Research in the School

 Haps Research

The School of Health & Population Sciences (HaPS) is a vibrant and rapidly expanding School with research expertise in the fields of primary care, public health and epidemiology, clinical trials, health technology assessments, health economics, occupational and environmental medicine, biostatistics, health services research, health care development, nursing and physiotherapy. 

How our Research is organised into Themes and Groups

Research themes

Population Health Research and Epidemiology

Description
Research groups within the School of Health and Population Sciences are leading research determining disease aetiology and health outcomes, including the role of the environment and genes, and using such knowledge to inform the design and evaluation of population-based or clinical interventions to prevent or treat conditions of population health importance.

Service Design and Delivery

Description
This theme, within the School of Health and Population Sciences, covers topics of patient safety, quality of care, service design and delivery including lay health workers, alternative and complementary medicine.

Healthcare Evaluation and Methodology

Description
The scope of groups within this theme stretch from providing methodological infrastructure and support for applied health research projects based in the School of Health and Poplulation Sciences, or elsewhere in the College; through provision of health evaluation services; to development and evaluation of the scientific methodologies for development and evaluation of methodology. The study of biomedical ethics, both as applied to research and clinical practice, and the history of medicine are included..