Our research
Our public health research spans a broad range of topics, including the impact of the natural environment on health, social prescribing, making sure children have a fair start in life, making communities healthy places to live and making sure schools and families are safe places.
We work closely with our NHS and NIHR partners and local authority and national public health stakeholders to ensure our research is relevant and timely.
Our researchers use the full range of analytic methods available to address important policy and practice questions, alongside our history of high-quality and impactful natural experiments and randomised trials in public health. We have particular expertise in:
Environment and
human health
Our research strength lies in examining and understanding how natural environments interact with human health. Our aim is to help develop a sustainable public health response to rapid ongoing climate and other environmental change, including prevention, mitigation and adaptation.
Research is led by our interdisciplinary European Centre for Environment and Human Health and falls into two major areas: emerging threats to health and wellbeing posed by the environment, and the health and wellbeing benefits the natural environment can provide.
Healthy children and
families
The University of Exeter has a developing international reputation in child and adolescent health. This includes expertise in schools and health, including large-scale randomised trials; social epidemiology of child mental health; violence prevention; and work on paediatric exercise.
Our research involves academic staff from across the University, including researchers based in The Children and Young People's Mental Health Research Collaboration (ChYMe).
