Centre of excellence in Public Health Research. (360G-Wellcome-102447_Z_13_Z)

Aims and Objectives: Our mission is to build capacity for public health research, strengthen the evidence base for publichealth policy and practice and to improve the health of the population. Our aims are to ensure that our research is excellentwhile extending its reach and impact. Therefore our strategy and objectives for this renewal phase of the Centre are:(1) to expand and develop our staff and equip them with the skills for trans-disciplinary public health research;(2) to build on a platform of excellence in key programmatic areas {exploiting existing data; social determinants of healthand disease; and health behaviours}, extending our research infrastructure and strengthening themes of priority to ourpartners and funders;(3) to consolidate our partnerships to ensure stakeholder engagement and active participation;(4) to work more closely with the other UKCRC Centres of Excellence to ensure that the initiative delivers its objectives fornational and international leadership in the field;(5) to incrementally increase our grant income to ensure longer term sustainability.