Research
Lead within CPHS: Professor Aziz Sheikh
The Centre for Population Health Sciences acts as a research hub, drawing together public health and primary care clinicians, biomedical and social scientists, and statisticians and epidemiologists. Our scope of research extends from aetiological studies to clinical trials and health services research, deploying both qualitative and quantitative methods. Increasingly we are tackling research projects involving secondary analyses of existing data sets, and/or analyses of linked routine health service data.
Principal topics of research are:
- Allergic and respiratory disease
- Cardiovascular epidemiology
- Clinical trial and statistics methodology
- eHealth
- Ethnicity and health
- Genetic epidemiology of complex diseases
- Global health
- Palliative care and cancer
- Society and health, including families and relationships
Research collaboration
There is substantial interdisciplinary collaboration between the research topic groups within CPHS. Investigators within the Centre for Population Health Sciences also have important and productive working relationships with various national and international research groups. CPHS as a whole has a close working relationships with other research centres and groupings within the University (see diagram below).
CPHS contributions to/collaboration with major University of Edinburgh research groupings/ centres
| Type of grouping/centre | University of Edinburgh Centre/ Research grouping |
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| Within CPHS |
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| Within our own College (MVM) | |
| In other Colleges |
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| Cross-college research groups | |
| Based in the University of Edinburgh, but extending further afield |
Research outputs
Overall CPHS research outputs can be perused:
