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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
BioQuarter Campus
Part Time
Jan 2028
6 Year
Population Health Sciences programme offers you the opportunity to work with world-leading researchers who are active in a wide range of disciplines across public health, primary care and biomedical research, including:non-communicable disease epidemiologyhealth informaticsgenetic epidemiologyhealth promotionhealth services researchmedical statisticsmolecular epidemiologymedical sociologyhealth psychologyscience and Technology Studies (STS)public health policy & behavioural researchglobal healthOur researchers also cover a wide range of topics, including:allergic and respiratory diseaseclinical trial and statistics methodologyprocess evaluationseHealthethnicity and healthtobacco controlprevention of vaping in childrengenetic epidemiology of complex diseasespalliative care and cancercritical careresuscitation, including out-of-hospital cardiac arrestfamilies and relationshipslived experience of health and illnessdiabetes and cardiovascular diseasemultimorbiditymental healthunderstanding and addressing health inequalitiesageing/later life
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