Dundee - Division of Population Health Sciences

The overall aim of Population Health Sciences (PHS) is to improve population health through six core activities:

• Epidemiology of Common Conditions (with large programmes on diabetes, infection, chronic pain and neurodevelopment)
• Quality and Safety Improvement in Health Care (with a focus on prescribing and changing professional practice)
• Intervention Studies (including clinical trials and community based interventions and methods development)
• Public Health Research (with a focus on alcohol and changing health behaviour)
• Informatics
• Postgraduate Education

The Division of Population Health Sciences and School of Medicine have a long history of research utilising large, linked datasets and use their success to establish new local, national and international programmes.