaction between

people, place and time and inequalities;
- genetic and genomic epidemiology to investigate health and disease, particularly where longitudinal clinical data has been

collected;
- 'omics-based molecular epidemiology, disease risk algorithms, and non-molecular eg occupational and environmental

determinants of health and outcomes;
- the design and implementation of complex interventions, underpinned with evidence from other disciplines including

anthropology, social sciences, health psychology and urban planning;
- the use of more novel applications to capture cross sectional and longitudinal behaviour and outcome measures;

- using digital/web-based techniques of crowd-sourcing, social media, geo-coding, and machine learning;

- the use of novel techniques to assess the exposome

- epidemiological, evaluative and policy related research in the field of substance misuse, within the areas of health and

criminal justice.
- how health service interventions, from policies to lab-based sciences, impact on society more widely.