Division of Health Sciences
Division of Health Sciences
Head of Division:
Prof Martin Underwood and Prof Aileen Clarke
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Behavioural,
Medical
Technological
Organisational
Prof Gavin Perkins
Warwick Clinical Trials Unit
Divisional Director Research Degrees
• Application of knowledge to change clinical practice
and ultimately health outcomes.
Research Groups
Clinical Trials Unit
Clinical Trials Unit
Hospital Health Sciences
Populations, Evidence and Technologies
Social Sciences and Systems in Health
Statistics and Epidemiology
School of Health and Social Studies
Clinical Trials Unit
• Emergency Care and
Rehabilitation
• Cancer trials
• Methodology
• Collaboration
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• Design and evaluation of interventions
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/me
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Statistics and Epidemiology
Head of Unit: Professor Nigel Stallard
• Statistical methodology for efficient clinical trial design
• Family centred behavioural interventions for parenting
and childhood obesity
• Systematic reviewing and evidence synthesis in
Cardiovascular disease with Cochrane Heart Group
• Chronic disease epidemiology in western and subSaharan African settings
• Statistical epidemiology
• Research Design Service
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Hospital Health Sciences
Head of Unit: Professor Damian Griffin
• Hospital-based Clinical Academics
– Surgery, radiology, oncology
• Research into the clinical effectiveness of hospital
treatments, eg:
– Clinical trials of orthopaedic surgical operations
– Testing new imaging techniques
– Clinical trials of chemotherapy in breast cancer
• Teaching
– Medical students, postgraduates, PhD students, hospital consultants
– Integrated Clinical Academic Training programme for hospital clinical
academics of the future
– Simulation, including cadaveric surgical training
Social Science and Systems in Health Research Group
Head of Unit: Professor Frances Griffith
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Health systems improvement
Medical Ethics
Lay experience of health and health care
Impact of health technology on health care experience
and outcome
• Patient safety
• Innovation in dissemination of research evidence
Populations Evidence and Technologies (PET) Unit
Seminar Series
Head of Unit: Prof Aileen Clarke
Lead: Prof Stavros Petrou
• Population research,
• Emphasis on health
technology assessment
and e-health.
• Strong links to research
on e-health and to the
Institute of Digital Health.
Reviews and
evidence synthesis on
the clinical and cost
effectiveness of
health care
interventions
• Thursday lunchtimes
• Leading methodologists and topic experts
• Generated across-university research
collaborations (internal / external)
• Unit-level seminars
• Development of ECRs
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/hscience/pet/
Post Graduate Research
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59 PhD students registered
Broad spectrum
Annual PhD showcase session
Conference budget
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