About us

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.

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

Institute Manager

Vacant

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.