PhD Opportunities in Public Health

Subject Areas in which Public Health staff can offer supervision

Jill Pell, Professor of Public Health (Henry Mechan Chair)

• Tobacco control
• Routine data / record linkage
• Cardiovascular epidemiology

Rich Mitchell, Professor of Health and Environment

The use of quantitative secondary data to explore

• Geographical inequalities in health
• The health benefits of contact with natural environments
• Socio-economic inequalities in health and health-related  behaviour

David Morrison, Reader in Cancer Epidemiology

• clinical epidemiology of cancer, including prognostication and advanced survival analyses
• clinical effectiveness of obesity management programmes
• data linkage to create high resolution clinical/epidemiological databases
• epidemiology 

Daniel Mackay, Senior Lecturer in Public Health

• CHD / Stroke
• Interventions using observational data
• CHD in young people
• Application of time series methods to epidemiology