Department of Health Sciences
Shaping skillful, compassionate professionals for contemporary global healthcare.
Research
In partnership with the communities we serve, our multi-professional teams deliver research that changes lives.
Our research in health and social care is internationally recognised for shaping policy and practice, and improving global health and wellbeing.
Together, our staff, students, partners and alumni advance local, national and global health and wellbeing, through excellence in healthcare practice, education and research.
Professor Kate Flemming, Head of Department
News
York is ranked 10th in the UK for Nursing and Midwifery in the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2027).
On this 2026 #WorldCancerDay, York Press have published an article describing how the HMRN research team work with people with blood cancer across the region, and with their NHS clinicians to improve care and outcomes for patients.
Professor Brian Ferguson from the Department of Health Sciences has been honoured with an MBE for services to public health research and his work with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
The Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE) has officially launched its Quality Standards for Pre-Registration Interprofessional Education (IPE) CAIPE Standards at a landmark event held at the House of Lords, hosted by Baroness Parminter.
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