Health and wellbeing
Our global reputation is built on excellent research that begins with understanding the fundamental underpinnings of health and disease. We draw on a wide range of academic skills and disciplines, working together to discover, refine and apply new interventions to improve health and wellbeing.
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The University of York Ageing Network
The University of York Ageing Network is enabling the UK to meet the challenges posed by an ageing population.
By developing existing collaborations across departments and faculties, as well as forging new working relationships, the Network’s members are delivering research which meets the region’s priorities, and can be applied both nationally and internationally.
- Children's palliative care
- Mental Health
- Molecular and cellular medicine
- Immunology, haematology and infection
- The Institute of Mental Health Research
- Global health
- Public health
- Health economics
- Evidence synthesis
- York Biomedical Research Institute
- Neuroscience
- Biomedical and Health Research at York (PDF
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- Public Health research brochure (PDF
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Related departments
Our health and wellbeing research crosses academic boundaries. Find out more about the departments and related research groups involved in this work:
- Archaeology
- Biology
- Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
- Centre for Health Economics
- Environment and Geography
- Health Sciences
- Hull York Medical School
- School for Business and Society
- Psychology
- Psychology in Education Research Centre
- Sociology
Related research groups
- BHF Cardiac Care and Education
- BioArCh
- Biological Physical Sciences Institute
- Biology Technology Facility
- Centre for Future Health
- Centre for Global Health Histories
- Centre for Housing Policy
- Centre for Hyperpolarisation in Magnetic Resonance
- Epidemiology and Cancer Statistics research group
- Jack Birch Unit for Molecular Carcinogenesis
- Health Services and Policy research group
- Institute of Mental Health Research
- Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre
- Mental Health and Addiction research group
- Nursing and Midwifery research group
- Public Health and Society research group
- Social Policy Research Unit
- York Biomedical Research Institute
- York Environmental Sustainability Institute
- York Neuroimaging Centre
- York Structural Biology Laboratory
- York Trials Unit
Research Champion

Joy Adamson is a social scientist by background, her qualifications have put her in the rare position of having in-depth training in both qualitative (PhD) and quantitative (MSc Epidemiology) methods that she has applied in a range of applied health research projects.
Health and wellbeing research at York: overview (PDF , 200kb)