Population Health Research Centre

The Population Health Research Centre is working to build a healthier future for everyone.

Our multidisciplinary research centre, established in 2023, brings together experts from diverse backgrounds including epidemiology, health economics, clinical trials, public health, primary care, statistics and health economics based consultancy.

The Norwich Epidemiology Centre (NEC) 

The NEC promotes ‘population-based’, non-intervention, health and social care related academic studies, facilitates access to publicly available, and locally held, health-related and social care databases for the purposes of epidemiological research and provides specific data management and data analyses for associated epidemiological studies.  

The Norwich Clinical Trials Unit (NCTU) 

A leading academic clinical trials unit that supports health and social care research from grant development through to publication. It is a fully registered UKCRC CTU demonstrating experience in leading design, coordination and analysis of multi-centred randomised controlled trails as well as other well-designed studies. 

The Health Economics Group (HEG) 

HEG have expertise in a range of technical approaches including economic evaluation alongside clinical trials, decision modelling, value of information analysis and preference elicitation methods such as discrete choice experiments and best worst scaling, plus expert elicitation methods. The Health Economics Group have links with Eastern ARC (a strategic collaboration between UEA, Essex, Kent and Sussex).

Select Publications

Here are some of the most recent papers published by our group. If you'd like to see more, a full list of publications can be viewed on our Research Portal. 

• Multimorbidity pattern and risk of dementia in later life: an 11-year follow-up study using a large community cohort and linked electronic health records

• Association between emergency department attendances, sociodemographic factors and long-term health conditions in the population of Norfolk and Waveney, England: Cross sectional study

• Evaluation of effectiveness and safety of pharmacist independent prescribers in care homes: Cluster randomised controlled trial

Interested in collaborating with us? If you’re passionate about making a difference in population health, we’d love to hear from you, whether you’re an academic institution, healthcare organisation or industry partner, let’s work together to build a healthier future.  
 
Get in touch by contacting Charlie Handy C.Handy@uea.ac.uk