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@sgul.ac.uk
Institute Manager
Thuy Vuong
Phone: 0208 725 5601
Email: qvuong@sgul.ac.uk
Head of Section: Prevention, Health Care and Rehabilitation
Dr Michael Perkin
Email: mperkin@sgul.ac.uk
Head of Section: Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Professor Christopher Owen
Email: cowen@sgul.ac.uk
Head of Section: Environmental and Social Epidemiology
Professor John Gulliver
Email: jgullive@sgul.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