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Centres and initiatives

The department hosts or collaborates on a number of international recognised research centres and projects. Find out more using the links below:

MRC Centre for Environment and Health

The Centre aims to initiate and foster research that improves health, and reduces inequalities in health and healthcare, through the generation and deployment of knowledge that can lead to more effective and equitable prevention and treatment of illness, and to promoting positive health over the life course.

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Mohn Centre for Children's Health and Wellbeing

Pursuing cross-disciplinary research and education to address childhood physical and mental health challenges and inequalities in the urban environment.

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UK Dementia Research Institute

Dementia represents one of the toughest medical and economic challenges facing our society today. The UK DRI is here to change this. The institute will transform treatment and care for people with dementia. We are leading the way in early diagnosis and uncovering how to prevent dementia.

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BRC - Discovery Programme

The Imperial Population BioResource Tissue Bank is part of a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) initiative to facilitate biomedical research in industry, academia, and the NHS. The main objective of this project is to create a resource of healthy volunteers and patients from the general population who are willing to be approached to take part in research studies.

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Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research Unit

Addressing unmet challenges in cancer prevention research, identifying currently unknown causes of cancer and accelerating the translation of knowledge of modifiable risk factors into effective primary prevention strategies.

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Health Data Research UK

We are uniting the UK's health data to enable discoveries that improve people's lives. By enabling health data research we can better understand diseases and find ways to prevent, treat and cure them.

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NIHR HPRU in Chemical and Radiation Threats and Hazards

Addressing today’s most pressing chemical and radiation threats and hazards, advancing understanding of how the everyday and exceptional contact we have with chemicals and radiation leads to ill health and delivering timely impact on policy to improve the long-term health of the nation

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NIHR HPRU in Environmental Exposures and Health

Undertaking the highest quality research on the health effects associated with exposure to a range of environmental pollutants, including those in the ambient and indoor settings.

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The George Institute for Global Health UK

Our mission is to improve the health of millions of people worldwide, particularly those living in disadvantaged circumstances, by challenging the status quo to find the best ways to prevent and treat non-communicable diseases (NCDs), injury and violence.

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WCRF Continuous Update Project

The Continuous Update Project is an ongoing programme to analyse global research on how diet, nutrition, physical activity and weight affect cancer risk and survival. Among experts worldwide it is a trusted, authoritative scientific resource, which underpins current guidelines and policy for cancer prevention.

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Innolife EIT

EIT Health is a consortium of more than 50 core partners and 90 associate partners from leading businesses, research centres and universities from across 14 EU countries.

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School of Public Health