Population Health and Policy Research Institute
The Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) addresses a wide range of population health conditions (cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, infectious diseases, eye disease, respiratory and allergic diseases, mental illness) and their determinants across the lifecourse.
About us
There is expertise in the effects of environmental exposures on health and wellbeing; the safety of medicines in pregnancy; the rehabilitation of long-term conditions including COVID; complex behavioural interventions for smoking cessation and physical activity; preventive medicine, and ethnic and social health inequalities.
PHRI comprises of 60 staff, led by Professor Charlotte Clark, PHRI Institute Director. Research activities are organised within three Sections:
- Chronic Disease Epidemiology
- Prevention, Healthcare and Rehabilitation
- Environmental and Social Epidemiology.
Contact details
Institute Director
Professor Charlotte Clark
Email: chclark@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Head of Section: Prevention, Health Care and Rehabilitation
Dr Michael Perkin
Email: mperkin@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Head of Section: Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Professor Christopher Owen
Email: cowen@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Head of Section: Environmental and Social Epidemiology
Professor John Gulliver
Email: jgullive@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Staff profiles
- Professor Richard Atkinson
- Professor Lindsay Bearne
- Dr Iain Carey
- Dr Christopher Cates
- Professor Derek Cook
- Professor Julia Critchley
- Dr Angela Donin
- Dr Rebecca Fortescue
- Professor Tess Harris
- Dr Peijue Huangfu
- Dr Mohammed Hudda
- Professor Fiona Jones
- Dr Becca Lacey
- Dr Fiona Leggat
- Professor Joan Morris
- Professor Pippa Oakeshott
- Dr Michael Perkin
- Dr Mohammad Razai
- Professor Alicja Rudnicka
- Professor David Strachan
- Professor Michael Ussher
- Professor Peter Whincup
- Dr Sarah White.