Welcome
The University Department of Public Health and Primary Care (formerly known as the Department of Community Medicine) is part of the Clinical School of the University of Cambridge.
The Department, headed by Professor John Danesh since 2001, comprises about 120 staff, including 8 professors, several university lecturers, and senior researchers personally supported by prestigious awards, plus more than 60 graduate students. The Department is one of Europe's premier university departments of population health sciences, awarded the highest (5*) possible ratings in the UK RAE during the past fifteen years.
The Department is part of the Institute of Public Health and is based on two main sites a short distance from one another: the Addenbrooke's Forvie site and the Strangeways Research Laboratory site. A £6m building programme was completed at the Strangeways Site in 2003 to increase capacity for molecular, nutritional and genetic epidemiology (including on-site facilities for laboratory analyses) and since April 2006 the Department has hosted the new MRC Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology in Cancer Prevention and Survival (CNC).
Further information about the achievements and development of the Department can be found on the background page..
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- Principal Investigators
- Selected Publications
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