About Us

The CDRC and Public Health group formally agreed to work under a common vision and goals from March 2015, ahead of eventual cohabitation in the new "Population Health Sciences Building". In essence, the Public Health group will pick up where the CDRC leaves off, so that the combined entity will be able to drive research, policy and public health interventions…completing the journey from evidence to outcome. Find out more

Strategic Goals

To conduct research in support of national and regional disease prevention & control policies & programmes. Aims include:

Surveillance of health outcomes & their determinants
Monitoring health systems & the quality of care
Developing & evaluating interventions

To contribute towards education & capacity-building to strengthen disease prevention & control. Aims include:

Developing regional observatories for surveillance & monitoring
Delivery of undergraduate & graduate education in Public Health
Training in research & laboratory skills

To investigate systems and pathways related to chronic disease. Aims include:

Linking behavioural exposures & intermediate biological endpoints in the chronic disease pathway
Identifying biological pathways & risk markers to create novel hypotheses
Understanding environmental & social determinants of behaviours in order to guide interventions

To identify & contribute to the reduction in disparities in health outcomes. Aims include:

Describing & monitoring health disparities between & within populations
Investigating underlying determinants of health disparities to guide healthy public policies