Clinical Epidemiology Research

Our clinical epidemiology research, which has impacted substantially on healthcare policy, spans multiple disease areas including:-

• cancer epidemiology
• gastrointestinal epidemiology
• perinatal epidemiology
• respiratory epidemiology

Particular methodological strengths are development and use of large e-health databases, conduct of cohort studies in developing countries, systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

Research issue

Across many different clinical areas there are gaps in our knowledge of the true burden of disease, those most at risk of developing disease, short and long-term consequences of illness and the effectiveness and safety of current therapies.

Clinical epidemiology is a broad discipline which contributes much needed evidence to try and fill some of these gaps and is used by practising clinicians and by health policy makers.

What we are doing about ...

eHealth Databases

We make use of several eHealth databases including THIN, CPRD and  NHANES.